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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 12, 2013?

74 free events take place on Thursday, September 12 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out September 12 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of September . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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74 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, September 12, 2013

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Workshop | Park Tai Chi


Tai Chi and Eternal Spring are instructed by members of the Tai Chi Chuan Center for all ages and experience levels. Classes are rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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Conference | Presidential Rhetoric and Leadership from Kennedy to the Present


A conference featuring Michael Gerson, Robert Jervis, Joseph Nye, Jeffrey Sachs, Stephen Sestanovich, Elizabeth Saunders, and Marc Trachtenberg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 am
Free

Workshop | Spring Into Yoga


Teachers trained in different styles will be giving classes throughout the afternoon, with the scenic park lake in the background. Please bring your own mat, as there will be none provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
$10 suggested donation...

Workshop | Catch & Release Fishing


Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Fair | New York Motorexpo


The 2013 New York Motorexpo will transform New York’s premier business district with the free-to-visit display of the latest vehicles from many of the world’s leading motor manufacturers. Get unrivalled access to the exteriors and interiors of the most exciting models from BMW, Cadillac, Ford, Lincoln, MINI, Mercedes-Benz, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”


Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Workshop | Park Pétanque


Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Concert | Dan Manjovi, Award-Winning Pianist & Film-Song Composer


Dan Manjovi is an award-winning musician and composer, and a New York favorite. His song Somethin's Comin' My Way is featured in the film and soundtrack to the 2009 Oscar-award winning Lionsgate film Precious. As a solo artist singer/songwriter he has released two solo albums, Dan Manjovi (2005), and Woke Up This Morning (2008).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Concert | Choir Works by Benjamin Britten


Program: Benjamin Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings; Les Illuminations The versatile and prolific composer Benjamin Britten will be honored on his 100th birthday. Celebrated favorites and rarely-performed works of Britten’s repertory will be presented, led by Director of Music and the Arts, Julian Wachner, The Choir of the church and NOVUS NY. Other featured artists include tenor Nicholas Phan, cellist Matt Haimovitz, and The Youth Chorus.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Concert | Metropolitan Klezmer plays music from far-flung styles


Metropolitan Klezmer will play a live concert, featuring music from far-flung styles of an exuberant, eclectic Yiddish cultural milieu: rollicking dance tunes, haunting trance melodies, Yiddish swing and tango, and genre-expanding original compositions such as klezmer cumbia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Other | Retro Gaming for Adults


Share your passion for Checkers, Chess, Monopoly, Scrabble, Boggle, or your favorite board game. There will be a demonstration of Boggle. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and join us for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Subway Art Tour


Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”


Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Other | Human Chess


Play as your favorite game piece and navigate the chess board from inside at these Human Chess games, where chess becomes a embodied team sport. All levels welcome!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Lincoln and the Civil War: 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, with Pulitzer Winner Eric Foner


Historian Eric Foner's talk, in the year of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, will discuss the significance of that crucial document, in terms of the Civil War, the place of African-Americans in American society, and the evolution of Lincoln's own thinking about slavery. He will examine the causes that led to the issuing of the document, and its consequences for Lincoln himself, and the broader society.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Other | Chess & Games Club


An introductory Chess group which welcomes new players. Other strategy games also played. Come and refresh your chess game or learn anew and enjoy some other strategy games as well.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Author Reading | Elaine Luttrull discusses her book Arts and Numbers


Arts and Numbers is a lively and artfully done ally in helping creative professionals plan their present financial situations and secure their futures. Author, artist, and CPA Elaine Grogan Luttrull has written it to help creative professionals find the same confidence in their financial dealings as in their chosen mode of expression.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Tour | Brooklyn Heights at Sunset Tour


Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Sara Conklin / Jane Stevens


Sara Conklin's Disquiet of the Night - This series of paintings are comprised of familiar subjects, people, pets and animals in the wild. The work is inspired by the ambiguous time of day when nighttime descends. The brash juxtaposition of animals outdoors in their natural habitat and then indoors of the domestic scene are the fodder of these works. Jane Stevens' Time Stands Still - These new digital photographs capture a moment in time that represents a unique juxtaposition of objects. These objects share with the viewer a forgotten experience and time. They embody a sense of wonder in a time long past.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | 4th Time Around/ (My Back Pages), a Show by German Artist Walter Dahn


