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Best of Soccer Awareness
Best of Soccer Awareness
This 80 page eBook contains 24 of the best sessions from UEFA Professional "A" License Coach Wayne Harrison's Soccer Awareness method.
To develop the Soccer Awareness concept its important to take the process from structured training sessions into free flowing game situational set ups so the players are developing their thinking skills under pressure. We offer various game situational small sided situations here to test this. We hope you enjoy this eBook.
This book is also available as part of the Premium and Elite Plans in the Soccer Awareness Training Center. Find Out More
Wayne Harrison is a former professional player and has been a highly qualified professional coach for many years. He has held the position of Academy Director at Blackpool Professional Football Club in England and at Al Ain Professional Fooatball Club in the UAE. See Full Bio
Table of Contents
- Objective: Improving Basic Dribbling and Awareness with Lots of Touches in Possession of the Ball
- Awareness Concept Introduction on the Ball with Few Touches; Using a One and Two Touch Maximum (Example)
- A Game Situation Within the Theme
- Objective: Encouraging Dribbling and Turning Through Quick Transition Play
- Objective: A Fun Awareness Warm-up for Improving Peripheral Vision
- Objective: Testing Players Awareness
- Objective: Teaching Awareness in Three's or Four's Developing Movements Off the Ball to Receive
- Objective: Developing Competitive 1 v 1, 2 v 2, 3 v 3 Attacking Play & Peripheral Vision
- Objective: Development of Awareness and of Movement "Off" the Ball
- Specific Peripheral Vision Coaching Session
- Receiving, Turning and Angled Passing Developing Awareness On and Off The Ball
- Objective: Switching Play as a Team
- Objective: Improving One and Two Touch Play Using the Awareness Three Team Game Focusing on Quick Thinking, Quick and Early Foot Positioning; Support and Finishing
- Objective: Pressurizing Game Working on Attacking Transitions
- Objective: Developing the Players Ability to Switch the Play, Be Aware of Teammates and Opponents Positioning; Before Receiving; and Then Changing the Point of Attack
- Using a Non–Competitive Numbers "Game" With Teams Passing in Sequence to Improve Awareness On and Off the Ball (Part One)
- Objective: A Transition Clinic Developing the Player's Ability to Recognize the Immediate Changes from Defense to Attack and Attack to Defence and To Act on It Quickly
- Changing the Point of Attack Through the Directional Four Goal Switching Play Game
- Objective: Quick Transition Directional Play Target Game Developing Movement Off the Ball
- Objective: Teaching Movement "Off the Ball" Through the Transition Directional Target Game
- Directional Awareness Training (Part One)
- Directional Awareness Training Game Situation (Part Two)
- Objective: Development of a Finishing Game Using Two Goals Increasing the Amount of Decisions Able to Be Made
- The Three-Team Awareness One Touch Game


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Eden Square Apothecary houses the finest and most exclusive European fragrances
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Eden Square presents perfume as a wardrobe; where every day your fragrance choice changes based on your mood, emotions, and style. The client is invited to actively experience and grow their fragrance collection alongside their clothing and accessory collection.
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Westchester's finest luxury boutique, TruGrace offers designer clothing, accessories, & funky jewelry in a hip and fashion forward environment.
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Originally opened in Elkins Park in 1971, the store relocated to Center City Philadelphia in 1999 and has since been named one of the nations "Style Leaders" by Harper's Bazaar.
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The Eastern European Seafood Industry 2016
In addition to Eastern Europe's potential as one of the world's next big seafood markets, the region is once again becoming a major focus for processors.
Salmon, whitefish, surimi and pelagic processing has long had a stronghold in the region. But, with an aging population, rising wages and poor availability of raw material in China, whitefish processing in particular is now slated to see a revival in Eastern Europe.
There is also an increased demand for fresh fish in the European market and new technology is coming on board, which will enable processors in Europe to automate a number of processing steps that before needed a lot of workforce labor.
IntraFish's Eastern European industry report goes inside this increasingly important region, looking at the key trends influencing growth and profiling the biggest players in the region.
· Key consumption, market and trade trends affecting the Eastern European seafood industry.
· Country by country profile of the most important Eastern European seafood producers: Poland, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia.
· A run-down of the top species coming out of the region: carp, rainbow trout, Atlantic salmon, cod, herring, sprat, seabass and sea bream.
· Detailed profiles of the top 20 seafood processors in Eastern Europe, detailing location, species, contact details, key financials and an overview of their recent history and strategy.
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Computer hacker jailed after inquiry into cyber-attacks on Skype and Google
A hacker linked to thousands of cyber-attacks on firms around the world, including Skype and Google, has been jailed for two years.
Alex Bessell, 21, was also given a Serious Crime Prevention Order at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday after admitting offences under the Computer Misuse Act at a previous hearing.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Bessell, of Aigburth, Liverpool, was convicted of other offences, including money laundering, linked to cyber-crime.
In a statement issued after the court hearing, the CPS said Bessell was responsible for creating programmes offered for sale, allowing others across the globe to conduct so-called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and steal data.
The charges against him were authorised after an investigation by detectives at the Birmingham-based West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit.
Commenting on the case, Hannah Sidaway, for the CPS, said: "Bessell was responsible for the creation, use and distribution of computer malware from 2010 onwards, during which time law enforcement have seen this type of criminality grow at a phenomenal rate.
"His actions enabled others across the world to commit thousands of criminal attacks.
"Such activity can result in the compromising of personal data, extortion, loss of valuable data or work, loss of custom for businesses and a high cost to rectify the damage sustained."
Ms Sidaway added: "Bessell's arrest and prosecution was a result of a lengthy and complex police operation, which spanned several countries and involved the collection and analysis of detailed data to identify him."
Alex Bessell leaves Birmingham Magistrates´ Court after a previous hearing (Matthew Cooper/PA)
Detective Constable Mark Bird, of the West Midlands Cybercrime Unit, described the inquiry as one of the region's most significant prosecutions.
He said of Bessell: "He was offering an online service for anyone wanting to carry out a web attack.
"It meant anyone who had a grudge against an individual or company, or who simply wanted to conduct a cyber-attack, didn't need the technical know-how themselves.
"They simply needed to pick a piece of malware, pay the fee, and Bessell would do the rest."
Urging anyone using technical expertise for sinister purposes to take heed of the jail term handed to Bessell, the officer added: "In the past we have seen hackers escape with suspended prison sentences or even community orders but courts are increasingly switching onto the damage cyber crooks can wreak.
"They can destroy businesses and cause huge financial distress for people and families."
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Basics of Static and Streamed Data in Predictive Analyics
Data in predictive analytics can be identified as streamed, static, or a mix of the two. Streamed data changes continuously; examples include the constant stream of Facebook updates, tweets on Twitter, and the constantly changing stock prices while the market is still open.
Streamed data is continuously changing; static data is self-contained and enclosed. The problems associated with static data include gaps, outliers, or incorrect data, all of which may require some cleansing, preparation, and preprocessing before you can use static data for an analysis.
As with streamed data, other problems may arise. Volume can be a problem; the sheer amount of non-stop data constantly arriving can be overwhelming. And the faster the data is streaming in, the harder it is for the analysis to catch up.
The two main models for analyzing streamed data are as follows:
Examine only the newest data points and make a decision about the state of the model and its next move. This approach is incremental — essentially building up a picture of the data as it arrives.
Evaluate the entire dataset, or a subset of it, to make a decision each time new data points arrive. This approach is inclusive of more data points in the analysis — what constitutes the "entire" dataset changes every time new data is added.
Depending on the nature of your business and the anticipated impact of the decision, one model is preferable over the other.
Some business domains, such as the analysis of environmental, market, or intelligence data, prize new data that arrives in real time. All this data must be analyzed as it's being streamed — and interpreted not only correctly but right away.
Based on the newly available information, the model redraws the whole internal representation of the outside world. Doing so provides you with the most up-to-date basis for a decision you may need to make and act upon quickly.
For example, a predictive analytics model may process a stock price as a data feed, even while the data is rapidly changing, analyze the data in the context of immediate market conditions existing in real time, and then decide whether to trade a particular stock.
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The Intersection of Disease and Good Health, And Rebirth
I have reached in intersection, a crossroads? I think it's an intersection, really. It's that moment when the worst aspects of my disease are behind me and good health and rebirth are upon me. I see glimpses of my old self emerging quickly. I celebrate these moments, especially considering I thought they were gone forever. So, there's that.
