Events on Friday, November 9
Friday 11/ 9 @ TheTimesCenter
Together, Ang Lee and writer-producer James Schamus' eclectic oeuvre ranges from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to The Ice Storm to Brokeback...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Silent Barn
The Dirty Projectors' register-defying vocal scoops have sparked a trend in Bed-Stuy. Neighborhood group Phosphorescent narrow down this happy range with...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Hugs
For fans of booty bass, grimy-grinding, and sweat-slicked sex appeal, the Palms Out Sounds crew have a lineup of greasy beats...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ New York Theatre Workshop
Molière's most celebrated play, The Misanthrope has never ceased to be relevant, with its profound...
Friday 11/ 9 @ PaceWildenstein
In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
Since bursting onto the art scene in the '90s, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has resuscitated several major genres of photography with...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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 —...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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....
Friday 11/ 9 @ Deitch Projects
Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Various locations
Unrivaled by any other event in the world (so far), PERFORMA is a biennial of performance art by more than 90...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Culture Project
Young Iranian-American Negin Farsad's new Dirty Immigrant Collective series showcases other politically charged female comics. The first week featured Farsad riffing...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
Jay Heikes' recent sculptures are based on a joke that begins "So there's this pirate..."...
My Name Is Albert Ayler (2005)
Friday 11/ 9 @ Anthology Film Archives
Kasper Collin's My Name Is Albert Ayler documents the mystical sax screamer from childhood to his eerie early death — an...
Friday 11/ 9 @ James Cohan Gallery
Insulation foam may be the defining sculptural material of the current generation, and Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is its maestro,...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Deitch Projects
Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ HERE Arts Center
Equal parts Sid Vicious and Akira Kurosawa, Drum of the Waves of Horikawa is a brilliant mashup of two seemingly disparate...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.
Karen Yasinsky's exhibition is inspired by Jean Vigo's classic 1934 film L'Atalante, which follows ill-suited...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
As winner of the 2006 Bucksbaum Award — given to a Whitney Biennial star — Mark Bradford was granted a future...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Gagosian Gallery
This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Eyebeam
The second of three exhibitions lauding a decade of tech-art patronage by Eyebeam, Interference brings...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Zipper Theater
Margaret Cho is back in style with her latest burlesque variety show, The Sensuous Woman. The comedienne is at her best...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Metro Pictures
Experimental filmmaker Isaac Julien is known both for his eerie, meditative explorations of the postcolonial condition and for his lucid, confrontational...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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,...
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Bose Pacia Gallery
Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world....
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
After quitting New York for over a decade, downtown darling Jeffrey Essmann returns to La MaMa's welcoming breast with a...
Friday 11/ 9 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Friday 11/ 9 @ McGinn Cazale Theatre
Set in an unnamed New York City hot spot on the coldest night of the year, Alexander Dinelaris' new play,...
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Friday 11/ 9 @ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...
Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 9 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and...
