Events on Saturday, December 12

SantaCon

Conferences

SantaCon

Saturday 12/12 @ Various locations

Santacon is one of our favorite participatory happenings on the calendar. The idea is simple: deck yourself out in that red... 

The Schlep Sisters and Thirsty Girl Productions present the Third Annual Menorah Horah

Performing Arts

Menorah Horah

Saturday 12/12 @ Southpaw

"We love Hanukkah," say the sultry Schlep Sisters. And for the third straight year, they celebrate it with "stripping girls, hot... 

3rd Ward Handmade Holiday Craft Fair

Festival: Fair

3rd Ward Holiday Craft Fair

Saturday 12/12 @ 3rd Ward

This holiday season, seminal BK arts space 3rd Ward is getting crafty with its partner-in-crime, online guide Brooklyn Based. The Handmade... 

<em>Metropolitan</em>

Film

Metropolitan

Saturday 12/12 @ 92YTribeca

Whit Stillman's Metropolitan (1990) is arguably one of the most influential films in modern indie cinema, and if you're like us,... 

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Music

KAKI KING        

Saturday 12/12 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Kaki King is a feisty, five-foot, funny, outspoken Atlanta transplant who now lives in New York, a city whose energy is... 

Unsilent Night 2009

Music: Experimental

Unsilent Night

Saturday 12/12 @ Washington Square Park

Reinventing Christmas caroling since 1992, composer Phil Kline floods the city streets with his ambient musical performances, voiced by an infinite... 

Respect Sextet and Ethan Iverson

Music: Experimental

Respect Sextet and Ethan Iverson

Saturday 12/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Tuesday 01.12.10
Respect Sextet
... 

Music: Experimental

Trans-Siberian Orchestra @ Izod Center (East Rutherford, NJ)

Saturday 12/12 @ The Bowery Presents

Izod Center
www.izodcenter.com
50 Rte 120
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
(201) 935-8500
... 

self-titled & Throne of Blood present OSCILLATIONS The Rapture (DJ Set)  w/ Populette and James F!@$%^ Friedman

Music

self-titled & Throne of Blood present OSCILLATIONS The Rapture (DJ Set) w/ Populette and James F!@$%^ Friedman

Saturday 12/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Saturday 12.12.09
Self-titled and Throne of Blood present OSCILLATIONS: The Holiday Edition
... 

Music: Electronic

The Fiery Furnaces

Saturday 12/12 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Eleanor was constantly ridiculed in the crudest and least interesting manner by her brother Matthew. He, for his part, had to... 

AXIOM

Music

AXIOM

Saturday 12/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Saturday 12.12.09
AXIOM
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Crooked Disco w/ DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar

Music: DJ

Crooked Disco w/ DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar

Saturday 12/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Saturday 12.12.09
Crooked Disco w/
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Music

Matisyahu @ Webster Hall

Saturday 12/12 @ The Bowery Presents

Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 353-1600
Get directions www.websterhall.com  ... 

The Second Annual Very Balthrop Christmas

Festival: Music

The Second Annual Very Balthrop Christmas

Saturday 12/12 @ Joe's Pub

It's the holiday season again; seems like it happens every year about this time. Big whoop and a bah humbug to... 

Music: Experimental

Trans-Siberian Orchestra @ Izod Center (East Rutherford, NJ)

Saturday 12/12 @ The Bowery Presents

Izod Center
www.izodcenter.com
50 Rte 120
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
(201) 935-8500
... 

Lois Lowry

Books: Reading

Lois Lowry

Saturday 12/12 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

A reading by Lois Lowry, creator of the inimitable Anastasia and the author of the Newberry Award-winning Number the Stars and... 

The Dark Crystal

Film

The Dark Crystal

Saturday 12/12 @ 92YTribeca

Part of the series Dark Neverending Adventures: Fantasy Films of the 1980s.

... 

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Music: Classical

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Saturday 12/12 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Saturday, December 12, 2009, 8pm

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

“His hands hurtled across the keys with... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Christmas Revels: A Celebration of the Winter Solstice</em>

Music: Global

The Christmas Revels

Saturday 12/12 @ Peter Jay Sharpe Theater, Symphony Space

For 30 years, the New York Revels has celebrated the Winter Solstice, highlighting a specific culutre and its custsoms. As an... 

