Events on Saturday, November 17
Saturday 11/17 @ 210 Elizabeth St
Street-gear aficionados and high-top connoisseurs descend on downtown for the fourth installment of Soled Out. Celebrating all things urban and fashionable,...
Bling Kong w/ Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
Saturday 11/17 @ Union Hall
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir are unabashedly obsessed with all things from the British Isles — Belle & Sebastian, the Pogues, Joe...
Saturday 11/17 @ Bar 13
Tonight, prolific producer/DJ Dan Curtin gives a taste of the talent he so amply displays on his new double-disc mix on...
Lawrence Weiner: A First Quarter
Saturday 11/17 @ Anthology Film Archives
Starting in the early '70s, conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner began creating films in addition to his signature text works. While the...
Saturday 11/17 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Traversing the boundaries between pop and electro-noise anarchy, Enon are a thinking man's crazy band — a sometimes smooth, most-times jitter-inducing...
Saturday 11/17 @ APT
Veteran producer and one-half of Metro Area, Darshan Jesrani melds some of that classic disco and funk-boogie with the sounds of...
Brother Islands (Places to Lose People)
Saturday 11/17 @ Eyebeam
New quarterly performance series MIXER introduces itself via a dark slice of forgotten New York. Through an expanded documentary study created...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/17 @ HERE Arts Center
Equal parts Sid Vicious and Akira Kurosawa, Drum of the Waves of Horikawa is a brilliant mashup of two seemingly disparate...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ BAM
Founded in 1964 by dance luminaries Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild, the Tel Aviv-based Batsheva Dance Company first appeared...
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Saturday 11/17 @ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...
Saturday 11/17 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and...
Saturday 11/17 @ James Cohan Gallery
Insulation foam may be the defining sculptural material of the current generation, and Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is its maestro,...
Saturday 11/17 @ Giant Robot New York
Jen Corace's illustrations of melancholic little girls hew to the particularly enchanting strain of cute-with-claws art popularized by Yoshitomo Nara and...
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 —...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ McGinn Cazale Theatre
Set in an unnamed New York City hot spot on the coldest night of the year, Alexander Dinelaris' new play,...
Saturday 11/17 @ PaceWildenstein
In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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,...
Big Apple National Comic Book Convention
Saturday 11/17 @ Penn Plaza Pavilion
Come all ye faithful comic-loving masses, toy collectors, sci-fi fiends, and autograph collectors, dust off your lightsabers and don't pack up...
Saturday 11/17 @ Deitch Projects
Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three...
Saturday 11/17 @ David Zwirner
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has...
Saturday 11/17 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Saturday 11/17 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Robin Hood's green hat, Scarlet O'Hara's crimson lips, and Dorothy's rainbow — trademark images of '30s and '40s film — were...
Saturday 11/17 @ Culture Project
Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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,...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ Zipper Theater
Margaret Cho is back in style with her latest burlesque variety show, The Sensuous Woman. The comedienne is at her best...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ Deitch Projects
Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is...
Saturday 11/17 @ Metro Pictures
Experimental filmmaker Isaac Julien is known both for his eerie, meditative explorations of the postcolonial condition and for his lucid, confrontational...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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....
Saturday 11/17 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
As winner of the 2006 Bucksbaum Award — given to a Whitney Biennial star — Mark Bradford was granted a future...
Saturday 11/17 @ Various locations
Unrivaled by any other event in the world (so far), PERFORMA is a biennial of performance art by more than 90...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.
Karen Yasinsky's exhibition is inspired by Jean Vigo's classic 1934 film L'Atalante, which follows ill-suited...
Saturday 11/17 @ Maccarone Gallery
LA performance artist Paul McCarthy has lathered himself with condiments, crammed his orifices full of hot dogs, and positioned inflatable, phallus-for-nose...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ White Columns
2007 isn't over yet, but Chelsea arts org White Columns gets the first word on the highlights. If you didn't make...
Saturday 11/17 @ BAM
Now in its eighth year, BAM's New Czech Films brings six premier screenings to New York. Notably among them, I Served...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Modernism: A Century of Style and Design
Saturday 11/17 @ Park Avenue Armory
Sanford L. Smith's annual 20th-century art fair enters its 22nd year with a roster culled from a century's worth of modernist...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
Since bursting onto the art scene in the '90s, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has resuscitated several major genres of photography with...
Saturday 11/17 @ Bose Pacia Gallery
Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world....
Saturday 11/17 @ Gagosian Gallery
This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
