Events on Wednesday, October 29
Wednesday 10/29 @ Madison Square Garden
After a disastrous season both on and off court last year that ended in one of the worst records in the...
Wednesday 10/29 @ The Players Club
"Simon Says" columnist and fashionista extraordinaire Simon Doonan hosts tonight's show centered on the topic of guts. Storytellers regale us with...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints....
Wednesday 10/29 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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,...
Wednesday 10/29 @ IFC Center
The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna?...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....
Wednesday 10/29 @ Village East Cinema
For the Jewish kids who came of age in New York's tenements — mostly children of immigrants — playing sports meant...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Murray Guy
For parts two and three of her highly referential 3D video trilogy, artist Ann Lislegaard filters her consuming mind-and-matter explorations about...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Issue Project Room
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore concludes the Issue Project Room's Decades project this week, bringing the cream of the East Coast noise...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Phoenix Gallery
In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Winkleman Gallery
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Angelika Film Center
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Film Forum
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ June Havoc Theatre
Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Aperture Gallery
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Wednesday 10/29 @ Various locations
New York has some legendary pizza, but there's also some real crap out there; save the cash you'll waste finding the...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Various locations
What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ The Project
Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Ad Hoc Art
This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
If You See Something Say Something
Wednesday 10/29 @ Joe's Pub
We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded...
Wednesday 10/29 @ New York Theatre Workshop
Famed British director Peter Brook helms this well-staged parable from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. A co-presentation by New York Theatre Workshop...
Wednesday 10/29 @ Apex Art
In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/29 @ 303 Gallery
Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303...
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Wednesday 10/29 @ 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...
