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Arts In The City WEEKLY PICKS

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Everyday objects get weird at Matthew Marks Gallery with the unusual works of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. The collaborative duo has been creating humorous looks at the commonplace since 1979. Through June 30. matthewmarks.com

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The Tribeca Film Festival takes over the city from April 25 – May 6. With so many movies to choose from, look on pages 62 and 63 for our guide to films with New York as the leading lady. tribecafilmfestival.org

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Marilyn Minter, “Unarmed (Pamela Anderson),” C-Print, 36” x 50”, 2007.

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Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York

SPOTLIGHT

With “Foam of the Daze,” former P.S.1/MoMA curator Amy Smith-Stewart debuts her new Lower East Side Gallery with a bang. The first show in Smith-Stewart’s eponymous Stanton Street space features work from nine artists—including Marilyn Minter, Mika Rottenberg, Georganne Deen— and an opening-night performance by Shaun El C. Leonardo. The show, which takes its name from a tragic love story, takes a look at the darker side of glamour. Already on the schedule are two upcoming shows, one of work by Italian newcomer Paolo Chiasera and another, “She was Born to be my Unicorn,” curated by Amy Kellner; Smith-Stewart promises to be an exciting addition to the growing Bowery art scene. Through May 20. —H.C.

Makor at the 92nd Street Y celebrates the intersection of Latino and Jewish culture with a week-long festival of art, music and film. April 29-May 5. makor.org

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one floor higher on the building, with advertising below to It’s not often that a support the costs of work of art is at the maintaining and lighting center of a 10-year the work. “If you court battle. But think about it, it’s really Forrest “Frosty” consistent with what Myers’ “The Wall” that historic district is all is no ordinary work about,” with its mix of of public art. The culture and commerce, minimalist sculpture Michael Fillerman, the is eight stories tall, building’s representative formerly on display at told the Resident. Now, the corner of Houston pending this week’s Street and Broadway, Forrest “Frosty” Myers stands in front of his artwork “The Wall,” before it was taken down in 2000. approval by the one of the city’s busiest Landmarks Commission, intersections. Now after it looks like “The Wall” will be what saved it.” Even artist Frank a decade, the cases may finally be Stella stepped in, calling “The Wall” returned to its rightful home by the resolved with a hearing this week. summer.—Heather Corcoran “the best outdoor public artwork Myers built “The Wall” in 1973, as in New York City” and wrote in a Robert Moses’ bulldozers were letter to the city that he wished he clearing the way for the boulevardLIGHTS OUT ON BWAY had thought of it himself, according style Houston Street. Remnants Broadway said goodbye to actress to Myers. But public support could of a demolished building were and arts activist Kitty Carlyle Hart not stop the artwork from coming incorporated into the grid-like work last week by dimming the lights on all down, and it has been in storage of steel girders and paint, and the of its marquees. “This great woman in the building’s basement for the popular artwork became known of the theatre – tireless in her lifelong last seven years. But this is one case as the “Gateway to Soho.” When crusade for the advancement of the where public art and business may the owner of the building, 599 arts in the public sphere – touched successfully coexist. In a series of Broadway, wanted to use the space so many lives through her work. We court battles, the city, the building’s for advertising, there was a public will miss her,” said Charlotte St. owners and Myers – with the support Martin, the executive director of outcry. “It’s a rare thing that you of his pro bono attorney Sherman come across an artwork and a lot the League of American Theaters Kahn of Morrison & Foerster – did of major cities make a better effort and Producers in a statement. Hart the unexpected, they compromised. of that than does New York,” said died last week at the age of 96. They agreed to reinstall the work, Myers. “The community support is —H.C.

A host of special guests – including gossip queen Liz Smith and actor Denis Leary – honor 24 years of the New York Pop and five decades of Neil Sedaka’s career in show business with a gala night at Carnegie Hall. April 30. newyorkpops.org It’s an unlikely pairing, but just like ditzy Elle Woods found her way to Harvard Law School, the comedy “Legally Blonde” has found its way to Broadway. At the Palace Theatre. legallyblonde.broadway. com