All events on Tuesday January 29

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Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Vampire Weekend
Tuesday Jan 29 (8pm) @ Bowery Ballroom More times »
Sold Out!
Afro-pop-inspired rockers Vampire Weekend hit town tonight for a hyper-literate, Paul Simon-worshipping set of soon-to-be sing-along indie anthems. While the press buzz is a bit... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Vampire Weekend
More Flavor: Competition
Master-Disaster ARCH DL IV
Tuesday Jan 29 (9pm) @ Secret NYC location
Giveaway
LVHRD's ARCH DL is an intense battle of architectural prowess, quick thinking, and deft drinking. This year, architects from FXFOWLE (the firm behind the new... View details »
Master-Disaster ARCH DL IV
Music: DJ
Afrika Bambaataa
Tuesday Jan 29 (10pm) @ APT More times »
Giveaway
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
Afrika Bambaataa
Performing Arts: Comedy
Get the Laughs and Votes Out for Obama
Tuesday Jan 29 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
Oh, Barack Obama. Underneath that placid grin of perfect teeth and dimples churns a sea of nervous tension. Ohio provided some relief. But since Hillary... View details »
Get the Laughs and Votes Out for Obama
Film
Dance Mad
Tuesday Jan 29 (8pm) @ Monkey Town
Free
At some point in the '60s, organized social dances missed a step; ever since, they've been relegated to silver-haired couples on cruises and bat mitzvahs... View details »
Dance Mad

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Art
Tara Donovan
Tuesday Jan 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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: Architecture/Design
Poul Kjærholm
Tuesday Jan 29 (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 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 (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
Lee Friedlander
Tuesday Jan 29 (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
Art
AA Bronson
Tuesday Jan 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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!
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Tuesday Jan 29 @ 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
Art
Marvin Franklin
Tuesday Jan 29 (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 29 (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
Film
Envisioning Russia
Tuesday Jan 29 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
Few Americans really grasp the breadth of Russian film in existence: we tend to treat film imports from that country as jewels rarely produced. The... View details »
Envisioning Russia
Film: Documentary
DOC
Tuesday Jan 29 (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
Almost an Evening
Tuesday Jan 29 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grace
Tuesday Jan 29 (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
Film
Last Year at Marienbad
Tuesday Jan 29 @ 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 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 (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
Tuesday Jan 29 (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
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
Tuesday Jan 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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
Apt 3A
Tuesday Jan 29 (8pm) @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
In this tale of love, God, and the sex lives of polar bears, writer Jeff Daniels (yes, that Jeff Daniels) brings us into the crumbling... View details »
Apt 3A
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
Tuesday Jan 29 @ 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 
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Tuesday Jan 29 (7pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
Ben Katchor's epic indie-rock musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower returns, upgrading to the Vineyard after its successful... View details »
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Art: Photography
Dawoud Bey
Tuesday Jan 29 (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 29 @ 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