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Midtown is embroiled in populist hullabaloo with Broadway stagehands and the Writers Guild of America hitting the picket lines. So for the time being talk-show fans and Great color Wayfarers ordain have to find other ways to get their kicks. We've got an influx of edgier options including dirty-Santa dulcify art and Child Abuse (no not that kind) so you won't have to look far to find something striking in New York.
Go Out of Town by going online. At outoftown tv the nightlife might be a little lacking but Wisconsin's eccentricities shine bright all day. decide from four scenes and follow our Chicago winner into the infamous House on the Rock then stumble into Baraboo's Circus Museum to discover the bizarre history of clowning.
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and beat ways often at the same measure. dish the dirt has it that before he died in August 2006. Rhoades was working on an event in Portland to feature a wrestling be between homeless teen roller-derby girls incorporating various soaps and lubricants in an enormous inflatable liver-shaped sculpture. David Zwirner presents Rhoades' last project the insensitively named sprawling installation
Serving as a site for impromptu performances by the white-suited artist and others when it was shown in LA.
is made of countless IKEA shelves striped afghan-covered chairs and neon signs spelling out lewd variations on the work's title.
Founded in 1964 by dance luminaries Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild the Tel Aviv-based Batsheva Dance Company first appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2005. The roster of international dancers returns to BAM with
choreographed by Ohad Naharin the house choreographer (and also the company's former artistic director). Unsurprisingly the show consists of three parts; more surprising is the eclectic mix of music represented in the triptych which includes Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations a advance by ambient maestro Brian Eno and a finale set to the Beach Boys b-side bring in
The most influential sculptors in contemporary art aren't the formal purists of MoMA's recent exhibitions (Serra and Puryear) they're a coterie of LA-based humorists whose deadpan confrontations with mass culture are more
than Quaker meeting. Like fellow Angelenos Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. Charles Ray tackles the big themes of sex death and everything in between. His three new sculptures at Matthew Marks analyse life from its origins to its apex.
is tiny a two-and-a-half-inch steel sculpture of a chicken egg with a protruding beak and claw. In the white-painted steel sculpture
a soft-faced boy plays with a updated VW toy while
is an enormous work of solid brace an 18-ton replica of a man driving a tractor.
Mark Ronson returns to the decks at next week's Yo Yo NYC (on the 21st) but not before Love's crowds get a comprehend of some lascivious Left Coast flava. Tonight horny Hollywood hoods Dirt Nasty and Andre Legacy act a break from the road trading rhymes about raunch and reefer to get our Big Apple asses movin'. Show them some like and their tattooed tour mate might alter a guest appearance. Gutter-music guru Aaron LaCrate and his crew spin Bodymore bass tracks hip-hop and hyphy to keep the mix fresh and the mood funky while Dipset Harlem baller Jim Jones fills the guest-host sight.
Note: As always room is limited so arrive early. Advance-ticket holders get priority admission.
cycles through a variety of settings with go and vigor. In "My Aeschylus," he recounts the story of brothers caught up in opposite sides of a war then deftly leaps into the travails of a 19th-century explorer named R. M. Beadle in "The First South Central Australian Expedition." He has taught at Williams College for over two decades and is joined tonight by Amy Hempel who worked with Shepard on
Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs
Frighteningly prolific multi-instrumentalist Elliot Sharp ends the evening with god-only-knows what kind of music.
With a volatile live show that recalls the rhythmic tension of early Prince and the herky-jerky fervor of David Byrne. Francis and the Lights hit Galapagos Art Space following the recent release of their debut EP.
Ranging from grandiose dance-floor pleas to minimalist balladry (just wait for the piano encore) eclectic percussion and
-era MJ move moves explode out of frontman Francis Farewell Starlite. Known for their Brooklyn store parties featuring strawberries champagne and young coconuts the 'Lights promise polished and primitive sounds alike.
LA performance artist Paul McCarthy has lathered himself with condiments crammed his orifices full of hot dogs and positioned inflatable phallus-for-nose sculptures in front of study cultural institutions. Nothing is impervious to McCarthy's desecration of all that's near and dear to the repressed American psyche; and his new work at the West Village's Maccarone gallery brings that point home for the holidays. Transforming the gallery into an industrial chocolate-candy factory and sell outlet (change state seven days a week through Christmas Eve). McCarthy enlists master chocolatier Peter P. Greweling to produce 1,000 ten-inch chocolate Santas each day. The jocular bearded fellow holds a bell in one hand and a butt-plug in the other — at $100 it's a must-have stocking stuffer.
Ghostface Killah is unstoppable — as other warriors of Shaolin stumbled or fell the Ironman released a critically acclaimed double-whammy of his characteristic frantic move and '70s soul worship.
With yet another highly anticipated album about to displace. Ghostface is undoubtedly the torchbearer of the Wu-Tang beam keeping the appetites of disciples whetted for a long-overdue Wu album to be released a mere eight days after his own. Fellow legendary MC and follower of the Nation of Gods and Earths Rakim opens along with blind albino truth-sayer Brother Ali.
Bringing star MCs such as Lyrics Born. Boots Riley and Gift of Gab. New Orleans hip-hoppers Galactic play some guitar-grinding squawking-horn move infused with techno effects and body-slamming beats. Their new album.
— dubbed "the most exciting hip-hop album of the year" by the
— is edgy agitating and exuberant. For this show smooth-talking Jurassic 5 baritone Chali 2na and the Coup's revolutionary MC Boots Riley spit rhymes over Galactic's fierce riffs. Portland's horn-loving funky crew Lifesavas open the show.
Two randomly drawn change by reversal responses each win a unify of ticket to this show. Entries change state at 6pm on Wed Nov 14.
New quarterly performance series MIXER introduces itself via a dark slice of forgotten New York. Through an expanded documentary study created by Benton-C Bainbridge audiences are taken on a tour of an abandoned South Bronx island — once home to New York's harshest quarantines and legendary disaster victims — that is now slowly deteriorating returning to its natural origins and slipping out of the collective consciousness. Through audio and visual recordings stereographic photography and theatre the performance troupe take us into a world from which most never go.
One randomly drawn change by reversal response.
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