Events on Friday, October 24
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Mae Shi w/ AIDS Wolf, DMBQ, and An Albatross
- @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
- Spazz-punk band the Mae Shi follow in the footsteps of LA faves No Age, building their fan base through unremittingly energetic... View details »
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- Soulwax
- @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
- Though they go by many names (2manydjs, the Flying Dewaele Brothers, Kawazaki, etc), Belgian electro-head brothers David and Stephen Dewaele may... View details »
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- Greg Wilson
- @ Santos Party House
- Back when sounds took a while to migrate across the Atlantic, Britain's Greg Wilson was an avid supporter of early NYC... View details »
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- Oxford Collapse w/ the Ruby Suns, Death Vessel, and the Dutchess & the Duke
- @ Pianos
- Pitchfork darlings the Ruby Suns take their pop sensibilities far afield, tempering the almighty indie anthem with bizarre orchestral accoutrements. That's... View details »
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- Jay Reatard w/ Longwave
- @ The Bowery Ballroom
- Jay Reatard might be the current king of Memphis garage punk, but he's a completist's nightmare — his overflowing discography makes... View details »
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- Broken Social Scene
- @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
- Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene feature an ever-rotating cast of musicians (Leslie Feist was once a member), many hand-plucked from Toronto's... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Gothamist House
- @ The Bell House
- New York-centric blog franchise Gothamist dives into CMJ with its well-curated concert series, held this year at Brooklyn's gorgeous new Bell... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Dungen w/ Marissa Nadler and TK Webb & the Visions
- @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- Swedish psych-pop imports Dungen recall a past era where experimental musicians weren't afraid to swirl their instruments simply for the sake... View details »
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- Deastro w/ Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears
- @ Glasslands Gallery
- Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears recall the Kinks and XTC, dipped in a bit of Queen-style bravado. Which is all... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- Gang Gang Dance w/ Growing, Psychic Ills, and Sian Alice Group
- @ Santos Party House
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- Vivian Girls w/ Takka Takka
- @ Cake Shop
- Brooklyn's Vivian Girls dip the atonal umbrage of the Shaggs into Bangles-style structures; the resulting moaners are simultaneously cloying and undeniably... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- My Crew Be Unruly feat. Blaqstarr
- @ Love
- Baltimore club legends Scottie B. and Shawn Caesar's Unruly Records invades New York with a slew of Charm City beatsmiths and... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Delicious Gutter Night Out
- @ Webster Hall
- Delicious Gutter unites Delicious Vinyl's Rick Ross and B-more gutter-baby Aaron LaCrate. Tonight, the new label heads go out on the... View details »
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- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Black Watch
- @ 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... View details »
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- I've Loved You So Long
- @ Angelika Film Center
- English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... View details »
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- Sun K Kwak
- @ 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... View details »
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- Fifty Words
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Invasion 68: Prague
- @ Aperture Gallery
- For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and... View details »
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- In the Language of Angels
- @ Ad Hoc Art
- This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Free Night of Theater 2008
- @ Various locations
- What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in... View details »
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- '80s Babies
- @ 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... View details »
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- Wig Out!
- @ Vineyard Theatre
- Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The... View details »
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- If You See Something Say Something
- @ Joe's Pub
- We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded... View details »
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- Mario Merz
- @ Gladstone Gallery
- In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... View details »
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- The Pumpkin Pie Show
- @ Under St. Marks
- Clay McLeod Chapman is a storyteller to keep an eye on — he has published several collections of character-driven short fiction,... View details »
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- Blek Le Rat
- @ Jonathan Levine Gallery
- French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints.... View details »
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- NeoHooDoo
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... View details »
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- The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
- @ 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... View details »
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- Daisy Bell
- @ Lehmann Maupin
- In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God.... View details »
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- Blasted
- @ 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... View details »
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- Happy-Go-Lucky
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Untethered
- @ Eyebeam
- Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- @ Spiegelworld
- This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... View details »
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- We Burn, We Shiver
- @ SculptureCenter
- In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... View details »
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- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Stas Orlovski
- @ Mixed Greens
- One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from... View details »
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- Fault Lines
- @ 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... View details »
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- Choke
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all... View details »
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- Martín Ramírez
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Seagull
- @ 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... View details »
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- Sue Williams
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Science Barge
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ashes of Time Redux
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong... View details »
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- Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
- @ 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 —... View details »
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- Time Machine
- @ Brooklynite Gallery
- With its low cost of living and thriving creative community, Berlin is so often compared to yesterday's New York that the... View details »
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- Filth and Wisdom
- @ IFC Center
- The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna?... View details »
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- Perverted by Theater
- @ Apex Art
- In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- @ 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... View details »
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- Quilts of the 1930s
- @ 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... View details »
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- William Pope.L
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- @ 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... View details »
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- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- @ 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... View details »
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- Kehinde Wiley
- @ 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... View details »
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- Signs of Change
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Farragut North
- @ 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... View details »
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- Rachel Getting Married
- @ Various locations
- The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Atheist
- @ Barrow Street Theater
- In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... View details »
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- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- @ 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,... View details »
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- In the Heights
- @ 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... View details »
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- Four Color Sound
- @ The Project
- Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello... View details »
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- Dreamland Roller Rink
- @ Dreamland Roller Rink
- Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this... View details »
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- Religulous
- @ Quad Cinema
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fair
- The New York Art Book Fair
- @ Phillips de Pury & Company
- The auction house Phillips de Pury & Company, which has a reputation for fetching top dollar for contemporary art, plays host... View details »
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- The Glass Cage
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jean Dubuffet
- @ PaceWildenstein
- Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art... View details »
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- Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Melvin Van Peebles raised a middle finger to the police and Hollywood with his watershed 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.... View details »
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- I Kiffe NY
- @ Various locations
- The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past... View details »
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- Rudy Burckhardt
- @ 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... View details »
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- Lola Montes
- @ Film Forum
- With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,... View details »
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- Let the Right One In
- @ Angelika Film Center
- This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... View details »
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- The Genretron
- @ Winkleman Gallery
- In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the... View details »
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- A Man for All Seasons
- @ American Airlines Theater
- A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... View details »
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- Chanel Mobile Art
- @ 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... View details »
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- National Design Week
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- @ 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... View details »
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- Essential Repertoire
- @ 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... View details »
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- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Doug Aitken
- @ 303 Gallery
- Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303... View details »
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- Beachwood Drive
- @ June Havoc Theatre
- Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a... View details »
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- Burn After Reading
- @ Various locations
- After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift... View details »
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- Street Art, Street Life
- @ 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... View details »
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- Synecdoche, New York
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... View details »
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- Gilbert & George
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
- The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... View details »
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- Streamers
- @ 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... View details »
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- Humboldt County
- @ Various locations
- Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest... View details »
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- Elizabeth Peyton
- @ 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... View details »
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- South Pacific
- @ 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... View details »
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- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
- @ 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... View details »
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- @ Lyceum Theatre
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... View details »
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- Olaf Breuning
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fair
- WFMU Record and CD Fair
- @ Metropolitan Pavilion
- Take out those earbuds and head over to the Metropolitan Pavilion for a weekend of charitable digging that benefits everyone's favorite... View details »
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- Ear to the Earth Festival
- @ Various locations
- The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical... View details »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich.... View details »
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