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Exhibitions and Shows Ending in May

by Heather on April 28th, 2008

Here is my short list of notable exhibitions and shows that are ending in May.  Be sure you catch these events before they’re gone:

“Jasper Johns, Gray” |  Metropolitan Museum of Art  The first exhibition to focus on the use of the color gray.  Click here for more information. Ends May 4. 

“Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today” and “Design and the Elastic Mind” | MoMA  Uses the commercial color chart as a metaphor.  Click here for more information.  Both exhibitions end May 12.  

“WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution” |  P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center  Examines the international foundation and legacy of feminism between the years 1965-1980.  Ends May 12.

“Designed for Pleasure” | Asia Society  Explores Japan’s “floating world”– a red-light district in Tokyo from the 17th century through the 19th century.  Paintings and woodblock prints of geisha, prostitutes, Kabuki actors, and sumo wrestlers.  Ends May 4.

“Painting Safari: Jan Martin McGuire’s Scenes from the African Wild” | Forbes Galleries  Thirty original paintings showing the people and wildlife she met on her trips to Africa.  Free.  Ends May 5.

“Under New York Skies: Nocturnes by Yvonne Jacquette” | Museum of the City of New York  Paintings and pastels of of New York’s aerial views.  Ends May 4.

“Exoticism” | The Museum at FIT  Explores the multicultural influences on designers in the world of couture in the past 250 years.  Free.  Ends May 7.

Macbeth | Lyceum Theatre  Based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Patrick Stewart plays a tyrant in a 1950s Stalinist dictatorship.  Ends May 24.   

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