Events on Tuesday, October 21

Happy Anarchy w/ Thing-One

Music

Thing-One

Tuesday 10/21 @ The Mercury Lounge

For just four dudes, Thing-One make a lot of noise — but it's not some crazy cacophony. Listening to expansive tracks... 

My Favorite Things featuring Trus'me

Music: DJ

Trus'me

Tuesday 10/21 @ Le Souk

Manchester's Trus'me manufactures just the kind of deep and dirty house, funk, and soul that you'd expect from a child of... 

The GoStation w/ Padre Pio and Salt & Samovar

Music

Salt & Samovar w/ the GoStation

Tuesday 10/21 @ Fontana's

There's something classic about Salt & Samovar, and it's not just the old-timey lettering they use on handbills and album covers.... 

Evidence w/ Aceyalone, 88-Keys, Izza Kizza, and DJ Babu

Music: Hip-Hop

Evidence w/ Aceyalone

Tuesday 10/21 @ Sullivan Hall

Indie-hop label Decon Media reunites its cross-country rap team tonight: fresh coast's rap-jabberwocky Aceyalone and his LA cohorts Evidence and DJ... 

BrooklynVegan presents Singing DJ Jens Lekman w/ Shearwater, Passion Pit, Ponytail, the Sammies, and Emmy the Great

Music

Singing DJ Jens Lekman

Tuesday 10/21 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

If you aren't familiar with the rare beast known as the "singing DJ," check out Swedish crooner Jens Lekman's oddball set... 

Deerhoof

Music

Deerhoof

Tuesday 10/21 @ Spiegelworld

Leave it to heady avant-garde rockers Deerhoof to leak sheet music to build hype for an upcoming album. Rather than go... 

Lykke Li w/ Friendly Fires and Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

Music

Lykke Li

Tuesday 10/21 @ The Bowery Ballroom

A singer whose sense of pop composition mirrors equally skewed Swedish superstars like Jens Lekman and Robyn, Lykke Li is at... 

Cool Kids w/ Free Sol, Skillz, and the Carps

Music: Hip-Hop

Cool Kids

Tuesday 10/21 @ Gramercy Theatre

Young retro rappers the Cool Kids are bringing '88 back, slow and low — just how we like it. Even if... 

Wordless Music presents Gilles Vonsattel w/ Klimek, Ezekiel Honig, and Simon Boyar

Music: Electronic

Gilles Vonsattel w/ Klimek

Tuesday 10/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

During a show that marries the classical and contemporary, three electronic-music masters share Poisson Rouge's stage with pianist Gilles Vonsattel. The... 

Radioclit w/ the So So Glos, the London Souls, and Dub Defender

Music: DJ

Radioclit w/ the So So Glos

Tuesday 10/21 @ Santos Party House

According to Brooklyn-based collaborators No Surrender, Radioclit are "making music for your grandchildren's children's children." But this generation seems to be... 

Wale w/ Daniel Merriweather, Rhymefest, the Rumble Strips, and Mark Ronson

Music: Hip-Hop

Wale w/ the Rumble Strips and Mark Ronson

Tuesday 10/21 @ S.O.B.'s

Hip-hop's been feeling a lot of heat lately, but tonight's show should restore faith in the future of the game. After... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Tuesday 10/21 @ Gladstone Gallery

In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>Wig Out!</em>

Theatre

Wig Out!

Tuesday 10/21 @ Vineyard Theatre

Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The... 

Chanel Mobile Art

Art

Chanel Mobile Art

Tuesday 10/21 @ Rumsey Field in Central Park

Visionary architect Zaha Hadid collaborates with Chanel and fashion baron Karl Lagerfeld to land an ephemeral museum in the middle of... 

<em>Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades</em>

Art

Untethered

Tuesday 10/21 @ Eyebeam

Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in... 

Blek Le Rat

Art

Blek Le Rat

Tuesday 10/21 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints.... 

<em>Fault Lines</em>

Theatre

Fault Lines

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

Doug Aitken: <em>Migration</em> & <em>Empire</em>

Art

Doug Aitken

Tuesday 10/21 @ 303 Gallery

Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Tuesday 10/21 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

Jean Dubuffet: <em>The Hourloupe Cycle</em>

Art

Jean Dubuffet

Tuesday 10/21 @ PaceWildenstein

Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Tuesday 10/21 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... 

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

Free Night of Theater 2008

Theatre

Free Night of Theater 2008

Tuesday 10/21 @ Various locations

What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in... 

The Chadwicks: <em>The Genretron</em>

Art

The Genretron

Tuesday 10/21 @ Winkleman Gallery

In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Tuesday 10/21 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Tuesday 10/21 @ Barrow Street Theater

In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... 

Stephen Vitiello: <em>Four Color Sound</em>

Art

Four Color Sound

Tuesday 10/21 @ The Project

Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello... 

I Kiffe NY: French Urban Cultures Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

I Kiffe NY

Tuesday 10/21 @ Various locations

The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past... 

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Tuesday 10/21 @ Spiegelworld

This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... 

William Pope.L: <em>October Projects</em>

Art

William Pope.L

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 10/21 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Fifty Words</em>

Theatre

Fifty Words

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>Lola Montes</em> (1955)

Film

Lola Montes

Tuesday 10/21 @ Film Forum

With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,... 

Banksy: <em>The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill</em>

Art

The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 10/21 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>Humboldt County</em>

Film

Humboldt County

Tuesday 10/21 @ Various locations

Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest... 

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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,... 

Olaf Breuning

Art: Photography

Olaf Breuning

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>Filth and Wisdom</em>

Film

Filth and Wisdom

Tuesday 10/21 @ IFC Center

The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna?... 

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Tuesday 10/21 @ Laura Pels Theatre

Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's... 

<em>Invasion 68: Prague</em>

Art: Photography

Invasion 68: Prague

Tuesday 10/21 @ Aperture Gallery

For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and... 

<em>Beachwood Drive</em>

Theatre

Beachwood Drive

Tuesday 10/21 @ June Havoc Theatre

Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a... 

Ear to the Earth Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Ear to the Earth Festival

Tuesday 10/21 @ Various locations

The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical... 

Mart&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez

Art

Martín Ramírez

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

Film

Burn After Reading

Tuesday 10/21 @ Various locations

After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift... 

<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Tuesday 10/21 @ American Airlines Theater

A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... 

<em>Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now</em>

Art

Signs of Change

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>Choke</em>

Film

Choke

Tuesday 10/21 @ Landmark Sunshine

Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all... 

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Theatre

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Tuesday 10/21 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

Sue Williams: <em>Project for the New American Century</em>

Art

Sue Williams

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>If You See Something Say Something</em>

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Tuesday 10/21 @ Joe's Pub

We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded... 

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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 —... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

National Design Week

Festival: Performing Arts

National Design Week

Tuesday 10/21 @ Cooper-Hewitt

The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum opens its doors to the public for an entire week of free admission and programs.... 

Jason Douglas Griffin: <em>80's Babies</em>

Art

'80s Babies

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

<em>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Tuesday 10/21 @ Landmark Sunshine

British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but... 

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Tuesday 10/21 @ 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... 

Stas Orlovski: <em>Nocturnes</em>

Art

Stas Orlovski

Tuesday 10/21 @ Mixed Greens

One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from... 

<em>Ashes of Time Redux</em>

Film

Ashes of Time Redux

Tuesday 10/21 @ Angelika Film Center

Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong...