Events on Saturday, November 10

Menomena w/ Illinois

Music

Menomena

Saturday 11/10 @ Webster Hall

For three guys who hang out in a bathtub, Menomena do a good of job of proving that they aren't all... 

Iceland Dance Company

Dance

Iceland Dance Company

Saturday 11/10 @ Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts

Iceland has established itself as a big player in the indie-music world, but it's not particularly famed for its dance scene.... 

Laurent Garnier

Music: DJ

Laurent Garnier

Saturday 11/10 @ Cielo

Laurent Garnier is a much different kind of French producer/DJ than the Daft offspring that might come to mind nowadays. Having... 

<B>[SOLD OUT]</B> Bill Maher

Comedy

[SOLD OUT] Bill Maher

Saturday 11/10 @ Beacon Theatre

Proudly politically incorrect and perennially spot-on when riffing on the world of headline news, the man of sharp wits and sharp... 

Hamsa: the Rebirth

Party

Hamsa

Saturday 11/10 @ Love

While the Hamsa party itself has been lying dormant for the past six years, the house-music veterans behind the bash have... 

Brand Nubian w/ Kurious, Dante Ross, and the Metermaids

Music: Hip-Hop

Brand Nubian

Saturday 11/10 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

When New York City saw the birth of conscious hip-hop back in the day, Brand Nubian were right there — and... 

Wordless Music presents Múm w/ Hauschka, Bing & Ruth, and David Moore

Music

Múm

Saturday 11/10 @ Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall

When playing live, Icelandic electro-pop experimentalists Múm (pronounced "moom") aren't afraid to mix things up a bit. These shuffling knob-fiddlers and... 

Made Event presents M.A.N.D.Y. vs Damian Lazarus

Music: DJ

M.A.N.D.Y.

Saturday 11/10 @ Studio B

Whenever the DJs M.A.N.D.Y. spin, the name of their record label — Get Physical — becomes an imperative on the dance... 

Ongoing Events

<i>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>

Art

Making a Home

Saturday 11/10 @ Japan Society

Though New York's Japan Society hosts only two exhibitions a year, they're reliably terrific. This fall, young curator Eric C. Shiner... 

<I>I Kreon</I>

Theatre

I Kreon

Saturday 11/10 @ Walkerspace

I Kreon, a confrontational re-imagining of Sophocles' Antigone, questions the validity of absolute leadership and the social cost of living in... 

<i>Drum of the Waves of Horikawa</i>

Theatre

Drum of the Waves of Horikawa

Saturday 11/10 @ HERE Arts Center

Equal parts Sid Vicious and Akira Kurosawa, Drum of the Waves of Horikawa is a brilliant mashup of two seemingly disparate... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Saturday 11/10 @ Hispanic Society of America

While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year... 

<I>My Name Is Albert Ayler</i> (2005)

Film: Documentary

My Name Is Albert Ayler (2005)

Saturday 11/10 @ Anthology Film Archives

Kasper Collin's My Name Is Albert Ayler documents the mystical sax screamer from childhood to his eerie early death — an... 

Folkert de Jong: <i>Les Saltimbanques</i>

Art

Folkert de Jong

Saturday 11/10 @ James Cohan Gallery

Insulation foam may be the defining sculptural material of the current generation, and Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is its maestro,... 

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Saturday 11/10 @ gallery hanahou

In the place where cockeyed monsters do battle with grumpy tomatoes and gold-lamé hearts rule, Soho's illustrator-friendly gallery hanahou brings in... 

Richard Prince:<i> Spiritual America</i>

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Saturday 11/10 @ Guggenheim Museum

Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off... 

Neck Face: <i>Closed Casket</i>

Art

Neck Face

Saturday 11/10 @ Dactyl

Neck Face and his ubiquitous demons — scrawled all over both coasts' downtowns — have entered the gallery and the full-bodied... 

PERFORMA 07

Festival: Performing Arts

PERFORMA 07

Saturday 11/10 @ Various locations

Unrivaled by any other event in the world (so far), PERFORMA is a biennial of performance art by more than 90... 

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Saturday 11/10 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" earlier this year —... 

<i>The Chaos Theories</i>

Theatre

The Chaos Theories

Saturday 11/10 @ McGinn Cazale Theatre

Set in an unnamed New York City hot spot on the coldest night of the year, Alexander Dinelaris' new play,... 

Karen Yasinsky: <i>L'Atalante</i>

Art

L'Atalante

Saturday 11/10 @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.

Karen Yasinsky's exhibition is inspired by Jean Vigo's classic 1934 film L'Atalante, which follows ill-suited... 

<i>1001</i>

Theatre

1001

Saturday 11/10 @ Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Nagelberg Theatre

In this postmodern production of Scheherazade's tales of One Thousand and One Nights, the old world of Arabian markets and palaces... 

Cy Twombly: <I>Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things</I>

Art

Cy Twombly

Saturday 11/10 @ Gagosian Gallery

This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's... 

 <i>Interference</i>

Art

Interference

Saturday 11/10 @ Eyebeam

The second of three exhibitions lauding a decade of tech-art patronage by Eyebeam, Interference brings... 

New York Comedy Festival

Comedy

New York Comedy Festival

Saturday 11/10 @ Various locations

The fourth-annual New York Comedy Festival features both vintage humor from Rosie O'Donnell, Bob Saget, and Robin Williams (making two special... 

