Events on Wednesday, December 5

<i>The Un-Holiday: A Tribute to Alice in Wonderland</i>

Art

The Un-Holiday

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Bleecker Street Theater

Get festive this un-holiday with a black-light tribute to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Step into the strobe-lit rabbit hole for an... 

Besnard Lakes w/ Luke Temple and Peter Moren

Music

Besnard Lakes

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Many have recalled Brian Wilson while listening to Jace Lasek's vocals on the Besnard Lakes' recent release, Are the Dark Horse,... 

Alex Ross: <i>The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century</i>

Books: Reading

Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 192 Books

New Yorker music critic Alex Ross grew up listening to traditional classical music like Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, but in college,... 

Kiss & Tell feat. Insideout and Bethany Benzur

Music: DJ

Kiss & Tell

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Rose Bar

Techno-scene stalwarts Seze and Deanna created the laidback Kiss & Tell monthly party with genre-addled minds. Techno cognoscenti meet on the... 

Ongoing Events

Beth Campbell: <I>Following Room</I>

Art

Beth Campbell

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms.... 

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

Performing Arts

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Zipper Theater

Proudly putting the "whore back in hora," the Goddess Perlman leads her tribe of chosen ladies in a performance featuring bawdy... 

Native Theater Festival

Theatre

Native Theater Festival

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ The Public Theater

The Native Theater Festival showcases Native American art in five nights of performances, play readings, live music, and panel discussions. Native... 

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

Art

Bridget Riley

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ PaceWildenstein

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

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

Art

Kurt Kauper

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Deitch Projects

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

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

Art

Jason Rhoades

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ David Zwirner

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

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

Art

White Columns Annual

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Making a Home

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

Ballet Hispanico

Dance

Ballet Hispanico

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

<i>New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006</i>

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mariko Mori

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Deitch Projects

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

<I>Banksy Does New York</I>

Art

Banksy Does New York

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>

Art

Unmonumental

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

Lawrence Weiner: <I>AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE</I>

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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,... 

<i>The Puppetmaster of Lodz</i>

Theatre

The Puppetmaster of Lodz

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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>Chekhov's Chicks</i>

Theatre

Chekhov's Chicks

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Manhattan Theatre Source

Turn-of-the-century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's plays are notable for their intricately rendered female characters, none of whom have it easy. Elizabeth... 

<i>Projects 86</i>: Gert & Uwe Tobias

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jen Corace

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

Thomas Ruff

Art: Photography

Thomas Ruff

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

<i>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>

Art

Infinite Island

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14... 

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

Art

The Streets of Europe

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

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

Sprinkle Brigade

Art

Sprinkle Brigade

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Riviera

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

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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,... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Art

Liz Craft

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Paul McCarthy

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Cy Twombly

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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>Billy the Kid</i>

Film: Documentary

Billy the Kid

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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 —... 

A Question of Impeachment

Special Event

A Question of Impeachment

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Culture Project

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

<i>Things We Want</i>

Theatre

Things We Want

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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,... 

Francesca Woodman

Art: Photography

Francesca Woodman

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bari Kumar

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Bose Pacia Gallery

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

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

Art

Do-Ho Suh

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ Lehmann Maupin

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

Charles Ray

Art

Charles Ray

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Wednesday 12/ 5 @ 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...