This show will present paintings, “anti-silkscreens,” and rare bronze sculptures, evidencing the full sweep of Walter Dahn’s practice since 1981.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Eikoh Hosoe: Curated Body 1959-1970, Vintage and Modern Prints


A selection of vintage and modern prints by the master Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe. Hosoe (b. 1933) is widely acknowledged to be a pioneer of expressionistic post-WWII Japanese photography.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | John Ashbery Collects, an Immersive Multimedia Gallery Experience


This show is a selection of things that inform Ashbery’s sensibility as well as his work as a poet, visual artist, collaborator, art critic and collector. Co-curated by poets Adam Fitzgerald and Emily Skillings, John Ashbery Collects explores the poet’s lifelong interest in collecting through the medium of his late-19th century house in Hudson, NY, a carefully composed collage-environment constructed over thirty-five years with an eclectic array of fine art by European and American masters, furniture, pottery, textiles, bric-a-brac, toys, and other objects, augmented by the content and associations that these objects hold for him—the images and artworks he arranges on his walls, the books he puts on his shelves, the music he plays, the cinema he watches—all organized in an architecturally-distinguished setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Lonely Girl, an Exhibition of 7 Women Artists Under 30


With: Al Baio, Petra Cortright, Maggie Lee, Greem Jellyfish, Bunny Rogers, Analisa Teachworth, Amalia Ulman. Lonely Girl will present a group of female artists who continuously use multiple online platforms (Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram and personal sites) as medium to simultaneously showcase themselves and their creative output.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Robert Montgomery: Solo Exhibition


Robert Montgomery creates text-based installation works that incorporate elements such as light, fire and wood. His poetic phrases, most often encountered within the public landscape, offer a powerful commentary on human behavior, while remaining delicate in its nature.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Sensitive Geometries: Three Decades of Postwar Art in Brazil


A landmark historical exhibition that reveals the evolution of a distinct visual vocabulary in Brazil through the work of twelve artists of different generations: Lothar Charoux, Waldemar Cordeiro, João José Costa, Geraldo De Barros, Hermelindo Fiaminghi, Paulo Roberto Leal, Rubem Ludolf, Anna Maria Maiolino, Mira Schendel, Ivan Serpa, Franz Weissmann, and Paulo Werneck. Inspired by an infectious spirit of postwar renewal and creativity, Sensitive Geometries traces a shift in attitude towards artistic approaches in non-figurative art and the tenets of a period in which artists experimented with the expressive possibilities of a geometric language.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Adult Yoga


Open-level yoga with a certified instructor. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring your yoga mat (or use one of theirs). All participants must sign a waiver form before they join in. For adults 18+.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Angel Otero's Gates of Horn and Ivory, a Show of Steel and Porcelain Sculptures


Angel Otero’s second solo show at the gallery features a new group of sculptures made from steel and porcelain, two materials the artist began experimenting with in 2012. A selection of new abstract paintings will also be exhibited in tandem with the sculptures. The artist will be present for an opening reception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | David Rich reads from his book Middle Man


Former Marine Lieutenant Rollie Waters' expertise lies in military affairs and his latest mission is to locate and retrieve the millions of dollars taken from Saddam’s cache during the Iraq War. When a sniper attacks the team and the list of coffins turns out to be false, Rollie must assume the identity of a wealthy investment banker to find the puppet master who initiated the whole plot.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Debut Exhibition: Jon Rafman's You are standing in an open field


Journeys through virtual landscapes-rooted in the literature of the quest-highlight Jon Rafman's ongoing passion for online exploration and his continuing search for lost loves, ideals or cultures. In this exhibition, Rafman examines the material forms that memory takes through sculptures, videos and mixed media installations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Drawings & Sculptures: Sonya Blesofsky's Renovation


For this exhibition, Blesofsky’s drawings and sculptures continue her investigation of architecture, this time with increased interest in the visual evidence of a building’s evolution over time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Drawings: Raymond Pettibon's To Wit


Raymond Pettibon’s work embraces a wide spectrum of American “high” and “low” culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality. Taking their points of departure in the Southern California punk-rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the “do-it-yourself” aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines that characterized the movement, his drawings have come to occupy their own genre of potent and dynamic artistic commentary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Last Year at Marienbad redux


