Events on Thursday, November 15

Littoral feat. Susan Daitch, Amy Hempel, Jim Shepard, and Elliott Sharp

Books: Reading

Littoral

Thursday 11/15 @ Issue Project Room

Jim Shepard's latest collection of 11 short stories, Like You'd Understand, Anyway, cycles through a variety of settings with ease and... 

Degenerates feat. Moby w/ Spank Rock DJs

Party

Moby DJ set

Thursday 11/15 @ Hiro Ballroom

For the second installment of Moby's new residency at Hiro, the Bald One has enlisted a few delinquents to keep the... 

Francis and the Lights

Music

Francis and the Lights

Thursday 11/15 @ Public Assembly

With a volatile live show that recalls the rhythmic tension of early Prince and the herky-jerky fervor of David Byrne, Francis... 

Ongoing Events

Charles Ray

Art

Charles Ray

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

<I>I Kreon</I>

Theatre

I Kreon

Thursday 11/15 @ 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

Thursday 11/15 @ HERE Arts Center

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

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

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

Performing Arts

Margaret Cho

Thursday 11/15 @ 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

Thursday 11/15 @ Metro Pictures

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

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

Art

Kurt Kauper

Thursday 11/15 @ Deitch Projects

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

Fabian Marcaccio: <I>Draftants</I>

Art

Fabian Marcaccio

Thursday 11/15 @ 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>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>

Art

Making a Home

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

PERFORMA 07

Festival: Performing Arts

PERFORMA 07

Thursday 11/15 @ Various locations

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

Lawrence Weiner: <I>AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE</I>

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Thursday 11/15 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic,... 

<i>Things We Want</i>

Theatre

Things We Want

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

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

Dance

Batsheva Dance Company

Thursday 11/15 @ BAM

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

Thomas Ruff

Art: Photography

Thomas Ruff

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mariko Mori

Thursday 11/15 @ Deitch Projects

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

New Czech Films

Film

New Czech Films

Thursday 11/15 @ BAM

Now in its eighth year, BAM's New Czech Films brings six premier screenings to New York. Notably among them, I Served... 

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

Art

Kara Walker

Thursday 11/15 @ 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 —... 

ID America Festival

Theatre

ID America Festival

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

Japanther in (3-D): Dinosaur Death Dance

Music

Japanther in (3-D)

Thursday 11/15 @ P.S. 122

In addition to providing entertainment for Flavorpill's Halloween party, Brooklyn's beloved progressive-rock duo Japanther add another string to their bow by... 

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

Art

Infinite Island

Thursday 11/15 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

<i>Shirley at the Tropicana</i>

Theatre

Shirley at the Tropicana

Thursday 11/15 @ 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

Thursday 11/15 @ Andrea Rosen Gallery

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

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Thursday 11/15 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Cy Twombly

Thursday 11/15 @ Gagosian Gallery

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

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

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

Film: Documentary

Steal a Pencil for Me

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

Neck Face

Thursday 11/15 @ Dactyl

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

<i>1001</i>

Theatre

1001

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bridget Riley

Thursday 11/15 @ PaceWildenstein

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

<i>Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation</i> (1989)

Film

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

Thursday 11/15 @ Anthology Film Archives

In the pre-YouTube days of the mid-'80s, three Mississippi teenagers set out to re-create Raiders of the Lost Ark... 

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

Art

Folkert de Jong

Thursday 11/15 @ James Cohan Gallery

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

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

Thursday 11/15 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

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

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

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Thursday 11/15 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

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

The Crown Point Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

The Crown Point Festival

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Thursday 11/15 @ 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>The Chaos Theories</i>

Theatre

The Chaos Theories

Thursday 11/15 @ 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

Thursday 11/15 @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.

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

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

Art

Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress

Thursday 11/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jason Rhoades

Thursday 11/15 @ David Zwirner

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

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

Art

Bari Kumar

Thursday 11/15 @ 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>Spain</i>

Theatre

Spain

Thursday 11/15 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

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