<em>A Little Night Music</em>

Theatre

A Little Night Music

Saturday 12/12 @ Walter Kerr Theatre

Stephen Sondheim's melancholic farce receives a stirring revival due to Trevor Nunn's expertly delicate touch. Nunn elicits several nuanced performances from... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 12/12 @ Paragraph

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

The Brick presents Fight Fest

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

Fight Fest

Saturday 12/12 @ The Brick Theater

The Brick's three-week Fight Fest celebrates the art and grace of fight choreography and features the premiere of festival curator Tim... 

Banana Bag & Bodice: <em>A Very Sandwich Christmas</em>

Theatre

A Very Sandwich Christmas

Saturday 12/12 @ Abrons Arts Center

Original in every sense, downtown theater troupe Banana Bag & Bodice's freewheeling cabaret scrutinizes mankind's carnivorous habits through Christmas food traditions.... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 12/12 @ Artists and Fleas

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

Theatre

The Age of Iron

Saturday 12/12 @ Classic Stage Company

The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas... 

Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson, Jr.: Crime or Emergency ***PLUS BONUS EDITIONS

Performing Arts

Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson, Jr.: Crime or Emergency ***PLUS BONUS EDITIONS

Saturday 12/12 @ Performance Space 122

Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in her creation:  a... 

Gerald Dearing and Steve Pyke: <em>Matter of Fact</em>

Art: Photography

Matter of Fact

Saturday 12/12 @ BLT Gallery

With a tagline like "not polluted in gimmicks, just a shot," BLT Gallery's latest exhibition promises to be an antidote to... 

<em>The Missing Person</em>

Film

The Missing Person

Saturday 12/12 @ Village East Cinema

Constructed by Noah Buschel, this neo-noir stars Michael Shannon as a Chicago P.I. with — surprise, surprise — a don't-ask past... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Saturday 12/12 @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... 

Tennessee Williams on Film

Festival: Film

Tennessee Williams on Film

Saturday 12/12 @ IFC Center

For two weekends, this mini-retrospective highlights a few of the legendary Southern dramatist's most memorable cinematic moments, such as Elizabeth Taylor's... 

Bill Viola: <em>Bodies of Light</em>

Art

Bill Viola

Saturday 12/12 @ James Cohan Gallery

There are few artists whose work has raised their genre's profile as much as Bill Viola's has for video art. From... 

<em>Orpheus X</em>

Theatre

Orpheus X

Saturday 12/12 @ The Duke Theater

Writer/composer Rinde Eckert’s Orpheus X refracts the familiar myth through a postmodern, post-feminist lens. The production, directed by Robert Woodruff, is... 

<em>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Saturday 12/12 @ IFC Center

Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to... 

Acconci Studio Installation at Bronx Museum of the Arts

Art

Vito Acconci at Bronx Museum

Saturday 12/12 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts

As part of the Bronx Museum's progressive year-long series Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100, designer and Bronx native Vito Acconci... 

Red Hot Holiday Stomp feat. Wycliffe Gordon

Music

Red Hot Holiday Stomp

Saturday 12/12 @ Jazz at Lincoln Center

Prolific trombonist Wycliffe Gordon hosts this unique evening of holiday cheer inspired equally by New Orleans' famously joyous celebrations and Wynton... 

8th Annual Next Wave Art Festival at BAM &nbsp; &nbsp;

Festival: Art

BAM Next Wave Art Festival    

Saturday 12/12 @ BAM

For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some... 

<em>Nightingale</em>

Theatre

Nightingale

Saturday 12/12 @ New York City Center

Writer and actress Lynn Redgrave comes from a family that practically lives and breathes onstage, so it's only natural to explore... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 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... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Saturday 12/12 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)

After last season's successful run on Off-Broadway, Fela! takes its rightful place on the Great White Way. Choreographer Bill T. Jones'... 

<em>Sesame Street: A Celebration!</em>

Film

Sesame Street: A Celebration!

Saturday 12/12 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Childhood's best-loved street entered midlife earlier this month (on November 10 to be precise) and BAM trumpets its grand 4-0 with... 

<em>Loaded</em>

Theatre

Loaded

Saturday 12/12 @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row

Patrick (Kevin Spirtas) and Jude (Scott Kerns) are in the getting-to-know-you-better stage of their relationship after meeting through the Internet and... 

