Events on Sunday, January 6
Gotham Writers Workshop feat. Alex Mindt
Sunday 1/ 6 @ McNally Robinson Booksellers
Everyone wants to be a writer at one time or another — after the right amount of wine or coffee, after...
A Clockwork Orange & Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Sunday 1/ 6 @ Public Assembly
Purge yourself of that joyful holiday stupor this evening at Galapagos with one of two renditions of classic drug-addled novels. Uncork...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ APT
Resident DJs Neil Aline and DJ Angola top off the first week of the post-holidaze with tribal-tinged house beats and a...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/ 6 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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),...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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,...
Still Moving: Special New Year's Edition, 2008
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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,...
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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,...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ Film Forum
Director Otto Preminger was a Jewish refugee of Austrian origin whose unflinching independence led to innovations in both storytelling and social...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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 —...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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,...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
Sunday 1/ 6 @ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Sunday 1/ 6 @ 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...
