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I’ve been seeing this quote going around, because my algorithm is cooked: “Please don’t call me an American, I’m a New Yorker.” It pissed me off, because everything pisses me off, because I’m a New Yorker. But like many of us, I’m also an American. And I’m quickly tiring of our city’s exceptionalism, which I think is just escapism with a bow on it. What do we do against it? We put boots to the ground, maybe. At Flushing Town Hall, an exhibition of more than 70 artists from the world’s borough. In Montclair, New Jersey, an intimate glimpse into the lives and dreams of artists all around the Garden State. Or we keep our eyes on the horizon: I think of the Soviet director Sergei Parajanov, who would’ve celebrated his 100th birthday this year. Despite surveillance, censorship, and imprisonment, he made clear-eyed films that were dreamy yet urgent, brutal yet beautiful.
— Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor
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With works by over 70 artists, the show contains everything from personified felt dumplings to crochet renditions of the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Unisphere. | Maya Pontone
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ON SCREEN
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The trials of late-in-life romance and a photographer’s chronicle of Black life under South African apartheid anchor the 15th edition of DOC NYC. | Maya Pontone
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Each of the director’s films adapts a folktale, short story, or novel, or pays tribute to a historical figure — but never in a straightforward way. | Dan Schindel
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
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CLOSING THIS WEEK |
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WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?
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Greta Rainbow takes us inside the intimate vignettes of the New Jersey Arts Annual at the Montclair Art Museum.
Fred Tomaselli honors Flaco the eagle-owl through his new 680-square-foot mosaic in that long walkway in the 14th Street station.
West Harlem Night Market’s final hurrah of the year is happening this Thursday, Nov. 14. [maschospitalitygroup.com]
The new-ish bookstore Hive Mind Books is hosting a queer writing night on Thursday, too. [instagram.com]
Iván Navarro, Courtney Smith & Dan Cameron will be in conversation at Miriam Gallery, followed by a poetry reading, followed by drinks, also this Thursday. [instagram.com]
- Thursday’s a stacked night. n+1 magazine will celebrate two decades with an evening of readings at McNally Jackson Books in Williamsburg. [instagram.com]
This Friday, Nov. 15, artist Riven Ratanavanh is performing Sinophilia, a performance-action at Otion Front Studio. [otionfront.com]
On Saturday, Nov. 16, Manny Vega brings his art to life via live music by Jimmy Bosch and his band, at the Museum of the City of New York. [mcny.org]
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