Still. I feel like a stranger in my own life, as if an impostor is working in tandem with the old me and the new me. There is no convergence, no marriage of identity yet. I am uncomfortable being me. Inner conflict, I have learned, brings nervous energy, over-talking, compensating for my lack of, well, everything, I guess. My former articulate, succinct thoughts have been usurped by nonsensical words vomiting from my mouth, and I hate it.
Do you ever feel like that?
Circling back to this intersection… I am so fucking angry, I could scream. I can't discuss my absence for 4-5 years. I don't want to. What happened is private. We discuss it here, on Facebook and Twitter, but in our real lives, we, me hide the disease that destroyed my mind and body, and stole precious time. I want that time back and I can't get it back. I can't explain what happened. Or why I'm such a freak of nature. Am I cloaked in shame for a disease I never asked for? I don't think so. I don't want my history with Graves' disease to define me, I WANT TO DEFINE ME.
Who I was and who I am, they're not syncing up. Shit, one of my oldest friends asked me the other day if the doctors ever figured out what was wrong with me. I grimaced and smirked in that "does it really fucking matter" kind of way. If you didn't get it then, why would you get it now?! I lost another old and dear friend recently for so many reasons. I'm not blaming him or anyone, I'm just trying to figure it all out, who I am and how I fit.
Disease is truly vile. As I've said before, there is no upside to it whatsoever. At least, in my opinion. I just hope that I find my way. I hope that all of us find out way back to ourselves.
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5 Responses to "The Intersection of Disease and Good Health, And Rebirth"
Hi there I wondered who wrote this piece, it's spot on with how you feel 'you' – but not you – with this disease. I just feel I'm getting back to being 'me' and then something else knocks me off balance again, whether it's a bout of fatigue, or just feeling low not myself anymore that"s for sure. So glad I'm not alone and that other do understand.
Exactly how i feel, lost precious time in my life having to reinvent this person I don't even know. One who can't recall recent converstions, or where she left something. My grave has been robbed and the new me isn't me I want ME back..but i know I will never get it, so here I am this Is ME and this is what you get love me or Hate me but don't try say you will ever understand me because even I don't,
How can I expect anyone else too, that is what graves Disease has done to me.
I say fuck it, it may have robbed me of precious years but it certainly isn't going to rule my life anymore, peopel who don't understand, that is there problem and not mine if they took time to listen and remember the real me they would understand..Fuck them too.
I love you too Miss Katie and your honesty you tell it like it is.
And that is why we are so much alike, it takes a Gravien thyrella to know a Gravien with the rages and everything else it brings.. We will re-invent ourselves, we are the dames of this world. Those Broads too. We will meet people who never knew what we were like bofore and except us for how we are now..full of lady balls. xoxox
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Weston Mendip enjoy friendly victory over Cardiff Mets
PUBLISHED: 09:28 17 August 2018 | UPDATED: 09:28 17 August 2018
Weston Mendip recorded a pre-season victory over Welsh University side Cardiff Mets.
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Weston Mendip women's team continued their pre-season a 2-0 win against Welsh University side Cardiff Mets.
Weston Mendip formally Team Mendip, started the game well with Sarah Adams, Beckie King and Laura Jones controlling the midfield. Steph Goddard created several dangerous openings, her pace and energy causing problems for the opposition, before Sherise Binns opened the scoring with a well-taken goal after 15 minutes.
Cardiff had the better of the early part of the second half and with Weston Mendip ringing the changes from the bench, the Mets were unlucky not to level the score.
Mendip's second goal came when Amy Clarke, who had switched from centre-back to centre-forward, outpaced the opposition defence before slotting the ball past the advancing keeper.
The Mets continued to push for a goal and had the opportunity to get back in the game when Amanda Hubbard, who had kept goal excellently all game, dived at the feet of the advancing forward which resulted in a penalty.
The spot kick cleared the crossbar and Weston Mendip saw out the rest of the game comfortably.
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- TIP: There is a panoramic view of Castle Rock at the top. Pike's Peak can be seen to the southwest, and Long's Peak to the northwest.
- TIP: A wide, flat path encircles the rock with a picnic area. Tables are available.
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DIY: Faux Potted Plants Wrapped in Burlap - A Dollar Tree Project
Look very closely - You'll see snow in the background! Ahhhh, makes me smile:)
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Emerging markets are home to 85% of the world's population —and us.
For over a decade, Botho Emerging Markets Group has been a leader in guiding Fortune 500 companies, governments, development institutions, small businesses, and nonprofits in navigating the world's fastest growing markets.
We are entrepreneurs and investors, thought leaders and scholars. Creatives and innovators connecting capital, catalyzing conversations, and creating opportunities to implement solutions to complex global problems. We're guided by a common set of values: curiosity, collaboration, and impact.
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So, after a little while I stop doing something!
Seriously, I'm not really serious about him,
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We despatch our fresh, nursery-grown live plants (including vegetables, trees and flowers) when they are at a stage of growth ready for you, the customer, to plant on at home.
The delivery period shown on your order confirmation indicates when you can expect to receive your order and we will endeavour to despatch your plants in this period within 7-14 days
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Dahlia Dinner Plate Collection-Tubers
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Huge blooms. Size matters! And with this collection of decorative dahlias with their dinner plate sized blooms on tall stems it's easy to see why. A collection to impress; whether you want the blooms for spectacular cut flowers or simply to add a wow to the border.
Our collection includes 1 each of the following:
Dahlia Hart's Dr McMurray
Bright flower heads, the Hart's Dr McMurray makes a wonderful cut flowers but make sure you only cut it once it has fully bloomed. They can be planted in both pots and containers to create stunning patio displays or in the ground to add a vertical bursts of colour, whatever suits your garden best.
Dahlia Cafe au Lait
A radiant variety with large flowers, up to 25cm across, in colours of gorgeous peachy cream shades. They create spectacular displays in the border and work especially well as a cut flower.
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Fully double, primrose yellow flower heads, no other bloom can beat it. Named after the British Scientist Lord Kelvin, this vigorous and decorative Dahlia will flower all summer as the more you cut the more will grow.
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KARJALAN SISSIT "Miserere" CD (37th Cycle)
KARJALAN SISSIT "Miserere" CD (37th Cycle)
Reissue of the second album by Karjalan Sissit, originally release in 2002 on CMI, with completely redesigned artwork and 2 additional tracks. A close follow up to their 2001 self tilted debut. Blending unsettling string arrangements and ambient passages with thundering percussion and screeching vocal passages, this second installment in the Karjalan Sissit discography definitely deserves to be made available again and be rediscovered. Hate, humor and disintegration really have established themselves as the essential elements fueling this unique project.
Edition of 500 copies in A5 Gatefold Sleeve. 11 Tracks. Running Time 49:30
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Boston 48 and Public Journal for Wednesday, January 2, 2019/
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Innovative tastings, breakout sessions with games and activities, or mass participation creative events are designed as stand-alone events, or as experience sessions as part of a conference or festival programme. These can range from providing an entertaining evening for clients and staff, to the press launch of a new product.
Read the case studies of events that have taken place.
Also see: Installations / Workshops
A tasting serves up a theme through a series of courses, that take type as the starting point. A course is either an activity, game, smell, sound, taste, drink or cocktail. Guests are taken on a multisensory journey that reveals a story or a theme, accompanied by a menu to mark the event.
A tasting can accompany an installation, workshop or talk.
* Brand new tasting events launched at the London Design Festival 2018 *
Wine & Type Tastings
2018 trend tasting
British Academy Lates
Fantastical time travelling type safari
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Games, activities & experiments
Fun and interactive breakout sessions that give a taster of the Type & Perception workshops. These featuring innovative games, activities and experiments with fun props and styling. This session will prompt conversations and encourage visitors to relax and engage. A bespoke session can be created to tell the story of your brand or product.
Ideal as an engaging pre/post talk session or as a breakout/warmup session at a conference or festival.
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A drop-in mass participation creative activity on a type-based theme in which participants produce visuals that are added to a growing display. This is ideal for a large event or conference, and is easily extended to social media.
Mass participation events:
Design Thinkers Toronto: Font selfies & edible type.
V&A: Typographic time machine
South by Southwest (SxSW): Global lettering workshop
Pick Me Up: Display type
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Top Secret: Earthquake Information in New Zealand
Posted by te2ataria on July 19, 2011
When the Quakes Strike Raukūmara Basin
How could earthquake data become state secret in New Zealand?
