Events on Tuesday, December 18

Lupe Fiasco
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
Music: Hip-Hop
Lupe Fiasco
@ 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...  View details »
NYXNY presents Not Your Office Holiday Party feat. We Are Scientists and the Upright Citizens Brigade
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
More Flavor: Party
NYXNY presents Not Your Office Holiday Party
@ Canal Room
The phrase "office holiday party" inevitably conjures up cringe-worthy interchanges with awkward co-workers, forced smiles, and drunken — if not embarrassing...  View details »
My Favorite Things feat. Waajeed and Friends
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
Music: DJ
My Favorite Things
@ 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...  View details »
LVHRD presents Bifold Youth
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
More Flavor: Discussion
LVHRD presents Bifold Youth
@ Secret NYC location
Ah, youth. The glory days of lemonade stands, Crayola crayons, and... punk rock? Tonight, the LVHRD crew presents Bifold Youth, in...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Poul Kjærholm: <I>Structures and Surfaces</I>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
Art: Architecture/Design
Poul Kjærholm
@ Sean Kelly Gallery
Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tara Donovan
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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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Sprinkle Brigade
Month_12 Wednesday Day_19
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
Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
Month_12 Wednesday Day_19
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
<I>And Who Are You?: Work from Saatchi Online</I>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
Art
And Who Are You?
@ Sara Tecchia Roma
Saatchi's online gallery boasts 50 million daily hits in the US alone. Now, young curator Ana Finel Honigman has pulled together...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Neil Young
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
Music: Rock/Pop
Neil Young
@ United Palace
If there were a Geiger counter that detected, instead of toxic radiation, the presence of a heart in music listeners, it...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Francesca Woodman
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Mariko Mori: <I>Tom Na H-iu</I>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
White Columns Annual: <I>Looking Back</I>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Cy Twombly: <I>Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things</I>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Charles Ray
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
Art
Marvin Franklin
@ New York Transit Museum
Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_19
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas...  View details »
Ongoing
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Spanish Cinema Now
Month_12 Wednesday Day_19
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
<I>The Streets of Europe: A Survey of European Street Art</I>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Fieldwork
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
Music: Jazz/Blues
Fieldwork
@ The Stone
Fieldwork are masters of their genre, making intricately woven, unrelenting free jazz. Pianist Vijay Iyer draws from his parents' native India...  View details »
Ongoing
Bridget Riley: <i>Recent Paintings and Gouaches</i>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Richard Prince:<i> Spiritual America</i>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Paul McCarthy: <I>Peter Paul Chocolates</I>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Jason Rhoades: <I>Black Pussy</I>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Luv-able and Hug-able
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Do Ho Suh: <I>Reflection</I>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
The Spiritual Art of Salvador Dalí
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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>The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece</i>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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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<i>The Puppetmaster of Lodz</i>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_19
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
Monkey Town Porn Week
Month_12 Wednesday Day_19
Film
Monkey Town Porn Week
@ Monkey Town
Presenting a loftier take on the skin flick genre for the fourth year running, Monkey Town celebrates pornographers working in the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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>August: Osage County</i>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Thomas Ruff
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
Bari Kumar: <I>acceptance of denial</i>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
<i>Billy the Kid</i>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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
<I>Banksy Does New York</I>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_18
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