Events on Thursday, October 23
Puzzling the World: Sudoku & Crosswords
Thursday 10/23 @ Japan Society
True New Yorkers not only ride the subway, but also hit up the the paper's daily crossword or Sudoku puzzle on...
Rob da Bank w/ Hercules and Love Affair DJs
Thursday 10/23 @ Hiro Ballroom
Rob da Bank has hosted shows on BBC Radio 1, released records and put on club nights under his Sunday Best...
Crystal Stilts w/ Cause Co-Motion
Thursday 10/23 @ Pianos
The catchy psych-pop ditties of Brooklyn's Crystal Stilts could have been recorded in 1966 outside a 13th Floor Elevators show. Of...
Sam Champion w/ the Jealous Girlfriends, Mancino, and the Silent League
Thursday 10/23 @ The Bell House-
Brooklynites the Jealous Girlfriends — whose much-hyped shimmering sound has earned them praise from not just us, but the Times, and...
Global Hip-Hop Throwdown feat. Pharoahe Monch
Thursday 10/23 @ Drom
Raised in South "suicide" Queens, Pharoahe Monch could have easily become a well-to-do drug dealer or a gully rapper riddled with...
Daptone Family Fundraiser for Barack Obama
Thursday 10/23 @ Southpaw
Staten Island-bred Budos Band bring their lush Afro-soul stylings to Brooklyn, all in the name of "that one." The 12-piece band...
Thursday 10/23 @ 92YTribeca
Perhaps most famous for the early '60s fire-and-brimstone ballads he sang with his now-deceased brother Ira ("Satan Is Real" couldn't spell...
Thursday 10/23 @ Glasslands Gallery
So Percussion's off-kilter approach to performance is inarguably arty; however, the group is far from gallery-opening frou-frou. Rather, its bizarrely orchestrated...
The Black Hollies w/ Skeletonbreath
Thursday 10/23 @ Cake Shop
Steeped in Nuggets-style gold, the Black Hollies are a pitch-perfect homage to gods of '60s garage. Buzzing guitar crackles through intense...
Pela w/ the Muslims and Frances
Thursday 10/23 @ The Mercury Lounge
Led by Columbia PhD. student Paul Hogan, Frances play lushly orchestrated indie pop that's bound to attract references to bands like...
The Magnetic Fields w/ Shugo Tokumaru
Thursday 10/23 @ Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre
Stephin Merritt, the man who brought us the Future Bible Heroes, the 6ths, and the Gothic Archies, returns to NYC —...
Thursday 10/23 @ Fontana's
DC trio Jukebox the Ghost draw ready comparisons to Ben Folds Five (mostly because of pianist/lead singer's Ben Thornewill's classical training),...
Dialogues with Design Legends: Architecture
Thursday 10/23 @ 92nd St Y
Known for his bold deconstructivist designs, architect and founder of New York's Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies Peter Eisenman starts...
Thursday 10/23 @ Webster Hall
In the age of MySpace, having a handful of limited-edition 7-inches to your name doesn't mean you're off the radar: Toronto...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Issue Project Room
During a certain week in October, NYC experiences a sharp influx of music-industry nerds, reminding everyone of this city's musical history...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints....
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Thursday 10/23 @ Film Forum
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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...
Thursday 10/23 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker
Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is...
Thursday 10/23 @ Apex Art
In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David...
Thursday 10/23 @ Various locations
What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in...
Thursday 10/23 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Thursday 10/23 @ June Havoc Theatre
Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a...
Thursday 10/23 @ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...
Thursday 10/23 @ Various locations
The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Linda Gross Theater
Playwright Beau Willimon served on the staff of many political campaigns — including Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid — and his knowledge gives us...
Thursday 10/23 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Brooklynite Gallery
With its low cost of living and thriving creative community, Berlin is so often compared to yesterday's New York that the...
Thursday 10/23 @ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...
Thursday 10/23 @ IFC Center
The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna?...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Various locations
The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ The Project
Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Eyebeam
Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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...
If You See Something Say Something
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Under St. Marks
Clay McLeod Chapman is a storyteller to keep an eye on — he has published several collections of character-driven short fiction,...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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....
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Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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...
Thursday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ 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...