Why did GeoNet keep mum when a magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit ENE of Auckland?
Could it be for the same reason that "NZ ex-banker prime minister" sent his pathetic military forces to silence peaceful protesters?
Earthquake Details from US Geological Survey Earthquakes.
The earthquake occurred near the edge of the 25,000-sqkm Raukumara Basin. Source NZ gov. [From Fire-Earth blog.]
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July 20, 2011 at 6:27 pm
July 21, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Fukushima as well. 8-P
Short-sighted thinking dominates our times. Don't you feel like we are living in a world of idiots sometimes. 😦
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Way back last year, you may remember hearing some rumblings about a "Firebreather" series headed to the Cartoon Network. Well, creator Phil Hester tweeted some info yesterday that you may be interested in about a certain TV movie being discussed at San Diego this year.
By the time Comic-Con roles around, I'm sure people will still be discussing the iPhone 4, which came out this week. A handful of creators have been tweeting about the reported reception issues the device has been experiencing. Check out what their consensus is after the jump, as well as a "Glee" episode micro-review from Phil Jimenez and some comics criticism from Gail Simone and Brian Keene.
My name is @brianwarmoth, and this is your Twitter Report for June 25, 2010.
@philhester So, you want the lowdown on the Firebreather TV movie? Go to the Cartoon Network Live Action/CG panel on Sunday IN SAN DIEGO. [Fixed. -P]
-Phil Hester, Writer/Artist ("Green Arrow," "The Irredeemable Ant-Man")
@skottieyoung I didn't get my iPhone 4 today but I did get the DARKWING DUCK dvd sets. I pretty much win.
-Skottie Young, Artist ("New X-Men," "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz")
@Philjimeneznyc Finally saw the "Kurt's dad defends him after Finn's 'faggy' outburst" episode of Glee. Amazing scene with a really shitty set-up, IMHO.
-Phil Jimenez, Writer/Artist ("Infinite Crisis," "Otherworld")
@GailSimone 'Sexy' in comics is about being surprised. A lot of the sexy stuff in mainstream comics is anything but.
-Gail Simone, Writer ("Birds of Prey," "Wonder Woman")
@billamend Today, lines around the block to buy iPhone 4. Tomorrow, lines around the block to buy iPhone 4 bumper cases.
-Bill Amend, Writer/Artist ("FoxTrot")
iPhone 4 pt. 1: @mattfraction Congrats, AT&T, yr offer to replace my unltd. data plan with a ltd. plan that's $15 more but unlocks tethering will lead me to jailbreaking.
-Matt Fraction, Writer ("Invincible Iron Man," "Casanova")
iPhone 4 pt. 2: @Alejandrobot I look forward to holding my iPhone 4 right-handed across to my left ear, with thumb and index finger only, pinky out, for optimal reception
-Alejandro Arbona, Editor ("Thor," "The Immortal Iron Fist")
iPhone 4 pt. 3: @cameronMstewart With the screen discoloration, antenna problems, and swapped volume buttons, maybe i'll wait for iPhone 5.
-Cameron Stewart, Writer/Artist ("Batman and Robin," "Sin Titulo")
@BrianDenham Just read on Facebook that Supreme art I drew 15 years ago has possibly been found. Top Cow will be handling the art returns. So embarrassed
-Brian Denham, Artist ("Iron Man: Hypervelocity," "Man-Thing")
Parting Wisdom for the Day:
@BrianKeene That's what is missing from today's comics. We need more elves with guns, popping up at random and shooting people with no explanation.
-Brian Keene, Writer ("Dead of Night")
Be sure to follow @MTVSplashPage on Twitter for up-to-the-minute breaking news in the world of comics and movies.


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Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. A searchable guide to these and many other art shows is at nytimes.com/events.
★ Bronx Museum of the Arts: 'Martin Wong: Human Instamatic' (through Feb. 14) Fervor, desire and coded insider-outsider knowledge crackle through this career retrospective of one of our great 20th-century American visionaries. Expanding on an earlier survey at the New Museum, the Bronx exhibition takes the artist from precocious juvenilia to unearthly little pictures done the year before his death from AIDS in 1999. Along with his art we have the traces of his countercultural life as mythologist, homoeroticist, existential tourist and urban resurrectionist. And all revolves around his mystical visions of ghetto New York. Neighborhood buildings are fortresslike, crushing, sinister. Yet miracles abound: windows glow gold; night skies bloom with stars. 1040 Grand Concourse, at 165th Street, Morrisania, the Bronx, 718-681-6000, bronxmuseum.org. (Holland Cotter)
★ Brooklyn Historical Society: 'Personal Correspondence: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn' (through spring 2016) Symbolically, the Civil War ended when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1865. For many people who lived through it, though, the war never ended at all, and it lives on in letters sent to and from the battlefield. Thousands of these ended up half-forgotten in attics and bureau drawers; a small stash comes to light in this exhibition that consists of just one little room with a lot in it — including letters, Civil War souvenirs and explanatory texts — with everything as readily accessible as if in a well-packed suitcase. 128 Pierrepont Street, near Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights, 718-222-4111, brooklynhistory.org. (Cotter)
Brooklyn Museum: 'Agitprop!' (through Aug. 7) Most art is political, whether it's means to be or not, and politics is what this group exhibition is all about. Photography, prints and performance are favored media because they're, in different ways, portable, readily legible, easily reproducible and disposable — ready to change as the news changes. The Brooklyn Museum show has change built in. It's been conceived as an exhibition in progress, and at this point, early in its run, it looks like one, only half there and thin. But there's more to come in cumulative stages, with artists chosen by artists already in the show joining on Feb. 17 and again on April 6. Among the later arrivals will be young activist collectives like Occupy Museums and Not an Alternative. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, 718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org. (Cotter)
★ Guggenheim Museum: 'Photo-Poetics: An Anthology' (through March 23) Formally complex and expressively reserved, even hermetic, the work by 10 photographers in this stimulating show has roots in Conceptualism and takes language, history and speculative thinking as its raw materials. Photographs are structured with the equivalent of poetry's metrical cadences and internal rhymes, and treated less as generators of translatable ideas than of suggestive metaphors. 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, 212-423-3500, guggenheim.org. (Cotter)
★ Jewish Museum: 'The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film' (through Feb. 7) Revolutions sell utopias; that's their job. Art, if it behaves itself and sticks to the right script, can be an important part of the promotional package. That's the basic tale told by this exhibition of photographs and vintage films of the 1920s and '30s, but with a question added: What happens to art when the script is drastically revised? Russia was an experiment in progress in the heady years following the 1917 revolution, and avant-garde art, free-spirited by definition, was officially embraced. When Joseph Stalin came to power art became government-dictated propaganda and its makers, often under threat, towed the line. Remarkably, the show presents a dozen films — some familiar, some not — full-length, on a rotating schedule of four a day, in a small viewing theater built into one of the Jewish Museum's galleries. 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org. (Cotter)
★ Jewish Museum: 'Unorthodox' (through March 27) With about 200 putatively unorthodox works crowded into tightly walled-in spaces, this lively show has the feel of an Outsider Art fair — in a good way. The paintings, drawings, collages, assemblages, ceramics, weavings and videos are variously funny, funky, quirky, eccentric, idiosyncratic and visionary. Are they truly unorthodox by the standards of a contemporary art world wherein no one wants to be thought orthodox? No, but that's O.K. It's an entertaining and intermittently exhilarating exhibition nonetheless. 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org. (Ken Johnson)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom' (through Jan. 24) Ancient Egypt is box office gold: Do a show, and people will come. Why? Mummies, Hollywood and Queen Nefertiti contribute to its allure. Also, we tend to identify with Egyptians of thousands of years ago. In art, they look exotic, but not out of reach. They drank beer, collected cats and wore flip-flops. They yearned to stay young and to live forever, with loved ones nearby and snack food piled high. Who can't relate to that? Few institutions have done a better job at illuminating Egyptian art than the Met. And it returns to the subject in an exhibition low on King Tut bling and high on complicated beauty, about a broad swath of history (circa 2030 to 1650 B.C.) that has never had a comprehensive museum showcase till now. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Cotter)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Celebrating the Arts of Japan: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection' (continuing) This lavish roll out of 160 objects came to the Met from the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation last spring. The Burkes loved Japanese art — all of it — and the collection is close to compendious in terms of media, from wood-carved Buddhas to bamboo baskets, with a particular strength in painting, early and late. The quality of the work? Japan thinks highly enough of it to have made the Burke holdings the first Japanese collection from abroad ever to show at Tokyo National Museum. Some pieces on view now will be rotated out and replaced in February, making this an exhibition to visit at least twice. