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• Bloomingdales
  • 40% off fabrics when you do upholstery, drapes, windows...
  • When: through 2/26
  • Where: Bloomies (718.978.8501)

• Terra Cotta
  • 50% off handcrafted pottery, necklaces, scarves, and more.
  • When: 1/15–2/28
  • Where: 259 W. 4th St., nr Perry St. (212.243.1952)

• Valley Furniture Shop
  • Clearance on 18th c. reproductions: Stickley, Baker...
  • When: endless.....
  • Where: 20 Stirling Road, Watchung, NJ (908.756.7623)

• Classic Sofa
  • Another general sale held over.... great custom sofas
  • When: till the fat lady sings...
  • Where: 5 West 22nd Street (212.620.0485)

 

Craig's List Garage Sale Roundup

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

 

Affordable Art & Cultchah

• SPICE: Photography Exhibit and Auction to Benefit Tsunami Victims
  • ... over 100 photos celebrating the culture, color, sights, and sounds of the regions and countries affected by the disaster; the pictures will have been taken by both professional and amateur photographers, among them Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Parr...
  • When: through 2/8
  • Where: ABC No Rio Gallery, 156 Rivington Street

• The Greenest Building
  • ...Metropolis editor in chief Susan S. Szenasy kicks off the “Verdopolis: The Future Green City” conference with a panel discussion about the forthcoming Bank of America building at One Bryant Park...
• When: 9am, 2/9
• Where: 4 Columbus Circle, New York

• The Gates Are Coming!!
  • "To all visitors of The Gates:
  • There are no official opening tickets.
  • There are no invitations.
  • There are no tickets.
  • The work is free for all to enjoy....

• See Something/Say Something: 30 New York Artists Speak Up
  • The inaugural exhibition at LeffertsSpace, the newest alternative art space in Clinton Hill
  • When: opening receoption 1/22 from 8pm on...., 1/22-1/29
  • Where: LeffertsSpace, 107 Lefferts Place [Grand & Classon]
    Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

• Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz
  • A winter exhibition of this duo's craftily subversive snow globes
  • When: Through 2/5
  • Where: P.P.O.W., 555 W. 25th St. [11th] (212-647-1044)

• Queer Batman & Urban Myths
  • New paintings by Mark Chamberlain, Mike Childs, Josedegardo Granados
  • When: Opening Reception - January 7, 6-8 pm
  • When: January 7 -February 18, 2005
  • Where: Artek Contemporaries, 526 West 26 Street, #31

• Cig Harvey
  • New photographs
  • When: 1/12-2/27
  • Where: Robin Rice Gallery, 325 West 11th Street (212.366.6660)

• East Village USA
  • The local eighties art scene: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Lee Quinones, Kenny Scharf, Philip Taafe, and many others, curated by Dan Cameron.
  • When: Through 3/19
  • Where: New Museum of Contemporary Art, temporarily located at the Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St., nr. 11th Ave. (212.219.1222)

• Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living
  • The Albers - of Bauhaus and Black Mountain College fame - collected textiles and furniture pair off with one another When: through 2/27
  • Where: Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum

• 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