Events on Thursday, November 6
Edmund White and Francine du Plessix Gray
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Le Skyroom
The sad-eyed muse of untold poets and writers, Arthur Rimbaud famously left the belles lettres after a prodigious adolescence for a...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Cielo
Derrick May, along with high-school pals Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, basically invented techno back in the late-'80s, releasing seminal tracks...
Varsity Letters Reading Series
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Happy Ending
This past May, Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger became an enemy of the sports blogosphere during a now-infamous appearance on...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Hiro Ballroom
Although Juan Atkins and Derrick May are rightfully celebrated for their electro classics, no one has shaped the sound of Detroit...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ BAMcafé
The ability to sell anything, from material objects to immaterial ideas, has been an oft-mocked American feature, the equal of the...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA presents this special screening of The Times of Harvey Milk in anticipation of Gus van Sant's new biopic Milk. As...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints....
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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....
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Phoenix Gallery
In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Apex Art
In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David...
Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Brooklynite Gallery
With its low cost of living and thriving creative community, Berlin is so often compared to yesterday's New York that the...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ PaceWildenstein
Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 —...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ June Havoc Theatre
Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
If You See Something Say Something
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Winkleman Gallery
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
The Films of Arnaud Desplechin
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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),...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Ad Hoc Art
This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Leo Castelli Gallery
Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ The Joyce Theater
The messages left after the beep become inspiration of Garth Fagan's latest work, Phone Tag, Thanks & Things. The prolific choreographer...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
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Thursday 11/ 6 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Village East Cinema
For the Jewish kids who came of age in New York's tenements — mostly children of immigrants — playing sports meant...
