Events on Saturday, January 12

Brainwave<em> </em>

Art

Brainwave

Saturday 1/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art

For the Brainwave festival, the Rubin Museum demonstrates the cerebellum's higher functions with heady talks, performances, and screenings. Last month, tantric... 

Samba Soul feat. Pimps of Joytime and Turntables on the Hudson

Music: Global

Samba Soul

Saturday 1/12 @ S.O.B.'s

This week's world-beat-loving Samba Soul party celebrates the Pimps of Joytime's new 12-inch vinyl release on Wonderwheel Recordings, with help from... 

blkmarket membership presents Ryan Elliott

Music: DJ

Ryan Elliott

Saturday 1/12 @ Bar 13

Ryan Elliott leads a double life of sorts. Working in corporate finance in the Motor City during the week, he often... 

2008 NYC Winter Jazzfest

Music

2008 Winter Jazzfest

Saturday 1/12 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

The seductive sound of jazz is drifting out of the Knitting Factory's door, so get out of the cold at the... 

New York Guitar Fest Opening Night feat. the Royal Albert Hall Project

Music

The Royal Albert Hall Project

Saturday 1/12 @ World Financial Center

In the wake of the high-concept Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There — whose soundtrack features impressive renditions by everyone from... 

Bumpshop feat. Kenny Dope

Music: DJ

Kenny Dope

Saturday 1/12 @ APT

Tonight, Masters at Work co-conspirator Kenny Dope leaves his usual big crate of house 12-inches at home in favor of a... 

[SOLD OUT] Wu-Tang Clan

Music: Hip-Hop

[SOLD OUT] Wu-Tang Clan

Saturday 1/12 @ Hammerstein Ballroom

In order to record Wu-Tang Clan's fifth album, the RZA had to drag the guys into the studio (Ghostface's solo career... 

Mirah and Spectratone International present <em>Share This Place</em>

Music

Mirah and Spectratone International

Saturday 1/12 @ Joe's Pub

  Leave it to bespectacled indie bookworm Mirah to add a subtle sensuality to the asexual world of entomology. On 2007's... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>

Art

Marvin Franklin

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jason Rhoades

Saturday 1/12 @ David Zwirner

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

<em>The 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Saturday 1/12 @ 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),... 

Michael Bell-Smith: <em>Bouncing Lights Forever</em>

Art

Michael Bell-Smith

Saturday 1/12 @ Foxy Production

Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael... 

Diana Thater: <em>Here is a text about the world... </em>

Art

Diana Thater

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<em>New Prints: Winter 2008</em>

Art

New Prints: Winter 2008

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

Superamas: <em>BIG, 3rd Episode (happy/end)</em>

Theatre

Superamas

Saturday 1/12 @ The Kitchen

French Austrian collective Superamas concludes its epic satirical trilogy on contemporary capitalism and commercial culture with BIG, 3rd episode (happy/end). The... 

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

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Saturday 1/12 @ 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>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>

Special Event

blog.mode

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<em>Frankenstein (Mortal Toys)</em>

Theatre

Frankenstein (Mortal Toys)

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

Otto Preminger

Film

Otto Preminger

Saturday 1/12 @ Film Forum

Director Otto Preminger was a Jewish refugee of Austrian origin whose unflinching independence led to innovations in both storytelling and social... 

Jaishri Abichandani: <I>Reconciliations</I>

Art

Jaishri Abichandani

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Do-Ho Suh

Saturday 1/12 @ Lehmann Maupin

Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New... 

Katy Grannan: <em>Lady into Fox</em>

Art

Katy Grannan

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

Hans Haacke

Art

Hans Haacke

Saturday 1/12 @ Paula Cooper Gallery

The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of... 

<i>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>

Art

Infinite Island

Saturday 1/12 @ 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 1/12 @ 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... 

Tere O'Connor Dance: <i>Rammed Earth</i>

Dance

Rammed Earth

Saturday 1/12 @ The Chocolate Factory

After its successful premiere last fall, New York modern-dance rebel Tere O'Connor's Rammed Earth is being revived at... 

Lucian Freud: <em>The Painter's Etchings</em>

Art

Lucian Freud

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<em>Regurgitophagy</em>

Theatre

Regurgitophagy

Saturday 1/12 @ 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.... 

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Saturday 1/12 @ 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,... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<em>Terminus</em>

Theatre

Terminus

Saturday 1/12 @ The Public Theater

The realization that the three actors facing the audience and taking turns telling a story is not just a prologue, but... 

Charles Ray

Art

Charles Ray

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

Santiago Cucullu: <em>CriKCity &amp; The Walls That Scour Us</em>

Art

Santiago Cucullu

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<I>And Who Are You?: Work from Saatchi Online</I>

Art

And Who Are You?

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

Dawoud Bey: <em>Class Pictures</em>

Art: Photography

Dawoud Bey

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kara Walker

Saturday 1/12 @ 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 —... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 1/12 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Saturday 1/12 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

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

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Saturday 1/12 @ 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,... 

<em>Disinformation</em>

Theatre

Disinformation

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<I>New York States of Mind</I>

Art

New York States of Mind

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

Poul Kjærholm: <I>Structures and Surfaces</I>

Art

Poul Kjærholm

Saturday 1/12 @ Sean Kelly Gallery

Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his... 

Donelle Woolford

Art

Donelle Woolford

Saturday 1/12 @ Wallspace

Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps.... 

Luis Gispert: <em>El Mundo Es Tuyo (the world is yours)</em>

Art

Luis Gispert

Saturday 1/12 @ Zach Feuer Gallery

Miami-born artist Luis Gispert takes over West 24th Street with works in film, sculpture, and photography. At Zach Feuer, the artist... 

<em>The (Self) Promotion Show</em>

Art

The (Self) Promotion Show

Saturday 1/12 @ Apex Art

Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 1/12 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

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

Art

Beth Campbell

Saturday 1/12 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms.... 

Rotozaza: <em>Etiquette</em>

Theatre

Etiquette

Saturday 1/12 @ Veselka

In Rotozaza's latest offering, all the world's a stage; if, by "all the world," we mean "a small table at Veselka."... 

<I>Behind the Seen</I>

Art

Behind the Seen

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

[SOLD OUT]<em> Almost an Evening: Three Short Plays by Ethan Coen</em>

Theatre

Almost an Evening

Saturday 1/12 @ Atlantic Stage Two

Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God... 

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

Art

Unmonumental

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

AA Bronson

Art

AA Bronson

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

Amanda Ross-Ho &amp; Kirsten Stoltmann: <em>Vaginal Rejuvenation</em>

Art

Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann

Saturday 1/12 @ Guild & Greyshkul

Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists... 

<em>The Masked Portrait</em>

Art

The Masked Portrait

Saturday 1/12 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery

The Masked Portrait is a snapshot of postwar Japanese art, featuring work by 30 artists from the late '40s to the... 

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

Art

Making a Home

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<em>small metal objects</em>

Theatre

small metal objects

Saturday 1/12 @ Whitehall Ferry Terminal

Promising a truly unique theatrical experience, small metal objects will play out somewhere in the crowds of the Whitehall Staten Island... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Saturday 1/12 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Saturday 1/12 @ 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,... 

<em>Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea</em>

Theatre

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Saturday 1/12 @ 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...