Events on Friday, January 25

Adam Matta: <em>Beatbox Drift</em>

Art

Adam Matta: Beatbox Drift

Friday 1/25 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

With his world-class beatboxing and sampling skills, Adam Matta is a master of repurposing the music of the city. Tonight's show... 

1st Annual Hip-Hop Karaoke Championship

Special Event

Hip-Hop Karaoke Championship

Friday 1/25 @ Highline Ballroom

Weary of endless karaoke renditions of "Bust a Move," Jason Newman and his fellow Hip-Hop Karaoke co-founders changed the game, to... 

One Step Beyond feat. the Cool Kids w/ Kid Sister and A-Trak

Party

One Step Beyond feat. the Cool Kids

Friday 1/25 @ American Museum of Natural History

The only thing better than seeing A-Trak in a bumping club is partying with A-Trak in a big-ass museum. Tonight, Kanye's... 

Ursula 1000

Music: DJ

Ursula 1000

Friday 1/25 @ APT

Thievery Corp's ESL record label signed Ursula 1000 back in '99 for his bouncing breakbeats and mult-culti mix-ups of genres ranging... 

Super Furry Animals w/ Holy Fuck

Music

Super Furry Animals

Friday 1/25 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Despite the continual resurgence of all things "psychedelic," no one can accuse Super Furry Animals of simply hopping aboard the wavy-gravy... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Michael Bell-Smith

Friday 1/25 @ Foxy Production

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

AA Bronson

Art

AA Bronson

Friday 1/25 @ 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 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Friday 1/25 @ 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),... 

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

Art

New Prints: Winter 2008

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

Shirin Neshat

Art

Shirin Neshat

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

<em>Grace</em>

Theatre

Grace

Friday 1/25 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of... 

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

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Friday 1/25 @ 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,... 

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

Art: Photography

Dawoud Bey

Friday 1/25 @ 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>DOC</em>

Film: Documentary

DOC

Friday 1/25 @ Film Forum

Pronounced by Norman Mailer as "more intellectually arrogant than me," Harold L. "Doc" Humes hit the ground running in the late... 

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

Art

Infinite Island

Friday 1/25 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

Armitage Gone! Dance: <em>Connoisseurs of Chaos</em>

Dance

Armitage Gone! Dance

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Unmonumental

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

New York States of Mind

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Almost an Evening

Friday 1/25 @ Atlantic Stage Two

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

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

Art

Katy Grannan

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Diana Thater

Friday 1/25 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 1/25 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

<em>The Sartorialist</em>

Art: Photography

The Sartorialist

Friday 1/25 @ Danziger Projects

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

<em>Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama</em>

Art

Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

<em>Hunting and Gathering</em>

Theatre

Hunting and Gathering

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

Jan de Cock: <em>Denkmal 11</em>

Art

Jan de Cock

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

Lee Friedlander: <em>A Ramble in Olmsted Parks</em>

Art

Lee Friedlander

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Friday 1/25 @ 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,... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Friday 1/25 @ 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>Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz</em>

Theatre

Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz

Friday 1/25 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Poul Kjærholm

Friday 1/25 @ Sean Kelly Gallery

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

Dan Perjovschi: <em>You Remember My Pin?</em>

Art

Dan Perjovschi

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

And Who Are You?

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

Anne Collier

Art: Photography

Anne Collier

Friday 1/25 @ 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>Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters</em>

Theatre

Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters

Friday 1/25 @ Studio Dante

Russell Barr wrote and stars in this emotionally charged monologue directed by Michael Imperoli (of Christopher Moltisanti Sopranos fame). The cluttered,... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Friday 1/25 @ 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,... 

<em>The Masked Portrait</em>

Art

The Masked Portrait

Friday 1/25 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery

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

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Friday 1/25 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art

Marvin Franklin

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 1/25 @ Paragraph

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

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

Art

Beth Campbell

Friday 1/25 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

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

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

Art

Do-Ho Suh

Friday 1/25 @ Lehmann Maupin

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

Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking

Film

Envisioning Russia

Friday 1/25 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Few Americans really grasp the breadth of Russian film in existence: we tend to treat film imports from that country as... 

Donelle Woolford

Art

Donelle Woolford

Friday 1/25 @ Wallspace

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

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

Art

Santiago Cucullu

Friday 1/25 @ 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>North</em>

Theatre

North

Friday 1/25 @ 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 (Self) Promotion Show</em>

Art

The (Self) Promotion Show

Friday 1/25 @ Apex Art

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

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Friday 1/25 @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

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

<em>Save the World</em>

Theatre

Save the World

Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kara Walker

Friday 1/25 @ 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 —... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Friday 1/25 @ 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>Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea</em>

Theatre

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

Outsider Art Fair

Art

Outsider Art Fair

Friday 1/25 @ Puck Building Ballroom

The Outsider Art Fair hosts dozens of international galleries who specialize in this nebulous genre, which encompasses art brut, folk art,... 

Jaishri Abichandani: <I>Reconciliations</I>

Art

Jaishri Abichandani

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

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Film

Last Year at Marienbad

Friday 1/25 @ Film Forum

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

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

Art

Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann

Friday 1/25 @ Guild & Greyshkul

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

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

Art

Luis Gispert

Friday 1/25 @ 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>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Friday 1/25 @ Union Square Theatre

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

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

Art

Lucian Freud

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

Hans Haacke

Art

Hans Haacke

Friday 1/25 @ 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>The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower</em>

Theatre

The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island

Friday 1/25 @ Vineyard Theatre

Ben Katchor's epic indie-rock musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower returns, upgrading to the... 

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

Art: Photography

Irving Penn

Friday 1/25 @ The Morgan Library

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

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

Special Event

blog.mode

Friday 1/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Friday 1/25 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Jason Rhoades

Friday 1/25 @ David Zwirner

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

G'Day USA: Australia Week

Festival: Performing Arts

G'Day USA: Australia Week

Friday 1/25 @ Various locations

January conjures images of tanned bodies playing beach volleyball and surfing the waves off a golden coast. Well, it does for...