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November 25, Wednesday
Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Occurs 129 more times thru May 22

The American artist Roxy Paine (b. 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide stainless-steel sculpture, especially for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Giving viewers the sense of being immersed in the midst of a cataclysmic force of nature, Maelstrom is Paine’s largest and most ambitious work to date.

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9:30 AM

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10028
(212) 535-7710
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John Lennon: The New York Years
Nov 25, 10:00 AM at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Annex
Occurs 178 more times thru May 22

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC is proud to present JOHN LENNON: THE NEW YORK CITY YEARS, which opens May 12, 2009. This feature exhibit explores John Lennon’s passion for music, art, politics and film, with New York City as his backdrop. Capturing a time in Lennon’s life that was full of political and social activism, the exhibit reflects the spirit of the era during which he created some read more...

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10:00 AM

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Annex
76 Mercer Street,
New York, NY, 10012
866-9-ROCKNY
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Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video
Nov 25, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
Occurs 31 more times thru Jan 10

When video emerged as a new medium in the early 1970s, feminist artists embraced it as a way to explore issues related to their own bodies, experiences, and identities. The rather straightforward capture of the artist performing (usually alone) in front of a stationary camera served as an avenue to investigate desire, autonomy, and selfhood. Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video p read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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Seaport Past & Future
Nov 25, 10:00 AM at South Street Seaport
Occurs 179 more times thru May 23

This free exhibit will take guests through The Seaport's centuries of growth and epic changes that have impacted New York City and the entire region. Achival materials showcase vintage streetscapes presented with the same views as they appear today allowing visitors to examine continuities and change over time at The Seaport. These momentous occasions will be demonstrated through multi media featu read more...

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10:00 AM

South Street Seaport
Fulton Street at South Street,
New York, NY, 10038
(212) 732-8257
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CONTACT:1609
Nov 25, 12:00 AM at Staten Island Museum / Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences
Occurs 43 more times thru Jan 10

Timed to complement the international celebrations of the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson's year of entry to New York Harbor (September 11, 1609) CONTACT:1609 presents the work of seven contemporary artists as they interpret this early encounter between the Native American peoples and the Europeans. Starting with that fateful encounter the clock started ticking for the Lenape culture, and read more...

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12:00 AM

Staten Island Museum / Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences
75 Stuyvesant Pl.,
Staten Island, NY, 10301
(718) 727-1135
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DIGITAL '09: Science Mysteries
Nov 25, 12:00 AM at New York Hall of Science
Occurs 67 more times thru Jan 31

NYSCI hosts the 11th-annual Digital Print Competition & Exhibition by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI), which exhibits digital prints that explore the mysteries in science, 2-d thought-experiments, and scientific theories in physics like quantum mechanics and string theory. Co-Jurors: Dr. Arthur P. Molella (writer, curator and the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Director, The Lemelson Cent read more...

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New York Hall of Science
4701 111th St,
Corona, NY, 11368
(718) 699-0301
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How to Seduce Difficult Women, The Movie
Nov 25, 12:00 AM at Village East Theatres Inc
Occurs 180 more times thru May 24

A Funny, Edgy, Sexy film made by Richard Temtchine.

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Village East Theatres Inc
189 2nd Ave,
New York, NY, 10003
(212) 529-6799
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Nikon Small World: Exploring the Beauty of Science
Nov 25, 12:00 AM at New York Hall of Science
Occurs 90 more times thru Feb 23

These striking photographs from the Nikon Small World International Photomicrography Competition will give you a glimpse into a world that most have never seen. It is a window into a universe that can only be seen through the lens of a microscope. Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. The Nikon Interna read more...

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New York Hall of Science
4701 111th St,
Corona, NY, 11368
(718) 699-0301
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Pages of the Past: The Breukelen Adventures of Jasper Danckaerts
Nov 25, 12:00 AM at Brooklyn Historical Society
Occurs 26 more times thru Jan 03

In 1679 Jasper Danckaerts and his colleague Peter Sluyter came to New York in search of land for a religious colony. For 200 years Danckaerts’ meticulously written and illustrated diaries lay undiscovered until Henry C. Murphy, a founder of the Long Island Historical Society, (later renamed the Brooklyn Historical Society) came upon the diaries in 1864, in an Amsterdam book store. Now an important read more...