<em>Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity</em>

Art

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

The most comprehensive Bauhaus exhibition ever comes to MoMA this fall after its debut in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall,... 

<em>Ernest in Love</em>

Theatre

Ernest in Love

Saturday 12/12 @ Irish Repertory Theatre

The delightful cast of Ernest in Love doesn't let a weak score get in the way of this whimsical story about... 

<em>WIRED</em> Magazine's Holiday Pop-Up Store

Fashion/Style: Shopping

WIRED Pop-Up Store

Saturday 12/12 @ Wired Store

The annual WIRED Holiday Pop-Up Store is back, this time setting up in the MPD. Be the first to check out... 

Beyond the Absurd: Ronald Tavel & Andy Warhol

Film

Beyond the Absurd

Saturday 12/12 @ Anthology Film Archives

Tavel doesn't ring quite like Edie or Nico or Paul America, but one could say that the multitalented playwright gave Warhol... 

<em>Behind the Screen</em>

Special Event

Behind the Screen

Saturday 12/12 @ Museum of the Moving Image

Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But... 

<em> Superior Donuts </em>

Theatre

Superior Donuts

Saturday 12/12 @ Music Box Theatre

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) comes a lighter, comedic take on Midwestern life. A pot-smoking donut shop owner... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Saturday 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,... 

<em>Before Tomorrow</em>

Film

Before Tomorrow

Saturday 12/12 @ Film Forum

Closing out the Fast Runner trilogy on an elegiac note, Before Tomorrow offers a periscope to Inuit life in 1840, when... 

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Saturday 12/12 @ American Museum of Natural History

Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites... 

<em>She Like Girls</em>

Theatre

She Like Girls

Saturday 12/12 @ Ohio Theatre

"I don't know what I am, but I know how I feel," declares Kia Clark, an African-American teenager coming to terms... 

Madcap Manhattan Festival

Festival: Film

Madcap Manhattan

Saturday 12/12 @ Film Forum

Glamour, bon mots, and mythos define this tribute to our city's comedic heritage. There are "aha"s throughout Harold Lloyd's Speedy and... 

Margaret de Lange: <em>Daughters</em>

Art: Photography

Margaret de Lange

Saturday 12/12 @ Foley Gallery

Black-and-white photographs practically bleed nostalgia, and Margaret de Lange's gorgeous chromogenic prints are no exception. Her series Daughters was shot between... 

<em>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</em>

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Saturday 12/12 @ Angelika Film Center

For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las... 

The Next Director: So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray

Film

So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray

Saturday 12/12 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

BK's finest small-scale directors are the married focus of this seven-film series. Whether you term their portraits naturalistic or neo-realist, the... 

HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZE: Doug Elkins & Friends Present FRAULEIN MARIA

Dance

HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZE: Doug Elkins & Friends Present FRAULEIN MARIA

Saturday 12/12 @ New York Live Arts

“Mr. Elkins’s ceaselessly brilliant and often hilarious take on The Sound of Music is a fount of unending movement ideas and... 

Art

Dan Flavin

Saturday 12/12 @ David Zwirner

Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles... 

Kristin Baker: <em>Splitting Twilight</em>

Art

Kristin Baker

Saturday 12/12 @ Deitch Projects

Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos.... 

<em>Filthy Lucre: A Burlesque Christmas Carol</em>

Theatre

Filthy Lucre

Saturday 12/12 @ Walkerspace

Burlesque collective Pinchbottom re-imagines Dickens' classic tale with a bit more spice. This sexy update remains faithful to the original text... 

Tim Burton

Art

Tim Burton

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also... 

<em>A Streetcar Named Desire</em>

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire

Saturday 12/12 @ BAM Harvey Theater

Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is an American classic, but Australia’s Sydney Theatre Company — under the direction of the... 

<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Saturday 12/12 @ American Museum of Natural History

What eats fish, fowl, snails, fruit, crawfish, and frogs? Frogs do. The neckless, tailless charmers of class Amphibia count some voracious... 

<em>My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?</em>

Film

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

Saturday 12/12 @ IFC Center

More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 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... 

