All events on Monday December 17
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- [SOLD OUT] Times Square Angel
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 (8pm) @ Theater for the New City
- Sold Out!
- Times Square Angel is as much an homage to Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and bad 1940s noir flicks as it is to It's a... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- François K w/ Mr. Scruff
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 (9:30pm–3:30am) @ Cielo
- Giveaway
- Good things happen when DJs spin outside of their comfort zones. Andy Carthy — better known as Mr. Scruff — tends to spin rare grooves,... View details »
- Reading: Poetry
- Carol Mirakove and Maged Zaher
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 (8pm) @ St. Mark's Church
- Free
- Carol Mirakove approaches poetry like a documentarian, tackling such topics as the revolutions in Bolivia and Venezuela, sweatshop labor, and racism without sounding like an... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Rainbowsssss
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 (8pm) @ Cake Shop
- Although they basically abandon melody, rhythm, and structure, Rainbowsssss generate haunting and engaging sonic performances. Usually huddled on the floor, the trio improvises with an... View details »
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- Art
- Extreme Embroidery
- Monday Dec 17, 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 »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Monday Dec 17, 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 »
- Art
- New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
- Monday Dec 17, 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 »
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- P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
- Monday Dec 17, 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 »
- Art
- Martin Puryear
- Monday Dec 17, 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 »
- Art
- Richard Prince: Spiritual America
- Monday Dec 17, 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 »
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- Paul McCarthy
- Monday Dec 17, 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 »
- Art
- Sprinkle Brigade
- Monday Dec 17, 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 »
- Art
- Gert & Uwe Tobias
- Monday Dec 17, 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Francesca Woodman
- Monday Dec 17, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Luv-able and Hug-able
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 (noon–7pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Puppetmaster of Lodz
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 @ ArcLight Theatre More times »
- Though the war has been over for five years, puppeteer and concentration-camp escapee Samuel Finkelbaum still refuses to leave his attic hideout. The solitary Finkelbaum... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Billy the Kid
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 (noon) @ IFC Center More times »
- Giveaway
- First-time director Jennifer Venditti's Billy the Kid is the sort of fare that used to flourish at Sundance before it got too big for its... View details »
- Film
- Spanish Cinema Now
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
- It’s a cliché to bemoan how Spanish cinema gets short shrift this side of Pedro Almodóvar in the United States, but, like they say, it's... View details »
- Art
- Lucian Freud
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly paints with a chisel,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 @ Zipper Theater More times »
- Proudly putting the "whore back in hora," the Goddess Perlman leads her tribe of chosen ladies in a performance featuring bawdy bat-mitzvah recollections, Star of... View details »
- Art
- Salvador Dalí
- Monday Dec 17, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ William Bennett Gallery More times »
- Free
- If your knowledge of Salvador Dalí stops at melting clocks, head to Soho's Bennett Gallery, which exhibits two divine collections that focus on the more... View details »
