Events on Wednesday, November 14
Wednesday 11/14 @ Rose Theater, Time Warner Center
Tim Burton's ever-expanding universe of gorgeous, freakish darkness has its own unmistakeable stamp: the constant reminder that sometimes, recognizable lunacy is...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Love
Mark Ronson returns to the decks at next week's Yo Yo NYC (on the 21st), but not before Love's crowds get...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/14 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
As winner of the 2006 Bucksbaum Award — given to a Whitney Biennial star — Mark Bradford was granted a future...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.
Karen Yasinsky's exhibition is inspired by Jean Vigo's classic 1934 film L'Atalante, which follows ill-suited...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ David Zwirner
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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,...
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Wednesday 11/14 @ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
The most influential sculptors in contemporary art aren't the formal purists of MoMA's recent exhibitions (Serra and Puryear), they're a coterie...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Various locations
Unrivaled by any other event in the world (so far), PERFORMA is a biennial of performance art by more than 90...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Metro Pictures
Experimental filmmaker Isaac Julien is known both for his eerie, meditative explorations of the postcolonial condition and for his lucid, confrontational...
Wednesday 11/14 @ BAM
Founded in 1964 by dance luminaries Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild, the Tel Aviv-based Batsheva Dance Company first appeared...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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....
Wednesday 11/14 @ Deitch Projects
Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three...
Wednesday 11/14 @ BAM
Now in its eighth year, BAM's New Czech Films brings six premier screenings to New York. Notably among them, I Served...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ McGinn Cazale Theatre
Set in an unnamed New York City hot spot on the coldest night of the year, Alexander Dinelaris' new play,...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
Since bursting onto the art scene in the '90s, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has resuscitated several major genres of photography with...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Zipper Theater
Margaret Cho is back in style with her latest burlesque variety show, The Sensuous Woman. The comedienne is at her best...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Gagosian Gallery
This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Deitch Projects
Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is...
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ PaceWildenstein
In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,...
Wednesday 11/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/14 @ James Cohan Gallery
Insulation foam may be the defining sculptural material of the current generation, and Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is its maestro,...
My Name Is Albert Ayler (2005)
Wednesday 11/14 @ Anthology Film Archives
Kasper Collin's My Name Is Albert Ayler documents the mystical sax screamer from childhood to his eerie early death — an...
Wednesday 11/14 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Wednesday 11/14 @ Bose Pacia Gallery
Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world....
