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Sheldon Pearce
Pearce has covered music for Goings On since 2020.
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Celebrations abound as we wrap up yet another staggering year of concerts. Over the weekend, the Hot 97 d.j. Funk Flex hosts the 2024 edition of his Winter Fest, at Barclays Center (Dec. 28), featuring the R. & B. fusionist Bryson Tiller, the Philly bawler Meek Mill, the Bronx’s drill reformist Cash Cobain, and more. In the ensuing days, the jam band Phish, known for entrancing its cult following with spells of improvisational wizardry, requisitions Madison Square Garden until the calendar rolls over (Dec. 28-31). For a laugh, catch the brazen, incisive multihyphenate Sandra Bernhard for “Shapes & Forms,” which mixes chatty standup and extravagant song, at Joe’s Pub from Dec. 26 to New Year’s Eve.
The British producer Bonobo.Photograph by Dan Medhurst
You can ring in 2025 on the dance floor with a throng of dance-music sets. The British producer Bonobo headlines an open-to-close celebration at Elsewhere. ZHU, the deep-house enigma, pulls double duty with back-to-back gigs at the midtown night club Marquee and Hell’s Kitchen’s Terminal 5. The Great Hall at Avant Gardner hosts “Cityfox New Year’s Eve,” which wrangles artists from across techno, house, and electro scenes: Mind Against, Cristoph, 8Kays, Joplyn, Robag Wruhme, and Sintra. For those seeking a milder vibe, consider hitting Birdland for the “New Year’s Eve Extravaganza!” with Marilyn Maye, the “Tonight Show” and cabaret fixture. Or, alternately, catch the Harlem Gospel Choir at the Blue Note during the day for its 12 Days of Christmas residency.
“The Clock,” by the visual artist Christian Marclay.Art work © 2024 Christian Marclay / Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery / White Cube; Photograph by Jonathan Dorado
As the clock nears midnight, there’s still time to catch the visual artist Christian Marclay’s twenty-four-hour film “The Clock” at its winter stint at the Museum of Modern Art. In this singular experience, thousands of clips showing the time—cut together from TV shows and movies such as “High Noon,” “The Stranger,” and “V for Vendetta”—coincide with the exact time at which you are watching. As Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker is fired from his pizza-delivery job in “Spider-Man 2,” the clock behind him notes that it is 2:19 p.m.; when, in the 2002 action flick “The Transporter,” Jason Statham checks his Luminor Paneri, it’s 2:47. A titanic achievement in its own right, the film also represents a distinct cross-section of cinematic history. “The Clock” runs during MOMA’s regular hours through Feb. 17.
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