Events on Tuesday, January 29
Get the Laughs and Votes Out for Obama
Tuesday 1/29 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Oh, Barack Obama. Underneath that placid grin of perfect teeth and dimples churns a sea of nervous tension. Ohio provided some...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Secret NYC location
LVHRD's ARCH DL is an intense battle of architectural prowess, quick thinking, and deft drinking. This year, architects from FXFOWLE (the...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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),...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Foxy Production
Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
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Tuesday 1/29 @ Atlantic Stage Two
Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Film Forum
Pronounced by Norman Mailer as "more intellectually arrogant than me," Harold L. "Doc" Humes hit the ground running in the late...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
The Masked Portrait is a snapshot of postwar Japanese art, featuring work by 30 artists from the late '40s to the...
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Tuesday 1/29 @ Guild & Greyshkul
Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ APT
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Sean Kelly Gallery
Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Apex Art
Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
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Tuesday 1/29 @ The Bowery Ballroom
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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Paula Cooper Gallery
The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Wallspace
Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps....
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Film Forum
Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' new-wave classic, Last Year at Marienbad. The...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ Imperial Theatre
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Tuesday 1/29 @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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...
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Tuesday 1/29 @ 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,...
