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  • Critics' Pick

Agenda: What’s Good This Week

Today: 12/22/09

Wednesday: 12/23/09

Thursday: 12/24/09

Friday: 12/25/09

Saturday: 12/26/09

Sunday: 12/27/09

Monday: 12/28/09

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art

imageJosephine Halvorson
Monya Rowe

A must-see show of small, burningly yearning paintings of simple shelves, statues, and stoves that remind us just how much paint can do. More »

movie

imageCrazy Heart

Bridges absolutely disappears into his role as an alcoholic, has-been country singer who may or may not have a second lease on life thanks to the love of a good woman. More »

art

imageMel Kendrick
Madison Square Park

Black-and-white cast-concrete sculptures, each about the size of a Mini Cooper stood on end and which look like they're on the march up Manhattan Island. More »

movie

imageA Town Called Panic

This zany, hyperkinetic Belgian animated adventure is inventive and spirited, features some wonderful visual gags, and truly captures the spirit of how children actually interact with their toys. More »

movie

imageA Single Man

Firth gives a hypnotic performance as a closeted gay man dealing with the loss of his longtime lover in Tom Ford's directorial debut. More »

movie

imageAvatar

Cameron is one of the last great showmen of our time, and he's proved it again by turning his much-speculated-about 3-D sci-fi adventure into the year's most anticipated film. More »

nightlife

imageMingus Big Band
Iridium Jazz Club

The high-energy big-band institution. More »

nightlife

Danielson
The Stone

Known for his stage appearances in a giant tree costume, Daniel Smith is one jaunty, freak-folking, sweet-singing Christian. More »

nightlife

Talib Kweli
HighLine Ballroom

Jay-Z and 50 Cent's favorite Brooklyn rapper--well, one of them--headlines a night before Christmas with Jean Grae (yes, after the "X-Men" character), Strong Arm Steady, and Pete Rock. More »

nightlife

The Matzo Ball
Capitale

The Society of Young Jewish Professionals throws a swank alternative for Jews who want to forgo Christmas Eve dinners and link up with other Chosen People. More »

nightlife

DM Stith
The Stone

Spend Christmas night with this son of a choir director, who conjures a Lewis Carroll landscape with cascading piano, layers of ethereal percussive sounds, and lyrics like "I've been sleeping with the lights on." More »

nightlife

The Bouncing Souls

These Jersey boys have been making sweet melodic punk together for twenty years and are coming back to the Garden State this year for their Third Annual "Home for the Holidays" shows. More »

nightlife

Gogol Bordello
Webster Hall

Expect nothing short of a carnival from this fervor-inducing cooperative of "Gypsy punk cabaret," led by the mustachioed, outre Eugene Hutz: a fanfare of ballet dancers, costumed kink, and pantomime. More »

art

From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collecti
Neue Galerie

The extensive collection of the gallery's co-founder Sabarsky is the source for this admiring exhibition of paintings, ephemera, and especially drawings by decades of cultish innovators. More »

art

David Hockney
PaceWildenstein

A divine two-venue exhibit of the rock-star artist who is now painting the manicured lawns and woods of his childhood in East Yorkshire. More »

reading

Heeb Storytelling
Joe's Pub

Heeb magazine, a.k.a. "The New Jew Review," hosts The Colbert Report's Jordan Carlos, comedian Jessi Klein, and other storytellers in a night of cabaret and boundary-pushing stories of contemporary Jewish life. More »

classical

New York String Orchestra
Carnegie Hall

The talented young ensemble led by Jaime Laredo celebrates its 40th anniversary. More »

classical

Groovaloo
Union Square Theatre

The popular dance troupe blending modern, hip-hop, and freestyle performs a new show. More »

nightlife

Grey Reverend
The Stone

Quiet, melancholy tunes sparkling with the entrancing fingerpicking work of this soloist from Brooklyn, who does a heartbreaking acoustic version of Vince Guaraldi’s "Christmas Time Is Here." More »

nightlife

Sandra Bernhard
Joe's Pub

The latest club date from the bawdy performer known for lines like: "I get it, it's about my lips. I mean, these are lips that reflect the sixties, Flint, Michigan, hotness, sexiness ... I mean, when you think about it, can you handle these lips?" More »

classical

New York String Orchestra
Carnegie Hall

The talented young ensemble led by Jaime Laredo celebrates its 40th anniversary. More »

Ongoing

art

Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction

More than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by one of the most famous female painters of the twentieth century, as well as selected examples from Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographic portrait series of an often naked O’Keeffe. Through 1/17, Whitney Museum

theater

Fela!

Bill T. Jones directs and choreographs this acclaimed dance musical, based on the life of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, which premiered Off Broadway last year. Through 3/31, Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Ticket Alert

Jay-Z

Izod Center, 3/6; $36.50-$247.50

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