Events on Tuesday, October 21
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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/ 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
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Tuesday 10/21 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
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...
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...
Tuesday 10/21 @ Various locations
The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tuesday 10/21 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