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Cotter)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Grand Illusions: Staged Photography from the Met Collection' (through Jan. 18) With 40 works, this small, choice exhibition forms a freewheeling survey of the ways and means of staged photography — the arranging objects or people for the camera — and the many needs and sensibilities it has served. Its smart installation jumps between past and present, commercial and fine, pre- and postmodern, and is peppered with surprises by artists well-known and not. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Roberta Smith)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection' (through March 13) This show is not framed as a showcase of what's new, hot or trending, but rather includes 18 works by 15 artists acquired during the past seven years — work that Met curators think will endure historically. Among those on view are Moyra Davey's photographs of record store patrons and vinyl record bins, printed on fold-up mailers; Lucas Blalock's example of photography in the post-Internet era, which contains perverse digitally tweaked passages; as well as a deceptively simple image by Sarah Charlesworth, a leading member of the Pictures Generation, who died in 2013 but remains influential. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Martha Schwendener)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Reimagining Modernism: 1900-1950' (continuing) One of the greatest encyclopedic museums in the world fulfills its mission a little more with an ambitious of works of early European modernism with their American counterparts for the first time in nearly 30 years. Objects of design and paintings by a few self-taught artists further the integration. It is quite a sight, with interesting rotations and fine-tunings to come. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Smith)
★ MoMA PS1: 'Greater New York' (through March 7) With a multigenerational team of organizers, MoMA P.S. 1's every-five-years-roundup of New York art steps away from its founding premise of newness, the idea that it would be an update on the metropolitan market. The 158 artists on the roster range from 20-something to 80-something; a few are deceased. The notion that an "emerging" artist has to be young is discarded. Older artists newly in the spotlight, or back after a long delay, qualify. And history works in two directions. Art from the 1970s and '80s is presented as prescient of what's being made now, and new art is viewed as putting a trenchant spin on the past. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, 718-784-2084, ps1.org. (Cotter)
★ Morgan Library & Museum: 'Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars' (through Jan. 31) Mounted on walls that have been painted tropical blue to suggest Hemingway's years in Key West and in Cuba, this show takes him all the way from high school to roughly 1950 with photographs, handwritten first-drafts and personal correspondence. But the largest and most interesting section focuses on the '20s, Hemingway's Paris years, and reveals a writer we might have been in danger of forgetting: Hemingway before he became Hemingway. 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, 212-685-0008, themorgan.org. (Charles McGrath)
★ Morgan Library & Museum: 'Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts' (through Jan. 18) This absorbing exhibition presents 30 of the nearly 50 books illustrated by Matisse over the course of his career along with numerous drawings, studies and prints not used in books. Though not visually splashy, it reveals in fascinating detail Matisse's approach to book illustration, and, more broadly, affords insight into his creative mind. For Matisse scholars and for anyone with more than a passing interest in the artist, the show and its catalog are a must. 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, 212-685-0008, themorgan.org. (Johnson)
Museum of Arts and Design: 'Wendell Castle Remastered' (through Feb. 28) This eminent woodworker became noted in the 1960s for carving chic, curvy furniture out of blocks of laminated wood. In the past four years he has revived that method with the assistance of digital and robotic technologies that enable him to make bigger and more adventurous works. This engaging show focuses on pieces from those two periods. "Suspended Disbelief," made this year, has an irregularly oval, glossy black table top extending horizontally and without legs some 10 feet in the air from a trio of tall conical forms resembling the tips of monstrous tendrils. It's spectacular. 2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan, 212-299-7777, madmuseum.org. (Johnson)
Museum of Modern Art: 'Endless House: Intersections of Art and Architecture' (through March 6) This scattered but enjoyable exhibition, drawn from the museum's art collection as much as its design holdings, focuses on the single-family home as a place of experimentation and regeneration; of conflict as well as dreams. Its highlight is a series of drawings and photographs by Frederick Kiesler, the Austrian-American polymath whose Endless House — never completed — fused fine art, architecture, furniture and lighting design into a bulbous, unstable whole. Several artists here echo Kiesler's theme of the house as a reflection of the psychology of its inhabitants. None is more powerful than Rachel Whiteread's sober image, made with white correction fluid, of a dwelling in East London: a preparatory drawing for a now lost sculpture crafted by filling the house with liquid concrete. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Jason Farago)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954' (through May 1) The first exhibition devoted to the Modern's unsurpassed Pollock holding gives a dazzling account of the evolution of his signature poured paintings. Its 58 works on canvas and paper also attest to the Modern's laserlike focus on accounting fully for the achievements of artists it deems great. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Smith)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern' (through Feb. 15) Few artists can claim to have captured a revolution in thinking in a single image, but Joaquín Torres-García did. In 1934, Torres-Garcia (1874-1949) took a hard-won knowledge of European modernism from Paris back to his birthplace of Uruguay. He gave the transplanted movement a name — "The School of the South" — and designed for it a now-famous logo: the silhouette of the South American continent turned upside down and placed above the Tropic of Cancer, where North America was on conventional maps. And he explained the meaning: The South, as a font of creative energy, was the new North, or at least its equal. The image, and the spirit that produced it, can be found in MoMA's career survey, the artist's first major United States retrospective in four decades. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Cotter)
Museum of Modern Art: 'Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015' (through March 20) To celebrate the 30th anniversary of its longstanding "New Photography" series, and perhaps to soften the news that the series will now change from annual to biennial, MoMA presents the largest and most cosmopolitan edition yet, with 19 artists and collectives, from 14 countries. The title refers to the infinite image blank called the Internet, and borrowed and manipulated images. So built-in delays in accessibility. Almost wherever you look you need to look twice, and consult a label, to fully understand what you're seeing. The extra effort feels more fruitful in some cases than in others, with work by Yuki Kimura, Basim Magdy, Indre Serpytyte and Lieko Shiga particular worth lingering over. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Cotter)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Picasso Sculpture' (through Feb. 7) Nearly a work of art in its own right, this magnificent show redefines Picasso's achievement with the first full view here in 50 years of his astoundingly varied forays into sculpture. His materials, not his female loves, become the muses, and are different each time out. The basic plotline: After introducing sculptural abstraction and space, he spent about 50 years counting the ways that the figure was far from finished. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Smith)
Museum of Modern Art: 'Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection' (through April 10) MoMA's latest installation of works from its permanent collection fills the second-floor contemporary galleries with videos, installations, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs produced by more than 30 artists during the past three decades. It's an uneven, haphazard selection, but leaving artistic quality aside, its unusually optimistic-sounding title inadvertently raises a large and intriguing question: At a time when contemporary art seems to be spinning its wheels, what could a new heritage be? 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Johnson)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Soldier, Spectre, Shaman: The Figure and the Second World War' (through March 20) MoMA usually stages the years after 1945 as a triumph of American abstraction, but this vital show affirms that the human figure never disappeared from art — especially not in battle-scarred Europe. With the end of the war, and the full revelation of the Holocaust, the human body became a sign of pathos and existential dread, notably in the fraught paintings of Francis Bacon and the spindly sculptures of Alberto Giacometti. The same was true of other European artists who received less American acclaim — such as Jean Fautrier, whose haunted "Otages" ("Hostages") are far better known in his native France. The show is drawn entirely from the museum's permanent collection, and its greatest surprise comes from Jan Müller, a German émigré in New York, whose ghoulish "Faust I" (1956) depicts the witches of Goethe's epic as starved, traumatized wraiths. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Farago)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Take an Object' (through Feb. 28) Installed next to the Modern's Jackson Pollock exhibition, this show of 37 works from 1954 to the 1970s reflects how the finality of the Abstract Expressionist's drip paintings deflected many artists from the medium toward found objects and a greater worldliness. Its title is from a famous notebook entry by Jasper Johns. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Smith)
