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The 10th annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature kicked off Monday night to a packed audience with an evening of provocative and stirring talks by world famous authors, including Salman Rushdie, Noam Chomsky and Sofi Oksanen. Held in Cooper Union’s Great Hall, the same venue Lincoln gave his famous “right makes might” anti-slavery address, one could sense some of the same momentous urgency in the air.
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Poets Bill Berskon and Ron Padgett have curated a lovely exhibition of the work of the artist George Schneeman now on view at Poets House in Battery Park. A friend to the curators, as well as many other notable New York City poets, “A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman” showcases 40 years worth of Schneeman’s paintings, collages, prints, and books, made in collaboration with his poet friends, as well as a large number of his portraits of them.
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A survey of the outspoken Chinese artist presents 20 years of his provocative work that blurs the line between art and activism.
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Bushwick’s Catland Books holds their first ever art show with haunting, symbol-laden photographs by artist Christina Dallas, AKA “Teen Angel”.
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As a New Yorker forced to touch strangers almost anytime I find myself on the subway at rush hour, I find it hard to romanticize the premise behind Richard Renaldi’s “Touching Strangers” exhibition which opened last week at the Aperture Foundation Gallery in Chelsea.
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It was fitting that the Unsound Festival’s “The Long Tone” concert was held at the First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn on Friday, as the evening was more akin to a religious experience, a narcotic intoxication, or a sexual awakening, than a mere music show.
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Last Thursday, “Art Vivant” hosted its second “speakeasy” occasion with an evening of performances at a secret location in the East Village.
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While there are some troubling aspects to Gauguin’s work, his ‘Metamorphoses’ show now on view at MOMA presents an intriguing side of his work in print and sculpture.
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There’s one day left to score one of 19 surfboards painted by artists such as Retna, Jeremy Fish, Richard Colman, Cleon Peterson, and Monica Canilao. They are up for auction on Paddle8, with all proceeds benefiting Waves for Water, a non-profit that works on the front-line to provide clean water to communities in need around the world.
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