Events on Thursday, November 13

<em>A Film About Anna Akhmatova</em>

Film: Documentary

A Film About Anna Akhmatova

Thursday 11/13 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center

September 23's New Republic reported on Vladimir Putin's implementation of a standardized (ahem, censored) history textbook for high schoolers. But no... 

Little Joy  w/ the Dead Trees

Music

Little Joy

Thursday 11/13 @ The Mercury Lounge

If the Strokes is the tree, Fabrizio Moretti's new side project, Little Joy, doesn't fall far from it. Rodrigo Amarante's (Los... 

<em>Wild Style</em> 25th-Anniversary Party feat. Spank Rock and Grandmaster Caz

Music: Hip-Hop

Wild Style Party feat. Spank Rock

Thursday 11/13 @ Danbro Studios Warehouse

Hip-hop went to the movies big-time in 1983 with Charlie Ahearn's cinematic ode to Bronx culture, rapping, and writing, Wild... 

The Budos Band

Music: Global

The Budos Band

Thursday 11/13 @ S.O.B.'s

Though they rock a serious set of horns, an in-the-pocket rhythm section, and an old-school organ, 12-piece Afro-soul orchestra the Budos... 

Alejandro Escovedo w/ Amy Cook

Music

Alejandro Escovedo

Thursday 11/13 @ The Bowery Ballroom

After kicking off his career with San Francisco punks the Nuns, Alejandro Escovedo ushered in the alt-country movement with Austin bands... 

Resident Advisor Night feat. Dixon, &Acirc;me, and Brendon Moeller

Music: DJ

Dixon and Âme

Thursday 11/13 @ Cielo

The folks at Resident Advisor round up a mighty lineup for tonight's showcase at Cielo. Dixon has been a mainstay on... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

Richard Prince: <em>Canal Zone</em>

Art

Richard Prince

Thursday 11/13 @ Gagosian Gallery

Part post-apocalyptic vision, part biographical flashback, Richard Prince's Canal Zone is set in primal overdrive. Filled with an abundance of virile... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>Stages</em>

Film

Stages

Thursday 11/13 @ Film Forum

Somber and episodic, the Dutch film Stages pays such serious homage to Bergman that it very well could have taken "Scenes... 

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

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Thursday 11/13 @ Landmark Sunshine

British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but... 

<em>Farragut North</em>

Theatre

Farragut North

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Thursday 11/13 @ SculptureCenter

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

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

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Theatre

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Thursday 11/13 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

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

Art

Signs of Change

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

Every Minute, Four Ideas: The Films of Arnaud Desplechin

Festival: Performing Arts

The Films of Arnaud Desplechin

Thursday 11/13 @ IFC Center

Arnaud Desplechin may be one of the cinema's most important living directors (he's certainly the best ensemble film director working today),... 

Keith Haring: <em>The Ten Commandments</em>

Art

Keith Haring

Thursday 11/13 @ Deitch Studios

Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Thursday 11/13 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

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 11/13 @ 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... 

Blek Le Rat

Art

Blek Le Rat

Thursday 11/13 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints.... 

Inbal Pinto Dance Company: <em>Shaker</em>

Dance

Inbal Pinto Dance Company

Thursday 11/13 @ The Joyce Theater

One of the most imaginative contemporary dance troupes currently touring, the Tel Aviv-based Inbal Pinto Dance Company takes up residence at... 

Mart&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez

Art

Martín Ramírez

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>If You See Something Say Something</em>

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Thursday 11/13 @ Joe's Pub

We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded... 

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

Zhang Xiaogang: <em>Revision</em>

Art

Zhang Xiaogang

Thursday 11/13 @ PaceWildenstein

Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Thursday 11/13 @ Paragraph

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

Deprogram

Music: DJ

Deprogram

Thursday 11/13 @ Love

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

<em>Pop Surrealism: In the Language of Angels</em>

Art

In the Language of Angels

Thursday 11/13 @ Ad Hoc Art

This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Thursday 11/13 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

<em>The Grand Inquisitor</em>

Theatre

The Grand Inquisitor

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>

Art

NeoHooDoo

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Thursday 11/13 @ Various locations

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

<em>Taking Over</em>

Theatre

Taking Over

Thursday 11/13 @ The Public Theater

Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make... 

Andreas Gursky

Art: Photography

Andreas Gursky

Thursday 11/13 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Thursday 11/13 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>Repo! The Genetic Opera</em>

Film

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Thursday 11/13 @ Angelika Film Center

Not even Paris Hilton can detract from the unlikely appeal of this science-fiction goth-rock opera.  It's the year 2056, and a... 

<em>Beachwood Drive</em>

Theatre

Beachwood Drive

Thursday 11/13 @ June Havoc Theatre

Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a... 

Robert Morris: <em>Deflationary Objects</em>

Art

Robert Morris

Thursday 11/13 @ Leo Castelli Gallery

Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,... 

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

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>Beyond a Memorable Fancy: Print, Perception, and the Artist's Intervention</em>

Art

Beyond a Memorable Fancy

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

Christa Toole: <em>Level Zero</em>

Art

Christa Toole

Thursday 11/13 @ Phoenix Gallery

In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>The Waves</em>

Theatre

The Waves

Thursday 11/13 @ The Duke Theater

The National Theatre of Great Britain's extraordinary production of The Waves is a genre-defying, highly visual adaptation of Virginia... 

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

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>JCVD</em>

Film

JCVD

Thursday 11/13 @ Angelika Film Center

Some action stars age gracefully, (see Sean Connery) some not so gracefully (see Chuck Norris), and still others go into politics... 

<em>The Lastmaker</em>

Theatre

The Lastmaker

Thursday 11/13 @ P.S. 122

In a characteristically inspired meta-move, Goat Island, the highly regarded (and soon-to-be-disbanded) Chicago-based performance collective, organizes The Lastmaker, its last-ever play,... 

Ann Lislegaard: <em>Crystal World</em> & <em>The Left Hand of Darkness</em>

Art

Ann Lislegaard

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Time Machine: Dain, Various & Gould</em>

Art

Time Machine

Thursday 11/13 @ Brooklynite Gallery

With its low cost of living and thriving creative community, Berlin is so often compared to yesterday's New York that the... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Thursday 11/13 @ Lehmann Maupin

In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths,... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Thursday 11/13 @ Barrow Street Theater

In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... 

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

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Thursday 11/13 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Thursday 11/13 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

AC/DC

Music

AC/DC

Thursday 11/13 @ Madison Square Garden

Angus Young's exposed legs may have taken a slightly more silvery hue, but AC/DC has managed to stubbornly maintain its boyish... 

<em>Perverted by Theater</em>

Art

Perverted by Theater

Thursday 11/13 @ Apex Art

In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Thursday 11/13 @ 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... 

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008</em>

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Thursday 11/13 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized... 

BAMcin&eacute;matek presents New French Films

Festival: Performing Arts

New French Films

Thursday 11/13 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

After a sketchy period in the very early aughts (think Irréversible, 2002) France has reclaimed its title as the steadiest manufacturer...