Events on Wednesday, November 21
The Hold Steady w/ Art Brut and 1990s
Wednesday 11/21 @ Terminal 5
Brooklyn-based quintet the Hold Steady pad their riotous classic rock with whip-smart and often hilarious character studies; frontman Craig Finn's boozy...
Wednesday 11/21 @ Club Midway
In the grand tradition of Celtic folk-metal legends Skyclad and Cruachan, Slough Feg fuse Jethro Tull folkiness with NWOBHM....
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 —...
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Wednesday 11/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists,...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Deitch Projects
Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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...
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Wednesday 11/21 @ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...
Wednesday 11/21 @ Deitch Projects
Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Culture Project
With its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Wednesday 11/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/21 @ James Cohan Gallery
Insulation foam may be the defining sculptural material of the current generation, and Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is its maestro,...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/21 @ David Zwirner
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Bose Pacia Gallery
Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world....
Wednesday 11/21 @ 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....
