Events on Tuesday, October 14
Tuesday 10/14 @ Monkey Town
Verdun — the only electronic act we know of named after a WWI battle — travels the Silk Road tonight, hand-in-hand...
Tuesday 10/14 @ The Kitchen
Competitive-reading series Literary Death Match requires authors to step out from behind their writing desks and show some performance chops. The...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Highline Ballroom
Warp Records' bionic crooner Jamie Lidell first broke on the electro scene with 2005's Multiply. Touted as a brilliant, oddball homage...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall
Massachusetts-bred Jonathan Richman has been dropping controversial vinyl bombs since the early '70s. Co-founder of the legendary Modern Lovers (1970-74), the...
The Pull-Out Method feat. Purple Crush
Tuesday 10/14 @ Beauty Bar
The Pull-Out Method comes but twice a month, so dust off your dancing pants and hit Beauty Bar for Flavorpill editor...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 10/14 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Eyebeam
Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Winkleman Gallery
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Various locations
The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Film Forum
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 303 Gallery
Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303...
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 10/14 @ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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 —...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Various locations
The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ The Project
Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Various locations
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political...
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Tuesday 10/14 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Aperture Gallery
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Various locations
Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Tuesday 10/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/14 @ Angelika Film Center
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong...
