Events Listings
Really Real
DanceNov 17, 19-21 at 7:30pm
Last seen at BAM in 2005, choreographer Wally Cardona returns with this examination of the individual’s struggle to integrate the collective while maintaining a sense of identity, all to a score by Phil Kline and accompaniment by the Brooklyn Youth Orchestra. $20-$40
651 Fulton St, between Ashland and Rockwell Pls (map)
Fort Greene
718-636-4100
The Lily’s Revenge
Theater: Off-Off BroadwayThu-Sun at 6:30pm
You wouldn’t expect a play where all the characters are flowers to have such serious subtexts, but this fusion of puppet theater, Noh, vaudeville and dance, with its six directors and 40-plus performers under the coordinating vision of Taylor Mack, is dealing with gay marriage, the homogenization of life and culture, and the role of activist theater. $35
The Society for the Advancement of Inflamatory Conscience
ArtMondays, Thursdays-Sundays. Continues through Nov. 26
After a series of seven workshops by some of the members of SAIC, the artifacts produced during those events tell the narrative of a group of individual artists learning to set aside their own preoccupations and elaborate an organic, communal artistic practice.
Hamlet
Theater: BroadwayTue-Fri at 7:30pm, Wed, Sat at 2pm, Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm
This trans-Atlantic tranfer from London’s West End brings the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Hamlet starring Jude Law and directed by Michael Grandage to Broadway for a limited engagement. The stage is sparse and minimalist, the costumes are simple, and the castle setting is surrounded by snow. $25-$251.50
Idiot Savant
Theater: Off BroadwayTue, Sun at 7pm, Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sat, Sun at 2pm
Willem Dafoe stars in this spectacular theatrical farce from writer and director Richard Foreman that features acrobatics both literal and metaphoric and a round of golf with a giant duck. $60-$70
William Blake’s World: A New Heaven Is Begun
ArtTuesdays-Sundays. Continues through Jan. 3
Showcasing some 100 works from the Morgan’s permanent collection, this exhibition of books, paintings and prints by the British poet includes two seminal series: his 21 watercolor illustrations for the Book of Job twelve drawings designed to accompany two poems by John Milton.
Design for a Living World
ArtMondays-Sundays. Continues through Jan. 4
In a marketing environment where even the most harmful products and services are greenwashed to appear eco-friendly, the Smithsonian’s has commissioned 10 leading designers to envision and develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials, with every step in the process presented here.
Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video
ArtWednesdays-Sundays. Continues through Jan. 10
Though the first self-described feminist artists revolutionized video art in the 1970s, their influence has helped to shape the work of a new generation of contemporary moving image artists. The work presented here – from Cathy Begien, Kate Gilmore, Shannon Plumb and more – varies in approach from intensely personal, confrontational and humorous.
Kandinsky
ArtMondays-Wednesdays, Fridays-Sundays. Continues through Jan. 13
In keeping with the ongoing celebration of the museum’s 50th anniversary, this career survey of the abstract expressionist pioneer showcases the amazing evolution of the most prominent painter in the Gugg’s permanent collection.
Context/Contrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts, 1967-2009
ArtMondays-Saturdays. Continues through Jan. 23
A profile of five of the city’s 96 historic districts where, since being designated as such by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, new projects require approval to insure proper insertion into their area, making for unique streetscapes of continuity and development.
538 LaGuardia Pl., between Bleecker and 3rd Sts (map)
Greenwich Village
212-683-0023
The Red Book of C.G. Jung
ArtMondays, Wednesdays-Sundays. Continues through Jan. 25
Likely the most important unpublished book on psychology, Jung's Red Book is exhibited to the public for the first time, revealing the eminent thinker's ideas about archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation accompanied by his beautiful illustrations.
Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection
ArtMondays, Thursdays-Sundays. Continues through Feb. 15
After a series of tightly focused shows on a single artist, the Neue Galerie commemorates the collection of its co-founder, in the process tracking the Eastern European iterations of modern art.
God of Carnage
Theater: BroadwayTue 7pm; Wed-Sat 8pm; Wed & Sat 2pm; Sun 3pm
What's better than seeing four stars (Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden) playing really awful and crazy upper-class people? Watching them relish their own self-destruction, as in this story of four parents meeting after their kids get in a fight. $66.50-$116.50
242 W 45th St., between Broadway and Eighth Ave (map)
Midtown
212-239-6200
Monet's Water Lillies
ArtMondays, Wednesdays-Sundays. Continues through April 12
They rarely leave their home in Paris along the banks of the Seine, so unless you have plans to visit the city of lights in the next couple years, you might want to take this opportunity to catch Claude Monet's humongous water park paintings in a new setting. Plus, you know, they're beautiful and important and you should just see them every chance you get.
The Taylor Mead Show
Talks & ReadingsMondays, 6:30 p.m.
Beat, Factory boy and doddering soul of old downtown streams his consciousness all over you. $6
