All events on Tuesday January 22

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Performing Arts: Dance
Armitage Gone! Dance
Tuesday Jan 22 @ The Joyce Theater More times »
Karole Armitage is best known to mainstream audiences for choreographing Madonna's "Vogue" and Michael Jackson's "In the Closet," but within the dance world, she's known... View details »
Armitage Gone! Dance
Art
Lee Friedlander
Tuesday Jan 22 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
Lee Friedlander
More Flavor: Festival
G'Day USA: Australia Week
Tuesday Jan 22 @ Various locations More times »
January conjures images of tanned bodies playing beach volleyball and surfing the waves off a golden coast. Well, it does for Australians, anyway. To make... View details »
G'Day USA: Australia Week
Music: Rock/Pop
Mavis Staples
Tuesday Jan 22 (8pm) @ BAM
Renowned for her heart-wrenching rasp and unassailable take on Chicago soul, Mavis Staples was a Stax institution by the early '70s. Of course, even before... View details »
Mavis Staples
Reading
Carl Wilson
Tuesday Jan 22 (7:30pm) @ Word
Free
Carl Wilson reads from Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. Wilson's book uses Céline Dion's multi-platinum (and much-despised) Let's Talk... View details »
Carl Wilson
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hunting and Gathering
Tuesday Jan 22 (7pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
Hunting and Gathering's simple, sweet appeal lies in its hyper-real portrait of young NYC. Ruth is a thirtysomething who keeps her stuff in storage while... View details »
Hunting and Gathering

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Art
Tara Donovan
Tuesday Jan 22 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
Tara Donovan
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Tuesday Jan 22 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Extreme Embroidery
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Museum of Art and Design More times »
Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from grandmas everywhere with Pricked:... View details »
Extreme Embroidery
Art
Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
Free
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Tuesday Jan 22 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
Fuerzabruta
Art
Jason Rhoades
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has it that before he... View details »
Jason Rhoades
Art: Architecture/Design
Poul Kjærholm
Tuesday Jan 22 (11am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
Free
Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his compression-molded plywood chairs. Simultaneous... View details »
Poul Kjærholm
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Tuesday Jan 22 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere.... View details »
blog.mode
Art
Do-Ho Suh
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
Free
Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New Museum — with a... View details »
Do-Ho Suh
Art
Dan Perjovschi
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery More times »
Free
Dan Perjovschi recently took over one of MoMA's massive interior-courtyard walls. Working on a mechanical lift during open hours, the Romanian artist covered several building... View details »
Dan Perjovschi
Art
AA Bronson
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ John Connelly Presents More times »
Free
Godfather to queer artists everywhere, AA Bronson has made all varieties of artworks during his decades-long practice, focusing on a poetic obsession with the profundity... View details »
AA Bronson
Art
Santiago Cucullu
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery More times »
Free
Argentinean artist Santiago Cucullu's chaotic cut-out vinyl works dominate gallery walls and museum hallways wherever they're shown. At one of Perry Rubenstein's two small 24th... View details »
Santiago Cucullu
Art
Michael Bell-Smith
Tuesday Jan 22 (11am–6pm) @ Foxy Production More times »
Free
Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael Bell-Smith's conceptual animations deal... View details »
Michael Bell-Smith
Art
Diana Thater
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
Taking her cue from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," Diana Thater presents a two-room video installation depicting the bond between falconers and their falcons. Set... View details »
Diana Thater
Art
Donelle Woolford
Tuesday Jan 22 (11am–6pm) @ Wallspace More times »
Free
Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps. At Wallspace Gallery, Woolford... View details »
Donelle Woolford
Art
Katy Grannan
Tuesday Jan 22 (noon–6pm) @ Salon 94 Freemans More times »
Free
Katy Grannan's series Lady into Fox at Salon 94 Freemans depicts a pair of middle-aged transsexuals, Gail and Dale, living their lives as females on... View details »
Katy Grannan
Art
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Tuesday Jan 22 (11am–6pm) @ Guild & Greyshkul More times »
Free
Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists make collages with a... View details »
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Art
Luis Gispert
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Zach Feuer Gallery More times »
Free
Miami-born artist Luis Gispert takes over West 24th Street with works in film, sculpture, and photography. At Zach Feuer, the artist mounts a series of... View details »
Luis Gispert
Art: Photography
Anne Collier
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Anton Kern Gallery More times »
Free
It takes more than a first glance at Anne Collier's photographs to understand what you're looking at. Books, magazines, and other media sit upon neutral,... View details »
Anne Collier
Art
Shirin Neshat
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery More times »
Free
Iran-born, US-educated photographer Shirin Neshat takes stirring, subversive pictures of Muslim women, forcefully engaging the troubling boundaries that separate men and women, Islam and secularism,... View details »
Shirin Neshat
Art
Mark Bradford
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co. More times »
Free
Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top of one another and... View details »
Mark Bradford
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday Jan 22 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
Slavic Soul Party!
Art
And Who Are You?
Tuesday Jan 22 (11am–6pm) @ Sara Tecchia Roma More times »
Free
Saatchi's online gallery boasts 50 million daily hits in the US alone. Now, young curator Ana Finel Honigman has pulled together 11 artists from the... View details »
And Who Are You?
Performing Arts: Theatre
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Tuesday Jan 22 @ P.S. 122 More times »
Today, the art of storytelling seems as quaint as silent film, a lumbering anachronism in a sea of ADD-paced narratives. Enter London-based troupe 1927, whose... View details »
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Art
Marvin Franklin
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–4pm) @ New York Transit Museum More times »
Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may not seem like a... View details »
Marvin Franklin
Art
New Prints: Winter 2008
Tuesday Jan 22 (11am–6pm) @ International Print Center New York More times »
Free
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 homes, battle scenes with... View details »
New Prints: Winter 2008
Performing Arts: Theatre
Almost an Evening
Tuesday Jan 22 @ Atlantic Stage Two More times »
Sold Out!
Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God kicking himself in the... View details »
Almost an Evening
Film
Last Year at Marienbad
Tuesday Jan 22 @ Film Forum More times »
Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' new-wave classic, Last Year at Marienbad. The film follows a nameless... View details »
Last Year at Marienbad
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Tuesday Jan 22 @ International Center of Photography More times »
Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
Archive Fever
Art
The (Self) Promotion Show
Tuesday Jan 22 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
Free
Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view are presented in an... View details »
The (Self) Promotion Show
Art
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Paula Cooper Gallery More times »
Free
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 group Gutai Art Association... View details »
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–5pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is best known for iconic,... View details »
Irving Penn
Art
Hans Haacke
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Paula Cooper Gallery More times »
Free
The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of conceptual art that applied... View details »
Hans Haacke
Art
The Masked Portrait
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
Free
The Masked Portrait is a snapshot of postwar Japanese art, featuring work by 30 artists from the late '40s to the present. Curator Midori Nishizawa... View details »
The Masked Portrait
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
Tuesday Jan 22 @ American Airlines Theater More times »
Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan), there are sly references... View details »
The 39 Steps 
Art: Photography
Dawoud Bey
Tuesday Jan 22 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
Free
Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey's series Class Pictures depicts teenagers from a high school on Chicago's South Side, a New England prep school, and classrooms in... View details »
Dawoud Bey
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Tuesday Jan 22 @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph