All events on Thursday December 20

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Catch 27
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (8pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
The Catch series roams New York — and across the country — bringing a show with something for all tastes. Bizarre experimental dance; left-field, poignant... View details »
Catch 27
Film
The Passenger (1975)
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (6pm) @ 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 the failures of his... View details »
The Passenger (1975)
Music: Rock/Pop
Parts & Labor w/ An Albatross
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
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 as buzz-saw guitar laces... View details »
Parts & Labor w/ An Albatross
Music: Hip-Hop
[CANCELLED] The Pack
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (8pm) @ Studio B
Canceled!
Lil' B describes their sound as "being one with the air," and fellow rapper Young L has been known to sport purple hair — guided... View details »
[CANCELLED] The Pack
Music: Hip-Hop
Public Enemy
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (7pm) @ Warsaw
Flavor of Love might make it hard to remember that Public Enemy legitimately frightened suburban moms 20 years ago. Chuck D and Flavor Flav have... View details »
Public Enemy
Music: Hip-Hop
Classic Hip-Hop for the Holidays
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (9pm) @ 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. The show features Lord... View details »
Classic Hip-Hop for the Holidays
Music: DJ
Robots present Chris Liebing and Joris Voorn
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10pm–4am) @ Cielo
After more than three years and over 140 parties, the Robots crew goes out with a sonic techno-boom courtesy of Chris Liebing and Joris Voorn.... View details »
Robots present Chris Liebing and Joris Voorn
Performing Arts: Theatre
Dogs
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (8pm) @ Duo Theater More times »
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 Viv, attempt to transcend... View details »
Dogs

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Art
Tara Donovan
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Art
Francis Alÿs
Thursday Dec 20, 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
P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Paul McCarthy
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Art: Photography
Francesca Woodman
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Art
Lawrence Weiner
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Puppetmaster of Lodz
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Music: Jazz/Blues
Fieldwork
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Art
Banksy Does New York
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Beth Campbell
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Art: Architecture/Design
Poul Kjærholm
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Lucian Freud
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly paints with a chisel,... View details »
Lucian Freud
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Thursday Dec 20, 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 »
blog.mode
Art
Do-Ho Suh
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Art
New York States of Mind
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what has made New York... View details »
New York States of Mind
Art
Behind the Seen
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
Free
Michael de Feo (best known as the "flower guy") wants the world to know that street art ain't all aerosol and running from the vice... View details »
Behind the Seen
Performing Arts: Dance
Nutcracker: Rated R
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (8pm) @ 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
Jaishri Abichandani
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished curator and a practicing... View details »
Jaishri Abichandani
Art
Unmonumental
Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (noon–10pm) @ 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
Art
And Who Are You?
Thursday Dec 20, 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
Thursday Dec 20, 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