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WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The Center for Photography at Woodstock will exhibit “Foreign Affair,” curated by Kate Menconeri, January 29–March 27.

Departing from the tourist snapshot used to represent a place or document being there, “Foreign Affair” focuses the camera on the experience of the foreign, exploring the multifaceted relationship to travel, exploration, and dislocation.

Featured will be work by Walter Martin, Paloma Munoz, Brent Phelps, Fred Cray, Scott Whittle, Tom Hunter, Soon-Mi Yoo, Priya Kambli and Vicki Ragan.

The center is at 59 Tinker Street. For information, 845-679-9957.

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NEW YORK CITY — Cavin-Morris Gallery will host a one-person exhibition for the Swiss “Neuve Invention” artist Christine Sefolosha.

“Neuve Invention” is the title Jean Dubuffet used to describe artists who were self-taught but whose work displayed more sophistication and interaction with the vagaries of culture than the “classic” Art Brut artists. Dubuffet collected both.

This year Cavin-Morris is devoting several shows to exploring the issues of authenticity and process, beginning with this exhibition and following with a spring exhibition titled “Chthonic!”

The front gallery will exhibit works by Chelo Amezcua, Emery Blagdon, Antonio Esteves, Jon Serl, and Anna Zemankova; new work by Leonard Daley, Keith Goodhart, Chris Hipkiss, Kevin Sampson, Sandra Sheehy and Gregory Van Maanen. Three new artists will be featured, including Pupshpa Kumari, drawings by Michael Krauth and letters by Harald Stoffers.

The gallery is at 560 Broadway. For information, 212-226-3768 or CavinMorris.com.

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TIMES SQUARE 100TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

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NEW YORK CITY — To celebrate Times Square’s historic 100th anniversary, the Times Square Alliance has teamed up with the AXA Gallery to present a unique exhibit titled “At the Crossroads of Desire: A Times Square Centennial” through March 26 at the AXA Gallery.

Designed to take viewers on a trip through Times Square’s evolution over the past century, the exhibit features a giant flashing red “T” from the classic Suntory sign that once hung in Times Square, as well as images from photographers William Klein, Rudy Burckhardt and Weegee, adult-themed movie posters and postcards of old Broadway.

A visual timeline of Times Square’s colorful history is represented chronologically through a series of five themes: a century of building and planning, the crowd, entertaining America, fantasy and desire, and signs of the times. One of the highlights of the exhibit is a high-tech “Chronoscope,” which provides an interactive virtual 3D experience using photos of the past.

The exhibition is open Monday–Friday from 11 am to 6 pm; Saturday from 12 noon to 5 pm, and on Thursdays until 7 pm for Times Square employees. Admission is free.

AXA Gallery is at 787 Seventh Avenue at 51st Street. For information, 212-554-4818.

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GEORGE SORRELS AT GERALD PETERS

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NEW YORK CITY — Gerald Peters Gallery will host its first solo exhibition of paintings by American contemporary realist George Sorrels in “George Sorrels: Recent Paintings,” on view at the Upper East Side gallery March 3–April 2.

The exhibition will include 16 miniature oil on panel landscape paintings and four “imaginary” garden paintings, all dating from 2002 to 2005.

Sorrels was born in 1944 in Ennis, Texas. He studied at the University of Texas, Austin and at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. He is a recently retired professor of Fine Arts at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Penn.

The gallery will also host, April 7–May 87, a spring exhibition of recent works by contemporary artist Julie Speed. Featuring a selection of approximately 40 paintings, constructions and works on paper, the exhibition marks the artist’s first New York solo show in 14 years.

“Julie Speed” will highlight the artist’s blend of Renaissance and neoclassical techniques with a surrealist sensibility and dark humor.

Speed is based in Austin, Texas, and has exhibited widely in Texas and throughout the Southwest. Her works are currently in the collections of several Texas museums.

The gallery is at 24 East 78th Street. For information, 212-628-9760.