Events on Sunday, December 9
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Antifeminism x Hagakure
- @ Studio B
- Here, in one corner, is glam-punk band Anti Feminism, whose concept is "The Ideology of Danger." Lead singer Kenzi meticulously smashes... View details »
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- José González
- @ Webster Hall
- Swedish folkie José González is best known for stripping electronic songs to their acoustic essence — his interpretation of the Knife's... View details »
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- Deb Olin Unferth and Anne Landsman
- @ KGB Bar
- Deb Olin Unferth's Minor Robberies, originally published in McSweeney's One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box, is a... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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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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- Film: Documentary
- The Holy Modal Rounders... Bound to Lose
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Rebel Voices
- @ Culture Project
- Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a... View details »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- ASSSSCAT 3000
- @ UCB Theatre
- OG Upright Citizens Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh lead the UCB's ASSSSCAT team on a month's worth... 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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- Beth Campbell
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
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In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- No Dice
- @ Sydney's Playground
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With a script culled from hours of recorded phone conversations on subjects ranging from
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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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- Performing Arts
- Slam Show X
- @ 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.... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Infinite Island
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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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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- 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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