Museum of the City of New York: 'Activist New York' (continuing) With a focus on activist tactics from the 17th century to the present, this exhibition — designed by the firm Pentagram — is a room-size onslaught of sensory stimulation, complete with videos, graphics and text. Told through 14 "moments" in New York activism, it includes a facsimile of the Flushing Remonstrance (1657), a petition for religious tolerance given to Peter Stuyvesant, director-general of the settlement, as well as contemporaneous objects, like a Dutch tobacco box, a Bible and "Meet the Activists" kiosks adjacent to each display, which identify activist groups working in the present. Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, 212-534-1672, mcny.org. (Schwendener)
Museum of the City of New York: 'Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half' (through March 20) The Danish immigrant muckraker's stark photographs, coupled with his documents from the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress, vividly portray the changing face of poverty since Riis exposed the poor to an oblivious public 125 years ago and remind viewers of the lingering challenges. Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, 212-534-1672, mcny.org. (Sam Roberts)
New-York Historical Society: 'Maestà': Gaddi's Triptych Reunited' (through March 20) This tiny but lovely exhibition focuses on three marvelous Italian Early Renaissance paintings from a collection given to the society by Thomas Jefferson Bryan, one of most discerning American collectors of the 19th century. The main attraction, by Taddeo Gaddi, is a triptych whose central panel depicting Mary enthroned — the Maestà — here is temporarily reunited with the folding shutters from which it had been separated long ago. The two other paintings are a poignant Crucifixion by a follower of Duccio di Buoninsegna and a lively, panoramic picture of an Ancient Roman procession by Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi, Masaccio's younger brother. 170 Central Park West, at 77th Street, 212-873-3400, nyhistory.org. (Johnson)
★ Whitney Museum of American Art: 'Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist' (through Jan. 17) Let's take it as a good omen that the first solo show to appear in the Whitney's new home is a career retrospective of a still understudied artist. Motley (1891-1981) was born in New Orleans and lived in Chicago, where he painted the cultural life of the city's African-American neighborhood known as Bronzeville, portraying it with an eye for calibrations of class and race, and with a sense of his own conflicted position within its context. The show is modest in size but has features that many larger, sexier exhibitions lack: an affecting narrative, a distinctive atmosphere, and a complex and troubling political and moral tenor. 99 Gansevoort Street, at Washington Street, 212-570-3600, whitney.org. (Cotter)
★ Whitney Museum of American Art: 'Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner' (through March 6) Two of New York's most dedicated explorers of new art set an important example by refusing the auction or private-museum route and giving almost all of their large collection to a museum. Their generous gift both signifies and adds to the Whitney's growing stature, especially going forward, as it is integrated into the museum's rich holdings. This first sampling is quite rewarding. 99 Gansevoort Street, at Washington Street, 212-570-3600, whitney.org. (Smith)
★ Whitney Museum of American Art: 'Frank Stella: A Retrospective' (through Feb. 7) This grand, high-spirited, slightly overstuffed exhibition pays overdue tribute to a prominent American artist whose 60-year odyssey through and beyond painting began in this city. It further anoints the Whitney's new building: The show could never have been pulled off at its old uptown address. And its ingenious installation — alternately dazzling, oppressive and nuts — resounds with stimulating clashes of color, style and process that bring a new unity to his contentious achievement. 99 Gansevoort Street, at Washington Street, 212-570-3600, whitney.org. (Smith)
Galleries: Uptown
★ 'If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?' (through Jan. 23) This carefully textured group show takes its subject and title from a 2003 painting by Friedrich Kunath: an image of a solid black, seemingly impassable door to which a prismatic shaft of rainbow colors leads like a path. And overall in the pieces chosen by the curators, Arden Sherman and Javier Rivero, death is presented as a light-and-dark matter, a focus of depressive obsession but also an occasion for humor. Hunter East Harlem Gallery, 2180 Third Avenue, at 118th Street, East Harlem, hunter.cuny.edu/eastharlem-artgallery. (Cotter)
Rudolf Stingel: '2000-2003' (through Jan. 23) A narrow slice of the Italian-born painter's irreverent but seductive engagement with painting examines his use of Styrofoam, silicone, acid-doused footwear, foil-covered insulation board and the graphic urges of random viewers. The goal — a no-hands approach in homage of related postwar deviations — is mostly brilliantly achieved. Nahmad Contemporary, 980 Madison Avenue, at 77th Street, 646-449-9118, nahmadcontemporary.com. (Smith)
★ 'Swedish Wooden Toys' (through Feb. 28) This presentation of more than 300 playthings from the late 16th to the early 21st centuries will be catnip for anyone into antique toys. The show features diminutive vehicles of all kinds from old-time wagons, trains and fully-rigged sailboats, to futuristic cars and a rocket ship. There are naturalistic and anthropomorphic animals, weapons, puzzles, games, dollhouses and architectural construction kits. While many of these items were produced by big manufacturers like BRIO and Playsam, many others are one-of-a-kind wonders like a miniature baking set from around 1900 that includes rolling pins, spatulas and other implements all lovingly carved from wood and fitting into a tray just eight inches long. Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 18 West 86th Street, 212-501-3011, bgc.bard.edu. (Johnson)
Galleries: Chelsea
★ Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: 'Indelible Memories' (through Jan. 16) Ms. Matthew was born in England to Indian parents, spent her adolescence and early adulthood in India, and has lived in the United States since. The mostly album-size photographs in this compact but far-ranging gallery survey are about the intensities and confusions of a cultural mixing that makes the artist, psychologically, both a global citizen and an outsider, at home and in transit, wherever she is. And it's about photography as document and fiction: souvenir, re-enactment and imaginative projection. A beautiful show that could too easily slip away. sepiaEYE, 547 West 27th Street, Chelsea, 212-967-0738, sepiaeye.com. (Cotter)
★ Robert Ryman (through June 18) For nearly 60s years, the Minimalist painter Robert Ryman has had few equals when it comes to doing more with less. White has been his primary, if not quite his only, color, the square his typical format. And yet within these seeming limitations a remarkably fecund and resonant body of work has evolved as demonstrated with unusual clarity (and in natural light) by this small but comprehensive exhibition. Dia: Chelsea, 535 West 22nd Street, 212-989-5566, diaart.org. (Smith)
★ Cary Smith (through Jan. 16) Having revolutionized art a hundred years ago, geometric abstraction no longer threatens any established values. But it continues to inspire nonfigurative painting, including Mr. Smith's infectiously buoyant work of Cary Smith. This exhibition, his 12th New York solo since 1987, finds Mr. Smith in top form. Working with a smooth, precise touch on square or nearly square medium-size canvases, he systematically plays with basic conventions of Modernist design to optically invigorating and subtly comical effect. Fredericks & Freiser, 536 West 24th Street, Chelsea, 212-633-6555, fredericksfreisergallery.com. (Johnson)
Galleries: SoHo
★ Giorgio Morandi (through June 25) The Italian master of modern still life, and closet abstractionist, is celebrated in a large show devoted foremost to his painting from the 1930s, which are not well known in this country. They reveal a period of struggle during which the artist had settled on what to paint, how to paint was still very much up for grabs. Joel Meyerowitz's large color photographs of Morandi's still life objects — which he sometimes altered — are also on view. Reservations are required. Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome Street, near Crosby Street, SoHo, 646-370-3596, italianmodernart.org. (Smith)
★ Hans Schärer: 'Madonnas and Erotic Watercolors' (through Feb. 7) One of Switzerland's most celebrated artists, Hans Schärer (1927–1997) created paintings that look as if made by a self-taught psychiatric patient. This delightful show presents two bodies of work created between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s. In the main gallery are 41 portraits of the biblical Mary, each called "Madonna." On the mezzanine level are 87 watercolors: cartoon images of voluptuous women cheerfully engaging in all kinds of sexual activities often involving runty, priapic male figures and sometimes priests. Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, 18 Wooster Street, near Grand Street, SoHo, 212-925-2035, swissinstitute.net. (Johnson)
Galleries: Other
★ Glen Fogel: 'Why Don't I . . . Pretend to Be Your Dad' (through Jan. 17) Mr. Fogel's solo show is a meditation on the reality of emotional memory as a source of both revelation and deception. At the center of the installation is a version of "Weekend," a 2011 film about a gay encounter, here edited by Mr. Vogel to reflect the idea that he may have been the original model for one of the two main characters. (He had a brief affair with the film's director, Andrew Haigh, in 2002.) The musing, speculative mood of the work is enhanced by a musical sound track and ambient lighting, and by the presence of large paintinglike fabric collages — made from pieces of clothing worn by the artist's past lovers — that line the gallery walls like acoustic panels. JTT, 170 Suffolk Street, near Houston Street, Lower East Side, 212-574-8152, jttnyc.com. (Cotter)
