Events on Tuesday, November 27

Andy Goldsworthy: <i>Rivers and Tides</i> (2001)

Film: Documentary

Rivers and Tides

Tuesday 11/27 @ Horticultural Society of New York

Andy Goldsworthy's more ephemeral sculptures only last for a few hours after their completion. In one scene of Rivers and Tides,... 

Tinariwen

Music: Global

Tinariwen

Tuesday 11/27 @ Highline Ballroom

Music will set you free, or, in a perfect world, overthrow the entire government of Mali. Tinariwen are the... 

Sondre Lerche w/ Dan Wilson

Music

Sondre Lerche

Tuesday 11/27 @ The Bowery Ballroom

At age 25, Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche is already a capable explorer of traditional genres. His first two albums, ... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

<I>I Kreon</I>

Theatre

I Kreon

Tuesday 11/27 @ Walkerspace

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

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

Art

Bari Kumar

Tuesday 11/27 @ Bose Pacia Gallery

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

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

Thomas Ruff

Art: Photography

Thomas Ruff

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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>Things We Want</i>

Theatre

Things We Want

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

Glorious Technicolor!

Film

Glorious Technicolor!

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kurt Kauper

Tuesday 11/27 @ Deitch Projects

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

White Columns Annual: <I>Looking Back</I>

Art

White Columns Annual

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

Art

Liz Craft

Tuesday 11/27 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery

With her inclusion in the Hammer Museum's Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, sculptor Liz Craft was crowned one of the most... 

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

Art

Cy Twombly

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Tuesday 11/27 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

A Question of Impeachment

Special Event

A Question of Impeachment

Tuesday 11/27 @ Culture Project

  With its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid... 

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

Art

Mariko Mori

Tuesday 11/27 @ Deitch Projects

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

Charles Ray

Art

Charles Ray

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Tuesday 11/27 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

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

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

Jen Corace: <i>Told You So</i>

Art

Jen Corace

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bridget Riley

Tuesday 11/27 @ PaceWildenstein

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

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

Art

Jason Rhoades

Tuesday 11/27 @ David Zwirner

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

<i>Rebel Voices</i>

Theatre

Rebel Voices

Tuesday 11/27 @ Culture Project

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

Ballet Hispanico

Dance

Ballet Hispanico

Tuesday 11/27 @ The Joyce Theater

Celebrating a vibrant 20 years at the Joyce Theatre, Ballet Hispanico returns with two fiery programs. Palladium Nights is the troupe's... 

Paul McCarthy: <I>Peter Paul Chocolates</I>

Art

Paul McCarthy

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

<i>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>

Art

Making a Home

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Tuesday 11/27 @ 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...