Events on Friday, December 5
Friday 12/ 5 @ 192 Books
From John and Yoko's unintended last farewell to Mylie Cryrus' bed-sheet inception of womanhood, Annie Leibovitz has stood squarely behind her...
Friday 12/ 5 @ The Hall at St. Paul's
Muay Thai boxing is nuts. It's violent (duh), intense, brutal. And while we have absolutely no desire to get in the...
Friday 12/ 5 @ LIVE from the NYPL
Acclaimed British novelist Zadie Smith hops the pond to deliver the annual Robert B. Silvers Lecture at the New York Public...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 92YTribeca
Lou Reed's 1973 record Berlin was met with predominantly negative reviews and fan response. As a result, it was largely abandoned...
Friday 12/ 5 @ The Players Club
The last main-stage Moth show of the year is all about wine. Tonight's storytellers include chef and wine expert Tamara Reynolds,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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....
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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 —...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Joyce Soho
Chris Elam is a rare bird: a downtown New York choreographer who appeals to a wider audience: look to his work...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Friday 12/ 5 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Swedish dramatist August Strindberg once resolved that, "On a flimsy framework of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns." John...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ The Bell House-
For the past two years, Christmas has come early for old-school videogame lovers in the form of Blip Festival. Curated by...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Silver Shed
Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ The Joyce Theater
José Limón's thriving company celebrates his centenary with a week at Joyce. Two familiar works, A Choreographic Offering, Limón's homage to...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 3rd Ward
Thespian and award-winning photographer Sean Fader reveals his unsettling self portraits at 3rd Ward's third solo art show. In the tradition...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Triskelion Arts
From the Desk of Sarah Seely presents a Cold War-era dance/theatre/burlesque/music/video extravaganza at Williamsburg's Triskelion Arts studio. Armed with an MFA...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Comix
Seasoned standup comic and self-proclaimed metal nerd Brian Posehn hits Comix's stage for four shows of geeky comic-book humor, pot jokes,...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
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Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Apex Art
In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
BAM's 2008 Next Wave Festival salutes the sultry rhythms of samba soul with a reprise of 1996's Red Hot + Rio...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Shen Wei Dance Arts: Connect Transfer II
Friday 12/ 5 @ Lincoln Center
Even if you're not a contemporary-dance buff, you're probably familiar with '07 MacArthur Genius Shen Wei and just don't realize it:...
