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It's shaping up to be a wonderful weekend in New York and luckily there's plenty to get you out and experiencing the many creative offerings-both indoors and out.
The 15th annual TriBeCa Open Artist Studio Tour, or TOAST, runs from April 29 through May 2. TOAST invites the public to take free, self-guided tours through over 100 artists' studios in 36 buildings in TriBeCa, where they will have the opportunity to talk to the artists, view and purchase work...
 Interior designer Lars Bolander has transformed Park Avenue Armory into an even more dramatic environment during the Art and Antique Dealers League of America Spring Show taking place April 28-May 2. The historic building's vaulted ceiling will be illuminated by spotlights, and the 7-and-a-half-foot tall obelisks, lining the aisles of the exhibition hall, will be painted in shades of gray, yellow, orange and green. The benches? Covered in a zebra pattern. And bright yellow, blue and red tablecloths in the cafeteria will only add to the classy, spring-inspired makeover. "I've cheered everything up," Bolander says. "Color reigns supreme. Antiques are fun, after all." Read more about the Spring Show here.
One film you may want to watch this weekend is screening during the Tribeca Film Festival, titled Carol Channing: Larger Than Life follows the fascinating performer that you may think you already know but will be surprised to learn about anew. Read our review of it here.
What else to Watch This Weekend Before the Tribeca Film Festival ends.
 In early 2010, Urban Bush Women launched its local 25th anniversary celebration with an intriguing program at Dance Theater Workshop that revisited earlier works exploring female eroticism. At the time, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, the founder, artistic director and primary choreographer of the ensemble, alluded to a companion program she hoped to present this year as a counterpart, focusing on "the political, fiery work" from their rich repertory. That program-titled Resistance and Power-is being offered this week by Harlem Stage, as a culmination of UBW's busy, geographically adventurous anniversary year. Read more here.
Our critic MARK PEIKERT thinks Nina Nina Arianda's performance in the revival of Born Yesterday currently on Broadway may be " the most inventive, stylish and hilarious comedy performance of this (or possibly any) season." Read the full review here.
Read more of our theater reviews and coverage here.
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Gallery Openings This Week
Burt Van Deusen: Paintings and Drawings: Blue Mountain Gallery, 530 West 25 St., 646-486-4730
Thursday, April 28, 5 - 8 PM
In his first one-person-show at the Blue Mountain Gallery, Burt Van Deusen is showing work done during the past five years. The paintings and drawings are invented cloudscapes painted or drawn in a direct manner. The work reveals inventiveness and attention to where the paint takes imagination. All the work shown was produced in his studio, which he maintains in Springs, New York.
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Flavia Bacarella & Marion Lerner-Levine: Woodcuts, Etchings & Drawings: Prince Street Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, 646-230-0246
Saturday, April30, 3 - 6 PM
Flavia Bacarella's woodcuts depict the range of life on the organic farm where she lives: a praying mantis, a wild turkey, a snapping turtle. Marion Lerner-Levine's still-life paintings convey a sense of the magic and mystery of objects as if seen through a looking-glass. Recent woodblock prints and monotypes are concerned with pattern and structure in landscape and city views.
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Will Steacy, 48 Hours: Michael Mazzeo Gallery, 508 West 26th Street, No. 318, 212-741-6599
Thursday, April 28, 6 - 8 PM
Michael Mazzeo Gallery is pleased to announce a special presentation of recent photographs by the American photographer, journalist, and social documentarian, Will Steacy. The 50 8×10 inch color prints will be on view for 48 hours only from April 28 to April 30 and will be accompanied by an installation of artifacts and ephemera relating to the project. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, April 28, from 6-8 PM and a gallery talk by the artist on Saturday, April 30 at 3 PM.
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Landscapes Metamorphic, Topologies Chromatoplastic : Centotto, 250 Moore Street, No. 108, 908.338.3590
Friday, April 29, 6 - 10 PM
Landscapes discernible among scapes abstracted.
Spatial otherness striated, sculpted, compacted.
The near release of surfaces nearly erupted.
Elsewhere'd terrains in fecund chromatics.
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Ross Racine: "North of Piney Acres": Front Room Gallery, 147 Roebling Street, 718-782-2556
Friday, April 29, 7 - 9 PM
Front Room Gallery is proud to present "North of Piney Acres," a solo exhibition of works on paper by Ross Racine. In this series, Racine depicts realistic aerial views of fictional suburban communities, which amplify an awareness of modern choices in building and living styles. Racine employs common structural archetypes in his compositions, with an expanded view that exaggerates the rational utility of these imagined infrastructures.
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Matthew Miller: the magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it : Famous Accountants, 1673 Gates Avenue, Bushwick, 917-414-7798
Saturday, April 30, 7 - 10 PM
"Unsurprisingly, given the evident meticulousness of his paintings, Miller works slowly and deliberately, and may return to a single painting again and again over the course of several months to perfect a single crucial line. Enthralling results reward the painstaking effort. Miller's work exudes what I would call the drama of subtlety. In two small self-portraits, for example, visually minuscule divergences - the adjustment of an angle here, a brushstroke there - yield alter-egos in quite stark opposition: one vulnerable and probably gentle, the other impervious and latently threatening. As with his previous work, the depthlessly opaque background in these paintings serves to focus the viewer all the more tightly on the figures themselves and to anchor their qualities in space and time. In Matthew Miller's art, whether he looks inward or outward, both heart and precision flourish."
- Jonathan Stevenson
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Luminous Flux: Regina Rex, 1717 Troutman, #329 (between Cypress and Seneca), 646-467-2232
Saturday, April 30, 7 - 10 PM
Forrest Myers and Jim Clark present two complementary light installations at Regina Rex that explore the timed development of colors, as they juxtapose and then shift seamlessly into one another. Luminous Flux is the measurement of light, which alters significantly as white light breaks down into primary and secondary colors. With a focus on every hue, except for white, Myers and Clark explore the visual and spatial effects that this flux plays upon perception.
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