Events on Saturday, December 1

New Museum Reopens: Target 30 Free Hours

City Gems

New Museum Reopens

Saturday 12/ 1 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Contemporary art returns to lower Manhattan with the opening of the new New Museum's boxy, neo-minimalist abode on the Bowery. Designed... 

Susie Ibarra Trio

Music

Susie Ibarra Trio

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Location One

Tzadik darling Susie Ibarra blends jazz, gamelan, and kulintang rhythms in her expressive drumming. A punk at heart, she's performed with... 

Sub Swara feat. Stereotyp and Mary Anne Hobbs

Music: Electronic

Mary Anne Hobbs

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Love

While Mary Anne Hobbs' journalistic enthusiasm sometimes reaches hyperbolic heights unknown to listeners of American radio jocks, it's impossible to deny... 

Michael Ian Black & Michael Showalter

Comedy

Michael Ian Black & Michael Showalter

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

Basic NYC presents John Tejada

Music: DJ

John Tejada

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

Down & Derby

Party

Down & Derby

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Studio B

Strap on your skates and book it out to Studio B for the third installment of the Down & Derby party.... 

<B>[SOLD OUT]</B>Ra Ra Riot w/ Jukebox the Ghost and the Epochs

Music

[SOLD OUT]Ra Ra Riot

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Union Hall

The Epochs kick off this hotly tipped triple bill with their sultry, dirty-pop sounds. Jukebox the Ghost follow, dramatically building the... 

Mudhoney w/ Pissed Jeans

Music

Mudhoney

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Making a Home

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Walkerspace

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

<i>Chekhov's Chicks</i>

Theatre

Chekhov's Chicks

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Manhattan Theatre Source

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... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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,... 

Francesca Woodman

Art: Photography

Francesca Woodman

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bari Kumar

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Bose Pacia Gallery

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

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

Charles Ray

Art

Charles Ray

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

Glorious Technicolor!

Film

Glorious Technicolor!

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

<i>Rebel Voices</i>

Theatre

Rebel Voices

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Culture Project

Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a... 

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

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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,... 

STREB presents <I>Slam Show X</I>

Performing Arts

Slam Show X

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Streb Lab for Action Mechanics

Perhaps pigs can't fly, but humans sure can — or at least those in Elizabeth Streb's antigravitational dance company, STREB.... 

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

Art

Bridget Riley

Saturday 12/ 1 @ PaceWildenstein

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

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

Art

Kurt Kauper

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Deitch Projects

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

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

Art

Jason Rhoades

Saturday 12/ 1 @ David Zwirner

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

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

Art

White Columns Annual

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

<i>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>

Art

Infinite Island

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

A Question of Impeachment

Special Event

A Question of Impeachment

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Culture Project

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

Blip Festival 2007

Art

Blip Festival

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Eyebeam

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... 

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

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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,... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mariko Mori

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Deitch Projects

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

Do Ho Suh: <I>Reflection</I>

Art

Do-Ho Suh

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Lehmann Maupin

Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New... 

<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>

Art

Unmonumental

Saturday 12/ 1 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial... 

Sprinkle Brigade

Art

Sprinkle Brigade

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Riviera

Addressing the problem of unattended doggy doo on city sidewalks, Sprinkle Brigade began its own twist on urban beautification. By adding... 

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

Art

Kara Walker

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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 —... 

<i>Nutcracker: Rated R</i>

Dance

Nutcracker: Rated R

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Theater for the New City

Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this... 

<i>Projects 86</i>: Gert & Uwe Tobias

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

Thomas Ruff

Art: Photography

Thomas Ruff

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jen Corace

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

<I>The Streets of Europe: A Survey of European Street Art</I>

Art

The Streets of Europe

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (Berlin) has raised interest... 

Ballet Hispanico

Dance

Ballet Hispanico

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

<i>Things We Want</i>

Theatre

Things We Want

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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,... 

Magic Images: A Lantern Slide Holiday Entertainment

Film

Magic Images: A Lantern Slide Holiday Entertainment

Saturday 12/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Years before the invention of the moving picture, Victorians entertained themselves with the magic lantern, an archaic slide projector that functioned... 

Art

Liz Craft

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Paul McCarthy

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Cy Twombly

Saturday 12/ 1 @ Gagosian Gallery

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

P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions: <i>Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz</i>, <i>Senso Unico</i>, Kris Martin and Adel Adbessemed

Art

P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions

Saturday 12/ 1 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and... 

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

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Saturday 12/ 1 @ 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...