All events on Saturday December 01

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More Flavor: City Gem
New Museum Reopens
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (4am–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
Free
Contemporary art returns to lower Manhattan with the opening of the new New Museum's boxy, neo-minimalist abode on the Bowery. Designed by SANAA (Japanese duo... View details »
New Museum Reopens
Music: Jazz/Blues
Susie Ibarra Trio
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Location One
Tzadik darling Susie Ibarra blends jazz, gamelan, and kulintang rhythms in her expressive drumming. A punk at heart, she's performed with the likes of Yo... View details »
Susie Ibarra Trio
Music: Electronic
Mary Anne Hobbs
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10pm–6am) @ Love
While Mary Anne Hobbs' journalistic enthusiasm sometimes reaches hyperbolic heights unknown to listeners of American radio jocks, it's impossible to deny her immense influence on... View details »
Mary Anne Hobbs
Performing Arts: Comedy
Michael Ian Black & Michael Showalter
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
Buddies since their days with the The State and, later, Stella, Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter wrap up their college tour with one last... View details »
Michael Ian Black & Michael Showalter
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT]Ra Ra Riot
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm–1am) @ Union Hall
Sold Out!
The Epochs kick off this hotly tipped triple bill with their sultry, dirty-pop sounds. Jukebox the Ghost follow, dramatically building the indie-pop crescendo, and setting... View details »
[SOLD OUT]Ra Ra Riot
More Flavor: Party
Down & Derby
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10pm–4am) @ Studio B
Strap on your skates and book it out to Studio B for the third installment of the Down & Derby party. For one night only,... View details »
Down & Derby
Music: Rock/Pop
Mudhoney
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Flannel-driven slackertude stages a comeback as grunge-metal mainstays Mudhoney hit the stage alongside sludge-happy upstarts Pissed Jeans. Signed to Sub Pop in its early-'90s heyday,... View details »
Mudhoney
Art
The Streets of Europe
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
Free
The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (Berlin) has raised interest in graffiti, and put... View details »
The Streets of Europe
Music: DJ
John Tejada
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (9pm) @ Sullivan Room
John Tejada, LA's first name in minimal techno, brings his signature sound—emotional, beautifully rounded proto-melodies stacked carefully around 4/4 beats—back for another round at Sleepy... View details »
John Tejada
Art
Unmonumental
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial squad brings together 30... View details »
Unmonumental

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Art
Tara Donovan
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
Tara Donovan
Art: Architecture/Design
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Having won the 1401 door-design competition for Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni's (Baptistry of St. John) northern portal, native Florentine Lorenzo Ghiberti ushered in the... View details »
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Film
Magic Images: A Lantern Slide Holiday Entertainment
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (2pm) @ MoMA More times »
Years before the invention of the moving picture, Victorians entertained themselves with the magic lantern, an archaic slide projector that functioned as a kind of... View details »
Magic Images: A Lantern Slide Holiday Entertainment
Art
Kurt Kauper
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is all but synonymous with... View details »
Kurt Kauper
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (2 & 8pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Extreme Embroidery
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Museum of Art and Design More times »
Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from grandmas everywhere with Pricked:... View details »
Extreme Embroidery
Art
Bridget Riley
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then, modernism's first fun art... View details »
Bridget Riley
Art
Liz Craft
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
Free
With her inclusion in the Hammer Museum's Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, sculptor Liz Craft was crowned one of the most LA of LA artists.... View details »
Film
Glorious Technicolor!
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Museum of the Moving Image More times »
Robin Hood's green hat, Scarlet O'Hara's crimson lips, and Dorothy's rainbow — trademark images of '30s and '40s film — were all made possible by... View details »
Glorious Technicolor!
