Events on Wednesday, December 17
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Ohio Theatre
Les Freres Corbusier, the cheeky and frenetic dance/theatre ensemble responsible for immersive theater environments like Hell House, is at it again...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Various locations
New York has some legendary pizza, but there's also some real crap out there; save the cash you'll waste finding the...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Ad Hoc Art
Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Cinema Village
Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Factory Fresh
This holiday season, Factory Fresh founder Ad Deville gives you a look at his own burgeoning body of work alongside that...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Landmark Sunshine
There's a lot of Oscar buzz building over Mickey Rourke's performance in The Wrestler, but does Darren Aronofsky's movie live up...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Wednesday 12/17 @ Film Forum
The character and name Yukio Mishima is an evocative one, and about as multifaceted as a Buckyball. It's the glamorous nom...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Leo Castelli Gallery
Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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....
Wednesday 12/17 @ Blue Note
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones fuse plucky bluegrass, complex jazz riffs, and catchy pop melodies to make "blu-bop" — a genre...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Film Forum
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Exit Art
Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
Becky Shaw mixes screwed-up pseudo-siblings, a lightning-fast marriage, and an awkward blind date into one fantastic screwball romance of a play....
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Working from photographic source material — both found media imagery and personal snapshots — Marlene Dumas has constructed an impressive body...
Wednesday 12/17 @ IFC Center
In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Wednesday 12/17 @ 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...