Downtown Alliance presents <em>Re:Construction</em>

Art

Re:Construction

Saturday 12/12 @ Various locations

Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Art

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Saturday 12/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art

The title of this Rubin exhibition cites the "churning" sea of Hinduism's creation belief and the West's for-science explorations of the... 

Zero Film Festival

Festival: Film

Zero Film Festival

Saturday 12/12 @ Various locations

Freed from the fetters/influence of studio dollars and cents, the films in this festival display creativity at its purest and most... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Saturday 12/12 @ City Hall Park

Peter Coffin, the artist who flew a UFO over the Baltic Sea in summer 2008, takes over City Hall Park with a... 

Theatre

Shakespeare's Globe: Love's Labour's Lost

Saturday 12/12 @ Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University

The Brits know how to do it. Shakespeare’s Globe theater company makes a rare trip from London with Love’s Labour’s Lost,... 

<em>Race</em>

Theatre

Race

Saturday 12/12 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

David Mamet gets his teeth back in this fast-paced and highly entertaining new play. The all-star cast handle Mametese with aplomb... 

Company XIV presents <em>The Apple Trilogy</em>: <em>Snow White</em>

Dance

Snow White

Saturday 12/12 @ 303 Bond Street

Snow White is the last and tastiest slice of Company XIV's Apple Trilogy (Le Serpent Rouge and The Judgment of Paris... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 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... 

Robert Williams:<em> Conceptual Realism: In the Service of the Hypothetical </em>

Art

Robert Williams

Saturday 12/12 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery

Robert Williams is a legend in the mythology of lowbrow, pop surrealist, hot-rod visual art. Founder of Juxtapoz and darling of... 

Horse Trade Theater Group and Radiotheatre present <em>Frankenstein</em>

Theatre

Frankenstein

Saturday 12/12 @ Kraine Theater

On a dark and stormy night in 1816, Dr. John Polidori, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin held a... 

<em>One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project</em>

Art

One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project

Saturday 12/12 @ EFA Project Space

"Printeresting" is a special word, only bestowed upon the most fascinating pieces of print. Curated by Printeresting.org, the thinking person's online resource... 

The Flea presents <em>The Great Recession</em>

Theatre

The Great Recession

Saturday 12/12 @ The Flea Theater

While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,... 

Thomas Chambers: <em>American Marine and Landscape Painter</em>

Art

Thomas Chambers

Saturday 12/12 @ American Folk Art Museum

A prolific 19th-century painter who was once considered "America's first modern" for his prepossessing, flat-color land- and seascapes, Thomas Chambers is... 

<em> In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) </em>

Theatre

In the Next Room

Saturday 12/12 @ The Lyceum Theatre, 149 West 45th Street

Feminist playwright Sarah Ruhl lets us in on the "medicinal" uses of the first vibrators. Set in the late 19th-century, In... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Saturday 12/12 @ August Wilson Theatre

Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical... 

<em>Les Contes d'Hoffman</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Les Contes d'Hoffman

Saturday 12/12 @ Metropolitan Opera House

Theatrical director Bart Sher (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) re-envisions Jacques Offenbach's popular opera about the crazy imagination of... 

<em>Candide</em> at 250: Scandal and Success

Special Event

Candide at 250

Saturday 12/12 @ New York Public Library

On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers... 

<em>Black Christmas</em> (1974)

Film

Black Christmas

Saturday 12/12 @ Landmark Sunshine

Before he clogged Yuletide airtimes with A Christmas Story reruns, director Bob Clark held a different sort of stranglehold on the... 

<em> So Help Me God! </em>

Theatre

So Help Me God!

Saturday 12/12 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

This juicy satire of the theatre has all the right ingredients — daft fools, hard-hearted individuals, starry-eyed innocents, and many over-the-top... 

<em>Vestie Davis' New York</em>

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Saturday 12/12 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

"Give it a sweet melody" was the aesthetic must for Vestie Davis, a painter who froze mid-century New York in winsome,... 

New York Theatre Ballet's <em>The Nutcracker</em>

Dance

The Nutcracker

Saturday 12/12 @ Florence Gould Hall

[if... 

<em>Groovaloo Freestyle</em>

Dance

Groovaloo Freestyle

Saturday 12/12 @ Union Square Theatre

When reminding audiences to silence phones and not take pictures, Groovaloo's DJ should add, "Don't try this at home!" After all,... 

