Events on Saturday, October 11
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour
- @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
- Mentioning the Elephant 6 collective to music geeks is like bringing up Godard with cinephiles: there's a pretty good chance they're... View details »
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- A Power Stronger Than Itsef
- @ The Kitchen
- George Lewis is a musician, composer, and professor whose visionary work — both musical and literary — has mapped the terrain... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Alexander Robotnick
- @ Love
- You don't have to be a synth-pop or Italo-disco fanatic to appreciate a live Robotnick show. The free-spirited producer is known... View details »
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- Against Me!
- @ Webster Hall
- The punk-rock landscape encompasses everything from radical politics and DIY culture to abrasive antics and self-mutilation, and Against Me!'s current tour... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- DJ Z-Trip
- @ Santos Party House
- Mashups are soooo 2001. Now that every Serato-toting DJ has figured out how to drop T-Pain a cappellas on top of... View details »
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- Art: Party
- Destroy+Construct+Construct+Destroy
- @ Deity
- Graffiti cats are the badasses of the art world, but tonight's featured graf artists — Destroy and Rebuild's recently released AVOne... View details »
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- Gowanus Harvest Festival
- @ The BKLYN Yard
- The Gowanus Harvest Festival brings the farm to Brooklyn's famously industrial canal. Besides locally produced apples, pickles, cheeses (from Saxelby!), breads,... View details »
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- Amazing Maize Maze
- @ Queens County Farm Museum
- If you don't mind the trek, the Queens County Farm Museum's Amazing Maize Maze is one of fall's finest (and strangest)... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- The Met: Live in HD
- @ BAM
- Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Artists and Fleas
- @ Artists and Fleas
- The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Brooklyn Flea
- @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. Every Saturday in Fort... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Brooklyn Indie Market
- @ Brooklyn Indie Market
- The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty... View details »
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- Make Love, Not War
- @ Black Betty
- During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Hiroshi Shafer
- @ English Kills
- Scattered around English Kills, Bushwick's DIY living/exhibition space, new sculptures from Brooklyn-based artist Hiroshi Shafer reinterpret and poke fun at male-female... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Killing Joke
- @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
- One of post-punk's thorniest acts, Killing Joke, return after a long silence for two abrasive nights in New York. Show number... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Olaf Breuning
- @ Metro Pictures
- Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's work is wonderfully funny, co-opting the bright neon colors of contemporary art and the artificial conceit of... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- @ 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
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