All events on Thursday December 06

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Performing Arts: Spoken Word
It Came TO New York
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (8pm) @ Collective:Unconscious
The talented native New Yorkers of It Came from New York know that the holidays are for sharing the spotlight. This edition features outsiders who... View details »
It Came TO New York
More Flavor: City Gem
How to Make Books
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (6:30–8:30pm) @ Cooper Union's Great Hall
Free
Even with all the culturally savvy, devastatingly intelligent new-media publications out there, there's still a place for Esther K. Smith's How to Make Books. The... View details »
How to Make Books
Music: Rock/Pop
Langhorne Slim
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (8pm) @ Club Europa
... en alone on a stage, lanky young'un Langhorne Slim and his red Guild guitar gets a crowd more riled up than a Southern preacher... View details »
Langhorne Slim
Music: Hip-Hop
El-P
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (9pm) @ Studio B
Free
Def Jux deity El-P is closing up a year of touring behind the much-anticipated I'll Sleep When You're Dead, his second album of layered, apocalyptic... View details »
El-P
Music: Rock/Pop
Lair of the Minotaur
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (8pm) @ Cake Shop
Giveaway
Some call them doom, some call them thrash, but Lair of the Minotaur are just effing heavy. The Chicago trio, born from the wreckage of... View details »
Lair of the Minotaur
Music: DJ
The Wurst Monthly
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (10pm–4am) @ APT
Free
The Wurst residents and their esteemed guests drop a monthly helping of dusty disco nuggets plucked from obscurity and given a fresh, new edit for... View details »
The Wurst Monthly

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Art
Tara Donovan
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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 »
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Performing Arts: Dance
Ballet Hispanico
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Censorship: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Art
Infinite Island
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Things We Want
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Getaway
Keith Edmier
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Sprinkle Brigade
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Thursday Dec 6, 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: Photography
Francesca Woodman
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Lawrence Weiner
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Art
Jen Corace
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Art
Cy Twombly
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Native Theater Festival
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (7–9pm) @ The Public Theater More times »
Free
The Native Theater Festival showcases Native American art in five nights of performances, play readings, live music, and panel discussions. Native Writers Circle Lifetime Achievement... View details »
Native Theater Festival
Film: Documentary
Billy the Kid
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (noon) @ IFC Center More times »
Giveaway
First-time director Jennifer Venditti's Billy the Kid is the sort of fare that used to flourish at Sundance before it got too big for its... View details »
Billy the Kid
Performing Arts: Theatre
Chekhov's Chicks
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (8pm) @ Manhattan Theatre Source More times »
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 Rosengren's Chekhov's Chicks re-envisions... View details »
Chekhov's Chicks
Art
Banksy Does New York
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Beth Campbell
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Do-Ho Suh
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 @ Zipper Theater More times »
Proudly putting the "whore back in hora," the Goddess Perlman leads her tribe of chosen ladies in a performance featuring bawdy bat-mitzvah recollections, Star of... View details »
Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
Art
The Streets of Europe
Thursday Dec 6, 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
Performing Arts: Dance
Nutcracker: Rated R
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (8pm) @ Theater for the New City More times »
Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this isn't the PBS Nutcracker... View details »
Nutcracker: Rated R
Art
Unmonumental
Thursday Dec 6, 2007 (noon–10pm) @ 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