Events on Saturday, December 8
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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
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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (
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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Imperial Theatre
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
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...
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....
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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
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...
