Events on Wednesday, November 5
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ The Bell House-
Han Solo isn't the only one worried about carbon — rising CO2 levels pose a critical and imminent threat to Mother...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ The Mercury Lounge
New Yorkers in need of a psychedelic-funk fix tend to hit the vinyl more often than the clubs. Not so tonight,...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Metro Pictures
Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's work is wonderfully funny, co-opting the bright neon colors of contemporary art and the artificial conceit of...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints....
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Anthology Film Archives
With their landmark album Black Monk Time, the Monks created a unique document of the pre-Woodstock '60s, made up of Beatlemaniac...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ The Joyce Theater
The messages left after the beep become inspiration of Garth Fagan's latest work, Phone Tag, Thanks & Things. The prolific choreographer...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Ad Hoc Art
This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Phoenix Gallery
In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Apex Art
In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ June Havoc Theatre
Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Leo Castelli Gallery
Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
If You See Something Say Something
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Joe's Pub
We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
BAM's New Wave Festival brings back one of France's most daring companies for another intersection of modern dance with physical theatre...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
The Films of Arnaud Desplechin
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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),...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Film Forum
In a bit of inspired programming, Film Forum screens Roman Polanski's dad-might-be-the-devil classic on All Saint's Day. Mia Farrow stars as...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
After being "Banned in DC," groundbreaking Rasta-punks Bad Brains moved to the Big Apple, and it's been their home-away-from-home ever since....
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Winkleman Gallery
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ PaceWildenstein
Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Rumsey Field in Central Park
Visionary architect Zaha Hadid collaborates with Chanel and fashion baron Karl Lagerfeld to land an ephemeral museum in the middle of...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Village East Cinema
For the Jewish kids who came of age in New York's tenements — mostly children of immigrants — playing sports meant...
