Events on Friday, December 9
Friday 12/ 9 @ Miller Theatre
For a great late-night treat, after his Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre earlier in the evening, John Zorn graces the beautiful...
Friday 12/ 9 @ United Photo Industries
Exploring a side of nursing homes very rarely seen, Josep Echaburu enters what is for many the last place of shelter...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Secret Project Robot
Alex Decarli, Micki Pellerano, Lauryn Siegel, and Joshua Graver throw an "industrialnewcoldwavepostpunketcDANSEparty," with a special installation designed by Fredricks & Mae....
Conjunctions: Issue 57 Release Party
Friday 12/ 9 @ BookCourt
Conjunctions has long been one of the best forums for innovative writing. Each issue brings together established writers with new voices...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Home Sweet Home
On Thursday morning in Portland, Oregon, the seemingly unimaginable happened: while Night Train/Soul Clap DJ Jonathan Toubin slept in his hotel...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
After shrugging off early comparisons that pegged them as France's answer to M.I.A., Yelle proved far more spritely and hook-oriented on...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Gowanus Studio Space
When Twin Peaks ended, the implication was that one of pop culture's most iconic characters (and the role Kyle MacLachlan would...
Curator Insights: Parabolas to Post-Modern: Architecture from the Collection
Friday 12/ 9 @ National Academy Museum
Marshall Price, Curator, National Academy Museum, speaks about the Academy’s outstanding collection of architecture drawings and photographs as part of the...
Kevin Geeks Out: Holiday Grab Bag!
Friday 12/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
This month, Kevin Maher gives the audience an evening filled with surprise entertainment: the gift of weird, wonderful multi-media segments, with...
Beady Eye w/ Black Box Revelation @ Terminal 5
Friday 12/ 9 @ Terminal 5
“Music, it’s all about the music, we could all have sat at home after Oasis split but what would have been...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
It's no big secret that Brooklyn has been the home for some mighty happening music lately, but there are few bands...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Formed over 10 years ago, Cornmeal has grown from humble beginnings into a nationally recognized live music institution. 10 years together...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/ 9 @ Classic Stage Company
Have things changed so much since Anton Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard in 1904? Flighty, ridiculous Lubov (Dianne Wiest) and her...
Friday 12/ 9 @ BAM Harvey Theater
Two-time Oscar nominee John Hurt (The Elephant Man, Midnight Express) reprises his role as Krapp in the Gate Theatre’s critically acclaimed...
Friday 12/ 9 @ The McKittrick Hotel
Don't let the extraordinary experience that is Sleep No More pass you by. Dubbed immersive theatre by its parents, the award-winning...
Friday 12/ 9 @ MoMA PS1
Responding to the sense that 9/11 is underrepresented in the cultural discourse, MoMA PS1 presents September 11, a group show that...
Friday 12/ 9 @ JS55
The sandwich: our choice for the most egalitarian meal. Every culture and cuisine has its own spin on it, and the...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Greene Naftali
Paul Sharits did for film what math rock does for music, but better. Flicker effects, flash frames, multiple projectors, and infinite...
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Samuel J. Friedman Theater
Oh please, stop with the "so kinky!" reviews. Not by today's standards, it's not. See this show for a brilliant young...
Friday 12/ 9 @ New World Stages
Freud's Last Session is a battle of the brains, with plenty of wit and thought-provoking dialogue. Two brilliant actors, particularly Martin Rayner...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian Gallery unveils Andreas Gursky's Bangkok, a new series of large-scale works being shown for the first time in New York....
Friday 12/ 9 @ P.S. 122
Judging from the rapid yearly deterioration of New York's Fringe Festival, it's no wonder it took Silence! The Musical, a 2005...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14
Seven years have passed since Alexander Payne's Best Director Oscar for Sideways went to Clint Eastwood. And just as he was...
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Burning is an irreverantly entertaining look at three unconventional families —interracial, gay, and neo-Nazi — connected by the arts, funerals, sex, drugs,...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Soho Playhouse
Baba Brinkman's (Rap Guide to Evolution) The Canterbury Tales Remixed brings Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless Canterbury Tales to vivid life in an entertaining...
