Events on Thursday, December 6

The Wurst Monthly feat. My Cousin Roy, Lee Douglas, and Runaway
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Music: DJ
The Wurst Monthly
@ APT
The Wurst residents and their esteemed guests drop a monthly helping of dusty disco nuggets plucked from obscurity and given a...  View details »
Free
Langhorne Slim w/ Mishka Shubaly
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Music: Rock/Pop
Langhorne Slim
@ Club Europa
  Even alone on a stage, lanky young'un Langhorne Slim and his red Guild guitar gets a crowd more riled up...  View details »
<i>It Came from New York: It Came TO New York</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
It Came TO New York
@ Collective:Unconscious
The talented native New Yorkers of It Came from New York know that the holidays are for sharing the spotlight. This...  View details »
Esther K. Smith: <i>How to Make Books</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
More Flavor: City Gem
How to Make Books
@ The Great Hall at Cooper Union
Even with all the culturally savvy, devastatingly intelligent new-media publications out there, there's still a place for Esther K. Smith's How...  View details »
Free
El-P w/ Flying Lotus and Home Video
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Music: Hip-Hop
El-P
@ Studio B
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...  View details »
Free
Lair of the Minotaur w/ Unearthly Trance
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Music: Rock/Pop
Lair of the Minotaur
@ Cake Shop
Some call them doom, some call them thrash, but Lair of the Minotaur are just effing heavy. The Chicago trio, born...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<i>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
Infinite Island
@ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14...  View details »
Ongoing
Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
Month_12 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<i>Billy the Kid</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Jason Rhoades: <I>Black Pussy</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Nutcracker: Rated R</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Performing Arts: Dance
Nutcracker: Rated R
@ Theater for the New City
Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this...  View details »
Ongoing
Beth Campbell: <I>Following Room</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
Beth Campbell
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms....  View details »
Ongoing
Do Ho Suh: <I>Reflection</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Censorship</i>: An Exhibition Benefiting Artists in Distress
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Kurt Kauper: <i>Everybody Knew that Canadians Were the Best Hockey Players</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Mariko Mori: <I>Tom Na H-iu</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Sprinkle Brigade
Month_12 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Spanish Cinema Now
Month_12 Friday Day_07
Film
Spanish Cinema Now
@ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
It’s a cliché to bemoan how Spanish cinema gets short shrift this side of Pedro Almodóvar in the United States, but,...  View details »
Ongoing
White Columns Annual: <I>Looking Back</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Thomas Ruff
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Chekhov's Chicks</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
Lawrence Weiner: <I>AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<I>Banksy Does New York</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Native Theater Festival
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
<i>The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
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Jen Corace: <i>Told You So</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Paul McCarthy: <I>Peter Paul Chocolates</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Projects 86</i>: Gert & Uwe Tobias
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Ballet Hispanico
Month_12 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>The Puppetmaster of Lodz</i>
Month_12 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Luv-able and Hug-able
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Francesca Woodman
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art: Photography
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Things We Want</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Charles Ray
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Cy Twombly: <I>Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>August: Osage County</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as...  View details »
Ongoing
Tara Donovan
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Keith Edmier: 1991-2007
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Getaway
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<I>The Streets of Europe: A Survey of European Street Art</I>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
The Streets of Europe
@ Jonathan Levine Gallery
The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (Berlin) has raised interest...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions: <i>Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz</i>, <i>Senso Unico</i>, Kris Martin and Adel Adbessemed
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and...  View details »
Ongoing
Martin Puryear
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Bridget Riley: <i>Recent Paintings and Gouaches</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
A Question of Impeachment
Month_12 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Bari Kumar: <I>acceptance of denial</i>
Month_12 Thursday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free