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The Public Art Fund has commissioned six emerging artists to put MetroTech Center through a process of “modification or metamorphosis.” Expect pixilated chain-link, bonfires, bent lampposts and a ghost. While you’re in the area, don’t miss Jeff Zimmerman’s live glass-blowing performance at UrbanGlass (6:30pm) or Kiki Smith’s ongoing exhibition, Sojourn, at the Brooklyn Museum (gratis thanks to Target Free Saturdays). Over in Bushwick, the two-day arts and music festival SITE Fest kicks off, while Brian Conley enacts his tabletop war game, Miniature War in Iraq…and Now Afghanistan, from 9 to 11pm at the Boiler in Williamsburg. Also, the members of the Williamsburg Gallery Association are keeping their doors open late (until 11pm).

Radiohead, St. Louis, 1993, by Nitin Vadukul

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
at Washington Ave.
718-501-6409

Thru 1/31/10

The Brooklyn Museum’s “Who Shot Rock & Roll, a Photographic History, 1955 to the Present,” showcases rock stars, of course, but it also means to highlight the photographers — like Albert Watson, Richard Kern, and William “PoPsie” Randolph — who captured them. Showing the artists up close and sweating, the portraits of Little Richard and Tina Turner are almost shocking. Max Vadukul’s photo of Amy Winehouse makes her seem girlish, even with her hand down her pants. And then there’s the perfectly dreamy black-and-white image, by Barry Feinstein, of Bob Dylan on a wide and sunlit paved road, facing a gaggle of three precocious-looking young gentlemen.  — Emma Pearse

Many voices is what you find in an exquisite show called “Light of the Sufis” in the newly reinstalled Islamic galleries at the Brooklyn Museum.

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Art Review | ‘Light of the Sufis’: The Many Voices of Enlightenment