Friday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Momenta Art
Taking as its starting point ruptures in domestic spaces, Momenta Art presents the group show Broken Homes with work by artists...
Friday 12/ 9 @ AMC Loews Village 7
We were starting to worry about Gary Oldman. The actor we loved in Sid and Nancy and Prick Up Your Ears...
Merce Cunningham: The Legacy Tour
Friday 12/ 9 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
BAM celebrates the career of Merce Cunningham with a presentation of a variety of dance works by the legendary choreographer. Considered...
Warby Parker Holiday Spectacle Bazaar
Friday 12/ 9 @ 45 Grand Street
Warby Parker, a socially conscious startup online prescription eyewear company known for its affordable fashion-forward frames, has turned a 4,000 square-foot...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Times Square Arts Center
EndTimes Productions is a company known for irreverence and envelope-pushing (these are the same people, after all, who brought you MANSON:...
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Friday 12/ 9 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The HIDE/SEEK exhibition is known best for the controversy it caused in Washington, DC when it opened in October 2010 at...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Barneys New York 660 Madison Avenue 5th Floor New York NY 10065
Move over Santa, there's a new head elf in town and she goes by "Gaga." With the help of her fashion...
Friday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
It's that time of year when MoMA looks into its crystal ball and forecasts the upcoming film awards season. Always a...
Friday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Michaël Borremans: The Devil's Dress
Friday 12/ 9 @ David Zwirner
Michaël Borremans' figurative paintings evoke the works of centuries past, with a twist. His supine moribund bodies recall Andrea Mantegna's Lamentation...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Botanica Bar
We love this bar. It's our home away from home, our office away from office. You simply can't find nicer bartenders...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Landmark Sunshine
Sex addiction in New York City is laid bare in award-winning artist-turned-feature-filmmaker Steve McQueen's Shame. Michael Fassbender, who teamed with McQueen...
Friday 12/ 9 @ David H. Koch Theater
George Balanchine, who grew up in Russia, danced the role of the Prince in The Nutcracker in 1919 when he was...
Friday 12/ 9 @ BAM
Celebrate ten years of the Next Wave Art fest by ushering in a new group of groundbreaking Brooklyn artists. Curated by...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Various Greenwich Village locations
For those desiring an unearthly Halloween thrill this year, try looking in your own backyard (or more likely your alley or...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Friday 12/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See works from Diego Rivera's first NYC exhibition, which took place at the MoMA back in 1931. Yes, sketches and designs...
Friday 12/ 9 @ New York City Center
David Hyde Pierce and Rosie Perez each play themselves, to an extent, in Leigh Silverman's (Chinglish) production of Close Up Space....
Matthew Stone: Optimism as Cultural Rebellion
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Hole
Acclaimed British artist Matthew Stone crosses the pond to present his first major solo show in America, a multimedia discovery of...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Various Brooklyn locations
One block away from the Brooklyn Museum of Art, six store front windows display Jell-O, frosted cakes, and candies of all...
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Monocle Order
Members-only sunglasses retail site the Monocle Order is going brick-and-mortar for a month of the high holiday shopping season. Swing by...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Clic Gallery
The artist K-NARF might exhibit his "photograffiti" installations in an old cinema, a functioning plant, or an abandoned garage. But he's...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Friday 12/ 9 @ Queen Sofia Spanish Institute
Two fashion greats, Oscar de la Renta and Vogue's André Leon Talley, team up to bring you this seminal exhibition on...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Museum of the Moving Image
If Sesame Street was your primary baby-sitter back when you were a kid, and you considered Kermit and Miss Piggy some...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Westside Theatre
This show is based on Ilene Beckerman's simple, sweet book, spruced up by the incomparable Ephron sisters, and then interpreted by...
Claire Fontaine: Working Together
Friday 12/ 9 @ Metro Pictures
The art team Claire Fontaine conceived of themselves as a "ready made artist." As such, they lifted their working name from...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Friday 12/ 9 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Crafting bizarre cinematic head-trippers for over 45 years, Jan Svankmajer is an award-winning Czech animator who has inspired several generations of...
