All events on Sunday December 02

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Music
Joe Ely
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Joe's Pub
Joe Ely
Music: Hip-Hop
The 2K Sports Bounce Tour
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (9pm) @ Highline Ballroom
Giveaway
... ones Throw team captain PB Wolf brings out his stone-y starting lineup for some holiday-ready bounce. The ingenious and ever-productive Madlib pulls tracks from... View details »
The 2K Sports Bounce Tour
Music: Electronic
The Quavers
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (7pm) @ Barbès
... st because they use samplers, tape decks, found audio, and vibraphones doesn't mean the Quavers' music is all beeps, boops, and hissing. The experimental... View details »
The Quavers
Reading
The Moth GrandSLAM Championship
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (7pm) @ Comix
Founded by poet and novelist George Dawes Green in 1997, the Moth is a nonprofit devoted to the art of storytelling. The group's popular StorySLAMs... View details »
The Moth GrandSLAM Championship
Performing Arts: Dance
DEEP AEROBICS
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (3pm) @ P.S. 122
Dancer Miguel Gutierrez gets physical at P.S. 122 for a cracked-out aerobics class guaranteed to help you burn off some of that post-Thanksgiving bloat. Be... View details »
DEEP AEROBICS
Art
Banksy Does New York
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (11am–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
Beth Campbell
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms. While there was nothing... View details »
Beth Campbell

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Tara Donovan
Sunday Dec 2, 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
Sunday Dec 2, 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
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (3pm) @ 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
Sunday Dec 2, 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
Film
Glorious Technicolor!
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 @ Museum of the Moving Image More times »
Robin Hood's green hat, Scarlet O'Hara's crimson lips, and Dorothy's rainbow — trademark images of '30s and '40s film — were all made possible by... View details »
Glorious Technicolor!
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Sunday Dec 2, 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 »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Art
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Sunday Dec 2, 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 »
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Performing Arts: Dance
Ballet Hispanico
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 @ The Joyce Theater More times »
Celebrating a vibrant 20 years at the Joyce Theatre, Ballet Hispanico returns with two fiery programs. Palladium Nights is the troupe's homage to the legendary... View details »
Ballet Hispanico
Art
Francis Alÿs
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (1–4pm) @ 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
P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
Sunday Dec 2, 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 »
P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
Art
Martin Puryear
Sunday Dec 2, 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 »
Martin Puryear
Art
Making a Home
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Sunday Dec 2, 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
Sunday Dec 2, 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
Infinite Island
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14 diverse nations. Western... View details »
Infinite Island
Art
Kara Walker
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" earlier this year — sparks a tense dialogue... View details »
Kara Walker
Getaway
Keith Edmier
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (1–5pm) @ CCS Bard Hessel Museum More times »
Free
Sculptor Keith Edmier learned his trade in a Tinseltown special-effects studio; like Oscar-winning films, Edmier's meticulous sculptures traffic in grandiose sentimentality, making them a cathartic... View details »
Keith Edmier
Art
Sprinkle Brigade
Sunday Dec 2, 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
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Sunday Dec 2, 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 »
Gert & Uwe Tobias
More Flavor
A Question of Impeachment
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 @ Culture Project More times »
... th its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid case for ousting Bush... View details »
A Question of Impeachment
Art
Lawrence Weiner
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic, often blocky slogans, tagged... View details »
Lawrence Weiner
Art
Blip Festival
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (6–11pm) @ Eyebeam More times »
Eight-bit's revival continues with Blip Festival 2007, a four-day-long festival organized by artist collective 8bitpeoples and arts org the Tank, which celebrates the visual and... View details »
Blip Festival
Art
Jen Corace
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (noon–7pm) @ Giant Robot New York More times »
Free
Jen Corace's illustrations of melancholic little girls hew to the particularly enchanting strain of cute-with-claws art popularized by Yoshitomo Nara and the creators of Ugly... View details »
Jen Corace
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rebel Voices
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (5pm) @ Culture Project More times »
Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a play than a collection... View details »
Rebel Voices
Art
The Streets of Europe
Sunday Dec 2, 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
Performing Arts
Slam Show X
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (3pm) @ Streb Lab for Action Mechanics More times »
Perhaps pigs can't fly, but humans sure can — or at least those in Elizabeth Streb's antigravitational dance company, STREB. Twice a year,... View details »
 Slam Show X
Performing Arts: Dance
Nutcracker: Rated R
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (3pm) @ Theater for the New City More times »
Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this isn't the PBS Nutcracker... View details »
Nutcracker: Rated R
Art
Unmonumental
Sunday Dec 2, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial squad brings together 30... View details »
Unmonumental