Events on Friday, October 10

Nerd Nite
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Lecture
Nerd Nite
@ Galapagos Art Space
Long-running lecture series Nerd Nite upgrades its digs from a cramped East Village bar to new DUMBO hot spot Galapagos, complete...  View details »
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Next Level
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Discussion
Next Level
@ New Museum of Contemporary Art
Once upon a time, computer games were the domain of children and uber-nerds, but the proliferation of technology in the last...  View details »
MSTRKRFT Fist of God Tour w/ Felix Cartal and Congorock
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Music: DJ
MSTRKRFT
@ Webster Hall
As MSTRKRFT, producer ALP and former Death from Above 1979 bassist Jesse F. Keeler have become one of indie dance music's...  View details »
Mending Bee for Change: Fundraiser for Obama
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Benefit
Mending Bee for Change
@ Various locations
In 2004 a team of young patriots began assembling the largest handmade flag in Brooklyn (an unconfirmed, but quite plausible record),...  View details »
Free
Will People Believe Anything? The Psychology of Gullibility
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Discussion
Will People Believe Anything?
@ Princeton Club
We'd like to believe that we live during an enlightened age in which reason has vanquished the superstitions of old. But...  View details »
Free
<em>New York</em><em> Magazine</em>'s 40th Anniversary
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Party
New York Magazine's 40th Anniversary
@ Hammerstein Ballroom
Born from the lo-fi bedroom recordings of frontman Edward Droste, Grizzly Bear have received acclaim from critics and adoration from those...  View details »
<em>State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Film: Documentary
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
@ Symphony Space
In their new book, State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, editors Matt Weiland (Paris Review) and Sean Wilsey (McSweeney's)...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

Stas Orlovski: <em>Nocturnes</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Stas Orlovski
@ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: City Gem
Dreamland Roller Rink
@ Dreamland Roller Rink
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this...  View details »
Ongoing
Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
@ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Ashes of Time Redux</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Ashes of Time Redux
@ Angelika Film Center
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Battle in Seattle</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Battle in Seattle
@ Various locations
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political...  View details »
Ongoing
Mart&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Martín Ramírez
@ Ricco Maresca Gallery
In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Absinthe</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Absinthe
@ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Pig Iron presents <em>Chekhov Lizardbrain</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Chekhov Lizardbrain
@ Ohio Theatre
This dance/clown/theatre ensemble has received lots of awards since forming in 1995, but you can't attribute its success to any one...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
@ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Invasion 68: Prague</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Photography
Invasion 68: Prague
@ Aperture Gallery
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Black Watch</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Black Watch
@ St. Ann's Warehouse
If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Kehinde Wiley
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Rachel Getting Married
@ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...  View details »
Ongoing
Mario Merz
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Mario Merz
@ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Seagull</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Seagull
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Photography
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Religulous</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film: Documentary
Religulous
@ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>City of Dreams</em> Mini-Golf Open
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Sports
City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
@ Governors Island
Family vacay meets interactive art party for Figment's mini-golf open, an all-day picnic and sports competition on Governors Island. Manhattan's southern...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Man for All Seasons
@ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...  View details »
Ongoing
Stephen Vitiello: <em>Four Color Sound</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Four Color Sound
@ The Project
Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Blasted</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Blasted
@ Soho Rep
It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production...  View details »
Ongoing
Sol LeWitt at Storm King
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
I Kiffe NY: French Urban Cultures Festival
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Festival
I Kiffe NY
@ Various locations
The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past...  View details »
Ongoing
Sue Williams: <em>Project for the New American Century</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Sue Williams
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fault Lines</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fault Lines
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Paragraph
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
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
<em>The Outsiders</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
The Outsiders
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Residents
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Music: Rock/Pop
The Residents
@ Gramercy Theatre
Fans of the bizarre, the occult, and the avant-garde gather tonight as the Residents kick off their first national tour in...  View details »
Ongoing
The Chadwicks: <em>The Genretron</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
The Genretron
@ Winkleman Gallery
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
@ 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 —...  View details »
Ongoing
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The Science Barge
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Towelhead</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Towelhead
@ Various locations
It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Glass Cage</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Glass Cage
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Lola Montes</em> (1955)
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Film
Lola Montes
@ Film Forum
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Burn After Reading
@ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...  View details »
Ongoing
William Pope.L: <em>October Projects</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
William Pope.L
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kevin Bewersdorf: <em>Monuments to the INFOspirit</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Kevin Bewersdorf
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Humboldt County</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Humboldt County
@ Various locations
Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Signs of Change
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
San Francisco Ballet at 75: The American Tour
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Dance
San Francisco Ballet
@ New York City Center
The oldest US ballet company has a New York pedigree. Former SFB director Lew Christensen was the first American to dance...  View details »
Ongoing
Gilbert & George
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Gilbert & George
@ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Wig Out!</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Wig Out!
@ Vineyard Theatre
Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The...  View details »
Ongoing
Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Elizabeth Peyton
@ New Museum of Contemporary Art
Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits...  View details »
Ongoing
Ear to the Earth Festival
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Festival
Ear to the Earth Festival
@ Various locations
The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jean Dubuffet: <em>The Hourloupe Cycle</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Jean Dubuffet
@ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Break Out</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Dance
Break Out
@ Union Square Theatre
The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Hollywood on the Hudson: Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Architecture/Design
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Banksy: <em>The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
@ Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Banksy, the art world's man of mystery (and controversy), continues to play the role of provocateur at The Village Pet Store...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sun K. Kwak: <em>Times Composed</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Sun K Kwak
@ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art
Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
South Pacific
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Photography
Rudy Burckhardt
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor
Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
@ North Cove Marina
With ever-increasing skyscrapers and gridlock traffic, it's easy to forget that we are surrounded by water. Get into the island-living mindset...  View details »
Ongoing
Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>[title of show]</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
[title of show]
@ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Ballast</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Film
Ballast
@ Film Forum
When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Other Options</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Other Options
@ Eyebeam
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Street Art, Street Life
@ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Happy-Go-Lucky
@ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...  View details »
Ongoing
Doug Aitken: <em>Migration</em> & <em>Empire</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Doug Aitken
@ 303 Gallery
Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fifty Words</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fifty Words
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Architecture/Design
Untethered
@ Eyebeam
Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Choke</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Choke
@ Landmark Sunshine
Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all...  View details »
Ongoing
Jennifer Steinkamp: <em>Daisy Bell</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Daisy Bell
@ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Beck
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Music: Rock/Pop
Beck
@ United Palace
The recent release of Modern Guilt, Beck's latest dark-and-dank collab with Danger Mouse, would be reason enough to make a beeline...  View details »
Sold Out!
Ongoing
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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Ongoing
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