Events on Thursday, December 20

<i>The Passenger</i> (1975)

Film

The Passenger (1975)

Thursday 12/20 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

While researching a story on gun-runners in North Africa, American reporter David Locke (Jack Nicholson) steals another man's identity to escape... 

Parts & Labor w/ An Albatross and Stay High

Music

Parts & Labor w/ An Albatross

Thursday 12/20 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

Brooklyn-born powerhouse Parts & Labor reinvigorate punk's four-to-the-floor ethos with brazen, unabashed indie energy. Seemingly malfunctioning machines pulse with erratic undercurrents... 

Public Enemy

Music: Hip-Hop

Public Enemy

Thursday 12/20 @ Warsaw

Flavor of Love might make it hard to remember that Public Enemy legitimately frightened suburban moms 20 years ago. Chuck D... 

S.O.B.'s Hip-Hop Concert & Plain Rap Presents: Classic Hip-Hop for the Holidays

Music: Hip-Hop

Classic Hip-Hop for the Holidays

Thursday 12/20 @ S.O.B.'s

Classic hip-hop jingles the holiday bells, as host Greg Nice rings in the new year with a taste of the old.... 

[CANCELLED] The Pack w/ Trouble Andrew and J-Mello

Music: Hip-Hop

[CANCELLED] The Pack

Thursday 12/20 @ Studio B

Lil' B describes their sound as "being one with the air," and fellow rapper Young L has been known to sport... 

Robots present Chris Liebing and Joris Voorn

Music: DJ

Robots present Chris Liebing and Joris Voorn

Thursday 12/20 @ Cielo

After more than three years and over 140 parties, the Robots crew goes out with a sonic techno-boom courtesy of Chris... 

Ongoing Events

<i>Dogs</i>

Theatre

Dogs

Thursday 12/20 @ Duo Theater

Dogs is the story of Brad and Davy, brothers living in a failing fish-cannery town in Alaska who, along with new-gal-in-town... 

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

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Thursday 12/20 @ 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,... 

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

Performing Arts

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

Thursday 12/20 @ Zipper Theater

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

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

Art

Paul McCarthy

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Thursday 12/20 @ 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>Billy the Kid</i>

Film: Documentary

Billy the Kid

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

Thomas Ruff

Art: Photography

Thomas Ruff

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Thursday 12/20 @ 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 York States of Mind</I>

Art

New York States of Mind

Thursday 12/20 @ Queens Museum of Art

Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what... 

Fieldwork

Music

Fieldwork

Thursday 12/20 @ The Stone

Fieldwork are masters of their genre, making intricately woven, unrelenting free jazz. Pianist Vijay Iyer draws from his parents' native India... 

<I>And Who Are You?: Work from Saatchi Online</I>

Art

And Who Are You?

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>

Special Event

blog.mode

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

<I>Behind the Seen</I>

Art

Behind the Seen

Thursday 12/20 @ Ad Hoc Art

Michael de Feo (best known as the "flower guy") wants the world to know that street art ain't all aerosol and... 

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

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

Bari Kumar: <I>acceptance of denial</i>

Art

Bari Kumar

Thursday 12/20 @ Bose Pacia Gallery

Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world.... 

Art

Liz Craft

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Making a Home

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

Cy Twombly: <I>Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things</I>

Art

Cy Twombly

Thursday 12/20 @ Gagosian Gallery

This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's... 

Poul Kjærholm: <I>Structures and Surfaces</I>

Art

Poul Kjærholm

Thursday 12/20 @ Sean Kelly Gallery

Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

<i>Nutcracker: Rated R</i>

Dance

Nutcracker: Rated R

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Thursday 12/20 @ 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,... 

Spanish Cinema Now

Film

Spanish Cinema Now

Thursday 12/20 @ 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

Thursday 12/20 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

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

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

Art

Infinite Island

Thursday 12/20 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

White Columns Annual: <I>Looking Back</I>

Art

White Columns Annual

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

Francesca Woodman

Art: Photography

Francesca Woodman

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

Charles Ray

Art

Charles Ray

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

Do Ho Suh: <I>Reflection</I>

Art

Do-Ho Suh

Thursday 12/20 @ Lehmann Maupin

Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New... 

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

Art

The Streets of Europe

Thursday 12/20 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

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

Sprinkle Brigade

Art

Sprinkle Brigade

Thursday 12/20 @ Riviera

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

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Thursday 12/20 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

Mariko Mori: <I>Tom Na H-iu</I>

Art

Mariko Mori

Thursday 12/20 @ Deitch Projects

Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three... 

Bridget Riley: <i>Recent Paintings and Gouaches</i>

Art

Bridget Riley

Thursday 12/20 @ PaceWildenstein

In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,... 

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

Art

Unmonumental

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

Jason Rhoades: <I>Black Pussy</I>

Art

Jason Rhoades

Thursday 12/20 @ David Zwirner

The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has... 

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

Art

Beth Campbell

Thursday 12/20 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

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

Jaishri Abichandani: <I>Reconciliations</I>

Art

Jaishri Abichandani

Thursday 12/20 @ Queens Museum of Art

Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished... 

Catch 27

Theatre

Catch 27

Thursday 12/20 @ P.S. 122

The Catch series roams New York — and across the country — bringing a show with something for all tastes. Bizarre... 

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

Art

Lucian Freud

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

<i>The Puppetmaster of Lodz</i>

Theatre

The Puppetmaster of Lodz

Thursday 12/20 @ ArcLight Theatre

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

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Thursday 12/20 @ 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,... 

<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>

Art

Marvin Franklin

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Thursday 12/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kara Walker

Thursday 12/20 @ 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>Banksy Does New York</I>

Art

Banksy Does New York

Thursday 12/20 @ Vanina Holasek Gallery

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

The Spiritual Art of Salvador Dalí

Art

Salvador Dalí

Thursday 12/20 @ 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>The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece</i>

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Thursday 12/20 @ 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...