Events on Friday, January 4
Friday 1/ 4 @ Iridium Jazz Club
Eccentric, turban-wearing organist Dr. Lonnie Smith has a joy for creating music unmatched in the jazz world. Smith began playing the...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Cake Shop
We've said this before, but we never say it lightly: if you're craving a jump on the Next Big Thing, tonight's...
People Don't Dance No More feat. Metro Area
Friday 1/ 4 @ Studio B
This noted monthly ups the ante from its usual Manhattan-based venue to a hometown lineup at the cavernous Studio B. Veteran...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Jack Shainman Gallery
2007 Venice Biennale standout El Anatsui draws on his Ghanaian heritage in this collection, forming bottle tops into a singularly pliable...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Lutheran Church of the Messiah
Fronting the most disturbingly skewed avant-pop act in a mule's age would turn any man into a bit of a monster....
Friday 1/ 4 @ Anthology Film Archives
Luis Buñuel's surrealist masterpiece L'Âge d'or so incensed the French right-wing movement when it was first shown in 1930 that, one...
Friday 1/ 4 @ The Mercury Lounge
While tonight's audience probably won't feature the stellar '90s-flashback cameos of the XYZ Affair's vid for "All My Friends" (yes,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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),...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Madison Square Garden
It's man vs beast this weekend as Madison Square Garden makes its annual transformation into a Wild West rodeo pit. Every...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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,...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Sean Kelly Gallery
Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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,...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Friday 1/ 4 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Still Moving: Special New Year's Edition, 2008
Friday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Because any film worth its salt has already been released in order to achieve 2008 Oscar consideration, the first week of...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ David Zwirner
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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 —...
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Friday 1/ 4 @ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ PaceWildenstein
In the mid-'60s, Time magazine's review of a MoMA exhibition brought the term "op art" into the public consciousness; since then,...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Imperial Theatre
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Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ William Bennett Gallery
If your knowledge of Salvador Dalí stops at melting clocks, head to Soho's Bennett Gallery, which exhibits two divine collections that...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Film Forum
Director Otto Preminger was a Jewish refugee of Austrian origin whose unflinching independence led to innovations in both storytelling and social...
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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,...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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,...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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...
