Events on Friday, December 14

Alchemy feat. Jenö and Sunshine Jones
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Music: DJ
Jenö and Sunshine Jones
@ Love
Jenö's been around forever, but don't think for a second that means he's lost his touch. As a founding member of...  View details »
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Williamsburg Every 2nd
@ Various locations
  This month, Williamsburg's gallery night features openings, a charity afterparty at Oulu, and a chauffeured ride on a rolling...  View details »
Free
The Bunker feat. Ryan Crosson
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Music: Electronic
Ryan Crosson
@ Public Assembly
Detroit's Ryan Crosson and his compatriots in the creation of pleasantly weird, percussive techno (Lee Curtiss, Seth Troxler) can pride themselves...  View details »
ICP-Bard MFA Program Open Studios
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art: Photography
ICP-Bard MFA Program Open Studios
@ 24-20 Jackson Ave, 3rd Fl, LIC
The third-annual Open Studios at the International Center for Photography showcases work from 22 promising young talents. The projects include portraits...  View details »
Free
 <I>Sex & Candy: 22 Succulent Stories</I> Release Party
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Reading
Sex & Candy Release Party
@ Pete's Candy Store
Tonight, Pete's Candy Store actually has some candy. Join editor Rachel Kramer Bussel and a slew of local erotic-fiction writers to...  View details »
Free
Nowadays: A Conversation and Screening with Ryan Trecartin
Month_12 Friday Day_14
More Flavor: Discussion
Nowadays
@ New Museum of Contemporary Art
The New Museum's new-media offshoot, Rhizome, has a sleek new home, both on the Internet and at 235 Bowery — where...  View details »
DFA Holiday Extravaganza
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Music: DJ
DFA Holiday Extravaganza
@ Studio B
Team DFA brings out its A-side, spreading disco and funk-infused yuletide cheer across the land with DJ sets from LCD Soundsystem's...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<i>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Infinite Island
@ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Nutcracker: Rated R</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Performing Arts: Dance
Nutcracker: Rated R
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
White Columns Annual: <I>Looking Back</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
White Columns Annual
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Jason Rhoades: <I>Black Pussy</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Jason Rhoades
@ David Zwirner
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Whitney Live presents Moving Theater: <i>Impermanent Collection</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Moving Theater: Impermanent Collection
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
Designed specifically to be performed in the Whitney's Lower Gallery, Moving Theater's Impermanent Collection dance piece addresses the pleasures and frustrations...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>The Streets of Europe: A Survey of European Street Art</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
The Streets of Europe
@ Jonathan Levine Gallery
The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (Berlin) has raised interest...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sprinkle Brigade
Month_12 Saturday Day_15
Art
Sprinkle Brigade
@ Riviera
Addressing the problem of unattended doggy doo on city sidewalks, Sprinkle Brigade began its own twist on urban beautification. By adding...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Do Ho Suh: <I>Reflection</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Do-Ho Suh
@ Lehmann Maupin
Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Keith Edmier: 1991-2007
Month_12 Friday Day_14
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Behind the Seen</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Behind the Seen
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Martin Puryear
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Spanish Cinema Now
Month_12 Saturday Day_15
Film
Spanish Cinema Now
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Paul McCarthy: <I>Peter Paul Chocolates</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Paul McCarthy
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Bridget Riley: <i>Recent Paintings and Gouaches</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Bridget Riley
@ PaceWildenstein
In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Things We Want</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
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 »
Ongoing
Richard Prince:<i> Spiritual America</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
@ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...  View details »
Ongoing
David Sedaris' <i>The Santaland Diaries</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Santaland Diaries
@ The Gallery Players
Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —...  View details »
Ongoing
Luv-able and Hug-able
Month_12 Friday Day_14
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Unmonumental
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Thomas Ruff
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art: Photography
Thomas Ruff
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>No Dice</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
No Dice
@ Sydney's Playground
With a script culled from hours of recorded phone conversations on subjects ranging from Hollywood to addiction to dinner...  View details »
Ongoing
The Spiritual Art of Salvador Dalí
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Salvador Dalí
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Banksy Does New York</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Banksy Does New York
@ Vanina Holasek Gallery
Having successfully snuck his work into museums in New York and London and fetched close to a million dollars from the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<i>The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
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 »
Ongoing
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Beth Campbell: <I>Following Room</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Beth Campbell
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms....  View details »
Ongoing
<i>New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<i>The Puppetmaster of Lodz</i>
Month_12 Saturday Day_15
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Puppetmaster of Lodz
@ ArcLight Theatre
Though the war has been over for five years, puppeteer and concentration-camp escapee Samuel Finkelbaum still refuses to leave his attic...  View details »
Ongoing
P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions: <i>Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz</i>, <i>Senso Unico</i>, Kris Martin and Adel Adbessemed
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
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 »
Ongoing
[SOLD OUT] GZA: <i>Liquid Swords</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Music: Hip-Hop
[SOLD OUT] GZA
@ 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...  View details »
Sold Out!
Ongoing
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Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Chekhov's Chicks</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Chekhov's Chicks
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Bari Kumar: <I>acceptance of denial</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Francesca Woodman
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art: Photography
Francesca Woodman
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>August: Osage County</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Billy the Kid</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Film: Documentary
Billy the Kid
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Charles Ray
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Charles Ray
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Cy Twombly: <I>Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
STREB presents <I>Slam Show X</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Performing Arts
Slam Show X
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
A Question of Impeachment
Month_12 Saturday Day_15
More Flavor
A Question of Impeachment
@ Culture Project
  With its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid...  View details »
Ongoing
Tara Donovan
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Tara Donovan
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Lawrence Weiner: <I>AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Lawrence Weiner
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
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Kurt Kauper: <i>Everybody Knew that Canadians Were the Best Hockey Players</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Projects 86</i>: Gert & Uwe Tobias
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Gert & Uwe Tobias
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
Month_12 Saturday Day_15
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
@ Zipper Theater
Proudly putting the "whore back in hora," the Goddess Perlman leads her tribe of chosen ladies in a performance featuring bawdy...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
Liz Craft
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Molissa Fenley and Dancers
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Performing Arts: Dance
Molissa Fenley and Dancers
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Mariko Mori: <I>Tom Na H-iu</I>
Month_12 Friday Day_14
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free