Events on Wednesday, October 1
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Radio City Music Hall
Taking a cue from recent '80s nostalgia trends, Echo & the Bunnymen return once more in hopes of a career revival....
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Highline Ballroom
Robert Pollard hasn't changed his formula much in the years since breaking up Guided By Voices. The choruses are still the...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Jay Electronica is a hip-hop alien. The young MC grew up in New Orleans, but has no Southern accent, and though...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations in the East River
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Lazarides Gallery NYC
Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ HERE Arts Center
Juggernaut Theatre Company's Oh What War is unflinching political theatre. Inspired by Joan Littlewood's 1960s musical Oh! What a Lovely War,...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ David Zwirner
From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ IFC Center
Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Walter Kerr Theatre
Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Eyebeam
Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in...
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Film Forum
Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
New York has some legendary pizza, but there's also some real crap out there; save the cash you'll waste finding the...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ 303 Gallery
Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Studio Museum in Harlem
Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...
Women's Experimental Screening Series
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Old American Can Factory
Although Maya Deren was the face that launched a thousand clips, her oft-overlooked contemporary Sara-Kathryn Arledge was just as pivotal in...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
This week marks NYC's first-annual festival dedicated to traditional Korean fare. Local restaurants let you try bibimbap — a dish of...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format....
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Cinders Gallery
Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Aperture Gallery
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ V&A
Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Eyebeam
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Museum of Arts and Design
To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items...
Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Joyce Soho
Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos create an intimate hour-long piece that addresses the intricacies of finding and sustaining love in the...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ George Billis Gallery
In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Angelika Film Center
Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ The Mint Theater
The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash
In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived —...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Brooklyn Historical Society
From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many...
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Cherry Lane Theatre
David Schwimmer's latest directorial effort, Fault Lines, starts out with a cue from his long-lasting festival of canned laughs, Friends: a...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Storm King Art Center
In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Exit Art
The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Riverside Park South
Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown...
Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Zach Feuer Gallery
Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a...
