Events on Friday, January 11
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Weimar New York
- @ Joe's Pub
- Following a glitzy (and sold-out) run at this summer's Spiegeltent, Weimar New York rallies for another wildly entertaining performance at Joe's... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Derrick May
- @ Pacha New York
- For the dance-music-minded in New York, underground, smaller-room affairs are often the norm. But on occasion, an epic night out is... View details »
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- Music: Global
- Luminescent Orchestrii
- @ The Living Room
- The new traditionalists of the klezmer revival, Luminescent Orchestrii — a "small ensemble with orchestral intent" — play a danceable and/or... View details »
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- Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet
- @ Joe's Pub
- Abigail Washburn has one killer set of pipes. Unlike most other contemporary female folk singers who tend to go for the... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Excepter
- @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- Like Black Dice and Animal Collective before them, Brooklyn noiseniks Excepter have risen above the dark, basement-bound masses by tempering their... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- The Pianos w/ Gutbucket
- @ Freddy's Bar & Backroom
- For fans of straight rock 'n roll, "jazz" might be a bit intimidating. But not the way the Pianos play it.... View details »
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- Marvin Franklin
- @ New York Transit Museum
- Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may... View details »
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- Nordic Oscar Contenders
- @ Scandinavia House
- The American-Scandinavian Association presents a series of exclusive sneak peeks at the best films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden,... View details »
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- The (Self) Promotion Show
- @ Apex Art
- Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view... View details »
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- blog.mode
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Dawoud Bey
- @ Aperture Gallery
- Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey's series Class Pictures depicts teenagers from a high school on Chicago's South Side, a New England prep... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Terminus
- @ The Public Theater
- The realization that the three actors facing the audience and taking turns telling a story is not just a prologue, but... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- small metal objects
- @ Whitehall Ferry Terminal
- Promising a truly unique theatrical experience, small metal objects will play out somewhere in the crowds of the Whitehall Staten Island... 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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- 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Almost an Evening
- @ Atlantic Stage Two
- Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Poul Kjærholm
- @ Sean Kelly Gallery
- Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his... View details »
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- Katy Grannan
- @ Salon 94 Freemans
- Katy Grannan's series Lady into Fox at Salon 94 Freemans depicts a pair of middle-aged transsexuals, Gail and Dale, living their... View details »
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- Jaishri Abichandani
- @ Queens Museum of Art
- Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- New Prints: Winter 2008
- @ International Print Center New York
- Elevating fine-art printing beyond the standard three-color poster, the International Print Center's new-season highlights include rodent-infested Victorian wallpaper, silhouettes of million-dollar... View details »
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- Diana Thater
- @ David Zwirner
- Taking her cue from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," Diana Thater presents a two-room video installation depicting the bond between falconers... View details »
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- Frankenstein (Mortal Toys)
- @ HERE Arts Center
- Faithfully adapted from Mary Shelley's masterpiece, this puppet show miraculously conveys the somber Victorian mood of the original Frankenstein. With beautifully... View details »
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- The Masked Portrait
- @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
- The Masked Portrait is a snapshot of postwar Japanese art, featuring work by 30 artists from the late '40s to the... 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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- 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: Theatre
- Disinformation
- @ The Public Theater
- A freakish blend of standup, music, and drama, Reggie Watts' Disinformation is pretty much tailor-made for the new-theatre vibe of the... View details »
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- Lucian Freud
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Etiquette
- @ Veselka
- In Rotozaza's latest offering, all the world's a stage; if, by "all the world," we mean "a small table at Veselka."... 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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- Behind the Seen
- @ Ad Hoc Art
- Michael de Feo (best known as the "flower guy") wants the world to know that street art ain't all aerosol and... View details »
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- Infinite Island
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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- Otto Preminger
- @ Film Forum
- Director Otto Preminger was a Jewish refugee of Austrian origin whose unflinching independence led to innovations in both storytelling and social... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Donelle Woolford
- @ Wallspace
- Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps.... View details »
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- New York States of Mind
- @ Queens Museum of Art
- Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what... View details »
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- Superamas
- @ The Kitchen
- French Austrian collective Superamas concludes its epic satirical trilogy on contemporary capitalism and commercial culture with BIG, 3rd episode (happy/end). The... View details »
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- And Who Are You?
- @ Sara Tecchia Roma
- Saatchi's online gallery boasts 50 million daily hits in the US alone. Now, young curator Ana Finel Honigman has pulled together... View details »
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- Santiago Cucullu
- @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery
- Argentinean artist Santiago Cucullu's chaotic cut-out vinyl works dominate gallery walls and museum hallways wherever they're shown. At one of Perry... View details »
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- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- Hans Haacke
- @ Paula Cooper Gallery
- The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of... 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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- 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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- Regurgitophagy
- @ The Public Theater
- After seeing Brazilian performance artist Michel Melamed's one-man show Regurgitophagy, the phrase "feeding off the audience" will never be the same.... 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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- Beth Campbell
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
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In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
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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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- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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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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- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- @ P.S. 122
- Today, the art of storytelling seems as quaint as silent film, a lumbering anachronism in a sea of ADD-paced narratives. Enter... 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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- 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 »
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- The 39 Steps
- @ American Airlines Theater
- Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan),... View details »
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- Michael Bell-Smith
- @ Foxy Production
- Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael... View details »
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- Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
- @ Guild & Greyshkul
- Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists... View details »
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- AA Bronson
- @ John Connelly Presents
- Godfather to queer artists everywhere, AA Bronson has made all varieties of artworks during his decades-long practice, focusing on a poetic... View details »
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- Jump
- @ Union Square Theatre
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... View details »
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