Things to do in New York City on Friday 18 December: 245 events, among them 159 in exhibitions and museums, 21 in theatre, 17 in worship, 8 in concerts, 8 in talks and readings, 8 in comedy and 24 others.
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Until Mon 10 May
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, a Pop art retrospective.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Free
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Until Sun 3 Jan
Imitation of Life: musical by Lynn Nottage and John Legend.
The Shed
Price unknown
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Until Thu 31 Dec · 22:00
Singer-songwriter Jane Handcock live: intimate modern R&B.
Apollo Theater
from $60
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Fri 18 Dec · 18:30
Free dance class: Night Creature choreography, all levels.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Free
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Until Sat 19 Dec
Claes Oldenburg's Six Themes: Pop Art sculptures.
Paula Cooper Gallery
Price unknown
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Until Sun 3 Jan
A Christmas Carol: Dickens's Tony-winning musical.
Perelman Performing Arts Center
$61
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Until Mon 10 May
Hot Dog with Ketchup: Alex Da Corte's public artwork.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Free
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Until Thu 29 Apr
La Bohème: Puccini's opera at the Metropolitan Opera.
Metropolitan Opera
from $69
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Until Sun 10 Jan
Costume Art: garments and artworks on the dressed body.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Price unknown
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Until Sun 25 Apr
Arthur Jafa's acclaimed video montage of Black life.
Gladstone Gallery
Price unknown
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Until Thu 24 Dec
Holiday market with artisan gifts in Vanderbilt Hall.
Grand Central Terminal
Price unknown
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Until Sun 3 Jan
Blue Man Group's wordless, visually striking holiday show.
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Price unknown
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Until Sat 23 Jan
Jasper Johns Recent Drawings: new works on paper.
Matthew Marks Gallery
Price unknown
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Until Sun 11 Apr
Donald Moffett's IMPEACH: John Lewis's 1998 speech as sound.
Brooklyn Museum
Price unknown
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Until Sun 10 Jan
Downstate: Bruce Norris's play about life after prison.
Booth Theatre
from $55
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Until Sun 5 Sep
No Ordinary Light: Akari at 75, Noguchi's light sculptures.
The Noguchi Museum
Price unknown
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Until Sun 10 Jan
Pop art exhibition with Cattelan and Kusama, 1960 to now.
Matthew Marks Gallery
from $19
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Until Sun 14 Mar
PROPS from Barakei: Hosoe's Mishima photos, answered by Wee.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Free
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Until Thu 31 Dec · 07:00
Set in Stones: Michael Donald's Rolling Stones photos.
Chelsea Market
Price unknown
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Until Sun 9 May
Noguchi's 1986 Venice Biennale, seen through his archive.
The Noguchi Museum
Price unknown
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Fri 18 Dec · 17:30
Birdland Big Band: jazz, funk and Latin with TV-band guests.
Birdland Jazz Club
from $35.46
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Until Sun 10 Jan
The Lost World: visionary art by Minnie Evans.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Price unknown
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Until Sat 23 Jan
101 Drawings: Matisse, Picasso, Pollock at Matthew Marks.
Matthew Marks Gallery
Price unknown
- Fri 18 Dec · 19:00 Masquerade: immersive Phantom of the Opera musical. Masquerade from $279
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Until Wed 31 Mar
Charles Burchfield: Elemental, Whitney watercolors.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Price unknown
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Until Thu 31 Dec
Collective Witness: books that witnessed America's birth.
The New York Society Library
Price unknown
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Fri 18 Dec
The Mingus Dynasty plays Charles Mingus' music live.
Zinc
$45
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Until Sun 24 Jan
Broken: sculpture fragments from Michelangelo to Bourgeois.
Matthew Marks Gallery
Free
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Until Sun 7 Feb
Sacred Splendor: Jewish and Christian treasures of Prague.
The Jewish Museum
Free
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Until Sun 4 Apr
Schmigadoon!: Tony-winning Golden Age musical spoof.
Nederlander Theatre
from $62
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Until Sun 7 Mar
Nike: Form Follows Motion, five decades of sneaker design.
Museum of Arts and Design
Price unknown
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Until Sun 28 Feb
Dreams of This Future: art from Cafritz's bequest to Harlem.
The Studio Museum In Harlem
Price unknown
- Until Mon 7 Jun First Mondays: writers read new work, with Sarah Schulman. Performance Space 122 Price unknown
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Until Wed 30 Dec
Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey: botanical photography.
Rick Wester Fine Art
Price unknown
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Until Sun 28 Mar
Saya Woolfalk: The WoodsWoman Method, a utopian exhibition.
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Free
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Until Sun 17 Jan
Martin Puryear: sculpture and drawings.
Matthew Marks Gallery
Price unknown
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Until Thu 31 Dec
The Thinking Ocean: digital art between fluid and code.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Price unknown
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Until Sat 27 Feb
Art exhibition on nature and humankind.
Gladstone Gallery
Free
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Until Sat 9 Jan
Gottlieb/Rothko: The Surrealist Years, paintings 1941–1951.
125 Newbury
Price unknown
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Until Sat 23 Jan
Wade Guyton: sculpture in bronze, steel and fir.
Matthew Marks Gallery
Price unknown
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