Events on Tuesday, November 13

Battles w/ White Williams

Music

Battles

Tuesday 11/13 @ Webster Hall

Battles' brand of spastic post-rock takes as much from '70s prog and post-punk as it does from cartoon soundtracks and drone... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Mariko Mori

Tuesday 11/13 @ Deitch Projects

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

<I>I Kreon</I>

Theatre

I Kreon

Tuesday 11/13 @ Walkerspace

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

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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... 

Wolfgang Tillmans: <i>Atair</i>

Art

Wolfgang Tillmans

Tuesday 11/13 @ Andrea Rosen Gallery

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

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

Art

Cy Twombly

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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>My Name Is Albert Ayler</i> (2005)

Film: Documentary

My Name Is Albert Ayler (2005)

Tuesday 11/13 @ Anthology Film Archives

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

PERFORMA 07

Festival: Performing Arts

PERFORMA 07

Tuesday 11/13 @ Various locations

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

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Folkert de Jong

Tuesday 11/13 @ James Cohan Gallery

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

<i>Things We Want</i>

Theatre

Things We Want

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kurt Kauper

Tuesday 11/13 @ Deitch Projects

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

ID America Festival

Theatre

ID America Festival

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Neck Face

Tuesday 11/13 @ Dactyl

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

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

Art

L'Atalante

Tuesday 11/13 @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.

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

Jason Rhoades: <I>Black Pussy</I>

Art

Jason Rhoades

Tuesday 11/13 @ David Zwirner

The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has... 

Batsheva Dance Company: <i>Three</i>

Dance

Batsheva Dance Company

Tuesday 11/13 @ BAM

Founded in 1964 by dance luminaries Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild, the Tel Aviv-based Batsheva Dance Company first appeared... 

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

Film: Documentary

Steal a Pencil for Me

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bari Kumar

Tuesday 11/13 @ Bose Pacia Gallery

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

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

Art

Bridget Riley

Tuesday 11/13 @ PaceWildenstein

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

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

Art: Photography

Isaac Julien

Tuesday 11/13 @ Metro Pictures

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

<i>1001</i>

Theatre

1001

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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... 

Fabian Marcaccio: <I>Draftants</I>

Art

Fabian Marcaccio

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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.... 

<i>Censorship</i>: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress

Art

Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress

Tuesday 11/13 @ Brecht Forum

With the Chelsea-fication of New York's art scene, art as a pure form of political expression isn't easy to find these... 

The Crown Point Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

The Crown Point Festival

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>

Art

Making a Home

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Tuesday 11/13 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

Thomas Ruff

Art: Photography

Thomas Ruff

Tuesday 11/13 @ 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... 

<i>Rebel Voices</i>

Theatre

Rebel Voices

Tuesday 11/13 @ Culture Project

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

<i>Spain</i>

Theatre

Spain

Tuesday 11/13 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

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