All events on Tuesday December 04

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Music: Global
Trio Mediæval
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Carnegie Hall
Ten years into a career that aims to make explicit the ties between medieval and contemporary compositions, accomplished vocal group Trio Mediaeval have made an... View details »
Trio Mediæval
Music: Rock/Pop
Dirty Projectors
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (7pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
One of the few experimental bands that's actually pleasing to the ears, Dirty Projectors combine dizzying, scooped-out harmonies with choppy acoustic guitars. Led by headstrong... View details »
Dirty Projectors
Music: Hip-Hop
Little Brother
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Southpaw
Picking up where 2005's The Minstrel Show left off, Phonte and Big Pooh take Little Brother through all the growing pains of losing 9th Wonder's... View details »
Little Brother
More Flavor: Lecture
Dana Schutz
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (6:30–8pm) @ School of Visual Arts
Free
Phenomenal young painter Dana Schutz, who rocketed to fame via the 2003 Venice Biennale while still an MFA student, has won critical acclaim among art... View details »
Dana Schutz
Film: Shorts
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (4–5pm) @ Barbès
Free
Tonight's installment of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series features great short films of the past and present. John C. Reilly and Miranda July star in... View details »
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series

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Art
Tara Donovan
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Art
Kurt Kauper
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is all but synonymous with... View details »
Kurt Kauper
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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 »
Performing Arts: Dance
Ballet Hispanico
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 @ The Joyce Theater More times »
Celebrating a vibrant 20 years at the Joyce Theatre, Ballet Hispanico returns with two fiery programs. Palladium Nights is the troupe's homage to the legendary... View details »
Ballet Hispanico
Art
Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Making a Home
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (2–10pm) @ Brecht Forum More times »
With the Chelsea-fication of New York's art scene, art as a pure form of political expression isn't easy to find these days. Arts orgs L2EL... View details »
Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
Art
Paul McCarthy
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Things We Want
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (8–10pm) @ The Acorn at Theatre Row More times »
Three brothers find themselves living together, once again, in their childhood home. Both of their parents committed suicide, two of the brothers are alcoholic, and... View details »
Things We Want
Art
Sprinkle Brigade
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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: Photography
Francesca Woodman
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
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A Question of Impeachment
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 @ Culture Project More times »
... th its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid case for ousting Bush... View details »
A Question of Impeachment
Art
Bari Kumar
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Jen Corace
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (1–8:30pm) @ Giant Robot New York More times »
Free
Jen Corace's illustrations of melancholic little girls hew to the particularly enchanting strain of cute-with-claws art popularized by Yoshitomo Nara and the creators of Ugly... View details »
Jen Corace
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Puppetmaster of Lodz
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rebel Voices
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (8pm) @ Culture Project More times »
Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a play than a collection... View details »
Rebel Voices
Art
Cy Twombly
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Art
Banksy Does New York
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Do-Ho Suh
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Art
The Streets of Europe
Tuesday Dec 4, 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