Events on Wednesday, December 5
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Besnard Lakes
- @ 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,... View details »
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- The Un-Holiday
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Kiss & Tell
- @ Rose Bar
- Techno-scene stalwarts Seze and Deanna created the laidback Kiss & Tell monthly party with genre-addled minds. Techno cognoscenti meet on the... View details »
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- Reading
- Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
- @ 192 Books
- New Yorker music critic Alex Ross grew up listening to traditional classical music like Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, but in college,... View details »
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- Martin Puryear
- @ 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... View details »
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- Kurt Kauper
- @ Deitch Projects
- Kurt Kauper loves to wonder why the male nude continues to provoke such discomfort and controversy when the female nude is... View details »
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- Bridget Riley
- @ PaceWildenstein
- In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,... View details »
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- Bari Kumar
- @ Bose Pacia Gallery
- Painter Bari Kumar lives and works in Los Angeles but is, literally and figuratively speaking, a dweller in the wide world.... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Billy the Kid
- @ 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... View details »
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- Richard Prince: Spiritual America
- @ Guggenheim Museum
- Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off... View details »
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- More Flavor
- A Question of Impeachment
- @ Culture Project
- With its ambitious series of performances, screenings, and lectures entitled A Question of Impeachment, the Culture Project builds a solid... View details »
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- Kara Walker
- @ 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 —... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Thomas Ruff
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Things We Want
- @ 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... View details »
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- Banksy Does New York
- @ Vanina Holasek Gallery
- Having successfully snuck his work into museums in New York and London and fetched close to a million dollars from the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- Beth Campbell
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
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In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jen Corace
- @ 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... View details »
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- New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Extreme Embroidery
- @ 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... View details »
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- Mariko Mori
- @ Deitch Projects
- Like many visionaries, Mariko Mori combines the ancient with the futuristic in her fantastical sculptures. At Deitch Projects, Mori presents three... View details »
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- Sprinkle Brigade
- @ Riviera
- Addressing the problem of unattended doggy doo on city sidewalks, Sprinkle Brigade began its own twist on urban beautification. By adding... View details »
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- White Columns Annual
- @ 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... View details »
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- Francis Alÿs
- @ 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... View details »
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- Making a Home
- @ 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... View details »
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- Francesca Woodman
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
- @ Zipper Theater
- Proudly putting the "whore back in hora," the Goddess Perlman leads her tribe of chosen ladies in a performance featuring bawdy... View details »
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- Cy Twombly
- @ Gagosian Gallery
- This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Native Theater Festival
- @ The Public Theater
- The Native Theater Festival showcases Native American art in five nights of performances, play readings, live music, and panel discussions. Native... View details »
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- Lawrence Weiner
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Tara Donovan
- @ 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... View details »
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- Keith Edmier
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Gert & Uwe Tobias
- @ 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... View details »
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- Paul McCarthy
- @ 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... View details »
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- Liz Craft
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Ballet Hispanico
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Luv-able and Hug-able
- @ 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... View details »
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- Unmonumental
- @ 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... View details »
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- Infinite Island
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Puppetmaster of Lodz
- @ ArcLight Theatre
- Though the war has been over for five years, puppeteer and concentration-camp escapee Samuel Finkelbaum still refuses to leave his attic... View details »
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- Charles Ray
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jason Rhoades
- @ David Zwirner
- The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Chekhov's Chicks
- @ 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... View details »
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- Do-Ho Suh
- @ Lehmann Maupin
- Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New... View details »
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- Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Streets of Europe
- @ Jonathan Levine Gallery
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The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (
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