<em>Brief Encounter</em>

Theatre

Brief Encounter

Saturday 12/12 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

Emma Rice's inventive adaptation of Noel Coward's Still Life and its 1945 David Lean film charms before the curtain even rises:... 

Jim McHugh: <em>Let's Get Lost</em>

Art: Photography

Jim McHugh

Saturday 12/12 @ Farmani Gallery

As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of... 

Liz Duffy Adams's <em>Or,</em>

Theatre

Or,

Saturday 12/12 @ Women's Project

Or, recounts an eventful day in the life of 17th-century secret agent/playwright Aphra Behn (played by the formidable Maggie Siff). Rather... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Saturday 12/12 @ The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

As we anxiously wait for the Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, this exhibition at... 

Charles Dickens' <em>A Christmas Carol</em>

Special Event

A Christmas Carol

Saturday 12/12 @ The Morgan Library

J.P. Morgan loved to purchase art from every era. This amazing eclecticism is reflected in his museum's rotating exhibition schedule, which... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Saturday 12/12 @ Barrow Street Theater

David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... 

<em>Hanging Fire</em>: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Art

Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Saturday 12/12 @ Asia Society and Museum

The phrase "Hanging Fire" is the translation of an idiom referring to a delayed decision or judgment. This show asks viewers... 

<em>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</em>

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Saturday 12/12 @ Various

For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las... 

<em>American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion</em>

Fashion/Style

American Beauty

Saturday 12/12 @ FIT Museum

American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Saturday 12/12 @ New World Stages

After a long and successful run on Broadway, Avenue Q makes a smooth transition to its new home at New World... 

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
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Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (born in 1977) has created two new bodies of work that address the nature of the... 

Theatre

This

Saturday 12/12 @ Playwrights Horizons

Melissa James Gibson's latest slice-of-life play focuses on Jane (Julianne Nicholson), a newly widowed and once-promising thritysomething poet who stumbles through... 

<em>Cartoons in Conflict</em>

Art

Cartoons in Conflict

Saturday 12/12 @ Storefront

This unique event gathers the work of 40 political cartoonists from around the world, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Pat Oliphant and Jim... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Saturday 12/12 @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage

Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,... 

Dance and Process: Ren&eacute;e Archibald, Neal Beasley, and Steven Reker &nbsp;
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Dance

Dance and Process: Renée Archibald, Neal Beasley, and Steven Reker    

Saturday 12/12 @ The Kitchen

[if... 

Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Art

Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Now on view at the Met is the most extraordinary and comprehensive exhibition... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


View the online checklist
Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on... 

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Art

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Now on view at the Met is the marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo. For decades the fragmentary marble figure... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Paul Sietsema’s ethereal drawings, sculptures, and films explore combinations of color, space, and movement through subjects spanning a broad geographic and... 

MARIA HASSABI: SoloShow

Dance

MARIA HASSABI: SoloShow

Saturday 12/12 @ Performance Space 122

Presented as part of COIL 2010 Offsite* Private Studio Showings "Gazing at this exquisitely designed living sculpture, you also feel your... 

The &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Art

The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the... 

Bauhaus Lounge

Art

Bauhaus Lounge

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops... 

Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Pulitzer–winning Author Elizabeth Strout on Two Paintings by Winslow Homer / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Pulitzer–winning Author Elizabeth Strout on Two Paintings by Winslow Homer / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Elizabeth Strout, imagines the stories behind Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts and The Gale, two... 

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Art

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Saturday 12/12 @ Asia Society and Museum

The first solo New York museum exhibition of Japanese artist Yoshihiro Suda features a new work, inspired by pieces from Asia... 

Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Art

Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! From the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I,... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist Eric Fischl takes a fresh look at two John Singer Sargent paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Saturday 12/12 @ Brooklyn Bowl

Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,... 

Issa (formerly Jane Siberry)

Music

Issa (formerly Jane Siberry)

Saturday 12/12 @ Joe's Pub

"A superstar of the imagination with a passion for the truth."
-Interview Magazine 
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Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Art

Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Saturday 12/12 @ New Museum

Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawad, speaks about the rich culture and history of Afghanistan at... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of an extraordinary portrait recently reattributed to Velázquez,... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator Walter Liedtke discusses the unique patronage of Johannes Vermeer and its influence on the artistic and psychological aesthetic of The... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Saturday 12/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection is the Rubin Museum's newest exhibition and latest offering of Himalayan art and culture.  ... 