★ 'Painting Tranquility: Masterworks by Vilhelm Hammershoi From SMK — The National Gallery of Denmark' (through Feb. 27) One of Denmark's most celebrated artists, Hammershoi (1864-1916) was known as "the painter of tranquil rooms." This beautiful show of 24 paintings includes pictures in severely muted colors of women in nearly empty rooms suffused by atmospheres of mystery and loneliness; misty, gray cityscapes, devoid of people, that are like anxiety dreams; and tenderly unflinching portraits of the artist's wife, Ida. Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, at 38th Street, 212-779-3587, scandinaviahouse.org. (Johnson)
★ Nathaniel Robinson: 'Discrete Pieces' (through Jan. 31) This inventive sculptor makes technically impressive, philosophically provocative works that play in the gap between perception and cognition — between what you see and what you understand. Among this exhibition's beautifully made works is a life-size representation of a sidewalk mailbox lying on its side. Stripped of all extraneous details and colored entirely powder blue, it has an almost immaterial quality; it's a Platonic ideal of the standard mailbox. Launch F18, 94 Allen Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets, Lower East Side, 917-388-2464, launchf18.com. (Johnson)
Public Art
Jeppe Hein: 'Please Touch the Art' (through April 2016) People with small children likely will enjoy Mr. Hein's three-part show. If it's a hot day, the kids will rush to be drenched by "Appearing Rooms," which has water spouting up unpredictably from a square platform of metal grating. Youngsters as well as grown-ups also may be fascinating by the perceptually confounding "Mirror Labyrinth NY," which consists of mirror-surfaced planks of stainless steel in varying heights planted in the grass in a spiral formation. Meanwhile, guardians can rest on one of 16 fanciful, shocking orange park benches while their young charges clamber about on the furniture's surrealistically altered parts. Brooklyn Bridge Park, 334 Furman Street, Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, publicartfund.org. (Johnson)
Out Of Town
Dia: Beacon: Robert Irwin: 'Excursus: Homage to the Square³' (through May 2017) A walk-in maze with walls of white scrim lit by color-filtered fluorescent tubes, Mr. Irwin's "Excursus: Homage to the Square³" had its debut in 1998 at the Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea. It was so popular that the curators elected to keep it on view a year longer than its originally planned run. It's reincarnation here is similarly transporting, if not as thoroughly as the original was. But to experience it at Dia: Beacon along Minimalist works by other artists that encourage heightened perceptual attention to the here and now is as spiritually calming as it is historically illuminating. 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, 845-440-0100, diaart.org. (Johnson)
★ Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: 'Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957' (through Jan. 24) Education should be "aimed at being something instead of at getting something," wrote the painter Josef Albers who, in the early 1930s, helped create a model for just such an adventure at Black Mountain College in Asheville, N.C. There, for 23 years, a small, shifting group of teachers and students maintained an economically precarious and richly productive experiment in learning-as-life. And when the experiment ended — cash and energy ran out — the memory of it as an ideal lived on, waxing mythic with time. It's that memory, and myth, that's distilled in "Leap Before You Look," one of the season's most atmospheric historical exhibitions. 100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Mass., 617-478-3100, icaboston.org. (Cotter)
★ Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 'Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia' (through Feb. 15) One of the great gifts that multiculturalist thinking gave us was freedom from the tyranny of purity. Simply put, there's no such thing, at least not in art. Everything is a mix, and this has always been true. Globalism, which we take to be so 21st century, is as old as the hills. In this smallish show those hills encompass the Andes, the Alps, the Appalachians and Mount Fuji between the early 16th to the late 18th century. The main setting includes large swaths of North, Central and South America being colonized by various European powers, all of which had lucrative commercial links to Asia, and they were bringing Asia with them to the New World. The result: some of the most brilliant American art ever. 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 617-267-9300, mfa.org. (Cotter)
★ National Gallery of Art: 'Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World' (through March 20) One of the best sculpture surveys you'll ever see, this one refutes the view that Hellenistic period was inferior to the idealized renderings of the Classical age. Its 40 outstanding figures and heads trace the introduction of an unprecedented realism visible in a combination of motion, emotion and physical detail that can still astound. On the National Mall, between Third and Seventh Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 202-737-4215, nga.gov. (Smith)
★ National Museum of African Art: 'Conversations: African and African American Artists in Dialogue' (through Jan. 24) For its 50th anniversary, this museum has brilliantly thread together work from two sources: its own holdings in African material and the Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr. collection of African-American art. The Cosby collection, weighted toward canonical figures like Romare Bearden and Charles White, will bring in the crowds, but it is the curators and museum itself, which is in a period of renaissance, that have made the show rise well above predictability. Smithsonian Institution, 950 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 202-633-4600, africa.si.edu. (Cotter)
★ Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (ongoing) The skilled refurbishing of the Atheneum's storied Morgan Memorial Building reveals as never before the museum's splendors. The Great Hall is triple-hung with European paintings encircled by a spirited art-historical Cliff Notes from Egypt to Florence. On the second floor the fabulous Cabinet of Art and Curiosities leads to even more often outstanding paintings – Baroque to Modernism – accompanied by an array of decorative objects, especially porcelains. 600 Main Street, Hartford, Conn., 860-278-2670, thewadsworth.org. (Smith)
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★ American Folk Art Museum: 'Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet' (closes on Sunday) This extraordinary show revisits and partly recreates a little-known chapter in outsider art history: the decade (1951-61) that the groundbreaking, still-forming Art Brut collection of Jean Dubuffet — the artist and one of the field's earliest explorers — spent in the East Hampton mansion of the artist Alfonso Ossorio. While seen by a host of art world luminaries, it had little impact, as proved by how many of the impressive artists here are still unknown in this country. 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street, 212-595-9533, folkartmuseum.org. (Smith)
★ Gil Batle: 'Hatched in Prison' (closes on Saturday) Mr. Batle, 53, served a total of 20 years in five California prisons for fraud and forgery. Now living in the Philippines, he has been recounting his experiences in an unlikely medium. Using a high-speed dental drill, he carves miniature narratives of prison life into the surfaces of ostrich eggs. The 19 examples in this show, all made in the past two years, are amazing for their meticulous craftsmanship and detailed story telling. Ricco Maresca, 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, 212-627-4819, riccomaresca.com. (Johnson)
Barb Choit: 'Pronk' (closes on Sunday) Ms. Choit's current show began when she started documenting her "vintage" (as in 1980s) shoe collection, with plans to sell it online. The project morphed into the series of photographs on view here. This show's title, "Pronk," comes from the word "pronkstilleven," for a type of large, ornate still life in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting that was commissioned by merchants to showcase their luxury goods. For Ms. Choit, this points to the long, intertwined history of art and advertising and how these forms of imagery depict objects and stoke our desire for them. Rawson Projects, 221 Madison Street, Lower East Side, 212-256-0379, rawsonprojects.com. (Schwendener)
★ 'For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979' (closes on Sunday) This exceptionally informative exhibition presents photographs, photography books, paintings, sculptures and videos produced by 29 Japanese artists during a decade of ideological disillusionment following the utopian excitement of the 1960s. Most of the works are black and white and driven by abstract concepts, with many focused on the nature of photography itself. It's a dry show, but it's fascinating for its revelation of memes and trends that continue to resonate in photographic art around the world. Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Manhattan, 212-832-1155, japansociety.org. (Johnson)
★ Hollis Frampton: 'ADSVMVS ABSVMVS' (closes on Sunday) The filmmaker, photographer, essayist, poet, teacher, fabulist and proto-digital pioneer Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) eased off on producing photography after the 1960s but came back to it again at the end of his life. His final work in the medium, a portfolio of 14 pictures, makes up this exhibition, which is also his New York gallery solo debut. The premise of the series is that photography is a kind of embalming mechanism for images, with a counterpart in the everyday world: a garter snake's shed skin; edible dried fish; pressed flowers. Each item is shot against a dark ground, and accompanied by a paragraph stating its find-spot along with mixes of description, opinion, folklore and art-lore. The result is zanily moving memento mori. Room East, 41 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, 212-226-7109, roomeast.com. (Cotter)
