Events on Sunday, October 5
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- Music: Global
- Antibalas
- @ Spiegelworld
- When Nigeria's Fela Kuti created Afrobeat — a fusion of jazz improvisation, blistering funk bass, and local Yoruba percussion — his firebrand... View details »
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- Atlantic Antic
- @ Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
- The always-hoppin' Atlantic Avenue becomes an even busier thoroughfare today. Local boutiques, craftspeople, musicians, and restaurants hawk their wares (or just... View details »
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- James Wood
- @ 92nd St Y
- James Wood is one of the few academics who has been able to transcend the stodgy, tedious style of writing that... View details »
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- 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 »
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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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- Artists and Fleas
- @ Artists and Fleas
- The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... View details »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- Brooklyn Indie Market
- @ Brooklyn Indie Market
- The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty... View details »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Hiroshi Shafer
- @ English Kills
- Scattered around English Kills, Bushwick's DIY living/exhibition space, new sculptures from Brooklyn-based artist Hiroshi Shafer reinterpret and poke fun at male-female... 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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- 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 »
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- GreenFlea Market
- @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School
- As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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: 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Mafioso and Lo Scopone Scientifico
- @ Film Forum
- Director Alberto Lattuada is too often the odd man out in film appreciation's musical-chairs shuffling, but the mid-century maestro's satirical gifts... 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: Rock/Pop
- Tegan and Sara
- @ Terminal 5
- These identical Canadian twins strike a balance by melding voices — one ethereal, one gutsy — with a musical diversity ranging... View details »
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- 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 »
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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: Comedy/Improv
- ASSSSCAT 3000
- @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
- Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from... 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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Fall Furniture Festival
- @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
- Every Sunday in October, vintage mavens Brooklyn Flea team up with eco-designers Greenjeans to showcase young, local, and sustainable furniture makers... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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 »
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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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- 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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- Amazing Maize Maze
- @ Queens County Farm Museum
- If you don't mind the trek, the Queens County Farm Museum's Amazing Maize Maze is one of fall's finest (and strangest)... 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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- 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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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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