Events on Friday, October 31
Friday 10/31 @ Spiegelworld
As Spiegelworld gets ready to close its doors for the season, the pranksters at Gemini & Scorpio throw a Halloween bash...
Ghostly + Throne of Blood Halloween
Friday 10/31 @ Studio B
Studio B, Greenpoint's enfant terrible of venues, offers costumed hipsters a stellar Halloween lineup courtesy of design-conscious label Ghostly International. Co-hosting...
Friday 10/31 @ Danbro Studios Warehouse
In honor of the year's scariest day, Brooklyn scene-maker Todd P and booking dynamo Panache have brought together a lineup of...
Friday 10/31 @ Silent Barn
Artist Nate Hill doesn't mince words — but materials are a different matter. Tonight, the self-anointed G.O.A.T and God (of his...
Friday 10/31 @ BAMcafé
BAM celebrates Halloween with two bands inspired by the dark, swirling sounds of Balkan music. Brooklyn's Luminescent Orchestrii incite frenzied dancing...
Friday 10/31 @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
This is it, kids: the big yearly to-do thrown by Brooklyn's cherished cabaret punks, the World/Inferno Friendship Society. The merry group...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Public Assembly
After a summer full of dates dedicated to performing material from his DBX project, Daniel Bell returns to the Bunker tonight...
Friday 10/31 @ Surreal Estate
This month's Critical Mass bike ride falls on Halloween — drivers beware! Expect a horde of costumed cyclists to descend on...
Friday 10/31 @ 6th Ave
After 34 years of stomping up 6th Avenue in the trippiest of Halloween get-ups, New Yorkers get the chance to come...
Polysics w/ Jaguar Love, Black Gold
Friday 10/31 @ The Mercury Lounge
Polysics are as renowned for their pummeling assaults on pop-punk power chords as for their spaztastic yelps. The band's synth-driven wackiness,...
Theater for the New City's Costume Ball
Friday 10/31 @ Theater for the New City
The West Village may have the parade, but over on the east side, Theater for the New City gathers its own...
St. John's Halloween Extravaganza
Friday 10/31 @ St. John the Divine
A ghoulish spectacle of film, music, and pageantry is in store tonight when the spirit of Halloween visits the Cathedral of...
Friday 10/31 @ Anthology Film Archives
The lurid nature of Ken Russell's work attracts the curious like a bug-swirled lamp. Fittingly, his most notorious excess, The Devils,...
Friday 10/31 @ Various locations
Since Halloween comes but once a year, why not enjoy all 24 hours? Such is the thinking behind TheDanger's epic revels,...
Friday 10/31 @ Brooklyn Lyceum
So you've outgrown trick-or-treating, but still like getting the pants scared off of you. No problem: tonight's Halloween movie marathon at...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/31 @ Ad Hoc Art
This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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
Friday 10/31 @ 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 —...
Friday 10/31 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 10/31 @ Apex Art
In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David...
Friday 10/31 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ IFC Center
The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna?...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...
Friday 10/31 @ Village East Cinema
For the Jewish kids who came of age in New York's tenements — mostly children of immigrants — playing sports meant...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Back in the late '60s, our avert-thy-eyes censors banned Vilgot Sjöman's I Am Curious (Yellow) for its free-love approach toward cinematic...
Friday 10/31 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
Friday 10/31 @ Angelika Film Center
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong...
Friday 10/31 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Friday 10/31 @ Dreamland Roller Rink
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Brooklynite Gallery
With its low cost of living and thriving creative community, Berlin is so often compared to yesterday's New York that the...
Friday 10/31 @ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...
Friday 10/31 @ Under St. Marks
Clay McLeod Chapman is a storyteller to keep an eye on — he has published several collections of character-driven short fiction,...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Winkleman Gallery
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the...
Friday 10/31 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Friday 10/31 @ 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,...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get...
Friday 10/31 @ The Project
Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello...
If You See Something Say Something
Friday 10/31 @ Joe's Pub
We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ PaceWildenstein
Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of...
Friday 10/31 @ June Havoc Theatre
Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a...
Friday 10/31 @ Phoenix Gallery
In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
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Friday 10/31 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Friday 10/31 @ 303 Gallery
Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303...
Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Friday 10/31 @ Film Forum
In a bit of inspired programming, Film Forum screens Roman Polanski's dad-might-be-the-devil classic on All Saint's Day. Mia Farrow stars as...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints....
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
