Events on Saturday, November 15

Rees vs Taibbi: How Doomed is America?

Special Event

Rees vs Taibbi

Saturday 11/15 @ Brooklyn Public Library

We may still be coasting on the intoxication of Barack Obama's triumphant election-season hope, but, as the spoilsports are already pointing... 

Click + Drag 3.0: The Hallucinogenic Toreador

Party

Click + Drag 3.0

Saturday 11/15 @ Santos Party House

Not for the faint of heart or the the subtly dressed, Click + Drag is one of NYC's most famous fetish... 

Live from Home feat. Drew Daniel as Soft Pink Truth

Books: Reading

Drew Daniel

Saturday 11/15 @ Housing Works Bookstore

As one half of electronic duo Matmos, Drew Daniel has crafted some of the strangest, most oblique pop music of the... 

Basic NYC presents Justin Martin w/ Sleepy & Boo

Music: DJ

Justin Martin

Saturday 11/15 @ Sullivan Room

A staple of Ben Watt's Buzzin' Fly label since its inception, SF's Justin Martin celebrates the release of his new deep-house... 

Nerd Nite

Special Event

Nerd Nite

Saturday 11/15 @ Galapagos Art Space

When too much information is never enough, Galapagos' Nerd Nite monthly delivers with obsessively detailed lectures on topics you have no... 

Ongoing Events

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 11/15 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Saturday 11/15 @ Lehmann Maupin

In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths,... 

Blek Le Rat

Art

Blek Le Rat

Saturday 11/15 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints.... 

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Theatre

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Saturday 11/15 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Saturday 11/15 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Saturday 11/15 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Saturday 11/15 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is... 

Mart&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez

Art

Martín Ramírez

Saturday 11/15 @ Ricco Maresca Gallery

In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Saturday 11/15 @ Angelika Film Center

English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... 

Party

Make Love, Not War

Saturday 11/15 @ Black Betty

During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... 

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Saturday 11/15 @ Studio 54

Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of... 

Ray Mortenson: <em>Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx</em>

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Saturday 11/15 @ Museum of the City of New York

The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's... 

<em>JCVD</em>

Film

JCVD

Saturday 11/15 @ Angelika Film Center

Some action stars age gracefully, (see Sean Connery) some not so gracefully (see Chuck Norris), and still others go into politics... 

Inbal Pinto Dance Company: <em>Shaker</em>

Dance

Inbal Pinto Dance Company

Saturday 11/15 @ The Joyce Theater

One of the most imaginative contemporary dance troupes currently touring, the Tel Aviv-based Inbal Pinto Dance Company takes up residence at... 

<em>Stages</em>

Film

Stages

Saturday 11/15 @ Film Forum

Somber and episodic, the Dutch film Stages pays such serious homage to Bergman that it very well could have taken "Scenes... 

Robert Morris: <em>Deflationary Objects</em>

Art

Robert Morris

Saturday 11/15 @ Leo Castelli Gallery

Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Saturday 11/15 @ New York City Center

Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 11/15 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Saturday 11/15 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits... 

<em>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Saturday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived —... 

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Saturday 11/15 @ Walter Kerr Theatre

Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Saturday 11/15 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... 

<em>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Saturday 11/15 @ Landmark Sunshine

British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but... 

Keith Haring: <em>The Ten Commandments</em>

Art

Keith Haring

Saturday 11/15 @ Deitch Studios

Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Saturday 11/15 @ Storm King Art Center

In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,... 

<em>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Saturday 11/15 @ IFC Center

In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... 

Lebowski Fest NYC

Festival: Performing Arts

Lebowski Fest

Saturday 11/15 @ Various locations

Ever since an epic evening out in Ozone Park's Cozy Bowl two years ago, we've been waiting with bated breath (and... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 11/15 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre

There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient... 

Cindy Sherman

Art: Photography

Cindy Sherman

Saturday 11/15 @ Metro Pictures

After a four-year hiatus, Cindy Sherman returns strong at Metro Pictures. Her striking self-portraits continue in the clever, satirical tradition of... 

<em>Repo! The Genetic Opera</em>

Film

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Saturday 11/15 @ Angelika Film Center

Not even Paris Hilton can detract from the unlikely appeal of this science-fiction goth-rock opera.  It's the year 2056, and a... 

<em>The Lastmaker</em>

Theatre

The Lastmaker

Saturday 11/15 @ P.S. 122

In a characteristically inspired meta-move, Goat Island, the highly regarded (and soon-to-be-disbanded) Chicago-based performance collective, organizes The Lastmaker, its last-ever play,... 

James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>

Art: Photography

Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts

Saturday 11/15 @ Brooklyn Historical Society

From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Saturday 11/15 @ Gladstone Gallery

In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Saturday 11/15 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

<em>The Waves</em>

Theatre

The Waves

Saturday 11/15 @ The Duke Theater

The National Theatre of Great Britain's extraordinary production of The Waves is a genre-defying, highly visual adaptation of Virginia... 

<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>

Art

NeoHooDoo

Saturday 11/15 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... 

<em>If You See Something Say Something</em>

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Saturday 11/15 @ Joe's Pub

We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded... 

