Art
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PAPER TIGERS Tabla Rasa’s new exhibit, “Paper Cuts,” features artwork from eight artists who cut, tore, pasted, and glued together paper pieces. Erica Harris uses onionskin, birch bark, and eggshells along with vintage photographs and newspaper clippings, and John O’Reilly creates compositions with an old Polaroid camera. Through Sunday, October 29, Friday and Saturday, noon-5 p.m., Tabla Rasa Gallery, 224 48th St., between Second and Third avenues, Brooklyn, 718-768-0305, free.
ON THE RIVER The late artist Robert Smithson’s work, “Floating Island To Travel Around Manhattan Island,” is re alized by the Whitney Museum and the arts organization Minetta Brook. The public art piece consists of a 30-by-90-foot barge with earth, rocks, trees, and shrubs, which will be towed daily by a tugboat on the Hudson and East rivers. After the run, the trees from the island will be planted in Central Park. Through Sunday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Pier 46, Hudson River Park at Charles and West streets, 212-431-7165, free.
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