All events on Sunday December 09
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- Antifeminism x Hagakure
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (7pm) @ Studio B
- Giveaway
- Here, in one corner, is glam-punk band Anti Feminism, whose concept is "The Ideology of Danger." Lead singer Kenzi meticulously smashes things, cuts himself, and... View details »
- Reading
- Deb Olin Unferth and Anne Landsman
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (7pm) @ KGB Bar
- Free
- Deb Olin Unferth's Minor Robberies, originally published in McSweeney's One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box, is a collection of dark, surreal,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- José González
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (9–9pm) @ Webster Hall
- Swedish folkie José González is best known for stripping electronic songs to their acoustic essence — his interpretation of the Knife's "Heartbeats" breathes warmth into... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- ASSSSCAT 3000
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ UCB Theatre More times »
- OG Upright Citizens Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh lead the UCB's ASSSSCAT team on a month's worth of long-form improv hijinx.... View details »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Extreme Embroidery
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Ballet Hispanico
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (1–4pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Martin Puryear
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Making a Home
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Richard Prince: Spiritual America
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
- Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off a firestorm debate about... View details »
- Art
- Paul McCarthy
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Infinite Island
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
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- Art
- Kara Walker
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Getaway
- Keith Edmier
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Sprinkle Brigade
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Gert & Uwe Tobias
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- More Flavor
- A Question of Impeachment
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Lawrence Weiner
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Puppetmaster of Lodz
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Rebel Voices
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (5pm) @ Culture Project More times »
- Based on Howard Zinn's bestselling Voices of a People's History of the United States, Rebel Voices is less a play than a collection... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Native Theater Festival
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- No Dice
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (7–11pm) @ Sydney's Playground More times »
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With a script culled from hours of recorded phone conversations on subjects ranging from
- Film: Documentary
- Billy the Kid
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Film
- Spanish Cinema Now
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
- It’s a cliché to bemoan how Spanish cinema gets short shrift this side of Pedro Almodóvar in the United States, but, like they say, it's... View details »
- Art
- Banksy Does New York
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (11am–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 »
- Art
- Beth Campbell
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
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In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- The Streets of Europe
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
- Free
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The recent success of street-art group shows 11 Spring Street Project (NYC) and Urban Grassroots (
- Performing Arts
- Slam Show X
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (3pm) @ Streb Lab for Action Mechanics More times »
- Perhaps pigs can't fly, but humans sure can — or at least those in Elizabeth Streb's antigravitational dance company, STREB. Twice a year,... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Holy Modal Rounders... Bound to Lose
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Anthology Film Archives More times »
- After splintering from iconic garage-folkies the Fugs, early-'60s gutter-grass pioneers the Holy Modal Rounders lived poorer, partied faster, and hassled the squares harder than any... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Nutcracker: Rated R
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (3pm) @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Shopping
- La Superette
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 @ Chashama Times Square More times »
- Free
- La Superette, the annual mega craft sale, caters to gifters who want to give a li'l something as original as they are. Prices are super... View details »
- Art
- Unmonumental
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ 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 »
