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Radical NY! in Austin

There's a type of New Yorker that wouldn't trust anyone but another New Yorker--if that, even--to say something about their city. But maybe Austin could get a break from that--half of New York's hipsters descend upon the city once a year for SXSW anyway, so an open mind is the least that they, as invaders, could lend. The Austin Museum of Art's Radical NY! exhibit should make New Yorkers proud, rather than pissed.

Radical NY! focuses on two generations of radical New York artists ('74-'84 and '40s-'60s abstract expressionism) that shook up the city and the art world as a whole. It's got everything from de Kooning to Basquiat and beyond, but you better hurry to the AMOA Downtown, because the show wraps on January 28. Bitter NY natives might be calmed by the fact that the exhibit was actually co-organized by the Grey Art Gallery at NYU.

[Photo: sheeshoo]