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Through 9/01/2008	Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product - Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2 E. 91st St. (5 Ave.) - 212-849-8400 http://ndm.si.edu Price: $15; $10 for seniors & students; Free for ages 12 & under This exhibition examines sample books and other sampling formats as tools for marketing or recording designs and techniques in a wide variety of media, over many eras. Drawn from the museum's collection, exhibition objects include sample books of wallcoverings; woven and printed textiles; ribbons, lace and embroidery; sample plates; drawings and prints showing design alternatives.
Through 8/31/2008	Earl Cunningham's America - American Folk Art Museum, Eva and Morris Feld Gallery 2 Lincoln Square (Columbus Ave. btw. 65 & 66 Sts.) - 212-977-7170 www.folkartmuseum.org This exhibition examines the paintings of landscape artist Earl Cunningham (1893-1977), who worked in the tradition of memory painting. This retrospective presents the artist as a folk modernist who used the flat space and brilliant color to create sophisticated compositions with complex meanings about the nature of American life. The exhibition features 50 of the more than 400 canvases Cunningham painted during his life and places his work in the context of the folk art revival that brought Edward Hicks, Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses, Horace Pippin, and other folk masters to national attention.
Through 8/31/2008	Philip Guston: Works on Paper - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Featuring approximately 75 drawings from the mid-1940s to 1980, this exhibition - the first retrospective of Philip Guston (1913-1980) drawings in 20 years - examines the importance of drawing in Guston's art. Guston was a prolific draftsman who often turned to drawing to explore new directions in his art before transposing them to painting. Several times during the course of his career, he stopped painting altogether to concentrate on drawing.
Through 9/01/2008	Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 http://www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Ages This exhibition explores the symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero. Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it will reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body. Objects will be organized thematically around particular superheroes, whose movie costumes and superpowers will be catalysts for the discussion of key concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion.