Events on Thursday, November 8
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Hiro Ballroom
Cheeky Bastard gets the ballroom good and grimy tonight to celebrate 20 years of Delicious Vinyl. LA's legendary, ever-independent label pretty...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Abrons Arts Center
The generation of kids in whom the Zelda theme music instilled warm feelings of triumph and romance has grown up. Using...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ SE corner of Canal and Lafayette Sts
Besides the whole mother thing, Norman Bates wasn't such a bad guy. He was clean, friendly, kind of a hunk —...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Bose Pacia Gallery
Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world....
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
As winner of the 2006 Bucksbaum Award — given to a Whitney Biennial star — Mark Bradford was granted a future...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ New York Theatre Workshop
Molière's most celebrated play, The Misanthrope has never ceased to be relevant, with its profound...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.
Karen Yasinsky's exhibition is inspired by Jean Vigo's classic 1934 film L'Atalante, which follows ill-suited...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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....
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Deitch Projects
Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Metro Pictures
Experimental filmmaker Isaac Julien is known both for his eerie, meditative explorations of the postcolonial condition and for his lucid, confrontational...
My Name Is Albert Ayler (2005)
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Anthology Film Archives
Kasper Collin's My Name Is Albert Ayler documents the mystical sax screamer from childhood to his eerie early death — an...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Deitch Projects
Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ HERE Arts Center
Equal parts Sid Vicious and Akira Kurosawa, Drum of the Waves of Horikawa is a brilliant mashup of two seemingly disparate...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
Jay Heikes' recent sculptures are based on a joke that begins "So there's this pirate..."...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Theater for the New City
A scant 90 minutes of The Return, Ryuji Sawa's mesmerizing popular theatre revue, just isn't enough. The audience leaves wanting more...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Gagosian Gallery
This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Various locations
The fourth-annual New York Comedy Festival features both vintage humor from Rosie O'Donnell, Bob Saget, and Robin Williams (making two special...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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 —...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
Since bursting onto the art scene in the '90s, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has resuscitated several major genres of photography with...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Zipper Theater
Margaret Cho is back in style with her latest burlesque variety show, The Sensuous Woman. The comedienne is at her best...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Thursday 11/ 8 @ Eyebeam
The second of three exhibitions lauding a decade of tech-art patronage by Eyebeam, Interference brings...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Various locations
Unrivaled by any other event in the world (so far), PERFORMA is a biennial of performance art by more than 90...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ McGinn Cazale Theatre
Set in an unnamed New York City hot spot on the coldest night of the year, Alexander Dinelaris' new play,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ James Cohan Gallery
Insulation foam may be the defining sculptural material of the current generation, and Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is its maestro,...
Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
