Events on Thursday, October 9

Artist Talk with Guy Cassiers

Special Event

Guy Cassiers

Thursday 10/ 9 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Although hardly a household name (unless you happen to live in an experimental theater), Dutch/Belgian artist Guy Cassiers is quietly becoming... 

Deitch Artists Dialogue feat. Kiki Smith, Swoon, and Ann Messner

Special Event

Kiki Smith, Swoon, and Ann Messner

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Deitch Studios

Carlo McCormick moderates a just-announced discussion featuring New York video artist Ann Messner, recent sailor of the Switchback Sea Swoon, and... 

Stanton Warriors

Music: DJ

Stanton Warriors

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Love

British breakbeat dons Dominic Butler and Marc Yardley, aka Stanton Warriors, have been churning out electro-tinged nu breaks for ten years,... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Jennifer Steinkamp: <em>Daisy Bell</em>

Art

Daisy Bell

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Lehmann Maupin

In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God.... 

<em>Other Options</em>

Art

Other Options

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Eyebeam

Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails... 

<em>Ballast</em>

Film

Ballast

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Film Forum

When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew... 

<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

The Residents

Music

The Residents

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Gramercy Theatre

Fans of the bizarre, the occult, and the avant-garde gather tonight as the Residents kick off their first national tour in... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Film

Burn After Reading

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Various locations

After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift... 

<em>Fifty Words</em>

Theatre

Fifty Words

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>The Outsiders</em>

Art

The Outsiders

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Ear to the Earth Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Ear to the Earth Festival

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Various locations

The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical... 

Pig Iron presents <em>Chekhov Lizardbrain</em>

Theatre

Chekhov Lizardbrain

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Sue Williams: <em>Project for the New American Century</em>

Art

Sue Williams

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Kevin Bewersdorf: <em>Monuments to the INFOspirit</em>

Art

Kevin Bewersdorf

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Sun K. Kwak: <em>Times Composed</em>

Art

Sun K Kwak

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Humboldt County</em>

Film

Humboldt County

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Various locations

Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest... 

<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Thursday 10/ 9 @ American Airlines Theater

A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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,... 

Banksy: <em>The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill</em>

Art

The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now</em>

Art

Signs of Change

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Gladstone Gallery

In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... 

Deprogram

Music: DJ

Deprogram

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Love

Chris Alker and Sushi Steve, responsible for the Lower East Side's weekly Stereo-Type parties, DJ and host this new monthly jam... 

Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Hollywood on the Hudson: Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39</em>

Film

Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Choke</em>

Film

Choke

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Landmark Sunshine

Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all... 

<em>Wig Out!</em>

Theatre

Wig Out!

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Vineyard Theatre

Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The... 

<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Battle in Seattle</em>

Film

Battle in Seattle

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Various locations

In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political... 

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Theatre

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Thursday 10/ 9 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

Stephen Vitiello: <em>Four Color Sound</em>

Art

Four Color Sound

Thursday 10/ 9 @ The Project

Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello... 

James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>

Art: Photography

Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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 —... 

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Spiegelworld

This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

<em>Fault Lines</em>

Theatre

Fault Lines

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Mart&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez

Art

Martín Ramírez

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

I Kiffe NY: French Urban Cultures Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

I Kiffe NY

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Various locations

The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Doug Aitken: <em>Migration</em> & <em>Empire</em>

Art

Doug Aitken

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 303 Gallery

Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303... 

<em>Towelhead</em>

Film

Towelhead

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

William Pope.L: <em>October Projects</em>

Art

William Pope.L

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades</em>

Art

Untethered

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Eyebeam

Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in... 

<em>Invasion 68: Prague</em>

Art: Photography

Invasion 68: Prague

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Aperture Gallery

For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and... 

<em>Break Out</em>

Dance

Break Out

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Union Square Theatre

The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of... 

Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Thursday 10/ 9 @ SculptureCenter

In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

Beck

Music

Beck

Thursday 10/ 9 @ United Palace

The recent release of Modern Guilt, Beck's latest dark-and-dank collab with Danger Mouse, would be reason enough to make a beeline... 

<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing...