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Shoots and Ladders

Submitted by bdisylvester on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 2:01am.
The Bite:
imageVisit the MoMA again or check out something new? Go for the, um, ladder. Next, slide over to the New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters exhibit, where everything's made from...you guessed it. Admission's free tonight only. Go back and forth between 90 sculptures by 23 bambooists (yep, ists), including NY-based artist Stephen Talasnik's Ribbon Candy, plus funky woven masks and intricate wavelike structures all made from the planet's fastest growing renewable resource. Bamboo can grow up to a foot a day (for comparison, oaks take a year to grow that much) and release 35% more oxygen than other trees. Now roll.
Wanna Try: 
Japan Society, 333 E. 47th St. Map It (212-832-1155). Exhibit runs through Jan. 11. Admission, $12/adults; $10/students and seniors; free/members and kids under 16, and on Fridays, 6-9 pm.
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