Art

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RIDE TO THE BEACH The Coney Island Museum presents “Subway to Dreamland,” an exhibit featuring artwork and photography related to the Stillwell Avenue Portal Building and the West 8th Street subway station. One highlight is “My Coney Island Baby,” Robert Wilson’s 17-foot-high mural composed of silkscreened archival images. Through Saturday, September 10, Friday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m., Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Ave., between Stillwell Avenue and West 12th Street, Brooklyn, 718-372-5159, $1.


OWENS IN AMERICA The exhibit “Bill Owens: America” features previously unpublished photographs from Mr. Owens’s work during the 1960s, when he captured turbulent rock concerts and political demonstrations. The show also includes photographs from his four most famous series, “Suburbia,” “Working (I do it for the money),” “Our kind of people,” and “Leisure.” Most of Mr. Owens’s work documents the lives of middle-class Americans, taken in a landscape of McDonald’s patios and cul-de-sacs.Through Saturday, September 24, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., James Cohan Gallery, 533 W. 26th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-714-9500, free.


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