All events on Wednesday January 23

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Art
Jan de Cock
Wednesday Jan 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The Belgian artist brings his... View details »
Jan de Cock
Music: Rock/Pop
The Von Bondies w/ SSM
Wednesday Jan 23 (8pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy
If the so-called "garage-rock revival" had birthed more bands like SSM, the phrase wouldn't have become such a lazy insult to throw at less-than-inspiring ensembles.... View details »
The Von Bondies w/ SSM
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Wednesday Jan 23 @ Urban Stages Theatre More times »
Through its cast of expressive marionettes (and their fine-tailored manipulators), Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz tells the story of Moritz, a Norwegian Jewish garmento... View details »
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters
Wednesday Jan 23 (8pm) @ Studio Dante More times »
Russell Barr wrote and stars in this emotionally charged monologue directed by Michael Imperoli (of Christopher Moltisanti Sopranos fame). The cluttered, childlike bedroom stage sets... View details »
Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters
Film: Documentary
DOC
Wednesday Jan 23 (1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
Pronounced by Norman Mailer as "more intellectually arrogant than me," Harold L. "Doc" Humes hit the ground running in the late '50s, ripping out incendiary... View details »
DOC
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grace
Wednesday Jan 23 (7pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of real people. On Religion,... View details »
Grace
Reading: Poetry
Littoral
Wednesday Jan 23 (8pm) @ Issue Project Room
Families, like poems, often conflate trivial affairs and matters of extraordinary importance. Two books by Hal Sirowitz — 1996's Mother Said, followed eight years later... View details »
Littoral
Music: Rock/Pop
Jack Peñate
Wednesday Jan 23 (10pm) @ Union Pool
Giveaway
Mixing rockabilly swing with power-pop chord progressions and buoyant rock riffage, UK son Jack Peñate is poised to take the NME set by storm. Dig... View details »
Jack Peñate
Reading
Carl Wilson
Wednesday Jan 23 (7pm) @ Happy Ending
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

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Art
Tara Donovan
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (2 & 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
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Extreme Embroidery
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Wednesday Jan 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
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New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Wednesday Jan 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists, many of whom —... View details »
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
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Francis Alÿs
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Art
Infinite Island
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14 diverse nations. Western... View details »
Infinite Island
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Kara Walker
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" earlier this year — sparks a tense dialogue... View details »
Kara Walker
Getaway
Keith Edmier
Wednesday Jan 23 (1–5pm) @ CCS Bard Hessel Museum More times »
Free
Sculptor Keith Edmier learned his trade in a Tinseltown special-effects studio; like Oscar-winning films, Edmier's meticulous sculptures traffic in grandiose sentimentality, making them a cathartic... View details »
Keith Edmier
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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Gert & Uwe Tobias
Wednesday Jan 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the woods, ominous mountain ranges,... View details »
Gert & Uwe Tobias
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Jason Rhoades
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Wednesday Jan 23 (7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
Jump
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Lawrence Weiner
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic, often blocky slogans, tagged... View details »
Lawrence Weiner
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Beth Campbell
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms. While there was nothing... View details »
Beth Campbell
Art: Architecture/Design
Poul Kjærholm
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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Lucian Freud
Wednesday Jan 23 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly paints with a chisel,... View details »
Lucian Freud
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
New York States of Mind
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what has made New York... View details »
New York States of Mind
Performing Arts: Dance
Armitage Gone! Dance
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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
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Jaishri Abichandani
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished curator and a practicing... View details »
Jaishri Abichandani
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Unmonumental
Wednesday Jan 23 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial squad brings together 30... View details »
Unmonumental
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Dan Perjovschi
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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Lee Friedlander
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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AA Bronson
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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Michael Bell-Smith
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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Donelle Woolford
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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Katy Grannan
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–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
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Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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Shirin Neshat
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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Mark Bradford
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Art
And Who Are You?
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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
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Marvin Franklin
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
More Flavor: Festival
G'Day USA: Australia Week
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Almost an Evening
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hunting and Gathering
Wednesday Jan 23 (8pm) @ 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
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
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Hans Haacke
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 (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 
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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
The Sartorialist
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Danziger Projects More times »
Free
Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures everyday fashionistas in their... View details »
The Sartorialist
Art: Photography
Dawoud Bey
Wednesday Jan 23 (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
Wednesday Jan 23 @ 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