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12:00 AM

Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont Street,
Brooklyn, NY, 11201
(718) 222-4111
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American Decorative Arts
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Occurs 129 more times thru May 22

The collection of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum extends from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century and includes approximately twelve thousand examples of furniture, silver, glass, pewter, ceramics, and textiles. Present in the collection are objects made on American soil from the early colonial period, reflecting the settlers' keen desire to reproduce as faithfu read more...

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9:30 AM

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10028
(212) 535-7710
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American Paintings and Sculpture
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Occurs 129 more times thru May 22

The collection of American paintings and sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. More than one thousand paintings, six hundred sculptures, and 2,600 drawings - exceeding four thousand works in total by approximately nine hundred different artists- constitute an encyclopedic survey of fine art in America, from the late colonial period in the ei read more...

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9:30 AM

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10028
(212) 535-7710
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Ancient Egyptian Art
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Occurs 129 more times thru May 22

The collection of ancient Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum ranks among the finest outside Cairo. It consists of approximately 36,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period (ca. 300,000 B.C.–4th century A.D.). More than half of the collection is derived from the Museum's thirty-five years of archaeological work in Egypt, init read more...

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9:30 AM

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10028
(212) 535-7710
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Ancient Near Eastern Art
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Occurs 129 more times thru May 22

The Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art covers both a lengthy chronological span and a vast geographical area. The collection of more than seven thousand works of art ranges in date from 8000 B.C. (the Neolithic period) to the Arab conquest and rise of Islam beginning in A.D. 651. The works come from ancient Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Anatolia, and other lands in the region that extends from the read more...

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9:30 AM

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10028
(212) 535-7710
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Arms and Armor
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Occurs 129 more times thru May 22

The collection of armor, edged weapons, and firearms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art ranks with those of the other great armories of the world, in Vienna, Madrid, Dresden, and Paris. It consists of approximately 15,000 objects that range in date from about 400 B.C. to the nineteenth century. Though Western Europe and Japan are the regions most strongly represented—the collection of more than fiv read more...

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9:30 AM

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10028
(212) 535-7710
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Art and Architecture of Medieval Europe
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Cloisters
Occurs 150 more times thru May 22

The Cloisters—described by Germain Bazin, former director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, as "the crowning achievement of American museology"—is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloiste read more...

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Cloisters
W. 193rd Street at Washington Ave.,
New York, NY, 10040
(212) 923-3700
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Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Occurs 129 more times thru May 22

The art of the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands, and North, Central, and South America are overseen by a single curatorial department at the Metropolitan. More than 11,000 works of art of varied materials and types represent at least four millennia of greatly diverse cultural traditions. The department's holdings range from ritual sculpture and monuments of wood and stone to gold read more...

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9:30 AM

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10028
(212) 535-7710
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Asian Art
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Occurs 129 more times thru May 22

The collection of Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum is the largest and most comprehensive in the West. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works that provide—in both quality and breadth—an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world. The collection of more than 35,000 objects, which range in date from the second millennium B.C. to th read more...

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9:30 AM

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10028
(212) 535-7710
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Connections: The Nature of Networks
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at New York Hall of Science
Occurs 151 more times thru May 22

Networks are everywhere and serve as a great tool for teaching science, mathematics, social studies and more. Connections utilizes state-of-the-art technology to explore the new science of networks. A spider’s web is a complex network and a river with its unstructured branches actually demonstrates a so-called emergent network. Connections will teach visitors about the differences, and similar read more...

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9:30 AM

New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street,
Queens, NY, 11368
(718) 699-0005
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Costume Institute Collection
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Occurs 129 more times thru May 22

The Costume Institute houses a collection of more than thirty thousand costumes and accessories spanning five continents and as many centuries. Arguably the preeminent institution of its kind in the world, the matrix of The Costume Institute collection was the Museum of Costume Art, an independent entity formed in 1937. Led by Neighborhood Playhouse founder Irene Lewisohn, the Museum of Costume Ar read more...

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9:30 AM

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10028
(212) 535-7710
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Drawings and Prints
Nov 25, 9:30 AM at Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Occurs 129 more times thru May 22

The Metropolitan Museum owns approximately fifteen thousand drawings and 1.5 million prints. The Department of Drawings and Prints focuses almost exclusively on works of graphic art produced after the Middle Ages in Western Europe and in North America. The collection of drawings is known particularly for its works by Italian and French artists of the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. One c read more...

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9:30 AM

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10028
(212) 535-7710
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