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  • Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    March 8, 2013 (All day) - June 23, 2013 (All day)

    In 1875, after being rejected by the official Paris Salon, where she had been exhibiting her paintings, American artist Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) accepted Edgar Degas’s (1834–1917) invitation to join the Impressionist group. Cassatt created her earliest surviving prints in 

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  • Happiness: An Inner Perspective

    Grand Central Library
    April 10, 2013 (All day) - June 10, 2013 (All day)

    A National Poetry Month collaboration between the Grand Central Library and the United Nations Society of Writers. Due to popular demand, the exhibition has been extended to June 10. A panel discussion and poetry reading will be held on June 4 at 4:00pm.

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  • Memory Preserved: Glass Plate Photographs of the Royal Cambodian Dancers

    New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
    March 28, 2013 (All day) - May 31, 2013 (All day)

     
    These rare images of five principal women dancers from the Royal Ballet of Cambodia are on display in the United States for the first time. Recently rediscovered, catalogued, restored, and digitized, the 1927 images capture the dancers performing the postures and gestures from the 

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  • "In Search of a Copper Roof" - Paintings by Joyce Abrams

    Bloomingdale Library
    May 1, 2013 (All day) - May 31, 2013 (All day)

    "While travelling in Japan, I was intrigued by the colors of rooftops in rural areas. I did a small painting to remind myself of that experience. It was sent to Europe for exhibition, where it was stolen. The memory of that painting morphed. Using the roof in landscape as a theme, I 

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  • Bordando por La Paz/Embroidering for Peace Exhibit

    Bronx Library Center
    May 1, 2013 (All day) - May 31, 2013 (All day)

      

    Bordando Por La Paz

    (Embroidering for Peace)

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  • WOW!: Studio Art, Photography, and Mural Making

    125th Street Library
    May 21, 2013 (All day) - May 31, 2013 (All day)

     Students from the Citizen School at Global Tech Prep Charter School present their work of Studio Art, Photography, and Mural Making for thier parents, friends, and the community.

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  • BOBBI BECK: Recent Artworks

    Riverside Library
    April 11, 2013 (All day) - May 29, 2013 (All day)

    Bobbi Beck, a longtime West Sider, returns to The Riverside Branch of The New York Public Library for a Spring Exhibition with all new artworks not shown here before. In chronicling her experiences in her urban surroundings she blurs daily realities into exotic visual fantasies. The drawings are 

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  • NER BECK: An Exhibition of Photographs of Lost and Found New York City Street Art

    Mulberry Street Library
    February 27, 2013 (All day) - May 28, 2013 (All day)

    Ner Beck’s exhibition of over 35 photographs now travels to the Mulberry Street Branch of the New York Public Library. As a New York City graphic artist and designer, he has had a lifelong interest in overlooked street art captured in photographs. These images 

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  • Tamara Gonzales - PINKPURPLE - Art in the Corner Room Exhibition Series

    Mid-Manhattan Library
    January 10, 2013 (All day) - May 23, 2013 (All day)

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  • Pamela Healey -- Vanishing Portraits

    115th Street Library
    April 10, 2013 (All day) - May 10, 2013 (All day)

     In the early 14th century, many portrait paintings were commemorative pieces, painted to honor the subject after his death.  In my view, a profile is particularly appropriate because the subject gazes, not at us, but at the beyond, the next life.  In my pictures, I have pushed 

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