Events on Sunday, December 16
Sunday 12/16 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Cinema's first true It girl, Clara Bow — she of the Cupid's bow lips, looming eyes, and softly waving bob —...
Dick Cheney's Holiday Spectacular
Sunday 12/16 @ Ace of Clubs
Time is running out for Bush jokes, so celebrate one more neocon Christmas with Billionaires for Bush's production of Dick Cheney's...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 12/16 @ Queens Museum of Art
Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished...
Sunday 12/16 @ Zipper Theater
Proudly putting the "whore back in hora," the Goddess Perlman leads her tribe of chosen ladies in a performance featuring bawdy...
Sunday 12/16 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Sunday 12/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and...
Sunday 12/16 @ Culture Project
With its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid...
Sunday 12/16 @ Vanina Holasek Gallery
Having successfully snuck his work into museums in New York and London and fetched close to a million dollars from the...
Sunday 12/16 @ United Palace
If there were a Geiger counter that detected, instead of toxic radiation, the presence of a heart in music listeners, it...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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 —...
Sunday 12/16 @ The Gallery Players
Before David Sedaris found fame as an author and regular voice on NPR, he had to get a "real job" —...
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Sunday 12/16 @ 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,...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ Queens Museum of Art
Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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,...
Sunday 12/16 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (
Sunday 12/16 @ UCB Theatre
OG Upright Citizens Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh lead the UCB's ASSSSCAT team on a month's worth...
Sunday 12/16 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
Sunday 12/16 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ Riviera
Addressing the problem of unattended doggy doo on city sidewalks, Sprinkle Brigade began its own twist on urban beautification. By adding...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ Culture Project
Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Sunday 12/16 @ 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,...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Sunday 12/16 @ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ ArcLight Theatre
Though the war has been over for five years, puppeteer and concentration-camp escapee Samuel Finkelbaum still refuses to leave his attic...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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,...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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....
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
Sunday 12/16 @ 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
Sunday 12/16 @ 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...
