Events on Wednesday, April 22

Starfucker

Music

Starfucker

Wednesday 4/22 @ Union Hall

While Starfucker's name might seem pedestrian (or at least juvenile), it turns out that the moniker comes from a Rolling Stones... 

Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers

Music

Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers

Wednesday 4/22 @ The Bell House-

With a deep voice that's pure grit, Brooklyn's Shilpa Ray is quickly gaining a rep for flaunting in-your-face vocals. It's hard... 

Ongoing Events

Winners of the Prix Louis Delluc

Festival: Performing Arts

Winners of the Prix Louis Delluc

Wednesday 4/22 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Prix Louis Delluc winners are an illustrious bunch, indeed. In 1950, the ascetic splendor of Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country... 

Ward Shelley: <em>Who Invented the Avant Garde</em>

Art

Ward Shelley

Wednesday 4/22 @ Pierogi

The Byzantine details of Ward Shelley's "timeline drawing" mind-maps bear a fuzzy likeness to American Splendor. Applying ultimate to-do list techniques... 

<em>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Wednesday 4/22 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Thirty-odd years after reintroducing Gustave Caillebotte to American audiences, the Brooklyn Museum offers another marvelous paean to a figure whose posthumous... 

<em>La Didone</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Didone

Wednesday 4/22 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

Gleefully existing at the intersection of camp and high-brow culture, the Wooster Group's La Didone sets a new standard for genre-bending... 

Hernan Bas: <em>Works from the Rubell Family Collection</em>

Art

Hernan Bas

Wednesday 4/22 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Hernan Bas is Miami's biggest home-grown art star, known for darkly poetic, romanticized works that read as chapters in an epic,...