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The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…

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Tadashi Kawamata: Tree Huts

Mad. Sq. Art presents Tadashi Kawamata
Art October 1 - December 31
Tadashi Kawamata: Tree Huts

Photo: Madison Square Park Conservancy

Tadashi Kawamata latest installation from his ongoing work of tree huts is taking place at Madison Square Park. He is best known for his site specific installations that explores urban environments, juxtaposing established architectural elements with shanty-like structures. While this work may appear more fitting in its environment, Kawamata’s wooden structures have flourished around lamp posts as well as classical and modern buildings. Tadashi Kawamata: Tree Huts, will be open to the public on October 2nd running through to the end of the year.

URL madsqhuts.wordpress.com

Jenny Holzer's For the Guggenheim

Jenny Holzer at the Guggenheim
Art September 26 - December 31
Jenny Holzer's For the Guggenheim

Photo: Guggenheim

For the past three years from September 2005 to July 2008 the Guggenheim underwent an extensive restoration to Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic building. To compliment the completion of the restoration, the Guggenheim has commissioned Jenny Holzer to create a site specific piece.

URL guggenheim.org/new-york

Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect

Whitney Museum of American Art
Art March 12 - June 19
<i>MONUMENT, 2008</i>

Photo: Vassilij Gureev; Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art

Jenny Holzer’s pioneering approach to language as a carrier of content and her use of nontraditional media and public settings as vehicles for that content make her one of the most interesting and significant artists working today.

URL whitney.org

Ernesto Neto: anthropodino

Park Avenue Armory
Art May 14 - June 14
anthropodino

Photo: Park Avenue Armory

Nylon stalactites. Biomorphic spice sacks. Pools of plastic balls. These are some ways to begin describing Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s installation, Anthropodio, that launches Park Avenue Armory’s series of site-specific commissions. To begin only; one truly needs to experience this multi-sensory interactive environment in person to gain any sense of what it is.

URL www.armoryonpark.org/

Picasso: Mosqueteros

Gagosian Gallery
Art March 26 - June 6
Pablo Picasso, Etriente, 1972.

Photo: Rob McKeever; Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

Regardless of your preconceptions of Picasso, the one thing you can expect from Picasso: Mosqueteros, the ambitious show of the artist’s late work currently on view at Gagosian Gallery, is to have your expectations trumped. The sheer scale of the show itself and the strength of the work from the often-overlooked last decade of Picasso’s life are nothing short of impressive. Be sure to spend time with the series of delightfully whimsical and rich works on paper, which his dramatic canvases can easily overshadow.

URL gagosian.com

Roxy Paine: From the Ground Up

The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ James Cohan Gallery
Art April 28 - October 25
Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom, The Iris B. and Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 28 - October 25, 2009

Photo: Sheila Griffin; Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art/James Cohan Gallery

Roxy Paine has made himself known to many New York pedestrians at ground-level with his striking series of outdoor sculptures—Conjoined, Defunct and Erratic, the three elegant stainless steel tree sculptures that graced Madison Square Park in 2007, and Bluff, a 50-foot-tall stainless steel tree that stood in Central Park as part of a collaboration with the 2002 Whitney Biennial.

URL metmuseum.org