Events on Friday, November 7

<em>Adult Life</em> Release Party feat. Thurston Moore & C. Spencer Yeh
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Music: Experimental
Adult Life Release Party
@ Glasslands Gallery
The ideas "party" and "experimental rock music" might not be on especially good terms, but the avant-garde's best and brightest do...  View details »
Bassnectar w/ Mike Relm and Beats Antique
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Music: DJ
Bassnectar
@ The Bowery Ballroom
Bassnectar's music contains a microcosm of Bay Area subcultures: from wax-poetic hip-hop beats and massive bass lines worthy of the playa's...  View details »
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Manhattan Monologue Slam
Month_11 Friday Day_07
More Flavor: Competition
Manhattan Monologue Slam
@ Zipper Theater
Manhattan Monologue Slam proves that poets and rappers shouldn't be the only ones having all the open-mic fun. Adopting the familiar...  View details »
Deerhunter w/ Times New Viking and Knyfe Hyts
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Music: Rock/Pop
Deerhunter
@ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The curiously named Knyfe Hyts have the market cornered on deranged cartoon-themed sludge. With members of Ex-Models, Oneida, and Pterodactyl, the...  View details »
The Hold Steady w/ Drive-by Truckers
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Music: Rock/Pop
The Hold Steady
@ Terminal 5
Brooklyn's the Hold Steady have come a long way from their roots in legendary Minneapolis indie-rock outfit LFTR PLLR. The self-declared...  View details »
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Fran Healy of Travis
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Music: Rock/Pop
Fran Healy
@ Housing Works Bookstore
Celebrating the US release of his band's sixth full-length album, Travis frontman Fran Healy performs a special solo acoustic show in...  View details »
Sub Swara feat. Ghislain Poirier
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Music: DJ
Ghislain Poirier
@ Love
Riding the cold north winds from Montreal comes Ghislain Poirier, global-beat ambassador and founder of the hugely successful Bounce le Gros...  View details »
Danzig w/ Dimmu Borgir
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Music: Punk/Metal
Danzig
@ Roseland Ballroom
Glenn Danzig's eponymous musical incarnation blasts out raw, full-bodied rock 'n roll that bleeds with emotion. You can feel the guitar...  View details »
The Dwarves w/ the Uprising and Sister Anne
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Music: Punk/Metal
The Dwarves
@ Club Europa
With song titles like "Sometimes Gay Boys Don't Wear Pink," "Fuckhead," "Skin Poppin' Slut," "We Must Have Blood," and "Insect Whore,"...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Ann Lislegaard: <em>Crystal World</em> & <em>The Left Hand of Darkness</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Farragut North</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Open Tables
Month_11 Friday Day_07
More Flavor: Workshop
Open Tables
@ Sputnik
Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Chadwicks: <em>The Genretron</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
The Genretron
@ Winkleman Gallery
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Gilbert & George
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Blasted</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
Film
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 »
Ongoing
Sol LeWitt at Storm King
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Seagull</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Black Watch</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Religulous</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>The Grand Inquisitor</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>If You See Something Say Something</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Beachwood Drive</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Performing Arts: Theatre
Beachwood Drive
@ June Havoc Theatre
Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a...  View details »
Ongoing
Jean Dubuffet: <em>The Hourloupe Cycle</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
Jean Dubuffet
@ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Taking Over</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Back Back Back</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
Paragraph
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
Mart&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Robert Morris: <em>Deflationary Objects</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Les Sept Planches de la Ruse</em> (The Seven Boards of Skill)
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Performing Arts: Dance
Les Sept Planches de la Ruse
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Andreas Gursky
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>[title of show]</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Performing Arts: Theatre
[title of show]
@ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
Month_11 Friday Day_07
More Flavor: City Gem
War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
@ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Pop Surrealism: In the Language of Angels</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Let the Right One In</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Beyond a Memorable Fancy: Print, Perception, and the Artist's Intervention</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>JCVD</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
Mr.
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>La Damnation de Faust</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Performing Arts: Opera
La Damnation de Faust
@ Metropolitan Opera House
Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust) is usually performed in concert halls, where one's imagination is free...  View details »
Ongoing
Olaf Breuning
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art: Photography
Olaf Breuning
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Found Footage Festival 2008
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Film: Festival
Found Footage Festival
@ 92YTribeca
Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have been raiding Salvation Armies, dumpsters, and (probably) your mom's basement since 1991 in search of...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
Street Art, Street Life
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Every Minute, Four Ideas: The Films of Arnaud Desplechin
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
Film: Festival
The Films of Arnaud Desplechin
@ 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),...  View details »
Ongoing
Zhang Xiaogang: <em>Revision</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Lastmaker</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Lastmaker
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Blek Le Rat
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
Art
Blek Le Rat
@ Jonathan Levine Gallery
French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Christa Toole: <em>Level Zero</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Atheist</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Perverted by Theater</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Chocolate Show
Month_11 Friday Day_07
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Chocolate Show
@ Pier 94
If you feel a chocolate jones coming on, head over to Pier 94 for a bittersweet weekend. The festival opens Thursday...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Streamers</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Chanel Mobile Art
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art: Architecture/Design
Chanel Mobile Art
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Time Machine: Dain, Various & Gould</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
Time Machine
@ Brooklynite Gallery
With its low cost of living and thriving creative community, Berlin is so often compared to yesterday's New York that the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
@ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Stages</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Film
Stages
@ Film Forum
Somber and episodic, the Dutch film Stages pays such serious homage to Bergman that it very well could have taken "Scenes...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
Film
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 »
Ongoing
Mario Merz
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
Stas Orlovski: <em>Nocturnes</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
Stas Orlovski
@ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Garth Fagan Dance
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Performing Arts: Dance
Garth Fagan Dance
@ The Joyce Theater
The messages left after the beep become inspiration of Garth Fagan's latest work, Phone Tag, Thanks & Things. The prolific choreographer...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
Art
NeoHooDoo
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Repo! The Genetic Opera</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
Leandro Erlich: <em>Swimming Pool</em>
Month_11 Friday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_11 Friday Day_07
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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