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... 

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... 

<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... 

<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>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... 

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... 

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>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... 

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>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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

<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... 

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>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>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... 

<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... 

<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... 

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... 

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,... 

<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... 

<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... 

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>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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

<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... 

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... 

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>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... 

<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... 

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... 

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Theatre

[title of show]

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... 

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>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... 

<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... 

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>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... 

<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>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>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... 

<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>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... 

<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... 

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... 

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>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>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... 

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... 

<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>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>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... 

<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...