<i>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>

Art

Infinite Island

Saturday 11/10 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14... 

ID America Festival

Theatre

ID America Festival

Saturday 11/10 @ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center

Inspired by the growing polarization and insularity of American media, Quo Vadimus Arts has gone in the other direction, creating a... 

<i>Rebel Voices</i>

Theatre

Rebel Voices

Saturday 11/10 @ Culture Project

Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a... 

Bridget Riley: <i>Recent Paintings and Gouaches</i>

Art

Bridget Riley

Saturday 11/10 @ PaceWildenstein

In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,... 

Margaret Cho's <i>The Sensuous Woman</i>

Performing Arts

Margaret Cho

Saturday 11/10 @ Zipper Theater

Margaret Cho is back in style with her latest burlesque variety show, The Sensuous Woman. The comedienne is at her best... 

Isaac Julien:  <i>Western Union: Small Boats</i>

Art: Photography

Isaac Julien

Saturday 11/10 @ Metro Pictures

Experimental filmmaker Isaac Julien is known both for his eerie, meditative explorations of the postcolonial condition and for his lucid, confrontational... 

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Saturday 11/10 @ CCS Bard Hessel Museum

Sculptor Keith Edmier learned his trade in a Tinseltown special-effects studio; like Oscar-winning films, Edmier's meticulous sculptures traffic in grandiose sentimentality,... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Saturday 11/10 @ Museum of Art and Design

Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from... 

Bari Kumar: <I>acceptance of denial</i>

Art

Bari Kumar

Saturday 11/10 @ Bose Pacia Gallery

Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world.... 

<i>Steal a Pencil for Me</i>

Film: Documentary

Steal a Pencil for Me

Saturday 11/10 @ Quad Cinema

Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration... 

Mark Bradford: <i>Neither New nor Correct</i>

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 11/10 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

As winner of the 2006 Bucksbaum Award — given to a Whitney Biennial star — Mark Bradford was granted a future... 

<i>Things We Want</i>

Theatre

Things We Want

Saturday 11/10 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row

Three brothers find themselves living together, once again, in their childhood home. Both of their parents committed suicide, two of the... 

Jay Heikes

Art

Jay Heikes

Saturday 11/10 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery

Jay Heikes' recent sculptures are based on a joke that begins "So there's this pirate..."... 

<i>The Misanthrope</i>

Theatre

The Misanthrope

Saturday 11/10 @ New York Theatre Workshop

Molière's most celebrated play, The Misanthrope has never ceased to be relevant, with its profound... 

Thomas Ruff

Art: Photography

Thomas Ruff

Saturday 11/10 @ David Zwirner

The cheat-sheet on Thomas Ruff goes like this: a student of the austere photographer-duo Bernd and Hilla Becher in Düsseldorf; contemporary... 

Kurt Kauper: <i>Everybody Knew that Canadians Were the Best Hockey Players</i>

Art

Kurt Kauper

Saturday 11/10 @ Deitch Projects

Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is... 

<i>The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece</i>

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Saturday 11/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Having won the 1401 door-design competition for Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni's (Baptistry of St. John) northern portal, native Florentine Lorenzo... 

P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions: <i>Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz</i>, <i>Senso Unico</i>, Kris Martin and Adel Adbessemed

Art

P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions

Saturday 11/10 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and... 

The Crown Point Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

The Crown Point Festival

Saturday 11/10 @ Abrons Arts Center

The Crown Point Festival returns to the Lower East Side, having expanded over the years from a fledgling short-film series into... 

<i>The Usual Freak Show</i>

Comedy

The Usual Freak Show

Saturday 11/10 @ La MaMa E.T.C.

  After quitting New York for over a decade, downtown darling Jeffrey Essmann returns to La MaMa's welcoming breast with a... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Saturday 11/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

On the heels of Richard Serra's steel behemoths comes MoMA's full-scale retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear, who works... 

<i>Shirley at the Tropicana</i>

Theatre

Shirley at the Tropicana

Saturday 11/10 @ Access Theater

Shirley Johnson is a clueless carrot-top with a hopeless crush on her boss. Upstaged by a hotsy-totsy temp and embarrassed at... 

Wolfgang Tillmans: <i>Atair</i>

Art

Wolfgang Tillmans

Saturday 11/10 @ Andrea Rosen Gallery

Since bursting onto the art scene in the '90s, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has resuscitated several major genres of photography with... 

Ryuji Sawa: <i>The Return</i>

Theatre

Ryuji Sawa: The Return

Saturday 11/10 @ Theater for the New City

A scant 90 minutes of The Return, Ryuji Sawa's mesmerizing popular theatre revue, just isn't enough. The audience leaves wanting more... 

Fabian Marcaccio: <I>Draftants</I>

Art

Fabian Marcaccio

Saturday 11/10 @ BravinLee Programs

Fabian Marcaccio's new black-and-white drawings are made from all kinds of materials, from ink and plaster to string and water pumps.... 

Mariko Mori: <I>Tom Na H-iu</I>

Art

Mariko Mori

Saturday 11/10 @ Deitch Projects

Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three... 

<i>Spain</i>

Theatre

Spain

Saturday 11/10 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

Sometimes it's necessary to seek solace inside your head when confronted with unwelcome problems — so why not have some fun...