Ute Lemper: Last Tango Berlin

Music: Global

Ute Lemper: Last Tango Berlin

Saturday 12/12 @ Joe's Pub

"More than a teacher and cultural ambassador representing Continental cultural history, she is a confrontational entertainer and... 

Jessica Dessner, Denny Renshaw & Deborah Johnson: Art from Sufjan Stevens' Run Rabbit Run and The BQE

Art

Jessica Dessner, Denny Renshaw & Deborah Johnson: Art from Sufjan Stevens' Run Rabbit Run and The BQE

Saturday 12/12 @ 92YTribeca

Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman savors the food shown in two Lilly Martin Spencer paintings in the... 

Sesame Street: A Celebration!

Film

Sesame Street: A Celebration!

Saturday 12/12 @ BAM

BAM celebrates the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street with a weekend... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late... 

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Saturday 12/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art

The mandala, one of Himalayan Buddhism's most ubiquitous and complex symbols, is the focus of this fascinating exhibition. Mandalas are created... 

The Next Director: Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim

Film

The Next Director: Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim

Saturday 12/12 @ BAM

This year, BAMcinematek's annual series highlighting up-and-coming filmmakers focuses on American collaborators So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray, who have... 

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The exhibition Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, on view at the Met through September 6, 2010, is the first... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Did you know that the musical heritage of China is one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator Mike Hearn takes us inside the extraordinary world of Luo Ping, discussing the range and brilliance of the artist's vision.... 

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Art

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Saturday 12/12 @ Asia Society and Museum

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Last Chance—Eccentric  Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Art

Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The first comprehensive exhibition of Luo Ping’s paintings ever presented in America, Eccentric... 

Dance

Women in Dance at the 92nd Street Y: History in the Making

Saturday 12/12 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Join an absolutely illustrious group of dance artists as they celebrate their creative vision, careers and Jewish roots in this not... 

Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Saturday 12/12 @ Lincoln Center

FREE Exhibition Now - January... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

This summer's installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture.... 

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Art

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of... 

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Art

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Saturday 12/12 @ New Museum

For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum, Urs Fischer has taken over all three of the New Museum’s... 

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Art

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

In his films and photographs, Artur Zmijewski (Polish, b. 1966) investigates social norms by observing unusual or invented situations. Seeing his... 

&ldquo;Medieval Garden Enclosed&rdquo; on the Met Blog.

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Take a break from city life and visit the Met’s blog dedicated to your neighboring medieval garden! July 1, 2009 marked the first anniversary... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Artist Kara Walker Discusses "The Power of Music" / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Artist Kara Walker Discusses "The Power of Music" / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist Kara Walker offers her interpretation of the painting The Power of Music by William Sidney Mount, on view in the... 

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Du Paquier ceramic manufactory, founded by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in Vienna... 

Art

Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture    

Saturday 12/12 @ The Kitchen

This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Co-curators Jeffrey Munger and Meredith Chilton discuss the details of a delightful dessert table with culinary historian Ivan Day. This table... 

Mortal Engine

Dance

Mortal Engine

Saturday 12/12 @ BAM

  Mortal Engine Created by Chunky Move "Utterly captivating and, that most illusive of theatrical goals, utterly unique." —The Scotsman
... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson speaks about Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow... 

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Art

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti... 

Saturday Evenings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Saturday Evenings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saturday 12/12 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Thomas Beachdel

Get a sneak preview of a new exhibition or tour... 

Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Velázquez Rediscovered

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A technical examination and cleaning of one of the Met’s paintings, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, has revealed a... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Saturday 12/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of... 

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Art

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

After two years of major construction and renovation, the Met’s Charles Engelhard Court—the spectacular, light-filled pavilion along Central Park—has reopened to... 

Last Chance—Christmas  Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season

Art

Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season

Saturday 12/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the presentation before it closes on Wednesday! Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the... 

Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore

Saturday 12/12 @ Asia Society and Museum

AsiaStore has scoured the marketplaces of Asia to bring you the perfect gift at the perfect price! Celebrate the season with...