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• AAF (affordable art fair) Contemporary Art Fair
  130 galleries, three continents, lotsa art for $100 - $5000
  When: 10/28 - 31
  Where: Pier 92, 52nd st. & 12th ave.

• Crate & Barrel
  20%-25% sale on upholstered furniture, stock and custom - even leather
  When: through 10/17
  Where: 650 Madison & 59th, 611 Broadway & Houston

• LâLE
  hand-woven rugs are 60% off
  When: 10/12-10/17
  Where: 200 Mott St., 212-941-764

• Pompanoosuc Mills
  Fall Sale: 10%-25% off furniture, storage, rugs & lighting
  When: now until they say so
  Where: 124 Hudson Street, Tribeca - 212.226.5960

• Calico Corners
  Storewide 10%-15% sale on furniture, fabrics and trimmings
  When: Columbus Week - 10/11-16
  Where: Multiple locations in NJ, LI and CT

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Store
  50% off decorative arts, stationery, and more.
  When: 9/30-10/31 .
  Where: 800-662-3397 (call for store locations)

• Restoration Hardware
  Fall Lighting Sale: @20% off on most lighting
  When: through 10/24
  Where: 935 Broadway, at 22nd St.

 

Craigslist Weekend Garage Sale Round Up - not many!

• Loft Sale at 12 White St. - Sat & Sun 16th-17th - 10am - 6pm
• Sat. Oct 16 - Multi-Family Garage Sale (forest hills)
• Yard Sale in Upper Montclair--Sat. Oct. 16th, 17th as rain date
• Huge moving sale on Sunday, 10/17, Antiques to odds & ends (439 Claremont Ave,Teaneck, NJ)

 

Flea Markets

• Chelsea Flea Market
  When: Saturday and Sunday, 6th Ave from 25th to 26th Street, sunrise to sunset (212.243.5343)

• Hell's Kitchen Flea Market
  When: Saturday and Sunday, 39th Street, between 9th & 10th avenues, 10am - 6pm

 

Cultchah

• New York City Lord of the Rings Meetup Group
  When: Thursday, Oct. 14

• New York City Howard Stern Meetup Group
  When: Thursday, Oct. 14

• Andy Goldsworthy on the Roof
  No, this is not news and it will be up until October 31st, but he's our hero. Part of loving your NYC apartment is loving NYC. And what's not to love about standing on the roof of the Met in the summertime taking in a work by Goldsworthy? Priceless.

• Craig Barber
  Havana Passage: solo exhibition of new photographs
  When: through 10/31
  Where: Robin Rice Gallery, 325 w. 11th st., 212.366.6660

• Georg Baselitz
  Recent sculptures
  When: through 10/30.
  Where: Gagosian, 980 Madison Ave. (212-744-1111)

• Louise Bourgeois
  "Ode a L'Oubli," an edition of 25 handmade cloth books
  When: through 11/24.
  Where: Blum, 99 Wooster St. (212-343-0441)

• George Condo
  Paintings from the eighties
  When: through 11/6.
  Where: Briggs Robinson, 527 W. 29th St. (212-560-9075)

• Chris Burden
  early works including The Deluxe Photo Book 1971-73
  When: through 10/23.
  Where: Zwirner & Wirth, 32 E. 69th St. (212-517-8677)

• The Voting Booth Project
  A group of prominent designers and artists re-imagine actual Florida voting booths from the 2000 Presidential election, commenting on design, democracy, and related themes. Participating designers and artists include David Byrne, Christo, Frank Gehry, Milton Glaser, Hugh Hardy, Maira Kalman, Richard Meier, David Rockwell, Stefan Sagmeister, Ed Schlossberg, Robert A.M. Stern, Brian Tolle, Yeohlee Teng, and Diane von Furstenberg.
  When: 10/8-11/15
Where: Parsons School of Design , 2 W. 13th St.

• JFK for President: Photographs by Cornell Capa
  Shots of John F. Kennedy on the 1960 campaign trail by ICP's founder.
  When: 9/17-11/28
  Where: International Center of Photography, 1133 Sixth Ave.
212-857-0000


• Giorgio Morandi
  The late still lifes of Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964)
  When: 9/24-12/4
  Where: Lucas Schoormans , 508 W. 26th St. (212-243-3159)

• Massimo Catalani:  My Urbanity
  The most recent work of artist Massimo Catalani, My Urbanity , in his second New York show.  His art is a unique exploration of context and history and his materials create a two-dimensional comment on his subject matter.
  When: 9/23 - 10/21
  Where: qui New York, 601 West 26 th Street, suite 1507

• Design =/ Art: Functional Objects From Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread
  The first museum exhibition of the virtually unknown design works by some of the most influential artists of the last half century.
  When: 9/10-2/05
  Where: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution , 2 E. 91st St.; 212-849-8300