All events on Friday December 21

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Lemonheads
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Highline Ballroom
Back in the early '90s, the Lemonheads' Evan Dando was one of the poster children for Generation X: a stoned, sensitive heartthrob along the lines... View details »
The Lemonheads
Music: Classical
ETHEL
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (12:30pm) @ World Financial Center
Free
Daylight-savings time's early dusk is ebbing back into the evening not a moment too soon, and it starts with today's winter solstice. Take an hour... View details »
ETHEL
Music: Electronic
Dub War
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (10pm) @ Love
The Dub War boys' final party of the year brings Rotterdam's own Martyn to NYC. His sound meshes the lush synth washes and murmured vocals... View details »
Dub War
Music: Rock/Pop
[CANCELLED] Murphy's Law
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Canceled!
Proudly Irish punk rockers Murphy's Law were second only to the Pogues in inspiring a generation of suburban teens to develop a taste for Guinness.... View details »
[CANCELLED] Murphy's Law
Music: Rock/Pop
The Pull-Out Method feat. Luke Temple
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (11pm) @ Club Midway
Giveaway
Luke Temple is proof that you can't hide a good thing for long. A vagabond Brooklynite by way of Salem, Boston, and Mendocino, the man... View details »
The Pull-Out Method feat. Luke Temple
Music: Rock/Pop
A Place To Bury Strangers
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (8pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
A Place to Bury Strangers redraft early post-punk, smearing Joy Division's blueprints with dark globs of post-grunge aggression. The band's self-titled debut smashes Sonic Youth... View details »
A Place To Bury Strangers
Music: Electronic
The Bunker: Wolf + Lamb Label Showcase
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (11pm–4am) @ Public Assembly
Zev and Gadi (Wolf + Lamb, respectively) took a break from throwing parties in order to focus on their all-digital record label, which prides itself... View details »

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Art
Tara Donovan
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Art
Bridget Riley
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (11am–9pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (1–9pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (1–9pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
No Dice
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (7–11pm) @ Sydney's Playground More times »
With a script culled from hours of recorded phone conversations on subjects ranging from Hollywood to addiction to dinner theatre, Nature Theater of... View details »
No Dice
Film: Documentary
Billy the Kid
Friday Dec 21, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Catch 27
Friday Dec 21, 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
Spanish Cinema Now
Friday Dec 21, 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
Art
Banksy Does New York
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 2007 (1–9pm) @ 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Friday Dec 21, 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
Film
Monkey Town Porn Week
Friday Dec 21, 2007 @ Monkey Town More times »
Giveaway
Presenting a loftier take on the skin flick genre for the fourth year running, Monkey Town celebrates pornographers working in the "legitimate" arts. Joe Gallant... View details »
Monkey Town Porn Week
Art
And Who Are You?
Friday Dec 21, 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?
Performing Arts: Theatre
Dogs
Friday Dec 21, 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
Art
Marvin Franklin
Friday Dec 21, 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