All events on Sunday December 30

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Music: Rock/Pop
Stephane Wrembel w/ Flutterbox
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (7pm) @ Barbès
Guitar virtuoso Stephane Wrembel learned to play from French Gypsies, but has cultivated his "gypsy jam" from a mélange of African, Cuban, and rock traditions.... View details »
Stephane Wrembel w/ Flutterbox

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Art
Tara Donovan
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (3pm) @ 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
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (1–4pm) @ 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
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10am–5:45pm) @ 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
Infinite Island
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ 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
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Lawrence Weiner
Sunday Dec 30, 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
No Dice
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Art
Beth Campbell
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Lucian Freud
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Salvador Dalí
Sunday Dec 30, 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
New York States of Mind
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (noon–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
Performing Arts: Comedy
ASSSSCAT 3000
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ UCB Theatre More times »
OG Upright Citizens Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh lead the UCB's ASSSSCAT team on a month's worth of long-form improv hijinx.... View details »
ASSSSCAT 3000
Art
Behind the Seen
Sunday Dec 30, 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
Art
Jaishri Abichandani
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (noon–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
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ 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
All That Fosse
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
All That Fosse is a visual feast showcasing the legendary choreographer's range, from the stunning dance sequences that enliven musicals Cabaret and All That Jazz... View details »
All That Fosse
Performing Arts: Dance
Noche Flamenca
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Joe's Pub More times »
Founded in Madrid in 1993, song-and-dance troupe Noche Flamenca distill their form to its fiery essence; they're professionally impassioned, and that passion is central to... View details »
Noche Flamenca
Art
Marvin Franklin
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ 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