★ Frick Collection: 'Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action' (closes on Sunday) The big-guns highlights of the this show, the first major American exhibition devoted to the Renaissance artist Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530), are three spectacular paintings, including "Portrait of a Young Man" from London and "St. John the Baptist" from the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. But the substance lies an array of 45 drawings, mostly in red chalk, in which we can follow del Sarto as he feels his way into compositions and molds figures into life with an angel's hand, a scientist's eye, and a striver's drive for perfection. 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan, 212-288-0700, frick.org. (Cotter)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Andrea del Sarto's 'Borgherini Holy Family'' (closes on Sunday) This fascinating gem of a show runs concurrently with the larger exhibition "Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action" at the Frick Collection and adds important layers to it. It both places the Renaissance artist within the political context of his time, and it draws on modern imaging technology to reveal his method for transforming and recycling images. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Cotter)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520-1620' (closes on Sunday) Lost in the fall's shuffle of excellent museum shows, this one was spurred by the small popular pattern books — first printed in the early 16th century — that increased access to designs for embroideries, weaving and lace throughout Europe. The Met has many such booklets but hasn't exhibited them since 1938. Here they are lavishly displayed with related textiles, drawings, paintings and garments, including revivalist styles by Todd Oldham and Giorgio di Sant'Angelo. Nearly everything is from this facility's bottomless holdings. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Smith)
Morgan Library & Museum: 'Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions' (closes on Sunday) Mr. Puryear is one of the greatest of American sculptors, but this is an exhibition of works on paper — early sketches done in Sierra Leone, copiously inked prints and exploratory drawings for his painstakingly crafted sculptures of wood and bronze. The works, while estimable, are only a reflection of his greater achievements in three dimensions, and the show allows you to see how the drawings fuel the sculpture: A 1990 drawing of an irregular oval, done in black Conté crayon and smudged at the edges, arises a glorious lattice of blond wood, completed 12 years later and sitting proudly in the center of the gallery. 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, 212-685-0008, themorgan.org. (Farago)
Museum of the City of New York: 'Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival' (closes on Sunday) This exhibition explores how New York City became a magnet for and a champion of rural styles and then the center of a pop-folk movement, from leftist "people's music" efforts in the 1930s and '40s, and the Red Scare reaction, to the civil rights rallies, coffeehouses and hootenannies of the folk revival at its peak. The tangle of tradition and change, earnestness and pop machinations are on view, along with the makings of a legacy that roots matter and a song can change the world. Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, 212-534-1672, mcny.org. (Jon Pareles)
★ New Museum: 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' (closes on Sunday) In Mr. Shaw's art, form follows polymorphous perversity. A virtuoso chameleon possessing an amazing range of skills, he does Surrealism, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Conceptualism, cartoons and comic strips, psychedelic posters and myriad kitschy illustration styles all with his own endlessly inventive, comedic twist. His works range from huge to miniature and from political allegories to drawings documenting his dreams. Selections from his personal collections of found paintings and wacky religious materials add to the delirium. 235 Bowery, at Prince Street, Lower East Side, 212-219-1222, newmuseum.org. (Johnson)
John Russell: 'SQRRL' (closes on Sunday) The centerpiece of John Russell's current show, "Sqrrl," is a 45-minute video that tells the story of CarLEee, a 195-year-old posthuman who has undergone 45 "body allocations" involving the bio-fusion of various species. The video includes references to feminist and techno-feminist thinkers and recent theories like accelerationism and speculative realism. But while these later philosophies have been challenged by mainstream thinkers, Mr. Russell uses art to his advantage: His work functions more as science fiction-philosophy than as an argument for specific conclusions or outcomes. Bridget Donahue, 99 Bowery, near Hester Street, Lower East Side, 646-896-1368, bridgetdonahue.nyc. (Schwendener)


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1. LCD Soundsystem, American Dream More than a collection of sensational (and, dare I say it, Bowie-like) sounds and textures, American Dream is the perfect salve for this violent, frustrating national moment. If James Murphy can come back, so can we.
2. Kendrick Lamar, DAMN. It's not as ambitious as To Pimp a Butterfly, but landing just below 2015's best album is still a solid win for one of the most adventurous and creatively inspired rappers of his generation.
3. Fleet Foxes, Crack-Up This sumptuous collection of atmospheric folk plays like a favorite novel reads—you revisit it again and again, in whole or in pieces, to feed your soul.
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4. The War on Drugs, A Deeper Understanding It's easy to pick out the influences—a little Fleetwood Mac here, a little Tears for Fears there—but easier still to simply appreciate this shimmering indie pop on its numerous merits.
5. Soulwax, From Deewee Synth-pop with genuine stomp. Everything this Belgian group has to say, it says directly to your feet.
6. Shamir, Revelations The hometown star starts over in astonishing fashion, trading programmed beats for DIY fuzz, yet retaining his lyrical vulnerability and his angelic voice.
7. The Regrettes, Feel Your Feelings Fool! The LA band's first full-length is one smart smack on the ear—a savvy blend of 1960s girl-group pop and 1980s LA punk. Just like they used to make it.
8. Bash & Pop, Anything Can Happen That long stint in Guns N' Roses drove Tommy Stinson to make a full-blown Replacements record, thank God. Meat-and-potatoes rock at its most tender and tasty.
9. Deerhoof, Mountain Moves More than two decades in, Deerhoof hasn't lost its experimental edge—or its gift for solid hooky-hooks that pull you into the weirdness.
10. Thundercat, Drunk Funky, unabashed goofy fun—though I'm slightly ashamed to have an LP that guest-stars Michael McDonald in my top 10, even in passing.
Spencer Patterson
1. Richard Dawson, Peasant The Englishman takes a brilliant weird-folk detour to Medieval times, painting vivid pictures of commoners struggling to cope with everyday life. Recommended for fans of Joanna Newsom, Roy Harper and Fairport Convention—or the sonically adventurous in general.
2. Laurel Halo, Dust The kaleidoscopic third album from this Michigan-bred, Germany-based experimental electronicist shatters the walls between techno, pop, soul and jazz, with songs that might feel off-putting initially before turning into earworms that last for days.
3. Slowdive, Slowdive Twenty-two years after breaking up, the English shoegaze legends pick up where they left off with a gorgeous fourth LP that deepens the "What's Slowdive's best album?" debate.
4. The Necks, Unfold Best known for album-length ambient-jazz compositions that build over time, the Aussie trio compressed that approach into four side-long tracks that all achieved heart-stirring bliss.
5. Matt Mitchell, A Pouting Grimace The New York pianist, renowned for his work with avant saxman Tim Berne, heads his own 13-piece ensemble for this dazzling, free-but-not-unhinged jazz excursion.
6. Fleet Foxes, Crack-Up Robin Pecknold reconvenes his folk brigade for its first LP in six years—a heady journey ideal for distancing oneself from the mire of modern-day life.
7. Guided by Voices, August by Cake For GBV's first double-album, leader Robert Pollard invited his bandmates to contribute a couple of tunes apiece to go with his usual high-quality stash, and his songwriting genius rubbed off.
8. Kelly Lee Owens, Kelly Lee Owens A dizzying debut for a London-based artist who infuses her hypnotic minimal techno with real human warmth.
9. SZA, Ctrl If 2017 was the year of women speaking out, this fast-rising R&B star helped epitomize it on a red-hot debut that took no sh*t from anyone.
10. Wolf Parade, Cry Cry Cry Spencer, Dan and the gang picked up like they never stopped, on a record that plays like a rallying cry for especially tough times.
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1. Algiers, The Underside of Power Protest songs came and (unfortunately) went, but none sounded as artistically or thematically incendiary as the ones that comprise this Atlanta gospel/post-punk quartet's sophomore stunner.
2. Tony Allen, The Source After releasing an also-impressive 2017 album of Art Blakey covers, the former Fela Kuti drummer and his effervescent octet soar by seamlessly fusing jazz and Afrobeat to harmonic perfection.
3. The War on Drugs, A Deeper Understanding Adam Granduciel remains loyal to the same '70s and '80s rock palette, but somehow his sonic panoramas have grown even more expressive, affecting and singular.
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5. Margo Price, All American Made The unshackled Nashville singer-songwriter crafts the country record needed most in 2017—a castigation and celebration of American politics and culture.
6. Kelela, Take Me Apart A fearless R&B record, made dynamic by the other genres that fleck it, its sonorous compositions and, more importantly, its soulful vocalist.
7. The National, Sleep Well Beast Whether it was that Grateful Dead covers project or its famously taut aesthetic losing its elasticity, the Brooklyn act stretched out to inspired effect.