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Actors' Temple Theatre
Award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee addreses an overlooked part of history: the first African-American fighter pilots in the...
Nils Karsten: 1969, 1970, 1971
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Bogart Salon
Walking into The Bogart Salon, you're stopped in your tracks by a haunting video of Sharon Tate standing, sitting, reading. This...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14
Writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman defy the sophomore slump with Juno follow-up Young Adult, an unconventional homecoming dramedy starring...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Jewish Museum
NYC Weights and Measures is filmmaker Jem Cohen's observational portrait of New York City, a document of Cohen's wanderlust as he...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Winter Garden Theatre
Seen by over 45 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 4,000 performances in its tenth smash hit...
Friday 12/ 9 @ 303 Bond Street
Company XIV doesn't need extra holiday sparkle, because there is always magic at 303 Bond Street. Director/choreographer Austin McCormick has completely...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Friday 12/ 9 @ Openhouse Gallery
Dodge the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with a play date at Park Here, Nolita's very own indoor park, plush with grass...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Film Forum
Mikal Khodorkovsky, one of the most high-profile prisoners in Russia, is the subject of this fascinating and exhaustive documentary. Filmmaker Cyril...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You may remember the Lewis Chessmen from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. These chess pieces, dating from the twelfth century...
Friday 12/ 9 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Westside Theatre
You would swear that musical instruments are being played, but the only sounds in this show are coming out of the...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Paula Cooper Gallery
Mark di Suvero's brightly colored sculptures of steel beams loomed across the landscape this summer at Governors Island. If you missed...
Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
Friday 12/ 9 @ Broadhurst Theatre
This show makes you wonder if he looks in the mirror each day and realizes he is ruining everything for all...
Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings
Friday 12/ 9 @ Cheim & Read
Cheim & Read brings together an exhibition of large-scale late works of Joan Mitchell, one of the few female members of...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Theater for the New City
Decades before anyone was occupying Wall Street, a man named Peter Schumann and his merry band of performance artist/puppeteers called Bread...
Friday 12/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
"Yummy" might be the best word to describe Rirkrit Tiravanija's current installation at MoMA. The conceptual artist's Untitled (Free/Still), which can...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)
We hestitated to lend our voices to the chorus of adoration for this show — only because we were afraid of being...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
Fast-moving and frequently hilarious, Standing on Ceremony is a staged reading of nine ten-minute plays focusing on gay marriage, with proceeds...
Friday 12/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA kicks off the fall season with a blockbuster exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by celebrated abstract expressionist...
Michael Williams: Montgomery's Tubercles
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Journal Gallery
In the work of Michael Williams you might see echoes of the odd loops of Brice Marden, the scribbles of Cy...
Friday 12/ 9 @ IFC Center
Werner Herzog and his charming German accent are back again with Into the Abyss, a documentary that uses a triple homicide...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Scopophilia brings Nan Goldin back to New York for her first show in this city since 2007. The exhibition presents over...
Friday 12/ 9 @ New York Public Library
In celebration of its centennial, the New York Public Library is going into its archives and bringing out some items that...
Friday 12/ 9 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Times Square, 42nd and Broadway
One thing that really gets our gears going during the holiday season is the re-appearance of the WIRED Store. The spot...
Friday 12/ 9 @ W Hotel Downtown
Mick Rock has been dubbed "the man who shot the '70s," but his body of work is much more than a...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Hauptmann Residence (Upper East Side)
Wealthy, elderly Alice Hauptmann invites you to her Upper East Side townhouse (address revealed only after you secure a ticket) for...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Brooklyn Museum
The exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties presents the work of 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Roundabout Underground
A wonderfully inventive script from Andrew Hinderaker is hardly credible but none the less riveting with its dark humor, fascinating, unique...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Yossi Milo Gallery
Simen Johan presents a new selection of photographs at his seventh exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery. For this show, Johan continues...
