Events on Wednesday, November 19
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- Reading
- Gastropolis: Food and New York City
- @ Book Culture
- Foodies and NYC historians descend en masse on uptown bookstore Book Culture (formerly, and forever in some hearts, known as Labyrinth)... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- Wilderness
- @ Cake Shop
- The members of Florida-cum-Baltimore-based band Wilderness have been working together for 11 years, and it shows in the maturity of their... View details »
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- Film: Animation
- Don Hertzfeldt
- @ IFC Center
- Academy Award-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt stops by the IFC Center tonight to show a selection of his shorts and premiere his... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Liquid Liquid
- @ Santos Party House
- New York mutant-disco legends Liquid Liquid were an essential part of the minimal-funk and post-punk canon, but their collected recordings have... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- Bad Art Auction
- @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Judah Friedlander (the trucker-hatted staff writer on 30 Rock) has some funny — and drunk — shoes to fill, following last... View details »
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- More Flavor: Lecture
- Webby Fives
- @ Paley Center
- Obviously we're already pros when it comes to entertainment on the net. But you budding online entrepreneurs out there could probably... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Meat Beat Manifesto
- @ The Bowery Ballroom
- Since forming in Swindon in 1987, Meat Beat Manifesto have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Andreas Gursky
- @ Matthew Marks Gallery
- Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art... View details »
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- Film
- Repo! The Genetic Opera
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Ice Skating in Prospect Park
- @ Wollman Rink
- While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Streamers
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- Art
- Mario Merz
- @ Gladstone Gallery
- In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... View details »
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- Film
- Wild Style
- @ Film Forum
- Before Aerosmith made rap safe for middle America, Wild Style brought hip-hop culture out of the Bronx and into movie... View details »
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- Film
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but... 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Cindy Sherman
- @ Metro Pictures
- After a four-year hiatus, Cindy Sherman returns strong at Metro Pictures. Her striking self-portraits continue in the clever, satirical tradition of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Atheist
- @ Barrow Street Theater
- In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... View details »
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- Art
- Beyond a Memorable Fancy
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- I've Loved You So Long
- @ 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... 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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- Art
- Quilts of the 1930s
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Robert Morris
- @ Leo Castelli Gallery
- Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Farragut North
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Perverted by Theater
- @ Apex Art
- In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David... View details »
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- Film
- Manny Farber
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Manny Farber was an inimitable cultural critic. Even when the termite-art advocate was defecating on your favorite film, what kept you... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Music With Roots in the Aether
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Robert Ashley, creator of sprawling avant-garde operas, is also responsible for Music With Roots in the Aether, the world's first "opera for... View details »
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- Pipilotti Rist
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Back Back Back
- @ 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... View details »
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- In the Language of Angels
- @ Ad Hoc Art
- This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly... View details »
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- Film
- 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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- Signs of Change
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Big Terrific
- @ Cameo
- If the giggles elicited by clowning around with your friends aren't evidence enough, Big Terrific proves that hearty laughs can be... View details »
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- Art
- Ann Lislegaard
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- @ 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... View details »
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- Elizabeth Peyton
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- We Are Wizards
- @ Cinema Village
- Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and... View details »
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- Richard Prince
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Black Watch
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- William Eggleston
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- A Christmas Tale
- @ IFC Center
- In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... View details »
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- More Flavor: Tour
- Pizza Walking Tour
- @ Various locations
- New York has some legendary pizza, but there's also some real crap out there; save the cash you'll waste finding the... View details »
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- Film
- JCVD
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Some action stars age gracefully, (see Sean Connery) some not so gracefully (see Chuck Norris), and still others go into politics... 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
- Blasted
- @ 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... 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: Theatre
- Billy Elliot
- @ Imperial Theatre
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- If You See Something Say Something
- @ Joe's Pub
- We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pal Joey
- @ Studio 54
- Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of... 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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- Mr.
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Taking Over
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Broken Glass
- @ Museum of the City of New York
- The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's... 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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- 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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- 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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- Zhang Xiaogang
- @ PaceWildenstein
- Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Grand Inquisitor
- @ 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... View details »
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- Christa Toole
- @ Phoenix Gallery
- In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of... View details »
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- Let the Right One In
- @ 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... View details »
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- Martín Ramírez
- @ 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... View details »
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- Synecdoche, New York
- @ 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... View details »
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- Cory Arcangel
- @ Team Gallery
- Cory Arcangel rose to art-world fame with his hall-of-mirrors work, which cleverly (and cheekily) reappropriates media to highlight technology's protean relationship... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Waves
- @ The Duke Theater
- The National Theatre of Great Britain's extraordinary production of The Waves is a genre-defying, highly visual adaptation of Virginia... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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