Events on Friday, January 18

The Bunker presents the 808 Bus Tour feat. the Kooky Scientist

Music: Electronic

The Bunker presents the 808 Bus Tour

Friday 1/18 @ Public Assembly

The Kooky Scientist (aka Fred Giannelli) can make a 303 squelch like no other. His rare live sets are always a... 

Boot Camp Clik w/ Kidz in the Hall and Slaine (Special Teamz and La Coka Nostra)

Music: Hip-Hop

Boot Camp Clik

Friday 1/18 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

Brooklyn's gulliest rap outfit Boot Camp Clik bring chaos to the stage following their fourth group effort, Casualties of War.... 

Ongoing Events

<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>

Art

Unmonumental

Friday 1/18 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial... 

Anne Collier

Art: Photography

Anne Collier

Friday 1/18 @ Anton Kern Gallery

It takes more than a first glance at Anne Collier's photographs to understand what you're looking at. Books, magazines, and other... 

<em>The 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Friday 1/18 @ 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),... 

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

Art

Katy Grannan

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Dawoud Bey

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

<em>North</em>

Theatre

North

Friday 1/18 @ La MaMa E.T.C.

For her performance piece North, Heather Christian dresses her "tiny orchestra," the Arbornauts, in all white, creating an otherworldly, tabula rasa-like... 

<em>The Sartorialist</em>

Art: Photography

The Sartorialist

Friday 1/18 @ Danziger Projects

Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures... 

Jaishri Abichandani: <I>Reconciliations</I>

Art

Jaishri Abichandani

Friday 1/18 @ Queens Museum of Art

Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished... 

<em>The Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen</em>

Theatre

The Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen

Friday 1/18 @ P.S. 122

Experimental-theatre troupe Banana Bag & Bodice is back for another dose of trash-punk with their alter ego band, the Rising Fallen.... 

Irving Penn: <em>Close Encounters: Portraits of Artists and Writers</em>

Art: Photography

Irving Penn

Friday 1/18 @ The Morgan Library

Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is... 

<em>Regurgitophagy</em>

Theatre

Regurgitophagy

Friday 1/18 @ 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.... 

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Friday 1/18 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" earlier this year —... 

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

Art

Santiago Cucullu

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

<em>Terminus</em>

Theatre

Terminus

Friday 1/18 @ The Public Theater

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

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

Art

Poul Kjærholm

Friday 1/18 @ 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>Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama</em>

Art

Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama

Friday 1/18 @ Paula Cooper Gallery

Two of Japan's best-known artists, Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama, passed away in recent years. Original members of the Osaka-based avant-garde... 

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

Art

And Who Are You?

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

<i>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>

Art

Infinite Island

Friday 1/18 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14... 

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Music: Global

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Friday 1/18 @ Southpaw

Once again, Brooklyn's champions of progressive Afrobeat exhort the masses to move. Antibalas' dozen musicians have been playing brass-heavy, polyrhythmic compositions... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Friday 1/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 1/18 @ Paragraph

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

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

Theatre

Frankenstein (Mortal Toys)

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jason Rhoades

Friday 1/18 @ David Zwirner

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

<em>Disinformation</em>

Theatre

Disinformation

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

Beth Campbell: <I>Following Room</I>

Art

Beth Campbell

Friday 1/18 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms.... 

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

Art

Luis Gispert

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

<em>Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art </em>

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Friday 1/18 @ International Center of Photography

Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution... 

Donelle Woolford

Art

Donelle Woolford

Friday 1/18 @ 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>The Masked Portrait</em>

Art

The Masked Portrait

Friday 1/18 @ 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>The Taste of Tea</em> (2004)

Film

The Taste of Tea

Friday 1/18 @ Monkey Town

Writer/director Katsuhito Ishii crafted the anime segment in 2003's Kill Bill: Vol. 1, and that same hypnagogic aesthetic swells in this... 

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

Art

The (Self) Promotion Show

Friday 1/18 @ Apex Art

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

<I>New York States of Mind</I>

Art

New York States of Mind

Friday 1/18 @ Queens Museum of Art

Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what... 

<em>Save the World</em>

Theatre

Save the World

Friday 1/18 @ The American Theatre of Actors

Low-tech superhero-action-dramedy Save the World is a theatrical escapist treat. A crew of five superheroes and one superheroine (with super armor,... 

<i>Projects 86</i>: Gert & Uwe Tobias

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Friday 1/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the... 

Rotozaza: <em>Etiquette</em>

Theatre

Etiquette

Friday 1/18 @ Veselka

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

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Friday 1/18 @ CCS Bard Hessel Museum

Sculptor Keith Edmier learned his trade in a Tinseltown special-effects studio; like Oscar-winning films, Edmier's meticulous sculptures traffic in grandiose sentimentality,... 

AA Bronson

Art

AA Bronson

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Almost an Evening

Friday 1/18 @ Atlantic Stage Two

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

Charles Ray

Art

Charles Ray

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Nobody Jones</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Friday 1/18 @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top... 

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

Art

Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann

Friday 1/18 @ Guild & Greyshkul

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

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

Art

Marvin Franklin

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 1/18 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Lucian Freud: <em>The Painter's Etchings</em>

Art

Lucian Freud

Friday 1/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Friday 1/18 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

Lawrence Weiner: <I>AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE</I>

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Friday 1/18 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic,... 

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

Art

Diana Thater

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

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Film

Last Year at Marienbad

Friday 1/18 @ Film Forum

Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' new-wave classic, Last Year at Marienbad. The... 

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

Art

Michael Bell-Smith

Friday 1/18 @ Foxy Production

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

Hans Haacke

Art

Hans Haacke

Friday 1/18 @ Paula Cooper Gallery

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

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

Art

New Prints: Winter 2008

Friday 1/18 @ 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>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Friday 1/18 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

<i>New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006</i>

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Friday 1/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists,... 

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

Special Event

blog.mode

Friday 1/18 @ 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... 

<I>Behind the Seen</I>

Art

Behind the Seen

Friday 1/18 @ Ad Hoc Art

Michael de Feo (best known as the "flower guy") wants the world to know that street art ain't all aerosol and... 

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

Art

Do-Ho Suh

Friday 1/18 @ Lehmann Maupin

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

<em>The Lovers </em>(1958)

Film

The Lovers

Friday 1/18 @ IFC Center

French director Louise Malle's second feature, The Lovers (1958), launched a bona-fide US Supreme Court inquiry into the legal definition of...