Events on Thursday, October 30
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- Angela Davis
- @ The Great Hall at Cooper Union
- Adored by feminists, lesbians, and people of color, Angela Davis, who was once on the FBI's most-wanted list, is now a... View details »
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- An Evening with Dracula
- @ LIVE from the NYPL
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Noted literary detective Leslie S. Klinger may live on the sunny shores
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- Halloween
- Voodoo Culture Clash
- @ Spiegelworld
- As Spiegelworld gets ready to close its doors for the season, the pranksters at Gemini & Scorpio throw a Halloween bash... View details »
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- Guggenheim Free Admission
- @ Guggenheim Museum
- For the last three years, tourists have huddled together in front of the Guggenheim — Museum Mile landmark and Frank Lloyd... View details »
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- Halloween
- BadAss Burlesque
- @ The Bowery Poetry Club
- Led by the eclectic Velocity Chyaldd, the talented ladies of BadAss Burlesque go all out for tonight's revue. The monthly affair... 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: Dance
- DanceNOW
- @ Dance Theater Workshop
- Bringing together 65 artists from all five boroughs, the DanceNOW festival throbs with the pulse of NYC during its weeklong run.... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback
- @ Anthology Film Archives
- With their landmark album Black Monk Time, the Monks created a unique document of the pre-Woodstock '60s, made up of Beatlemaniac... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Grand Inquisitor
- @ 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... 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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- Music: DJ
- Deprogram
- @ Love
- Chris Alker and Sushi Steve, responsible for the Lower East Side's weekly Stereo-Type parties, DJ and host this new monthly jam... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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 »
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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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- Christa Toole
- @ Phoenix Gallery
- In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of... View details »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Ann Lislegaard
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Festival
- Día de los Muertos
- @ St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery
- Mano a Mano — a nonprofit group dedicated to Mexican culture — presents four days of spooky celebrations surrounding the Día... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Back Back Back
- @ New York City Center
- Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's... 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
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Beyond a Memorable Fancy
- @ EFA Project Space
- The Elizabeth Foundation offers up a group show of cutting-edge printmakers alongside a host of ideas that spring from the ancient... View details »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- @ 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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- 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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- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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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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- '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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- The First Basket
- @ Village East Cinema
- For the Jewish kids who came of age in New York's tenements — mostly children of immigrants — playing sports meant... 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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- 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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- 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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- Music: Experimental
- A Week of Noise
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Zhang Xiaogang
- @ PaceWildenstein
- Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of... 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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- 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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- Tully Tini @ AT65
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