Events on Wednesday, October 15
Wednesday 10/15 @ KGB Bar
Weird Tales, which describes itself as "the original magazine of the unique, fantastic, and bizarre," published science-fiction giants such as H.P....
Debate Night w/ Molly Crabapple
Wednesday 10/15 @ Museum of Sex
Scream at the screen with Molly Crabapple as she simultaneously takes in the third presidential debate and unveils her sexy political...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Symphony Space
Cubicle-loads of run-of-the-mill office situations have been repackaged into laugh-out-loud entertainment recently — from monkey-as-moneymaker commercials to the caricatures of Dilbert,...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Named after a rare amplifier favored by the Melvins, Sunn O))) play impossibly loud drone metal. The duo dons black robes,...
Blackest of the Black Festival
Wednesday 10/15 @ Roseland Ballroom
The Roseland Ballroom's celebration of dark, mirthless metal is not for the faint of heart or weak of ears. Glenn Danzig's...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Eyebeam
Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ The Project
Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Winkleman Gallery
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Dance Theater Workshop
Trajal Harrell's previous work has drawn on such disparate sources as literary fiction and runway theatricality to explore heady concepts about...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Various locations
The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
If You See Something Say Something
Wednesday 10/15 @ Joe's Pub
We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Various locations
The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Film Forum
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,...
Wednesday 10/15 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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...
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Angelika Film Center
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong...
