Events on Tuesday, January 8

Ecstatic Peace! Night feat. MV & EE w/ the Golden Road, Thurston Moore Groop, Tall Firs, and Religious Knives
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Music: Rock/Pop
Ecstatic Peace! Night
@ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Even in his old(er) age, Thurston Moore ain't no fuddy duddy. As he approaches 50 (and Sonic Youth trudges past 25),...  View details »
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Anthony Lappe: <em>Shooting War</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Reading
Anthony Lappe
@ McNally Robinson Booksellers
Besides the suggestion that al-Qaeda harbors a special animosity for Williamsburg twentysomethings, the opening scene of Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman's...  View details »
Free

Ongoing Events

<em>The 39 Steps</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
@ 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),...  View details »
Ongoing
Tara Donovan
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Tara Donovan
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Frankenstein (Mortal Toys)</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
Frankenstein (Mortal Toys)
@ HERE Arts Center
Faithfully adapted from Mary Shelley's masterpiece, this puppet show miraculously conveys the somber Victorian mood of the original Frankenstein. With beautifully...  View details »
Ongoing
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Poul Kjærholm: <I>Structures and Surfaces</I>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
Poul Kjærholm
@ Sean Kelly Gallery
Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Making a Home
@ Japan Society
Though New York's Japan Society hosts only two exhibitions a year, they're reliably terrific. This fall, young curator Eric C. Shiner...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Do Ho Suh: <I>Reflection</I>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Do-Ho Suh
@ Lehmann Maupin
Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Terminus</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Terminus
@ The Public Theater
The realization that the three actors facing the audience and taking turns telling a story is not just a prologue, but...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Marvin Franklin
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>August: Osage County</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as...  View details »
Ongoing
Charles Ray
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Charles Ray
@ Matthew Marks Gallery
The most influential sculptors in contemporary art aren't the formal purists of MoMA's recent exhibitions (Serra and Puryear), they're a coterie...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>And Who Are You?: Work from Saatchi Online</I>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
And Who Are You?
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Paragraph
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
@ Paragraph
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing...  View details »
Ongoing
Jason Rhoades: <I>Black Pussy</I>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Jason Rhoades
@ David Zwirner
The late Jason Rhoades was out of control in the best and worst ways, often at the same time. Rumor has...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Regurgitophagy</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Regurgitophagy
@ The Public Theater
After seeing Brazilian performance artist Michel Melamed's one-man show Regurgitophagy, the phrase "feeding off the audience" will never be the same....  View details »
Ongoing
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[SOLD OUT]<em> Almost an Evening: Three Short Plays by Ethan Coen</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Almost an Evening
@ Atlantic Stage Two
Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God...  View details »
Sold Out!
Ongoing
Richard Prince:<i> Spiritual America</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Richard Prince: Spiritual America
@ Guggenheim Museum
Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off...  View details »
Ongoing
Slavic Soul Party!
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
@ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Having won the 1401 door-design competition for Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni's (Baptistry of St. John) northern portal, native Florentine Lorenzo...  View details »
Ongoing
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Nordic Oscar Contenders Festival
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Film
Nordic Oscar Contenders
@ Scandinavia House
The American-Scandinavian Association presents a series of exclusive sneak peeks at the best films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden,...  View details »
Ongoing
The Spiritual Art of Salvador Dalí
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Salvador Dalí
@ William Bennett Gallery
If your knowledge of Salvador Dalí stops at melting clocks, head to Soho's Bennett Gallery, which exhibits two divine collections that...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Francis Alÿs
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Rotozaza: <em>Etiquette</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Etiquette
@ Veselka
In Rotozaza's latest offering, all the world's a stage; if, by "all the world," we mean "a small table at Veselka."...  View details »
Ongoing
Otto Preminger
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Film
Otto Preminger
@ Film Forum
Director Otto Preminger was a Jewish refugee of Austrian origin whose unflinching independence led to innovations in both storytelling and social...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Extreme Embroidery
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing