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More Flavor: Party
NYXNY presents Not Your Office Holiday Party
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (8pm) @ Canal Room
The phrase "office holiday party" inevitably conjures up cringe-worthy interchanges with awkward co-workers, forced smiles, and drunken — if not embarrassing and employment-threatening — confessions.... View details »
NYXNY presents Not Your Office Holiday Party
Music: Jazz/Blues
Fieldwork
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10pm) @ The Stone More times »
Fieldwork are masters of their genre, making intricately woven, unrelenting free jazz. Pianist Vijay Iyer draws from his parents' native India — traditional South Indian... View details »
Fieldwork
More Flavor: Exhibition
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere.... View details »
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Music: DJ
My Favorite Things
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10pm) @ APT
Beat-digger extraordinaire and Detroit-scene hip-hop soulster Waajeed brings along some friends, turning dollar-bin finds into gold and introducing crowds to their new favorite tracks on... View details »
My Favorite Things
Music: Hip-Hop
Lupe Fiasco
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (8pm) @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
Chicago's Lupe Fiasco hits NYC tonight with his manicured, brainy hip-hop. He first came on the mainstream scene in 2006 with his album Food and... View details »
Lupe Fiasco
More Flavor: Discussion
LVHRD presents Bifold Youth
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (8pm) @ Secret NYC location
Ah, youth. The glory days of lemonade stands, Crayola crayons, and... punk rock? Tonight, the LVHRD crew presents Bifold Youth, in which guests re-examine that... View details »
LVHRD presents Bifold Youth
Art
And Who Are You?
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Sara Tecchia Roma More times »
Free
Saatchi's online gallery boasts 50 million daily hits in the US alone. Now, young curator Ana Finel Honigman has pulled together 11 artists from the... View details »
And Who Are You?
Art
Marvin Franklin
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10am–4pm) @ New York Transit Museum More times »
Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may not seem like a... View details »
Marvin Franklin

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Art
Tara Donovan
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
Tara Donovan
Art: Architecture/Design
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Having won the 1401 door-design competition for Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni's (Baptistry of St. John) northern portal, native Florentine Lorenzo Ghiberti ushered in the... View details »
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Extreme Embroidery
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
Extreme Embroidery
Art
Bridget Riley
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then, modernism's first fun art... View details »
Bridget Riley
Art
Liz Craft
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
Free
With her inclusion in the Hammer Museum's Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, sculptor Liz Craft was crowned one of the most LA of LA artists.... View details »
Art
Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
Free
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Art
Making a Home
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Japan Society More times »
Though New York's Japan Society hosts only two exhibitions a year, they're reliably terrific. This fall, young curator Eric C. Shiner presents a show of... View details »
Making a Home
Art
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Art
Paul McCarthy
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
Paul McCarthy
Art
Sprinkle Brigade
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
Sprinkle Brigade
Art
Charles Ray
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
The most influential sculptors in contemporary art aren't the formal purists of MoMA's recent exhibitions (Serra and Puryear), they're a coterie of LA-based humorists whose... View details »
Charles Ray
Art: Photography
Francesca Woodman
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
Francesca Woodman
Art
Mariko Mori
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three new works, including the... View details »
Mariko Mori
Art: Photography
Thomas Ruff
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
The cheat-sheet on Thomas Ruff goes like this: a student of the austere photographer-duo Bernd and Hilla Becher in Düsseldorf; contemporary of those other large-format... View details »
Thomas Ruff
Art
Jason Rhoades
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has it that before he... View details »
Jason Rhoades
Art
Bari Kumar
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Bose Pacia Gallery More times »
Free
Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world. He will show a... View details »
Bari Kumar
Art: Architecture/Design
Luv-able and Hug-able
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
Luv-able and Hug-able
Music: Rock/Pop
Neil Young
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (8pm) @ United Palace More times »
If there were a Geiger counter that detected, instead of toxic radiation, the presence of a heart in music listeners, it would likely emit the... View details »
Neil Young
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Puppetmaster of Lodz
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
The Puppetmaster of Lodz
Art
White Columns Annual
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ White Columns More times »
Free
2007 isn't over yet, but Chelsea arts org White Columns gets the first word on the highlights. If you didn't make it to Chelsea enough... View details »
White Columns Annual
Art
Cy Twombly
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
Free
This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's works. View details »
Cy Twombly
Film: Documentary
Billy the Kid
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
Billy the Kid
Film
Spanish Cinema Now
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
Spanish Cinema Now
Art
Banksy Does New York
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Vanina Holasek Gallery More times »
Free
Having successfully snuck his work into museums in New York and London and fetched close to a million dollars from the sales of under a... View details »
Banksy Does New York
Art: Architecture/Design
Poul Kjærholm
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
Free
Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his compression-molded plywood chairs. Simultaneous... View details »
Poul Kjærholm
Art
Do-Ho Suh
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
Free
Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New Museum — with a... View details »
Do-Ho Suh
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
Art
Salvador Dalí
Tuesday Dec 18, 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 »
Salvador Dalí
Art
The Streets of Europe
Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
Free
The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (Berlin) has raised interest in graffiti, and put... View details »
The Streets of Europe