Friday 12/ 9 @ House of Yes
House of Yes lets us combine two of our very favorite things: Christmas celebrations and the '90s. The unique Christmas Spectacular...
Friday 12/ 9 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Friday 12/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This year, MoMA's annual New Photography series expands to feature the work of six artists, with the aim of capturing the...
Friday 12/ 9 @ New World Stages
Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and...
Friday 12/ 9 @ David Zwirner
In his fifth solo show at David Zwirner gallery, German artist Neo Rauch presents a selection of paintings and sculpture that...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
A compelling and thought-provoking tale, Wild Animals You Should Know focuses on an academically successful, narcissistic, straight teenager named Matthew and...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
For over 30 years, Sherrie Levine has been lifting artwork from other artists in a sly attempt to undermine generally accepted...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Cinema Village
Having just walked off with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick's latest film, The Tree of Life, which stars Brad...
Friday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Nitehawk Cinema
Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier gives Terrence Malick (Tree of Life) a run for his money in the most eccentric filmmaker...
Friday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda is internationally known for her photo-collages and assemblages constructed from books and magazines from the 1950s and...
Friday 12/ 9 @ El Museo del Barrio
Times of crisis are also times in which life extends into the streets. The artists in this exhibition have created gestures...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Malcolm X: A Search for Truth will provide the general public an opportunity to examine materials from the Malcolm X collection....
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design
Friday 12/ 9 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design explores the rich interplay of art and design in all craft media that exploded...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For the first time in nearly a century, the Met Museum is displaying a selection from its large collection of electrotypes,...
Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from Alfred Stieglitz's collection, acquired by the Met...
Friday 12/ 9 @ National Academy Museum
A salon-style installation of approximately 120 paintings from the museum’s collection, An American Collection spans the period 1820-1970 and reflects the...
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of narrative painting, one that continues even today with the popular contemporary Japanese cartoon (manga)...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
You know that weird time on Friday between work and play? The workweek is fading, the weekend looms large, and you...
Fiber Futures: Japan's Textile Pioneers
Friday 12/ 9 @ Japan Society
Japan’s extreme textile-making lands in NYC. Coaxed from materials as age-old as hemp and newly developed as microfilaments, more than 35...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Friday 12/ 9 @ Public Art Fund
Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York's enduring cultural icons, is installed...
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Friday 12/ 9 @ El Museo del Barrio
This installation in the Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries, drawn from our Permanent Collection, features works with an urban sensibility that deploy...
194X–9/11: American Architects and the City
Friday 12/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This year marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11, an event that ushered in a new era of architectural anticipation and uncertainty,...
Friday 12/ 9 @ El Museo del Barrio
This show features imagery by a number of artists that share an affinity for illustration and the narrative force of images....
Friday 12/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party NYC is New York City's longest running weekly Friday night dance party. Recently the winner of Papermag's highly...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Public Art Fund
Like the atmospheric transformation of a cloud into rain, some works of art have the potential to change their form and meaning....
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This installation of Renaissance Venetian art from the Met Museum’s collections features 44 paintings and drawings by preeminent artists active in...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night the Rubin Museum hosts K2, with DJs spinning global sounds, Himalayan-inspired libations and tapas, film screenings, live music,...
Parabolas to Post-Modern: Selections of Architecture from the Collection
Friday 12/ 9 @ National Academy Museum
Parabolas to Post-Modern: Selections of Architecture from the Collection is a brief survey of post-war architecture by National Academicians (NAs) and...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Friday 12/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The first exhibition in the three-part Modernist Art from India series, The Body Unbound focuses on representations of the figure and...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Asia Society and Museum
For his first solo New York museum exhibition, artist U-Ram Choe (b. 1970, Korea) has created a new work inspired by...
Lauren Kelley: Froufrou Conclusions
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Kitchen
Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE Opening Reception: Friday, November 11, 6-8pm Employing a wry wit when commenting on...
Friday 12/ 9 @ 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....
