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 This week Google launched Art Project, its newest free product that gives people with Internet access the ability to tour some of the world's most important museum galleries. Three New York City museums-The Frick, MoMA and The Metropolitan Museum-are all featured. The high-resolution images allow users to virtually "walk" through the spaces sans people (and interruption). You may also contemplate-up close-the images of many of the paintings.
Does this mean that you won't want to visit these museums? With the terrible winter storms and the rising admission prices, it may be a temptation to stay at home on the sofa and take a tour. And it perhaps the museums, in fact, are hoping that you get a taste of the offerings virtually so you will want to visit in person. It does seem like the newest trend.
Peter Greenaway recently mounted his virtual experience of Leonardo's "Last Supper" at the Park Avenue Armory-an incredible, hi-res replica of a piece of art that is not as accessible-and Werner Herzog has taken his documentary camera into the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave in southern France, which is severely limited, for the upcoming 3D movie experience, Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Of course, these immersive visual experiences aren't the same as viewing the locations in real life. Tell us what you think.
Also, be sure to check out our archives, which can be read (and downloaded in PDF format). Thanks for reading-and stay warm!
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25 Years of Evidence
Ronald K. Brown culminates a busy year for his dance troupe with performances at the Joyce
THEATER
Worker's Comp
Love is pain. So, too, is the theater on occasion-particularly when a high-concept show doesn't come across in execution. Such is the case with hot-right-now playwright Rajiv Joseph's new two-hander, Gruesome Playground Injuries.
 BOOKS
Writing Music
Wesley Stace's new novel, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, is a story of murder, music and love set in early-20th-century England. Stace will also be in New York (under his other identity) Feb. 11 at City Winery for John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders, featuring performances from Ted Leo and The Fiery Furnaces, among others.
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Gallery Openings Today
 Sinister Play: Denise Bibro Fine Art, 6 - 8 PM, 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, 212-647-7030
Denise Bibro Fine Art presents Sinister Play, February 3rd through March 5th, 2011. Seven artists explore the duality of imagery which is at once childlike, cute, and cuddly, yet belies disturbing undercurrents of menace, mischief, and violence. Featuring work by Meredith Allen, Nancy Baker, Monika Malewska, Kendrick Mar, Douglas Newton, Jon Pellicoro, and Tim Ripley, Sinister Play includes painting, photography, works on paper, and sculpture. Curated by Denise Bibro, Olympia Lambert, and Almitra Stanley.
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 Los Carpinteros: Rumba Muerta: Sean Kelly Gallery, 6 - 8 PM, 528 West 29th Street, 212-239-1181
Rumba Muerta is Los Carpinteros' first exhibition at the gallery since their acclaimed 2008 show, Montan?a Rusa. The central theme in Los Carpinteros' work is the idea of transformation. According to the artists, that transformation sometimes occurs "in the morphology and physicality of an object and at other times in its meaning, interpretation and function." As such, Los Carpinteros allow the titles "to reveal something, a certain form of meaning or to subvert the official meaning that people attribute to things." The title of the new exhibition, Rumba Muerta, is meant to conjure up an imaginary world evocative of the dying notes at the end of a bittersweet song.
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Netiquette: Camel Art Space, 6 - 9 PM, 722 Metropolitan Avenue, camelartspace@gmail.com
When we log onto a social media site, digital ambassadors of ourselves known as avatars are sent into cyberspace. Our avatars allow us to semi-anonymously experience the guarded yet honest "face-to-face" contact found in the digital world. In this distinctive sociological landscape we are evolving our own contradictory rules of personal engagement. As avatars we experience stunningly disgusting rudeness next to white-gloved good manners and encourage both. Netiquette is our shared Internet cloud-consciousness of social interaction. One whose rules we continuously write and rewrite as we experience each other online.
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Pornucopia: Allegra LaViola Gallery, 6 - 9 PM, 179 East Broadway, 917 463 3901
The exhibition takes the idea of plenty as its starting point. Once a notion so incredible it was given as a gift by the Gods, the idea of abundance is now an every day experience. Supermarkets are filled with brightly colored packaged foods that never rot and barely dressed women are used to sell everything from toilet paper to toothbrushes. In this world of excess, what do we use to fill the void?
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