Events on Friday, November 7
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Club Europa
With song titles like "Sometimes Gay Boys Don't Wear Pink," "Fuckhead," "Skin Poppin' Slut," "We Must Have Blood," and "Insect Whore,"...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Love
Riding the cold north winds from Montreal comes Ghislain Poirier, global-beat ambassador and founder of the hugely successful Bounce le Gros...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/ 7 @ Brooklynite Gallery
With its low cost of living and thriving creative community, Berlin is so often compared to yesterday's New York that the...
Friday 11/ 7 @ PaceWildenstein
Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Pier 94
If you feel a chocolate jones coming on, head over to Pier 94 for a bittersweet weekend. The festival opens Thursday...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have been raiding Salvation Armies, dumpsters, and (probably) your mom's basement since 1991 in search of...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
The Films of Arnaud Desplechin
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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),...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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 —...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Apex Art
In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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,...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Friday 11/ 7 @ The Joyce Theater
The messages left after the beep become inspiration of Garth Fagan's latest work, Phone Tag, Thanks & Things. The prolific choreographer...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Phoenix Gallery
In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints....
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Mixed Greens
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Friday 11/ 7 @ Ad Hoc Art
This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Leo Castelli Gallery
Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Winkleman Gallery
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Landmark Sunshine
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but...
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Friday 11/ 7 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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,...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ PaceWildenstein
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ June Havoc Theatre
Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
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Friday 11/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded...
Friday 11/ 7 @ 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...
