Events on Saturday, December 8

SantaCon 2007

Special Event

SantaCon

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Various locations

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, it's time to rejoice in the true spirit of the season: St. Nick's... 

Adrian Tomine: <i>Shortcomings & Goings</i>

Art

Adrian Tomine

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Giant Robot New York

On the heels of the phenomenal success of Shortcomings, recently named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year,... 

FIXED feat. Tiefschwarz

Music: DJ

FIXED feat. Tiefschwarz

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Studio B

Berlin-based brothers Ali and Basti Schwarz bring the twisted, hedonistic spirit of their home city to NYC. Keep your ears open... 

<i>Bust</i> Magazine's Holiday Craftacular

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Bust Magazine's Holiday Craftacular

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Metropolitan Pavilion

With miles of yarn, persnickety vendors, tacky bric-a-brac, and steep handmade prices, craft fairs often annoy more than impress. But in... 

Major Stars w/ Sightings, Prurient, and Ye Olde Maids

Music

Major Stars w/ Sightings

Saturday 12/ 8 @ The Mercury Lounge

Sightings have been wreaking sonic mayhem and ripping rock a new one for the past five years with their deconstructionist noise... 

3rd Ward's Handmade Holiday & Open House

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Handmade Holiday

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 3rd Ward

Home to local artists, artisans, and hobbyists, 3rd Ward has decided to open its doors to potential members while showcasing work... 

blk|market membership feat. Misc.

Music: DJ

blk|market membership feat. Misc.

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Bar 13

Misc.'s productions on Sender Records have defined the label's penchant for ragged, sawtooth techno and tech-house since 2003. Misc.'s last live... 

Ongoing Events

<i>Nutcracker: Rated R</i>

Dance

Nutcracker: Rated R

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Streets of Europe

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

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

La Superette

Fashion/Style: Shopping

La Superette

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Chashama Times Square

La Superette, the annual mega craft sale, caters to gifters who want to give a li'l something as original as they... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Paul McCarthy

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

Francesca Woodman

Art: Photography

Francesca Woodman

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>

Art

Unmonumental

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

<i>Rebel Voices</i>

Theatre

Rebel Voices

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Culture Project

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

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

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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

Saturday 12/ 8 @ ArcLight Theatre

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

Native Theater Festival

Theatre

Native Theater Festival

Saturday 12/ 8 @ The Public Theater

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

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

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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,... 

Luv-able and Hug-able

Art

Luv-able and Hug-able

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

Art

Liz Craft

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bari Kumar

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Bose Pacia Gallery

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

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

Art

Jason Rhoades

Saturday 12/ 8 @ David Zwirner

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

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

Art

Making a Home

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

Sprinkle Brigade

Art

Sprinkle Brigade

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Riviera

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

<i>Chekhov's Chicks</i>

Theatre

Chekhov's Chicks

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Beth Campbell

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Zipper Theater

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

STREB presents <I>Slam Show X</I>

Performing Arts

Slam Show X

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Streb Lab for Action Mechanics

Perhaps pigs can't fly, but humans sure can — or at least those in Elizabeth Streb's antigravitational dance company, STREB.... 

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

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions: <i>Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz</i>, <i>Senso Unico</i>, Kris Martin and Adel Adbessemed

Art

P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions

Saturday 12/ 8 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and... 

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

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

<i>Billy the Kid</i>

Film: Documentary

Billy the Kid

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Do-Ho Suh

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

A Question of Impeachment

Special Event

A Question of Impeachment

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Culture Project

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

<i>The Holy Modal Rounders... Bound to Lose</i> (2006)

Film: Documentary

The Holy Modal Rounders... Bound to Lose

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Anthology Film Archives

After splintering from iconic garage-folkies the Fugs, early-'60s gutter-grass pioneers the Holy Modal Rounders lived poorer, partied faster, and hassled the... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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,... 

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Bridget Riley

Saturday 12/ 8 @ PaceWildenstein

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

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

Art

Mariko Mori

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Deitch Projects

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

Thomas Ruff

Art: Photography

Thomas Ruff

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>

Art

Infinite Island

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

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

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

<i>Things We Want</i>

Theatre

Things We Want

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

<I>Banksy Does New York</I>

Art

Banksy Does New York

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Vanina Holasek Gallery

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

Spanish Cinema Now

Film

Spanish Cinema Now

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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,... 

<i>No Dice</i>

Theatre

No Dice

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Sydney's Playground

With a script culled from hours of recorded phone conversations on subjects ranging from Hollywood to addiction to dinner... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kurt Kauper

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Deitch Projects

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

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

White Columns Annual

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Cy Twombly

Saturday 12/ 8 @ Gagosian Gallery

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

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

Art

Kara Walker

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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 —... 

Ballet Hispanico

Dance

Ballet Hispanico

Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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...