An exhibition, public program and publication that together examine how fictional narratives develop over time to form accepted knowledge of people, places, events and things. Inspired by the unconventional cinematic techniques such as nonlinear narrative and repetitive language used in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad (directed by Alain Resnais, with screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet), the exhibition features works of art that deploy these and other devices-- editing, character development, plot, mise-en-scène and montage--to disrupt, challenge and conflate what is understood as fact and fiction. Artists/Participants: Jennifer Allen, Keren Cytter, Tacita Dean, Jessamyn Fiore, Dan Fox, Jens Hoffmann, Iman Issa, David Maljkovic, Ján Mančuśka, Gordon Matta-Clark, Josh Tonsfeldt, Allan Sekula & Noël Burch, and Maya Schweizer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Death of a Cameraman


Featuring work by: Broomberg & Chanarin, Harun Farocki, Rabih Mroué, Hrair Sarkissian, Rudolf Steiner. On July 1, 2011, in the neighborhood of Karam Al Shami in Homs, Syria, a young man stands on the balcony of a residential building. He uses his cell phone to document gunfire taking place in the streets below as his camera suddenly catches sight of a gunman on an adjacent balcony. For a brief instant, the cameraman and the gunman directly face each other. A single shot is fired. The camera falls, and with the cameraman's death, image and reality collapse into one. Death of a Cameraman revolves around a moment in which the making of an image becomes a matter of life and death, with the camera functioning both as an extension of the eye and as a weapon. The exhibition explores the power of images to influence reality and alter the course of events. Are cameras weapons? Can they penetrate reality? What's at stake in the making of images? What does it mean to bear witness through them?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Un/Natural Occurrences


Participating Artists: Cynthia Back, Sabra Booth, Susan Goethel Campbell, Sayler/Morris for the Canary Project, Travis Childers, Evelyn Eller, Peter Fend, Anne Gilman, Art Hazelwood, Molly Heron, Jade Herriman/ Annie Bolitho, Judy Hoffman, Tatana Kellner, Eve Andrée Laramée, Aleta Lederwasch, Julie A. McConnell, Eve Mosher, Florence Neal, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Suzan Shutan, Michelle Wilson, Tammy Wofsey.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Intro Class: Sing Like You Speak, Simply and Naturally


With Sally Morgan. Sing and speak as naturally and effortlessly as you breathe, let the music flow through you without tripping on stray thoughts or getting caught on tension in the body, and keep your voice healthy in the process with Sally Morgan’s successful singing technique. In this class highly experienced vocal trainer Sally Morgan, a daring innovator for 25 years, will show us how easy is it to use her Morganix MethodTM, a proven technique based on cutting-edge medical, acoustical and therapeutic research, to develop the power of our singing voice. Come discover how to: use breathing and focusing techniques to reduce the effects of stage fright, tension or shyness; build stage presence; maintain excellent postural alignment; articulate consonants to propel your voice and reach amazing range; naturally heal a broken voice, recover from vocal fatigue; and much more. Come dare to become the singer of your dreams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Intro Class: “Sense Writing” Using Your Life Stories


With Madelyn Kent. When we allow our senses, thoughts, emotions, and imaginations to inform our writing, we can access far deeper layers of our creativity and produce far more profound and resonant work. In this class with a pioneer in developing innovative physical approaches to creativity, you will use our own life stories, visualizations, simple physical exercises, and writing prompts to explore how to approach writing through our senses. You’ll learn how to set authentic creative goals and work toward them effectively, and you’ll each complete three or four short pieces by the end of the course. Come discover how to bypass judgments and find real pleasure in all the stages of the writing craft.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Signing | Joel Grey, Oscar- and Tony-winning actor, signs copies of his photography book The Billboard Papers


The Billboard Papers, 10 large-scale color photographs of torn and decaying billboards from the streets of New York by the award-winning actor and photographer Joel Grey. William John Kennedy and Max Kozloff will also be signing their books.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | New Paintings and Ceramics by Josh Smith


The work of Josh Smith is distinguished by his mastery of multiple mediums (including painting, collage, sculpture, book and printmaking, and ceramics), his tireless production, and his tendency to acknowledge trends in painting and sculpture by expressly upending them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Paintings by Allison Miller


Los Angeles-based painter Allison Miller's paintings ask viewers to be active participants. Visibly constructed and deconstructed, layer-by-layer, the resulting works are palpable sites of activity. Causing forms, space and priorities to shift and evolve, Miller links viewer to maker by maintaining a constant state of flux. Shapes that read as solid begin to ooze and melt while deep space oscillates between background and foreground. Each forced adjustment of perception makes way for the next, new reaction for both artist and viewer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Park Yoga


