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6:45 PM

Each month, three prominent art critics join David Cohen in discussing four pre-selected exhibitions currently on view in New York museums and galleries, with time allotted for audience response.

PANEL

David Cohen (moderator) art critic and contributing editor,
The New York Sun; publisher and editor, artcritical.com

Andrea K. Scott, art editor, Time Out New York;
contributor, The New York Times

Katy Siegel, contributing editor, Artforum; associate
professor, Hunter College

Exhibitions under review:
Kathy Butterly at Tibor de Nagy (724 Fifth Ave.)
Tim Hawkinson at PaceWildenstein (545 W 22 St) and NYEHAUS (15 Gramercy Park South)
Julianne Swartz at Josee Bienvenu (529 West 20th St)
Dana Schutz at Zach Feuer (530 W 24 St)
Rebecca Warren at Matthew Marks (523 W 24 St)

National Academy Museum is located at 1083 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street

Admission is $5 per person. Open to all. FREE for National Academicians, Friends of the Academy, and students. No reservations required.

11:30 AM

Demonstration of fully clothed stripper pole dancing
@ Plumm Night Club, (246 W. 14th St.)

You can not make this stuff up -ed

6PM

MoveOn.org members rally against veto of the Iraq troop withdrawal bill; Union Square, Broadway and 14th Street.

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7PM
The Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society
@ CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
Sold Out

Tickets for The Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society's first meeting are all sold out. For those of you left wondering what sorts of "wonders, curiosities and esoterica" you're missing, videos of the event will be made available online at their website.

WTF was up with the citywide smell of
syrup last night, smelled like maple to
us .... our b est guess in two words
New Jersey

Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance Cooper-Hewitt Nat'l Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution 2 East 91st Street, 1.212.849-8400

An exhibition that will explore the extraordinary innovations occurring in technical textiles, and how they are revolutionizing the fields of architecture, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, and the environment. The exhibition will focus on fully realized products or projects.

Ground Zero designers and architects Daniel Libeskind, Santiago Calatrava, and Michael Arad discuss plans for the World Trade Center site in a conference titled "Learning from Lower Manhattan" Sat. Sept. 18 Tribeca Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers St. 212.358.6126 $35 general $20 seniors and children 1pm

Bulls on a Wire

What's Up With ..... An on going series of observations of curiosities on the city streets.

The focus of today's What's Up With the mounting number of Red Bull cans strung up over the streetlights or electricity lines in the village. I first noticed a pair of these cans dangling from the light pole on Bedford and Carmine street, (phone cam shot) just down the block from Blue Ribbon Bakery.

This in itself was odd but nothing is really odd or out of place. As the phrase goes., Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, Three times is enemy action. When observing urban landscapes this is not a bad rule of thumb transposing enemy action with say possible trend.

It was not a day later that I spotted a second instance of Bulls on a Wire then a third. This led me to believe that this was a concerted effort to mark locations that sold Red Bull putting a twist on the sneakers on a wire signifying a rural cop spot, a market lost on me when it might of mattered.

It was not until a stooge and one time minute men let me in on their significance while we walked down a city street this past spring.

This campaign if indeed it is one, grassroots or gorilla, catches people who look up. The high wire sister to sidewalk stencils adorning street corners..This is by no means condoning them, in fact I was incensed the secound i saw the first pair. The fact that I have had three Red Bulls in the past two weeks, more then I have had over my entire lifetime