Events on Tuesday, December 4

Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series

Film: Shorts

Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Barbès

Tonight's installment of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series features great short films of the past and present. John C. Reilly and... 

Trio Mediæval

Music: Global

Trio Mediæval

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Carnegie Hall

Ten years into a career that aims to make explicit the ties between medieval and contemporary compositions, accomplished vocal group Trio... 

Dana Schutz

Special Event

Dana Schutz

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ School of Visual Arts

Phenomenal young painter Dana Schutz, who rocketed to fame via the 2003 Venice Biennale while still an MFA student, has won... 

Little Brother w/ Evidence

Music: Hip-Hop

Little Brother

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Southpaw

Picking up where 2005's The Minstrel Show left off, Phonte and Big Pooh take Little Brother through all the growing pains... 

Dirty Projectors w/ White Williams

Music

Dirty Projectors

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ The 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... 

Ongoing Events

Mariko Mori: <I>Tom Na H-iu</I>

Art

Mariko Mori

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Deitch Projects

Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three... 

<i>The Puppetmaster of Lodz</i>

Theatre

The Puppetmaster of Lodz

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ ArcLight Theatre

Though the war has been over for five years, puppeteer and concentration-camp escapee Samuel Finkelbaum still refuses to leave his attic... 

<I>The Streets of Europe: A Survey of European Street Art</I>

Art

The Streets of Europe

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (Berlin) has raised interest... 

Francesca Woodman

Art: Photography

Francesca Woodman

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Do Ho Suh: <I>Reflection</I>

Art

Do-Ho Suh

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Lehmann Maupin

Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New... 

Jen Corace: <i>Told You So</i>

Art

Jen Corace

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Giant Robot New York

Jen Corace's illustrations of melancholic little girls hew to the particularly enchanting strain of cute-with-claws art popularized by Yoshitomo Nara and... 

Sprinkle Brigade

Art

Sprinkle Brigade

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Riviera

Addressing the problem of unattended doggy doo on city sidewalks, Sprinkle Brigade began its own twist on urban beautification. By adding... 

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Bridget Riley: <i>Recent Paintings and Gouaches</i>

Art

Bridget Riley

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ PaceWildenstein

In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,... 

Jason Rhoades: <I>Black Pussy</I>

Art

Jason Rhoades

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ David Zwirner

The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has... 

<i>Rebel Voices</i>

Theatre

Rebel Voices

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Culture Project

Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a... 

Richard Prince:<i> Spiritual America</i>

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Guggenheim Museum

Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off... 

Paul McCarthy: <I>Peter Paul Chocolates</I>

Art

Paul McCarthy

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

A Question of Impeachment

Special Event

A Question of Impeachment

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Culture Project

  With its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid... 

Charles Ray

Art

Charles Ray

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<I>Banksy Does New York</I>

Art

Banksy Does New York

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Vanina Holasek Gallery

Having successfully snuck his work into museums in New York and London and fetched close to a million dollars from the... 

<i>Censorship</i>: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress

Art

Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Brecht Forum

With the Chelsea-fication of New York's art scene, art as a pure form of political expression isn't easy to find these... 

<i>The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece</i>

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Bari Kumar: <I>acceptance of denial</i>

Art

Bari Kumar

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Bose Pacia Gallery

Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world.... 

<i>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>

Art

Making a Home

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Thomas Ruff

Art: Photography

Thomas Ruff

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<i>Things We Want</i>

Theatre

Things We Want

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row

Three brothers find themselves living together, once again, in their childhood home. Both of their parents committed suicide, two of the... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Kurt Kauper: <i>Everybody Knew that Canadians Were the Best Hockey Players</i>

Art

Kurt Kauper

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Deitch Projects

Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is... 

Ballet Hispanico

Dance

Ballet Hispanico

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ The Joyce Theater

Celebrating a vibrant 20 years at the Joyce Theatre, Ballet Hispanico returns with two fiery programs. Palladium Nights is the troupe's... 

White Columns Annual: <I>Looking Back</I>

Art

White Columns Annual

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Art

Liz Craft

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery

With her inclusion in the Hammer Museum's Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, sculptor Liz Craft was crowned one of the most... 

Cy Twombly: <I>Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things</I>

Art

Cy Twombly

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Gagosian Gallery

This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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...