The Losers Lounge tribute to Diana Ross & the Supremes
Friday 12/ 9 @ Joe's Pub
The Losers Lounge is back with at Joe’s Pub on December 8th, 9th& 10th, 2011 with all of the incredible songs,...
Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler
Friday 12/ 9 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons and Anish Kapoor are some of the 20th century's...
Friday 12/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Every Friday I'm at the legendary Freedom party, an event I started 6.5 years ago because music sucked, parties were boring, and...
"Wonder of the Age": Master Painters of India, 1100–1900
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major loan exhibition is devoted to the connoisseurship of Indian painting, with some 220 works selected according to identifiable hands...
Friday 12/ 9 @ National Academy Museum
In the first New York retrospective of the artist’s work, Will Barnet at 100 will explore the dialogue between figuration and...
Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion: Live! The Realest MC
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Kitchen
Inspired by Pinocchio's plight to be a "real boy," Kyle Abraham’s new ensemble dance work investigates gender roles in the black community...
Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at the...
Friday 12/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Admission is free for all visitors during Target Free Friday Nights, sponsored by Target, every Friday evening, 4:00–8:00 p.m. Tickets for...
Contemporary Selections: Aligning Abstraction
Friday 12/ 9 @ National Academy Museum
Aligning Abstraction will bring together a selection of recent diploma presentations by newly admitted members. Each year the National Academy receives...
Friday 12/ 9 @ National Academy Museum
Each semester the National Academy School presents its Faculty Exhibition which highlights recent work by the members of the faculty. The...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Friday 12/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Characters as diverse as Mickey Mouse, the historical Buddha, Tomb Raider Lara Croft, and the Green Lama have something in common:...
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)
Friday 12/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Galvanized by the international student protest movement of the late 1960s, Harun Farocki has developed an experimental documentary style, integrating his...
Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness/A Centennial Tribute
Friday 12/ 9 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, drawing on its and collector Russell Goings’s collections, presents a retrospective of Romare...
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and subsequent conquest of China by semi-nomadic Manchu tribesmen from northeast of the Great...
More Than Enough w/ Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip
Friday 12/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Unofficial Comic-Con After Party After a brief hiatus, resident Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip have returned, blessing the night...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Drawn from works given and bequeathed to the Met Museum during the past decade by Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe,...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Friday 12/ 9 @ El Museo del Barrio
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 is El Museo del Barrio's sixth and largest biennial, showcasing 75 artists at seven...
The Artist Revealed: A Panorama of Great Artist Portraits
Friday 12/ 9 @ National Academy Museum
Highlights from the National Academy’s extensive collection of artist portraits from the early 19th century to today will be on view...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than 1,000 works from the distinguished collection of the Met Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings...
Rabindranath Tagore: the Last Harvest
Friday 12/ 9 @ Asia Society and Museum
Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is beloved around the world as a poet and writer, yet few outside his native India...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Friday 12/ 9 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Friday 12/ 9 @ New York Live Arts
The Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program, created in 1965 by Dance Theater Workshop, identifies six early career artists to receive...
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt was designed by artist Faith Ringgold and constructed in collaboration with New York City students aged...
Friday 12/ 9 @ Haunch of Venison
Castellani e Castellani is a special exhibition of new and seminal work by Enrico Castellani, one of Italy’s most influential artists. The show...
Friday 12/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party NYC is New York City's longest running weekly Friday night dance party. Recently the winner of Papermag's highly...
Lisbon’s Hebrew Bible: Medieval Jewish Art in Context
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This is the second in a series of installations that focus, one at a time, on masterworks of Hebrew manuscript illumination...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major international loan exhibition challenges conventional perceptions of African art. Bringing together more than 100 masterpieces drawn from collections in...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition features a selection of early 20th-century reproductions of now-famous works of art from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of...
National Academicians: Then and Now
Friday 12/ 9 @ National Academy Museum
National Academicians: Then and Now will trace the work of four artists and one architect by pairing diploma presentations – the...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Friday 12/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In early Tibetan painted portraits, founding masters of important Buddhist schools were often represented as holy personages. Using artistic conventions developed...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Friday 12/ 9 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
