Events on Sunday, December 2

DEEP (Death Electric Emo Protest) AEROBICS with Miguel Gutierrez

Dance

DEEP AEROBICS

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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... 

Stones Throw presents the 2K Sports Bounce Tour

Music: Hip-Hop

The 2K Sports Bounce Tour

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Highline Ballroom

  Stones Throw team captain PB Wolf brings out his stone-y starting lineup for some holiday-ready bounce. The ingenious and ever-productive... 

The Moth GrandSLAM Championship

Books: Reading

The Moth GrandSLAM Championship

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Comix

Founded by poet and novelist George Dawes Green in 1997, the Moth is a nonprofit devoted to the art of storytelling.... 

Joe Ely

Music

Joe Ely

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Joe's Pub

The Quavers

Music: Electronic

The Quavers

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Barbès

  Just because they use samplers, tape decks, found audio, and vibraphones doesn't mean the Quavers' music is all beeps, boops,... 

Ongoing Events

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Sunday 12/ 2 @ CCS Bard Hessel Museum

Sculptor Keith Edmier learned his trade in a Tinseltown special-effects studio; like Oscar-winning films, Edmier's meticulous sculptures traffic in grandiose sentimentality,... 

A Question of Impeachment

Special Event

A Question of Impeachment

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Culture Project

  With its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid... 

<i>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>

Art

Infinite Island

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14... 

Beth Campbell: <I>Following Room</I>

Art

Beth Campbell

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms.... 

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

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

Sprinkle Brigade

Art

Sprinkle Brigade

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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... 

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" earlier this year —... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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,... 

Blip Festival 2007

Art

Blip Festival

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Eyebeam

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... 

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

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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... 

Ballet Hispanico

Dance

Ballet Hispanico

Sunday 12/ 2 @ The Joyce Theater

Celebrating a vibrant 20 years at the Joyce Theatre, Ballet Hispanico returns with two fiery programs. Palladium Nights is the troupe's... 

<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>

Art

Unmonumental

Sunday 12/ 2 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial... 

<I>Banksy Does New York</I>

Art

Banksy Does New York

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Vanina Holasek Gallery

Having successfully snuck his work into museums in New York and London and fetched close to a million dollars from the... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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... 

STREB presents <I>Slam Show X</I>

Performing Arts

Slam Show X

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Streb Lab for Action Mechanics

Perhaps pigs can't fly, but humans sure can — or at least those in Elizabeth Streb's antigravitational dance company, STREB.... 

<i>The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece</i>

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Sunday 12/ 2 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

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

<i>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>

Art

Making a Home

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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... 

<I>The Streets of Europe: A Survey of European Street Art</I>

Art

The Streets of Europe

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (Berlin) has raised interest... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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... 

<i>Nutcracker: Rated R</i>

Dance

Nutcracker: Rated R

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Theater for the New City

Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this... 

Glorious Technicolor!

Film

Glorious Technicolor!

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Museum of the Moving Image

Robin Hood's green hat, Scarlet O'Hara's crimson lips, and Dorothy's rainbow — trademark images of '30s and '40s film — were... 

Jen Corace: <i>Told You So</i>

Art

Jen Corace

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Giant Robot New York

Jen Corace's illustrations of melancholic little girls hew to the particularly enchanting strain of cute-with-claws art popularized by Yoshitomo Nara and... 

Lawrence Weiner: <I>AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE</I>

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic,... 

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

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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,... 

<i>Rebel Voices</i>

Theatre

Rebel Voices

Sunday 12/ 2 @ Culture Project

Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Sunday 12/ 2 @ 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...