Events on Thursday, November 8
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- Music: Electronic
- Nullsleep
- @ Abrons Arts Center
- The generation of kids in whom the Zelda theme music instilled warm feelings of triumph and romance has grown up. Using... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Chinatown Taxidermy Tour
- @ 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 —... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Mr. Flash w/ Masta Ace
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Gloria
- @ P.S. 122
- In Gloria, her newest evening-length work, Cypriot choreographer Maria Hassabi plays with iconic poses and postures and their accompanying associations and... View details »
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- Bari Kumar
- @ Bose Pacia Gallery
- Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world.... View details »
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- Fabian Marcaccio
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- I Kreon
- @ Walkerspace
- I Kreon, a confrontational re-imagining of Sophocles' Antigone, questions the validity of absolute leadership and the social cost of living in... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 1001
- @ Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Nagelberg Theatre
- In this postmodern production of Scheherazade's tales of One Thousand and One Nights, the old world of Arabian markets and palaces... View details »
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- Mark Bradford
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- As winner of the 2006 Bucksbaum Award — given to a Whitney Biennial star — Mark Bradford was granted a future... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ryuji Sawa: The Return
- @ 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... View details »
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- Martin Puryear
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jay Heikes
- @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
- Jay Heikes' recent sculptures are based on a joke that begins "So there's this pirate..."... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- My Name Is Albert Ayler (2005)
- @ Anthology Film Archives
- Kasper Collin's My Name Is Albert Ayler documents the mystical sax screamer from childhood to his eerie early death — an... View details »
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- Kurt Kauper
- @ Deitch Projects
- Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is... View details »
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- Wolfgang Tillmans
- @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
- Since bursting onto the art scene in the '90s, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has resuscitated several major genres of photography with... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Steal a Pencil for Me
- @ Quad Cinema
- Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration... View details »
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- Mariko Mori
- @ Deitch Projects
- Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three... View details »
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- Cy Twombly
- @ Gagosian Gallery
- This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- ID America Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Misanthrope
- @ New York Theatre Workshop
- Molière's most celebrated play, The Misanthrope has never ceased to be relevant, with its profound... View details »
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- Making a Home
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Chaos Theories
- @ McGinn Cazale Theatre
- Set in an unnamed New York City hot spot on the coldest night of the year, Alexander Dinelaris' new play,... View details »
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- Neck Face
- @ Dactyl
- Neck Face and his ubiquitous demons — scrawled all over both coasts' downtowns — have entered the gallery and the full-bodied... View details »
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- Francis Alÿs
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Margaret Cho
- @ Zipper Theater
- Margaret Cho is back in style with her latest burlesque variety show, The Sensuous Woman. The comedienne is at her best... View details »
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- Infinite Island
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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- Spain
- @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
- Sometimes it's necessary to seek solace inside your head when confronted with unwelcome problems — so why not have some fun... View details »
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- Getaway
- Keith Edmier
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Interference
- @ Eyebeam
- The second of three exhibitions lauding a decade of tech-art patronage by Eyebeam, Interference brings... View details »
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- Folkert de Jong
- @ James Cohan Gallery
- Insulation foam may be the defining sculptural material of the current generation, and Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is its maestro,... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- The Crown Point Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Luv-able and Hug-able
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Drum of the Waves of Horikawa
- @ HERE Arts Center
- Equal parts Sid Vicious and Akira Kurosawa, Drum of the Waves of Horikawa is a brilliant mashup of two seemingly disparate... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Things We Want
- @ 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... View details »
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- Kara Walker
- @ 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 —... View details »
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- Extreme Embroidery
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Shirley at the Tropicana
- @ 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... View details »
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- L'Atalante
- @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.
- Karen Yasinsky's exhibition is inspired by Jean Vigo's classic 1934 film L'Atalante, which follows ill-suited... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- New York Comedy Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
- @ 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... View details »
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- P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Isaac Julien
- @ Metro Pictures
- Experimental filmmaker Isaac Julien is known both for his eerie, meditative explorations of the postcolonial condition and for his lucid, confrontational... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- PERFORMA 07
- @ Various locations
- Unrivaled by any other event in the world (so far), PERFORMA is a biennial of performance art by more than 90... View details »
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