<em>The Grand Inquisitor</em>

Theatre

The Grand Inquisitor

Saturday 11/15 @ New York Theatre Workshop

Famed British director Peter Brook helms this well-staged parable from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. A co-presentation by New York Theatre Workshop... 

<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Saturday 11/15 @ Museum of Arts and Design

To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items... 

<em>We Are Wizards</em>

Film: Documentary

We Are Wizards

Saturday 11/15 @ Cinema Village

Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and... 

<em>Farragut North</em>

Theatre

Farragut North

Saturday 11/15 @ Linda Gross Theater

Playwright Beau Willimon served on the staff of many political campaigns — including Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid — and his knowledge gives us... 

<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Saturday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Saturday 11/15 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker

Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Saturday 11/15 @ Landmark Sunshine

Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... 

<em>Pop Surrealism: In the Language of Angels</em>

Art

In the Language of Angels

Saturday 11/15 @ Ad Hoc Art

This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly... 

Richard Prince: <em>Canal Zone</em>

Art

Richard Prince

Saturday 11/15 @ Gagosian Gallery

Part post-apocalyptic vision, part biographical flashback, Richard Prince's Canal Zone is set in primal overdrive. Filled with an abundance of virile... 

<em>The Twentyfirst</em>

Art

The Twentyfirst

Saturday 11/15 @ Silver Shed

Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few... 

TBDSalon

Dance

TBDSalon

Saturday 11/15 @ Judson Memorial Church

Current and former members of long-acclaimed NYC contemporary dance troupe Trisha Brown Dance present brand-new modern dance works of their own... 

<em>Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now</em>

Art

Signs of Change

Saturday 11/15 @ Exit Art

The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice... 

<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Saturday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped... 

NYC Restored: Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's <em>Manhatta</em>

Film

NYC Restored

Saturday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Tonight's vintage New York-on-reels program affirms a timeless Whitman line: "it avails not, neither time or place — distance avails not."... 

Christa Toole: <em>Level Zero</em>

Art

Christa Toole

Saturday 11/15 @ Phoenix Gallery

In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Saturday 11/15 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

<em>Beachwood Drive</em>

Theatre

Beachwood Drive

Saturday 11/15 @ June Havoc Theatre

Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a... 

<em>Perverted by Theater</em>

Art

Perverted by Theater

Saturday 11/15 @ Apex Art

In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Saturday 11/15 @ Angelika Film Center

This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... 

<em>Wild Style</em> (1983)

Film

Wild Style

Saturday 11/15 @ Film Forum

Before Aerosmith made rap safe for middle America, Wild Style brought hip-hop culture out of the Bronx and into movie... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 11/15 @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater... 

Ann Lislegaard: <em>Crystal World</em> & <em>The Left Hand of Darkness</em>

Art

Ann Lislegaard

Saturday 11/15 @ Murray Guy

For parts two and three of her highly referential 3D video trilogy, artist Ann Lislegaard filters her consuming mind-and-matter explorations about... 

Manny Farber, 1917-2008

Film

Manny Farber

Saturday 11/15 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Manny Farber was an inimitable cultural critic. Even when the termite-art advocate was defecating on your favorite film, what kept you... 

<em>Taking Over</em>

Theatre

Taking Over

Saturday 11/15 @ The Public Theater

Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make... 

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Saturday 11/15 @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get... 

Cory Arcangel: <em>Adult Contemporary</em>

Art

Cory Arcangel

Saturday 11/15 @ Team Gallery

Cory Arcangel rose to art-world fame with his hall-of-mirrors work, which cleverly (and cheekily) reappropriates media to highlight technology's protean relationship... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 11/15 @ Paragraph

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

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Saturday 11/15 @ Barrow Street Theater

In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... 

<em>Beyond a Memorable Fancy: Print, Perception, and the Artist's Intervention</em>

Art

Beyond a Memorable Fancy

Saturday 11/15 @ EFA Project Space

The Elizabeth Foundation offers up a group show of cutting-edge printmakers alongside a host of ideas that spring from the ancient... 

BAMcin&eacute;matek presents New French Films

Festival: Performing Arts

New French Films

Saturday 11/15 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

After a sketchy period in the very early aughts (think Irréversible, 2002) France has reclaimed its title as the steadiest manufacturer... 

<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Saturday 11/15 @ American Airlines Theater

A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... 

Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Saturday 11/15 @ SculptureCenter

In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Saturday 11/15 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Saturday 11/15 @ Laura Pels Theatre

Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's... 

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008</em>

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Saturday 11/15 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Saturday 11/15 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... 

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Saturday 11/15 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based... 

<em>Time Machine: Dain, Various & Gould</em>

Art

Time Machine

Saturday 11/15 @ Brooklynite Gallery

With its low cost of living and thriving creative community, Berlin is so often compared to yesterday's New York that the... 

Zhang Xiaogang: <em>Revision</em>

Art

Zhang Xiaogang

Saturday 11/15 @ PaceWildenstein

Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of... 

Housing Works presents Fashion for Action

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Fashion for Action

Saturday 11/15 @ Housing Works Chelsea

Housing Works has got to be our favorite bookstore/thrift store/AIDS outreach and service center, if we had to choose one. The... 

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Saturday 11/15 @ Soho Rep

It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production...