Expert instructors lead all levels of yogis. Mats are provided. Presented by Athleta and produced by alignyo. Instructors and assistants from YogaWorks.
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Opening Reception | Photographs: Leonard Aschenbrand's Into Central Park


Aschenbrand, a self-taught photographer, has logged countless hours capturing images of the inhabitants and vistas of Central Park. In all seasons, he has traversed the terrain of this legendary urban oasis, documenting birds and butterflies, flowers and trees, monuments and structures.
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Opening Reception | Photography: Bruce Pavlow's Poster Child


Poster Child presents photographs of posters that incorporate images from popular culture - pop stars, animals, landscapes, motivational mottos - which have been reimagined and recreated by a fictitious cast of tweens, teens, and twenty-somethings. Using a readymade language of bumper stickers culled from the internet and stickers from craft and toy stores, each poster illustrates a personalized narrative and context, reflecting the thoughts and desires of the fictitious characters as well as the culture at large. The recreated posters are photographed (no Photoshop was used) and digitally printed at near actual size on watercolor paper, giving them a photorealist quality that amplifies the subsequent transformation. Image, identity and subterfuge thus meld into one.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photography: Manjari Sharma's Darshan and Shower Series


Darshan is a series that aims to photographically recreate various classical images of Gods and Goddesses pivotal to mythological stories in Hinduism. Printed on a massive scale, these photographs are presented at ClampArt in an elaborate installation that closely mimics the experience of a Hindu temple, complete with incense, lamps, and invocations. Four years back, Sharma discovered the best way to get a subject to relax in front of her camera lens was to get them in the shower. Shooting in her own apartment in Brooklyn, the artist invited friends and acquaintances over to sit for a portrait. What she eventually realized was that much of the awkwardness and anxiety of posing for a picture strangely melted away in the intimacy of a shower.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photos: Philip-Lorca diCorcia's Hustlers


Between 1990 and 1992, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, funded by a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, made multiple trips to Los Angeles to scout locations, invent scenarios, and ultimately find male prostitutes that would agree to pose for photographs. DiCorcia used his fellowship money to pay the men whatever price they charged for their most typical service, and ultimately prompted a complaint of misuse of government funds.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The Art of Building in Ten Books


As metaphors for human interaction, lecturer Allan Wexler’s work evolves from ritual and ceremony. Influenced by architecture and by methods of scientific research, his work dissects our daily domestic needs and actions. Wexler explores the relationship between human activity and the built environment. He makes buildings, furniture, vessels and utensils as backdrops and props for everyday, ordinary human activity.
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Opening Reception | The Propeller Group's Lived, Lives, Will Live!, an Exhibition on the Legacy of Lenin


Ho Chi Minh City- and Los Angeles-based collective The Propeller Group — formed by Phunam, Matt Lucero, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen in 2006 — will open their debut solo exhibition in the United States. Reinvigorating a once famous Leninist slogan, Lived, Lives, Will Live!, the group’s new works are part of a larger practice exploring the relationships between politics, celebrity culture, and collective histories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Zhao Zhao's Constellations: Glass Panels Perforated with Holes and Cracks


Constellations, a series of glass panels perforated with irregular patterns of holes and cracks, originated last year when Zhao Zhao decided to conduct an experiment involving gunshots and glass, a difficult undertaking in China where with very few exceptions the ownership of firearms is illegal. Intrigued by the idea of utilizing the velocity of bullets to create works of art in a carefully controlled manner, Zhao Zhao subsequently likened the glittering glass panels to constellations, any reference to astronomy having been far from his mind at the beginning of the project.
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Slide Lecture | Martin Treu discusses his book Signs, Streets, and Storefronts: A History of Architecture and Graphics along America's Commercial Corridors


This visual lecture explores the architectural history and signage of Main Street and the strip—from painted boards nailed over crude storefronts to sleek cinemas topped with neon glitz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation


In her new book, Estelle Freedman, professor of history at Stanford University, explores not only the ways in which rape has defined citizenship throughout American history, but also how aspiring citizens have tried, repeatedly, to redefine rape.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | 2 biographers discuss their new books


