Events on Thursday, December 13
Thursday 12/13 @ Parkside Lounge
Sharks aren't inherently funny. Card sharks, loan sharks, great-white sharks: not generally regarded as laugh riots. The Shark Show's Holiday Party,...
Thursday 12/13 @ The Bowery Ballroom
We're not sure one band really needs two drummers, but we won't quibble with White Rabbits — we're too busy dancing....
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/13 @ The Joyce Theater
Modern-dance master Molissa Fenley celebrates the 30th anniversary of her company at the Joyce Theater with six nights of old favorites...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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,...
Thursday 12/13 @ Zipper Theater
Proudly putting the "whore back in hora," the Goddess Perlman leads her tribe of chosen ladies in a performance featuring bawdy...
The Holy Modal Rounders... Bound to Lose
Thursday 12/13 @ Anthology Film Archives
After splintering from iconic garage-folkies the Fugs, early-'60s gutter-grass pioneers the Holy Modal Rounders lived poorer, partied faster, and hassled the...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
Thursday 12/13 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and...
Thursday 12/13 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Thursday 12/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
For those still aching from the cancellation of this summer's McCarren Pool set with Jamie Lidell, GZA makes it all better...
Thursday 12/13 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (
Thursday 12/13 @ Culture Project
With its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Thursday 12/13 @ 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,...
Thursday 12/13 @ Ad Hoc Art
Michael de Feo (best known as the "flower guy") wants the world to know that street art ain't all aerosol and...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ 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...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
It’s a cliché to bemoan how Spanish cinema gets short shrift this side of Pedro Almodóvar in the United States, but,...
Thursday 12/13 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Thursday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ Deitch Projects
Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
Thursday 12/13 @ William Bennett Gallery
If your knowledge of Salvador Dalí stops at melting clocks, head to Soho's Bennett Gallery, which exhibits two divine collections that...
Thursday 12/13 @ Riviera
Addressing the problem of unattended doggy doo on city sidewalks, Sprinkle Brigade began its own twist on urban beautification. By adding...
Thursday 12/13 @ United Palace
If there were a Geiger counter that detected, instead of toxic radiation, the presence of a heart in music listeners, it...
Thursday 12/13 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
Thursday 12/13 @ Terminal 5
So it's not the '90s anymore — no reason you can't still enjoy a night of Cake. The band has once...
Thursday 12/13 @ PaceWildenstein
In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,...
Thursday 12/13 @ Deitch Projects
Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three...
Thursday 12/13 @ David Zwirner
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has...
Thursday 12/13 @ IFC Center
First-time director Jennifer Venditti's Billy the Kid is the sort of fare that used to flourish at Sundance before it got...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ The Gallery Players
Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ ArcLight Theatre
Though the war has been over for five years, puppeteer and concentration-camp escapee Samuel Finkelbaum still refuses to leave his attic...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Thursday 12/13 @ 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,...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ Vanina Holasek Gallery
Having successfully snuck his work into museums in New York and London and fetched close to a million dollars from the...
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Thursday 12/13 @ 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...
