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DON'T MISS!: GOT IT COVERED So Bob Dylan is just a merry old prankster at heart. That’s the take-home message from his just-opened gallery show, “Revisionist Art,” at the Gagosian. He’s taken 30 real magazine covers — Life, Time, Rolling Stone, Playboy and others — fiddled with the photos and cover lines with a wink, and turned them into eye-popping 4½-foot-high silk-screened canvases. The results are a hoot. A Baby Talk cover features what looks like a professional wrestler (one of several, along with many nude cover women), with the lines “How To Strengthen Your Baby” and “Face Lifts for Babies.” A bloodied wrestler licking his fingers is the cover image of a Gourmet magazine that teases “5 Things You Didn’t Know About Asparagus.” One Life cover, dated June 23, 1997, shows a gun-toting soldier in water and tells about “Oliver Stone’s New Movie, ‘Apocalypse Now,’ ” and has the line “Charlie Sheen Hides From Helicopters in Starring Role.” (The image, a Google search reveals, is of an Israeli soldier from a 1967 cover.) Dylanologists will have fun investigating the address labels, which the artist made up. Might Jo Davis Olson and Orvil Jo Davis from Blue Earth, Minn., be friends of Dylan’s from his native state? 980 Madison Ave., near 77th Street, fifth floor; gagosian.com. — Billy Heller

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TAKE A BREAK!: TIME OUT Tired of holiday gift-bag hustling and bitter winds beating you red in the face? Take a breather this weekend at the Recharge Room — the aptly titled Elizabeth Arden holiday pop-up shop at Madison Square Park (Broadway and 23rd Street). Enjoy a makeover from the Elizabeth Arden team led by maquillage maestro Rebecca Restrepo. “The Elizabeth Arden Recharge Room will literally bring beauty and pampering, and of course a bit of fun, to the women of New York City,” Restrepo says. Immortalize your makeover in the Recharge Photo Booth before receiving a relaxing hand massage and tutorial on choosing the right scent. If you prefer your photos with professional flair, sit for lensman and “America’s Next Top Model” judge Nigel Barker on Sunday, from 1 to 3 p.m. The shop is open tomorrow, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 11 to 5; free. — Bree Bonagofsky

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LAST CHANCE!: GOODBYE, COLUMBUS! He’s had Manhattan at his feet for years — but most of us didn’t really see him until he had a room of his own. So thanks, Tatzu Nishi and the Public Art Fund, for giving Christopher Columbus — that is, Gaetano Russo’s sculpture of him — some prime real estate: a sumptuous wrap-around living room six stories above Central Park, where Columbus emerges, full-blown and commanding, from a coffee table. As the Public’s Nicholas Baume put it: “After 120 years, with only pigeons for company, Columbus is finally getting a taste of the American dream.” Not to mention a multimillion-dollar view. No wonder “Discovering Columbus” has been seen by 100,000 visitors since its Sept. 20 opening. But now it’s time to go: Farewell, flat-screen TV. At least we’ll still have Columbus holding the fort at 59th and Central Park West. Free timed tickets available through Sunday at publicartfund.org. — Barbara Hoffman

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WATCH IT!: MESS TO TESS For his first film after becoming a fugitive from justice — fleeing the US in 1978 while facing sentencing after admitting to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl — Roman Polanski cast Nastassja Kinski, his then-girlfriend of two years, in the title role of “Tess’’ (1979). Filmed in France because the real setting, England, had an extradition treaty with America, the film is a beautifully crafted adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the d’Urbervilles.’’ It won Oscars for its costumes, sets and cinematography, and Polanski was nominated for Best Director. A new digital restoration begins a one-week run today at Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., near Varick Street. Info: filmforum.com. — Lou Lumenick

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LISTEN UP!: POWER TO THE VAN PEEBLES In his 80 years on the planet, Melvin Van Peebles has been many things — painter, novelist, playwright, actor and director (most notably of the 1971 classic “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song”) among them. He’s also a composer and musician — which is the hat he’ll be wearing Sunday, when he fronts his five-piece band, Melvin Van Peebles Wid Laxative, at Zebulon in Williamsburg. Van Peebles put the group together after staging an opera version of “Sweetback” in Paris in 2010, collaborating with the NYC band Burnt Sugar. After that success, he tapped a few of the players and started performing sporadic club gigs. Drawing in part from Van Peebles’ ’70s soundtrack albums, the band plays soul-funk behind Van Peebles’ freewheeling vocals. It’s like “what the French call street singing; it’s very verbal. It’s story telling,” he says. “I think if Lead Belly were around today, this is the kind of s - -t he’d be doing.” 258 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, 718-218-6934,zebuloncafeconcert.com. — Chris Erikson