Events on Thursday, October 16
Thursday 10/16 @ International Studio & Curatorial Program
Ever since Jacob decided to throw down with the archangel Michael, rolling around in the dirt with God's holy instruments has...
Thursday 10/16 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Following the untimely death of drummer John Pike last summer, fans of Syracuse's Ra Ra Riot feared that the band might...
Harvestworks 30th Anniversary Benefit
Thursday 10/16 @ Galapagos Art Space
Tonight, tech-arts foundation Harvestworks celebrates three decades of developing, curating, and promoting arts and electronic media for the local community. Get...
Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa
Thursday 10/16 @ 92nd St Y
Jorie Graham takes the stage at the 92nd Street Y alongside fellow Pulitzer-winner Yusef Komunyakaa. Graham's artful yet abrupt language characterizes...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ Aperture Gallery
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and...
Thursday 10/16 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Thursday 10/16 @ Winkleman Gallery
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the...
Thursday 10/16 @ Various locations
What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in...
Thursday 10/16 @ Under St. Marks
Clay McLeod Chapman is a storyteller to keep an eye on — he has published several collections of character-driven short fiction,...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ The Project
Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello...
Thursday 10/16 @ Angelika Film Center
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong...
Thursday 10/16 @ Film Forum
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Thursday 10/16 @ 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 —...
Thursday 10/16 @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
Nonprofit arts organization free103point9 preps an audio feast with its radio-themed smorgasbord of avant-garde rock music, theatre, poetry, and artist presentations....
Thursday 10/16 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 303 Gallery
Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303...
Thursday 10/16 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ Various locations
The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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,...
Thursday 10/16 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
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Thursday 10/16 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Thursday 10/16 @ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....
Thursday 10/16 @ Various locations
The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ Leo Kesting Gallery
With his graphic style and street-wise influence, Jason Douglas Griffin gives us 80's Babies. These portraits of twentysomethings include paintings on...
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ Various locations
Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...
If You See Something Say Something
Thursday 10/16 @ Joe's Pub
We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded...
Thursday 10/16 @ Eyebeam
Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in...
Thursday 10/16 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
Thursday 10/16 @ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...
Thursday 10/16 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 10/16 @ 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...
