Events on Tuesday, January 15

Ken Jennings: <em>Brainiac</em>

Books: Reading

Ken Jennings

Tuesday 1/15 @ Barnes & Noble

Every weeknight, someone wins Jeopardy!, but only one man can claim to have beaten the game. Ken Jennings picked up the... 

Rick Moody presents <em>The Ice Storm</em> (1997)

Film

The Ice Storm

Tuesday 1/15 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Confined to tight spaces, family dysfunction makes for great entertainment. Make it two families struggling to get through one of the... 

The Morning Pages w/ Hymns

Music

The Morning Pages w/ Hymns

Tuesday 1/15 @ Pianos

Younger music fans aching for their own Last Waltz should head to Pianos tonight. The venue might lack the ambience (and... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The (Self) Promotion Show</em>

Art

The (Self) Promotion Show

Tuesday 1/15 @ Apex Art

Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view... 

<em>The 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Tuesday 1/15 @ American Airlines Theater

Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan),... 

Santiago Cucullu: <em>CriKCity &amp; The Walls That Scour Us</em>

Art

Santiago Cucullu

Tuesday 1/15 @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery

Argentinean artist Santiago Cucullu's chaotic cut-out vinyl works dominate gallery walls and museum hallways wherever they're shown. At one of Perry... 

Dawoud Bey: <em>Class Pictures</em>

Art: Photography

Dawoud Bey

Tuesday 1/15 @ Aperture Gallery

Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey's series Class Pictures depicts teenagers from a high school on Chicago's South Side, a New England prep... 

Katy Grannan: <em>Lady into Fox</em>

Art

Katy Grannan

Tuesday 1/15 @ Salon 94 Freemans

Katy Grannan's series Lady into Fox at Salon 94 Freemans depicts a pair of middle-aged transsexuals, Gail and Dale, living their... 

<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>

Special Event

blog.mode

Tuesday 1/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas... 

Amanda Ross-Ho &amp; Kirsten Stoltmann: <em>Vaginal Rejuvenation</em>

Art

Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann

Tuesday 1/15 @ Guild & Greyshkul

Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists... 

Otto Preminger

Film

Otto Preminger

Tuesday 1/15 @ Film Forum

Director Otto Preminger was a Jewish refugee of Austrian origin whose unflinching independence led to innovations in both storytelling and social... 

Jason Rhoades: <I>Black Pussy</I>

Art

Jason Rhoades

Tuesday 1/15 @ David Zwirner

The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has... 

Luis Gispert: <em>El Mundo Es Tuyo (the world is yours)</em>

Art

Luis Gispert

Tuesday 1/15 @ Zach Feuer Gallery

Miami-born artist Luis Gispert takes over West 24th Street with works in film, sculpture, and photography. At Zach Feuer, the artist... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 1/15 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Tuesday 1/15 @ Museum of Art and Design

Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from... 

Poul Kjærholm: <I>Structures and Surfaces</I>

Art

Poul Kjærholm

Tuesday 1/15 @ Sean Kelly Gallery

Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his... 

<em>Regurgitophagy</em>

Theatre

Regurgitophagy

Tuesday 1/15 @ The Public Theater

After seeing Brazilian performance artist Michel Melamed's one-man show Regurgitophagy, the phrase "feeding off the audience" will never be the same.... 

<em>New Prints: Winter 2008</em>

Art

New Prints: Winter 2008

Tuesday 1/15 @ International Print Center New York

Elevating fine-art printing beyond the standard three-color poster, the International Print Center's new-season highlights include rodent-infested Victorian wallpaper, silhouettes of million-dollar... 

<em>Terminus</em>

Theatre

Terminus

Tuesday 1/15 @ The Public Theater

The realization that the three actors facing the audience and taking turns telling a story is not just a prologue, but... 

AA Bronson

Art

AA Bronson

Tuesday 1/15 @ John Connelly Presents

Godfather to queer artists everywhere, AA Bronson has made all varieties of artworks during his decades-long practice, focusing on a poetic... 

<em>The Masked Portrait</em>

Art

The Masked Portrait

Tuesday 1/15 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery

The Masked Portrait is a snapshot of postwar Japanese art, featuring work by 30 artists from the late '40s to the... 

<em>Frankenstein (Mortal Toys)</em>

Theatre

Frankenstein (Mortal Toys)

Tuesday 1/15 @ HERE Arts Center

Faithfully adapted from Mary Shelley's masterpiece, this puppet show miraculously conveys the somber Victorian mood of the original Frankenstein. With beautifully... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 1/15 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

Donelle Woolford

Art

Donelle Woolford

Tuesday 1/15 @ Wallspace

Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps.... 

<em>Disinformation</em>

Theatre

Disinformation

Tuesday 1/15 @ The Public Theater

A freakish blend of standup, music, and drama, Reggie Watts' Disinformation is pretty much tailor-made for the new-theatre vibe of the... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Tuesday 1/15 @ Hispanic Society of America

While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year... 

Diana Thater: <em>Here is a text about the world... </em>

Art

Diana Thater

Tuesday 1/15 @ David Zwirner

Taking her cue from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," Diana Thater presents a two-room video installation depicting the bond between falconers... 

<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>

Art

Marvin Franklin

Tuesday 1/15 @ New York Transit Museum

Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may... 

Charles Ray

Art

Charles Ray

Tuesday 1/15 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

The most influential sculptors in contemporary art aren't the formal purists of MoMA's recent exhibitions (Serra and Puryear), they're a coterie... 

Rotozaza: <em>Etiquette</em>

Theatre

Etiquette

Tuesday 1/15 @ Veselka

In Rotozaza's latest offering, all the world's a stage; if, by "all the world," we mean "a small table at Veselka."... 

<I>And Who Are You?: Work from Saatchi Online</I>

Art

And Who Are You?

Tuesday 1/15 @ Sara Tecchia Roma

Saatchi's online gallery boasts 50 million daily hits in the US alone. Now, young curator Ana Finel Honigman has pulled together... 

[SOLD OUT]<em> Almost an Evening: Three Short Plays by Ethan Coen</em>

Theatre

Almost an Evening

Tuesday 1/15 @ Atlantic Stage Two

Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God... 

Do Ho Suh: <I>Reflection</I>

Art

Do-Ho Suh

Tuesday 1/15 @ Lehmann Maupin

Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New... 

Hans Haacke

Art

Hans Haacke

Tuesday 1/15 @ Paula Cooper Gallery

The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Tuesday 1/15 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Tuesday 1/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws... 

Michael Bell-Smith: <em>Bouncing Lights Forever</em>

Art

Michael Bell-Smith

Tuesday 1/15 @ Foxy Production

Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael... 

<em>Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea</em>

Theatre

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Tuesday 1/15 @ P.S. 122

Today, the art of storytelling seems as quaint as silent film, a lumbering anachronism in a sea of ADD-paced narratives. Enter...