D.T. Max, author of the acclaimed David Foster Wallace bio Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, discusses writing the lives of others with fellow biographer Blake Bailey (Farther and Wilder).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Europe Endless, a Choreo-Cinematographic Performance


Berlin-based performance artists Kattrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke will perform Europe Endless, part of their choreo-cinematographic series entitled Directory. This double portrait guides spectators through fragmented milestones of their lives, examining themes of loss and mourning, identity, and gender troubles. Departing from childhood memories, it travels through family history and artistic development, journeying from the countryside of Bavaria, to Berlin, the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and Bologna. Directory: Europe Endless finishes with their meeting in Brussels in 2001, where the two merge into the artistwin deufert&plischke.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Alice McDermott reads from her book Someone


National Book Award winner Alice McDermott (After This, Charming Billy, Child of My Heart) reads from her first novel in seven years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Anne Carson reads from her book Red Doc


MacArthur Fellow and Distinguished Poet-in-Residence Anne Carson’s latest work will be introduced by Deborah Landau.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Artists discuss the exhibition Fugitivart


Join master printer Jon Cone, gallerist Michael Foley, curator Scott Lerman and others for this panel discussion on a conceptual exhibition that explores the concept of fine-art photographs as ephemeral objects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Jonathan Lethem reads from his book Dissident Gardens


A family saga of three generations of all-American radicals figure in Jonathan Lethem's (Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude) dazzling new novel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | McSweeney’s Night of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses: An Apocalypse Variety Show


Come celebrate the end of days with Lucy Corin (One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses), Nelly Reifler (Elect H. Mouse State Judge), Justin Taylor (The Gospel of Anarchy), Shelley Jackson, music from Julia Weldon, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Nick Laird discusses his book Go Giants


To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset Maugham award for travel writing and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Performance Art: Caitlin Baucom's Idle: A Gesamtkunstwerk


From the artist: "Useless, shiftless, not gainful, non linear, not turned to normal or appropriate use. Rejecting useful and appropriate functions for female bodies, Idle distorts their perceived values. In an intimate opera, three bodies perform a choreography of real time pleasures, grabbing at the imagined glamour of a woman’s body, twisting it and bringing it to life. Invaded and overpowered by music, the viewers’ own assumptions, fears, secret fantasies may be turned on them. Deep in the pleasures of female-to-female drag, the performers are real time vessels for ecstasy and power."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Intro Class: Letting Go of Clutter and Chaos: Creating Space For Healthy


With Andrew J. Mellen. Come learn from “The Most Organized Man in America” how to clear away the clutter and other obstacles that are standing in your way. Andrew has helped thousands “unstuff” their living spaces with easy, practical skills and techniques. You’ll learn to distinguish “urgent” from “important” and “trash” from “treasure” in every domain of life—from clothes, piles of junk mail, bags and boxes acting as storage bins, bursting closets, repeatedly buying misplaced items, and more. In less than one month, you’ll begin to master hands-on, sustainable techniques needed to get past your feelings of defeat and procrastination, and reclaim your life. Revolutionize how you use time and energy in this highly interactive and surprisingly fun class—so you can devote more of yourself to the things that really matter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tour | Manhattan Night Tour


New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: My New best friend or, Six Degrees of Sevrin Stein by Brooke Berman


Thirty-something-year-old Claire from New York strikes up a house swap with twenty-six-year-old Sevrin from San Francisco. Claire, a struggling writer, and Sevrin, a modern day Holly Golightly end up having a very strong and intertwined friendship; a bond created on an understanding of hopes, dreams, love, new starts, and insomnia. FREE party to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Sound Compositions Concert by Diana Salazar


Diana Salazar (b. Glasgow, 1982) is a London-based composer and sound artist. Her compositional output ranges from acousmatic work to music for instruments with live electronics, laptop improvisation and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Her works have been performed throughout the UK and internationally, across Europe and North, Central and South America, with broadcasts on Swedish National Radio, Radio France, and BBC Radio 3.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | The Mimi Jones Trio, Elegant, Eclectic Jazz Ensemble


Mimi Jones, multi-talented bassist, vocalist and composer, brings her beacon of musical light to the world while embracing a positive future with her inspiring messages. Mimi's elegant sound is an eclectic mix of genres based on a strong jazz foundation that leave room for funky bass grooves, world beat rhythms, and gentle textures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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