Events on Friday, October 3
-
-
- Music: Electronic
- The Bug & Warrior Queen
- @ Love
- Like so much music out of the UK, Kevin Martin's projects have always shown a strong Jamaican influence. Whether recording as... View details »
-
-
- Music: DJ
- A-Trak & Boys Noize
- @ Webster Hall
- Braving the unwashed underagers at Webster Hall can be trying, but tonight the onslaught is worth it, because the payoff is... View details »
-
-
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Kills
- @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- The Kills' Alison Mosshart is all about sizzle — though not necessarily sex. Reveling in her throaty, cigarette-stained croak, the heavy... View details »
-
-
- More Flavor: Competition
- Hip-hop Karaoke
- @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
- Hip-hop nerds gather together for another round of thug-passion karaoke, attempting to do justice to the late greats (Biggie) and Magic... View details »
- Free Flavorpill 50
Ongoing Events
-
-
- More Flavor
- Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
- @ North Cove Marina
- With ever-increasing skyscrapers and gridlock traffic, it's easy to forget that we are surrounded by water. Get into the island-living mindset... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
- Film
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Film
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of... View details »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art: Photography
- 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 »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
-
-
- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- More Flavor: Festival
- FIAF Fall Festival
- @ Various locations
- Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Film
- Ballast
- @ Film Forum
- When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Film
- A Secret
- @ Various locations
- This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Music: Electronic
- Stereolab
- @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
- Art-pop connoisseurs Stereolab have a knack for nostalgia. With a name borrowed from a '50s record label's designation for stereo LPs,... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
![<em>[title of show]</em>](http://asset0.flavorpill.com/attachment_image_files/0014/3462/_title_of_show__event_home.jpg?1218049350)
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- [title of show]
- @ 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- @ Various locations in the East River
- Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns... View details »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Chekhov Lizardbrain
- @ Ohio Theatre
- This dance/clown/theatre ensemble has received lots of awards since forming in 1995, but you can't attribute its success to any one... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Film
- Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's... View details »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
-
-
- Art
- Kevin Bewersdorf
- @ V&A
- Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells... View details »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Film: Festival
- Views from the Avant-Garde
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Views from the Avant-Garde takes spectators on a sojourn to film's farthest-flung lunar landscape. The 12th edition of this NYFF showcase... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Hot Chip
- @ Terminal 5
- While Hot Chip were initially dismissed as electro jokers, it quickly became hard to ignore the brilliance of their genre-mashing sounds.... View details »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Oh What War
- @ HERE Arts Center
- Juggernaut Theatre Company's Oh What War is unflinching political theatre. Inspired by Joan Littlewood's 1960s musical Oh! What a Lovely War,... View details »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
-
-
- Film
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- Swirl of Swarm
- @ Cinders
- Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which... View details »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Film
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Taste of Korea 2008
- @ Various locations
- This week marks NYC's first-annual festival dedicated to traditional Korean fare. Local restaurants let you try bibimbap — a dish of... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Gal Costa
- @ Blue Note
- Since joining up with Tropicalia bossa-rockers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Tom Ze in the swinging '60s, Brazilian songbird Gal Costa... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Film
- Women's Experimental Screening Series
- @ Old American Can Factory
- Although Maya Deren was the face that launched a thousand clips, her oft-overlooked contemporary Sara-Kathryn Arledge was just as pivotal in... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Film
- Battle in Seattle
- @ Various locations
- In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- More Flavor: Festival
- New Yorker Festival
- @ Various locations
- The New Yorker Festival is back with a jam-packed weekend of readings, discussions, film screenings, and private walking tours — in... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Film: Documentary
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- The Outsiders
- @ Lazarides Gallery NYC
- Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla... View details »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Factor T.
- @ St. Mark's Church
- Philosophy-meets-dance-theatre, in Polish — that could sum up Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre's latest offering, but it goes much further than that,... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- Derek Buckner
- @ George Billis Gallery
- In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings... View details »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- @ 37 Arts
- Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Film
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Art: Architecture/Design
- openhousenewyork
- @ Various locations
-
Year-round educational programs from openhousen
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- More Flavor: Sports
- City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
- @ Governors Island
- Family vacay meets interactive art party for Figment's mini-golf open, an all-day picnic and sports competition on Governors Island. Manhattan's southern... View details »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
OngoingFlavorpill 50
-
-
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Break Out
- @ Union Square Theatre
- The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- Other Options
- @ Eyebeam
- Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails... View details »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Performing Arts: Festival
- Crossing the Line
- @ Various locations
- A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art: Architecture/Design
- 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 »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- Tickle the Shitstem
- @ Zach Feuer Gallery
- Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a... View details »
-
OngoingFree
-
-
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 1965UU
- @ The Chocolate Factory
- On the planetoid 1965UU, memory is forbidden and words mutate in meaning (i.e., you never know when a vine might become... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Art
- 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 »
-
OngoingFree
-
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos
- @ Joyce Soho
- Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos create an intimate hour-long piece that addresses the intricacies of finding and sustaining love in the... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- Film
- Towelhead
- @ Various locations
- It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded... View details »
-
Ongoing
-
-
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
-
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink? Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
... View details » -
OngoingFlavorpill 50
