Events on Friday, May 8

<em>Deli</em> Magazine & After the Jump present Crystal Stilts w/ Blank Dogs, Religious Knives, and Dinowalrus

Music

Crystal Stilts

Friday 5/ 8 @ The Bell House-

Though there are an endless number of lo-fi bands taking over the music world at the moment, Crystal Stilts are truly... 

JG Wilkes (Optimo) w/ Tanlines

Music: DJ

JG Wilkes

Friday 5/ 8 @ Studio B

Any record hound worth his earplugs knows about Optimo Espacio. That's the Glasgow club night where hundreds of crazed Scots cram... 

Ongoing Events

The Late Film

Film

The Late Film

Friday 5/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Friday 5/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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... 

BKLYN Designs

Art

BKLYN Designs

Friday 5/ 8 @ Various DUMBO locations

BKLYN Designs is probably the finest jump-off to the design-heavy month of May, with loads of borough-centric offerings to keep us... 

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

Art

Ward Shelley

Friday 5/ 8 @ 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

Friday 5/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Cinders Gallery

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