Events on Wednesday, January 23
Wednesday 1/23 @ Happy Ending
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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Union Pool
Mixing rockabilly swing with power-pop chord progressions and buoyant rock riffage, UK son Jack Peñate is poised to take the NME...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Gramercy Theatre
If the so-called "garage-rock revival" had birthed more bands like SSM, the phrase wouldn't have become such a lazy insult to...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Gladstone Gallery
Iran-born, US-educated photographer Shirin Neshat takes stirring, subversive pictures of Muslim women, forcefully engaging the troubling boundaries that separate men and...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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),...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Danziger Projects
Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ David Zwirner
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Sean Kelly Gallery
Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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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Wednesday 1/23 @ Atlantic Stage Two
Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Wednesday 1/23 @ Studio Dante
Russell Barr wrote and stars in this emotionally charged monologue directed by Michael Imperoli (of Christopher Moltisanti Sopranos fame). The cluttered,...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Film Forum
Pronounced by Norman Mailer as "more intellectually arrogant than me," Harold L. "Doc" Humes hit the ground running in the late...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Lombard-Freid Gallery
Dan Perjovschi recently took over one of MoMA's massive interior-courtyard walls. Working on a mechanical lift during open hours, the Romanian...
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Wallspace
Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps....
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Apex Art
Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
The Masked Portrait is a snapshot of postwar Japanese art, featuring work by 30 artists from the late '40s to the...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Various locations
January conjures images of tanned bodies playing beach volleyball and surfing the waves off a golden coast. Well, it does for...
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Wednesday 1/23 @ Guild & Greyshkul
Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/23 @ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Imperial Theatre
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Wednesday 1/23 @ The Joyce Theater
Karole Armitage is best known to mainstream audiences for choreographing Madonna's "Vogue" and Michael Jackson's "In the Closet," but within the...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Foxy Production
Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Film Forum
Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' new-wave classic, Last Year at Marienbad. The...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Paula Cooper Gallery
The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of...
Wednesday 1/23 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 59E59 Theaters
Hunting and Gathering's simple, sweet appeal lies in its hyper-real portrait of young NYC. Ruth is a thirtysomething who keeps her...
Wednesday 1/23 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The...
Wednesday 1/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/23 @ 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...
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Wednesday 1/23 @ Urban Stages Theatre
Through its cast of expressive marionettes (and their fine-tailored manipulators), Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz tells the story of Moritz,...
