Events on Friday, November 7
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- 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 »
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- 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
- @ 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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: 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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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: 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 »
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- 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 »
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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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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: 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 »
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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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- @ 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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: 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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