Events on Wednesday, November 28

Wordless Music presents Max Richter w/ Cepia and Assaff Weisman

Music: Classical

Max Richter

Wednesday 11/28 @ Good-Shepherd Faith Church

Wordless Music explores the seam where contemporary and classical music meet, but this bill blurs the difference. German-born composer Max Richter's... 

Celebration w/ Holy Fuck and Effi Briest

Music

Celebration

Wednesday 11/28 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Recently, a much fussed-over New Yorker article lamented the lack of black rhythmic influence on today's indie-rock bands. If you're inclined... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Making a Home

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

<I>I Kreon</I>

Theatre

I Kreon

Wednesday 11/28 @ Walkerspace

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

<i>New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006</i>

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Bridget Riley

Wednesday 11/28 @ PaceWildenstein

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

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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,... 

Thomas Ruff

Art: Photography

Thomas Ruff

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bari Kumar

Wednesday 11/28 @ Bose Pacia Gallery

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

Glorious Technicolor!

Film

Glorious Technicolor!

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

Charles Ray

Art

Charles Ray

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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>Projects 86</i>: Gert & Uwe Tobias

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Wednesday 11/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the... 

<i>Things We Want</i>

Theatre

Things We Want

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kurt Kauper

Wednesday 11/28 @ Deitch Projects

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

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

Art

Cy Twombly

Wednesday 11/28 @ Gagosian Gallery

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

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

Art

White Columns Annual

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

A Question of Impeachment

Special Event

A Question of Impeachment

Wednesday 11/28 @ Culture Project

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

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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,... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

Francesca Woodman

Art: Photography

Francesca Woodman

Wednesday 11/28 @ Marian Goodman Gallery

Francesca Woodman's evocative black-and-white photographs garner acclaim among popular audiences and feminist scholars alike. In this exhibition at Marian Goodman, 40-odd... 

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

Art

Mariko Mori

Wednesday 11/28 @ Deitch Projects

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

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

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kara Walker

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 —... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

Art

Liz Craft

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jen Corace

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jason Rhoades

Wednesday 11/28 @ David Zwirner

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

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

Ballet Hispanico

Dance

Ballet Hispanico

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>

Art

Infinite Island

Wednesday 11/28 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Wednesday 11/28 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Wednesday 11/28 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

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

Art

Paul McCarthy

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...