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9. LCD Soundsystem, American Dream Turns out James Murphy still had things to say, and still blends our record collections together with demonstrable affection and enthusiasm.
10. Slowdive, Slowdive Rather than merely repeat its formula, the English dream-pop quintet refreshes it, with a tunefulness that renders this comeback album as solacing as its classic predecessors.
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1. Filthy Friends, Invitation A band helmed by Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker and ex-R.E.M.'er Peter Buck debuts with an exuberant record nodding to glitter-encrusted glam-rock, charred power-pop and careening garage-punk.
2. Kesha, Rainbow The pop star took back control of her career—and personal narrative—with an empowered record touching on grimy rock, delicate country and folk, gospel-pop and sassy soul.
3. St. Vincent, Masseduction The latest solo album from Annie Clark hews toward introspective, space-age electro-pop with boiling-tar beats, jagged guitar lightning bolts and glazed-over synthesizers.
4. Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock Psychedelic pop's fractured genius returns with a plugged-in solo album, full of ornate songs that are equal parts absurd and sentimental.
5. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, Way Out West A California country fever dream that's both traditional (the rollicking, Johnny Cash-recalling "Lost on the Desert") and thoroughly modern (the jangly holler "Time Don't Wait").
6. Dreamcar, Dreamcar Take AFI lead singer Davey Havok—an acolyte of '80s alternative's dark side—and add in No Doubt's three instrumentalists, and you get this retro-leaning debut indebted to The Cure, Duran Duran and MTV's onetime synth-pop staples.
7. Alvvays, Antisocialites The dreamy Canadian act's chiming guitars, plush keyboards and sighing vocals conjure the crème de la crème of C86 and Sarah Records.
8. Paul Weller, A Kind Revolution Forty years into his career, the Modfather continues to innovate, with a soulful mélange of Bowie-esque rock skronk, funky folk-pop and gospel-tinged electronica.
9. Slowdive, Slowdive The shoegaze icons sound ready to forge an entirely new chapter; highlights include the urgent, spackled noise-pop of "Star Roving" and the more ethereal "Everyone Knows."
10. Wolf Parade, Cry Cry Cry The Canadian troupe's first full-length since returning from hiatus is full of sinewy prog-pop gems with burbling New Wave synths, askew guitar riots and touches of theatrical piano-glam.


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Muller: No word from management on job status
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Carolina Hurricanes coach Kirk Muller says he has not been told by management if he will keep his job.
Muller said Wednesday that "as of right now, I'm head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes."
He says his discussions with general manager Jim Rutherford and vice president of hockey operations Ron Francis have centered on reviewing a season in which Carolina missed the playoffs for a fifth straight year.
Muller is 80-80-27 in three years with the Hurricanes. They went 36-35-11 this season, earning 83 points while finishing 13th in the East. They've missed the playoffs in seven of the eight years since they won the 2006 Stanley Cup.
Owner Peter Karmanos said last week that "I like our coaching staff" and that "I think they've made a lot of progress."


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Rattle & Roll Music Sheffield: Baby and Toddler Classes
Rattle & Roll Music Sheffield: Baby and Toddler Classes*
Watch this to see what happens at Rattle & Roll:
Rattle & Roll Music Sheffield: Baby and Toddler Classes
Where are the classes?
100 Little London road,
Sheffield, S8 0UJ
When are the classes?
What to expect
It's important to know that…
The first class you attend is a taster which can be booked and paid for as an individual session. You are not required to sign up for an entire term and there are even pay as you go options available on selected classes. Please see the timetables as the pay as you go is not available for all classes.
Sensory Music Time – 10 week block £60 for 10 sessions, first class is a taster session, hot drinks free
Newborn – Crawling babies (approximately 9 months)
Our Sensory music time is 30 minutes packed full of musical instrument, introducing baby to different sounds and textures. Each activity only lasting a few moments so to keep the little ones stimulated at all times. Sensory music time is very popular and booking in advance is recommended. Expect a variety of activities which stimulate babies senses, lights, sounds, movement with parent or carer all contribute to the sensory development of baby.
Parents and Carers are welcome to socialise before the class and enjoy a free hot drink. Free play is included 9:30-12:15 in the play room provided.
PLUS! *On certain days and sessions. New pay as you go drop in sessions find out more here.
Mixed Music Time – 10 week block £65 for 10 sessions, first class is a taster session*
Suitable for ages 6 months – 4+ years
Enjoy a 40 minute Music class packed full of percussion playing, dancing time, bubbles, parachute time and much more… We follow a different theme every week such as under the sea, transport, space and have great fun learning through music all about it.
Parents and Carers are welcome to socialise before the class and enjoy a free hot drink. Free play is included 9:30-12:15 in the play room provided.
PLUS! *On certain days and sessions. New pay as you go drop in sessions find out more here.
Messy babies – pre walking (6 mths – 16 mths) £45 9 sessions
Introduce your little one to an exciting world of messy play, textures and sensory exploration. With our discovery stations each holding an exciting activity. Each week we explore a different theme using many different materials such as Jelly, spaghetti, gloop and an array of utensils to get messy with. We do all the clearing up all you have to do is bring a towel and wear something you don't mind getting messy!
Some parents choose to bring a swimsuit for their little ones to wear during the session or you can also bring a spare set of clothes to change into. Small class sizes includes playtime before the class.
Rattle & Roll Music Sheffield: Baby and Toddler Classes
Discovery time – Art & Messy play (2yrs 6mths – 4yrs 11mths) £45 9 sessions*
Come and join us for discovery time, with our weekly themed session with our Art & messy play group. Starting with story time linking to our Art & messy play activities. Does your little one love getting messy? Making crafts? Then this class is perfect for you.
For this class your child must be able to follow instructions and be able to sit for a short while to create crafts.
Snack time is provided after the session with a rice cake or biscuit. Playtime is also included before and after the session. Please dress your little one in something you don't mind getting messy, a change of clothes, a towel and a drink for after the session.
Upon registering for this class you will be added to a waiting list to start the first week as soon as we have enough little ones to start.
*This is an introductory rate.
Messy babies and friends mixed age class (6 month-3.5 years) £45 9 sessions
Mixed age messy play, come and enjoy a guided session with story, theme and then messy time.
You need to bring a towel and a spare change of clothes for your little one. Playtime after the session is included until closing time at 12 noon.
Please bring a drink for after the session, we provide a fruit snack.
You may get messy too so please don't wear your best clothes!!
How do I book?
Rattle & Roll Music do parties, too! Musical Mayhem party sessions are available for hire and include a 45 minutes music session. At your home or a venue of your choice, Musical Mayhem party sessions include percussion playing, party games, dancing time, bubbles and parachute time. Fun for all ages even the grown ups. Email firstname.lastname@example.com to book.
Get to know Anne from Rattle & Roll Music
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
My name is Anne and I am mummy to 6…. That's right 6 amazing children from 6 months – 15 ½ years old. I have 4 girls and 2 boys one of which has ASD, which has been a learning curve!
What was your inspiration to start Ratlle & Roll?
From a young age I was trained in theatre arts and performed up to the age of 16 on stage. I left home when I was 16 and ended up working at a call centre to pay the bills but my heart was always in performing. When I was 17 I had my first child Lily and went to a few music groups in the area which were not for me so I asked a group of friends to come and give my group a go and from there it grew.
Why do you recommend your classes & what makes them different?
My classes are upbeat and have a real feel good factor, not only for the children but for the adults too. They are educational following a theme each week and with use of the playroom it's a real hub for meeting new friends and getting to chat and have a cuppa while the kids play. I always felt annoyed when I went to a class but had to leave after the session.
Could you tell us about your favourite thing to do with your family in Sheffield?
Not technically Sheffield but I really love Chatsworth it's a big hit with the kids especially the younger ones. They love the farm part and also the play area, the big kids would much rather be at the cinema with friends these days.
If you could give some advice to anyone who is interested in starting their own baby or toddler class, what would it be?
I have run Rattle and Roll for 15 years in September, it is the most rewarding and joyous thing to do with my life. I'm never bored and I've been using some of the lesson plans since I started, I really love what I do and am so lucky to work with ladies as passionate as myself.
I would say to anyone thinking about setting up any business in general its not for the faint hearted. You live and breath your business and I always say to people it's like having a baby.
If you're not passionate about what you do it just won't work.
Thank you Anne!
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