Events on Monday, December 17

Rainbowsssss w/ the Kulaks and Orgiaztec

Music

Rainbowsssss

Monday 12/17 @ Cake Shop

Although they basically abandon melody, rhythm, and structure, Rainbowsssss generate haunting and engaging sonic performances. Usually huddled on the floor, the... 

Deep Space feat. François K w/ Mr. Scruff

Music: Electronic

François K w/ Mr. Scruff

Monday 12/17 @ Cielo

Good things happen when DJs spin outside of their comfort zones. Andy Carthy — better known as Mr. Scruff — tends... 

[SOLD OUT] <I>Times Square Angel</I>

Theatre

[SOLD OUT] Times Square Angel

Monday 12/17 @ Theater for the New City

Times Square Angel is as much an homage to Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and bad 1940s noir flicks as it... 

Carol Mirakove and Maged Zaher

Books: Poetry

Carol Mirakove and Maged Zaher

Monday 12/17 @ St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery

Carol Mirakove approaches poetry like a documentarian, tackling such topics as the revolutions in Bolivia and Venezuela, sweatshop labor, and racism... 

Ongoing Events

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

Performing Arts

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

Monday 12/17 @ Zipper Theater

Proudly putting the "whore back in hora," the Goddess Perlman leads her tribe of chosen ladies in a performance featuring bawdy... 

<i>Billy the Kid</i>

Film: Documentary

Billy the Kid

Monday 12/17 @ 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... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Monday 12/17 @ 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... 

Sprinkle Brigade

Art

Sprinkle Brigade

Monday 12/17 @ Riviera

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

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

Art

Paul McCarthy

Monday 12/17 @ 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... 

Lucian Freud: <em>The Painter's Etchings</em>

Art

Lucian Freud

Monday 12/17 @ 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... 

Francesca Woodman

Art: Photography

Francesca Woodman

Monday 12/17 @ 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... 

Spanish Cinema Now

Film

Spanish Cinema Now

Monday 12/17 @ 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,... 

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

Monday 12/17 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

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

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

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Monday 12/17 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Monday 12/17 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

The Spiritual Art of Salvador Dalí

Art

Salvador Dalí

Monday 12/17 @ 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... 

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

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Monday 12/17 @ 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... 

<i>The Puppetmaster of Lodz</i>

Theatre

The Puppetmaster of Lodz

Monday 12/17 @ ArcLight Theatre

Though the war has been over for five years, puppeteer and concentration-camp escapee Samuel Finkelbaum still refuses to leave his attic... 

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Monday 12/17 @ 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... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Monday 12/17 @ 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,... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Monday 12/17 @ 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...