Events on Friday, December 12
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
Friday 12/12 @ The New School
The respective progeny of the late, great George Plimpton and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius author Dave Eggers, the Paris...
Friday 12/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Wordless Music series continues its flawless run with a night featuring two giants of instrumental music. Quite possibly the most...
Friday 12/12 @ Warsaw
While using a name that the FCC wouldn't allow broadcasters to utter on air worked for a while, Butthole Surfers couldn't...
Friday 12/12 @ Love
For tonight's final session of the monthly Secret Night of Science, local jungle purveyors DB and Dara host some of the...
Friday 12/12 @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Let's set the record straight: the Kinks invented indie rock. It might seem like a ridiculous claim, since the band recorded...
Friday 12/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Glitch Mob's productions unearth the secret family tree that links early Timbaland, the laser-guided bass of Ghislain Poirier, Autechre's chop-shop take...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/12 @ Film Forum
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...
Friday 12/12 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,...
Friday 12/12 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 12/12 @ Union Square
Holiday shopping is often the stuff of anxiety attacks, but it doesn't have to be bankruptcy-inducing or mind-numbing, thanks to the...
Friday 12/12 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Friday 12/12 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Tanztheater is one of the most dynamic styles of contemporary dance, incorporating a collage of music, dialogue, and stage design with...
Friday 12/12 @ IFC Center
In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the...
Friday 12/12 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Friday 12/12 @ Leo Castelli Gallery
Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 59E59 Theaters
Ireland's Rough Magic Theatre Company makes its US debut with Improbable Frequency, an absurd, over-the-top musical comedy about a British spy...
Friday 12/12 @ Smith-Stewart
Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup....
Friday 12/12 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Friday 12/12 @ Theater for the New City
Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this...
Friday 12/12 @ Ad Hoc Art
Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Cinema Village
Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Friday 12/12 @ Factory Fresh
This holiday season, Factory Fresh founder Ad Deville gives you a look at his own burgeoning body of work alongside that...
Friday 12/12 @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery
Using ephemeral, everyday sheets of paper, Danish artist Peter Callesen realizes magical 3-D sculpture installations. His first solo US show, this...
Friday 12/12 @ Ohio Theatre
Les Freres Corbusier, the cheeky and frenetic dance/theatre ensemble responsible for immersive theater environments like Hell House, is at it again...
Friday 12/12 @ Location One
Location One presents a survey of Nayland Blake's provocative mixed-media work, drawing from nearly every facet of Blake's 25-year career. Blake,...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art...
Friday 12/12 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around...
Friday 12/12 @ Sputnik
Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Deitch Studios
Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Joyce Soho
Chris Elam is a rare bird: a downtown New York choreographer who appeals to a wider audience: look to his work...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
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Friday 12/12 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Friday 12/12 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Friday 12/12 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Daniel Barenboim's interpretation of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (itself an interpretation of Shakespeare's play) opens this week at the Metropolitan...
Friday 12/12 @ Martos Gallery
At the 1998 Grammys, "Director of Behavior" Michael Portnoy achieved as-seen-on-TV notoriety when he spazzed out beside a bewildered Bob Dylan...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Helen Hayes Theatre
Slava Polunin's style of pantomime, which he calls "Expressive Idiotism," is on display at the revived Slava's Snowshow. When he first...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Silver Shed
Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
Made during the Czech New Wave's abbreviated springtime, The Firemen's Ball was "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion in...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...
