Events on Friday, December 21
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Friday 12/21 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Proudly Irish punk rockers Murphy's Law were second only to the Pogues in inspiring a generation of suburban teens to develop...
The Bunker: Wolf + Lamb Label Showcase
Friday 12/21 @ Public Assembly
Zev and Gadi (Wolf + Lamb, respectively) took a break from throwing parties in order to focus on their all-digital record...
Friday 12/21 @ The 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Love
The Dub War boys' final party of the year brings Rotterdam's own Martyn to NYC. His sound meshes the lush synth...
Friday 12/21 @ Highline Ballroom
Back in the early '90s, the Lemonheads' Evan Dando was one of the poster children for Generation X: a stoned, sensitive...
The Pull-Out Method feat. Luke Temple
Friday 12/21 @ Club Midway
Luke Temple is proof that you can't hide a good thing for long. A vagabond Brooklynite by way of Salem, Boston,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Zipper Theater
Proudly putting the "whore back in hora," the Goddess Perlman leads her tribe of chosen ladies in a performance featuring bawdy...
Friday 12/21 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ David Zwirner
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has...
Friday 12/21 @ Sean Kelly Gallery
Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Friday 12/21 @ 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,...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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,...
Friday 12/21 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Friday 12/21 @ Deitch Projects
Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three...
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Friday 12/21 @ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Vanina Holasek Gallery
Having successfully snuck his work into museums in New York and London and fetched close to a million dollars from the...
Friday 12/21 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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,...
Friday 12/21 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
Friday 12/21 @ PaceWildenstein
In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Monkey Town
Presenting a loftier take on the skin flick genre for the fourth year running, Monkey Town celebrates pornographers working in the...
Friday 12/21 @ 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 —...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Gagosian Gallery
This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Imperial Theatre
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New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Friday 12/21 @ 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,...
Friday 12/21 @ ArcLight Theatre
Though the war has been over for five years, puppeteer and concentration-camp escapee Samuel Finkelbaum still refuses to leave his attic...
Friday 12/21 @ 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,...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Bose Pacia Gallery
Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world....
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Riviera
Addressing the problem of unattended doggy doo on city sidewalks, Sprinkle Brigade began its own twist on urban beautification. By adding...