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Art
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists, many of whom —... View details »
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Performing Arts: Dance
Ballet Hispanico
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ The Joyce Theater More times »
Celebrating a vibrant 20 years at the Joyce Theatre, Ballet Hispanico returns with two fiery programs. Palladium Nights is the troupe's homage to the legendary... View details »
Ballet Hispanico
Art
Francis Alÿs
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
Free
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Art
P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and 39 minutes of Rainer... View details »
P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
Art
Martin Puryear
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
On the heels of Richard Serra's steel behemoths comes MoMA's full-scale retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear, who works with wood using the... View details »
Martin Puryear
Art
Making a Home
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Japan Society More times »
Though New York's Japan Society hosts only two exhibitions a year, they're reliably terrific. This fall, young curator Eric C. Shiner presents a show of... View details »
Making a Home
Art
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off a firestorm debate about... View details »
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Art
Paul McCarthy
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–8pm) @ Maccarone Gallery More times »
Free
LA performance artist Paul McCarthy has lathered himself with condiments, crammed his orifices full of hot dogs, and positioned inflatable, phallus-for-nose sculptures in front of... View details »
Paul McCarthy
Art
Infinite Island
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14 diverse nations. Western... View details »
Infinite Island
Art
Kara Walker
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" earlier this year — sparks a tense dialogue... View details »
Kara Walker
Performing Arts: Theatre
Things We Want
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8–10pm) @ The Acorn at Theatre Row More times »
Three brothers find themselves living together, once again, in their childhood home. Both of their parents committed suicide, two of the brothers are alcoholic, and... View details »
Things We Want
Getaway
Keith Edmier
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (1–5pm) @ CCS Bard Hessel Museum More times »
Free
Sculptor Keith Edmier learned his trade in a Tinseltown special-effects studio; like Oscar-winning films, Edmier's meticulous sculptures traffic in grandiose sentimentality, making them a cathartic... View details »
Keith Edmier
Art
Sprinkle Brigade
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Riviera More times »
Free
Addressing the problem of unattended doggy doo on city sidewalks, Sprinkle Brigade began its own twist on urban beautification. By adding plastic toys, mini placards,... View details »
Sprinkle Brigade
Art
Charles Ray
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
The most influential sculptors in contemporary art aren't the formal purists of MoMA's recent exhibitions (Serra and Puryear), they're a coterie of LA-based humorists whose... View details »
Charles Ray
Art
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the woods, ominous mountain ranges,... View details »
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Art: Photography
Francesca Woodman
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Marian Goodman Gallery More times »
Free
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 images represent the major... View details »
Francesca Woodman
Art
Mariko Mori
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three new works, including the... View details »
Mariko Mori
Art: Photography
Thomas Ruff
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
The cheat-sheet on Thomas Ruff goes like this: a student of the austere photographer-duo Bernd and Hilla Becher in Düsseldorf; contemporary of those other large-format... View details »
Thomas Ruff
Art
Jason Rhoades
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has it that before he... View details »
Jason Rhoades
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A Question of Impeachment
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Culture Project More times »
... th its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid case for ousting Bush... View details »
A Question of Impeachment
Art
Bari Kumar
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Bose Pacia Gallery More times »
Free
Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world. He will show a... View details »
Bari Kumar
Art: Architecture/Design
Luv-able and Hug-able
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (1–6pm) @ gallery hanahou More times »
Free
In the place where cockeyed monsters do battle with grumpy tomatoes and gold-lamé hearts rule, Soho's illustrator-friendly gallery hanahou brings in the things we love... View details »
Luv-able and Hug-able
Art
Lawrence Weiner
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic, often blocky slogans, tagged... View details »
Lawrence Weiner
Art
Blip Festival
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm–1am) @ Eyebeam More times »
Eight-bit's revival continues with Blip Festival 2007, a four-day-long festival organized by artist collective 8bitpeoples and arts org the Tank, which celebrates the visual and... View details »
Blip Festival
Art
Jen Corace
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–9pm) @ Giant Robot New York More times »
Free
Jen Corace's illustrations of melancholic little girls hew to the particularly enchanting strain of cute-with-claws art popularized by Yoshitomo Nara and the creators of Ugly... View details »
Jen Corace
Performing Arts: Theatre
I Kreon
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Walkerspace More times »
I Kreon, a confrontational re-imagining of Sophocles' Antigone, questions the validity of absolute leadership and the social cost of living in a "free" world. The... View details »
I Kreon
Art
White Columns Annual
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ White Columns More times »
Free
2007 isn't over yet, but Chelsea arts org White Columns gets the first word on the highlights. If you didn't make it to Chelsea enough... View details »
White Columns Annual
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rebel Voices
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (9pm) @ Culture Project More times »
Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a play than a collection... View details »
Rebel Voices
Art
Cy Twombly
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
Free
This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's works. View details »
Cy Twombly
Performing Arts: Theatre
Chekhov's Chicks
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ Manhattan Theatre Source More times »
Turn-of-the-century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's plays are notable for their intricately rendered female characters, none of whom have it easy. Elizabeth Rosengren's Chekhov's Chicks re-envisions... View details »
Chekhov's Chicks
Art
Do-Ho Suh
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
Free
Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New Museum — with a... View details »
Do-Ho Suh
Performing Arts
Slam Show X
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (3 & 7pm) @ Streb Lab for Action Mechanics More times »
Perhaps pigs can't fly, but humans sure can — or at least those in Elizabeth Streb's antigravitational dance company, STREB. Twice a year,... View details »
 Slam Show X
Performing Arts: Dance
Nutcracker: Rated R
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ Theater for the New City More times »
Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this isn't the PBS Nutcracker... View details »
Nutcracker: Rated R