Events on Friday, May 15

Dan Deacon & Ensemble

Music: Electronic

Dan Deacon & Ensemble

Friday 5/15 @ 979 Broadway Backyard

Madcap songsmith Dan Deacon usually performs solo, convincing sweaty audience members to engage in dance-offs, group chants, and mass fits of... 

Azita

Music

Azita

Friday 5/15 @ Bruar Falls

Azita Youssefi's sudden transformation from no-wave gadfly (as the frontwoman of Chicago's beloved Scissor Girls) to solo cocktail chanteuse wasn't so... 

Ongoing Events

The Late Film

Film

The Late Film

Friday 5/15 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

If an auteur's debut is their "Dear reader," then their last few films come into sight as postscripts: variations on a... 

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

Art

Ward Shelley

Friday 5/15 @ 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... 

Company XIV presents <em>Le Serpent Rouge: A Titillating Tragedy</em>

Dance

Le Serpent Rouge

Friday 5/15 @ 303 Bond Street

The original "origin" story is another glittery triumph for choreographer/director Austin McCormick and XIV. With the assistance of a demonic Ringmistress... 

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

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Friday 5/15 @ 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>C.H.U.D.Z.</em>

Art

C.H.U.D.Z.

Friday 5/15 @ Cinders Gallery

"Chudz," according to Urban Dictionary, is a term that can mean either sex or a "complete and utter" pimp (although said... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Friday 5/15 @ 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,... 

Theatre

The Merchant of Venice

Friday 5/15 @ BAM Harvey Theater

All-male British troupe Propeller stages Shakespeare with an eye towards how the work was done during playwright's day: their version of...