All events on Tuesday March 11
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- Justice w/ Chromeo
- Tuesday Mar 11 (8pm) @ WaMu Theater at MSG
- Despite the group's recent ubiquity (thanks a lot New York Times), Justice show no signs of compromise. Treating first-wave French filter house like a much-loved... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Dizzee Rascal
- Tuesday Mar 11 (8pm) @ Southpaw
- Giveaway
- Fresh off the Def Jux release of his tech-rap album Maths + English, UK grime mastermind Dizzee Rascal brings his introspective rhymes and tricky electro... View details »
- More Flavor: Lecture
- [SOLD OUT] Slavoj Žižek
- Tuesday Mar 11 (7pm) @ CUNY Graduate Center
- Sold Out!
- Slavoj Žižek embodies the unlikely intersection of sociology and celebrity. A former presidential candidate in his native Slovenia, Žižek is internationally known as a cultural... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Black Lips
- Tuesday Mar 11 (8:30pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- The Black Lips' live shows have become notorious for homoerotic antics, expelled bodily fluids, and shenanigans involving flammable materials. The Atlanta garage-punk foursome's music, on... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Hanne Hukkelberg
- Tuesday Mar 11 (7:30pm) @ Union Hall
- While Norway's Hanne Hukkelberg is often cast as an expat inhabitant of the freak-folk forest, the singer spends plenty of time foraging through older foliage.... View details »
- Music: Classical
- The Trinity Choir and Rebel Baroque Orchestra
- Tuesday Mar 11 (7:30pm) @ Trinity Church
- Maybe it's the winter blues, maybe it's life in the Big Apple, or maybe it's the malaise of the age, but a lot of people... View details »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Choice Eats
- Tuesday Mar 11 (6:30–10:30pm) @ Puck Building Ballroom
- Robert Sietsema, the grand daddy of ethnic eating in NYC and columnist for the Village Voice's Counter Culture has a tongue that has navigated the... View details »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Tuesday Mar 11 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Tuesday Mar 11 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Tuesday Mar 11 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
- Free
- While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday Mar 11 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- blog.mode
- Tuesday Mar 11 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere.... View details »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Tuesday Mar 11 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Tuesday Mar 11 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- Tuesday Mar 11 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Tuesday Mar 11 (8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
- Art
- Marvin Franklin
- Tuesday Mar 11 (10am–4pm) @ New York Transit Museum More times »
- Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may not seem like a... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Tuesday Mar 11 @ International Center of Photography More times »
- Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Tuesday Mar 11 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
- Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with rays of light, it... View details »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Tuesday Mar 11 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making modern paintings before the... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Tuesday Mar 11 (10pm) @ APT More times »
- Giveaway
- Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Tuesday Mar 11 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Irving Penn
- Tuesday Mar 11 (10am–5pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
- Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is best known for iconic,... View details »
- Art
- Be Kind Rewind
- Tuesday Mar 11 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
- Free
- In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a video store's entire inventory... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Tuesday Mar 11 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
- Free
- While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the last decade. Johns, now... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Unforeseen
- Tuesday Mar 11 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this kind of material speaks... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Tuesday Mar 11 (11am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
- Free
- Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly Gallery presents nearly 50... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Life in a Marital Institution
- Tuesday Mar 11 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
- In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a liberal commune in upstate... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The 39 Steps
- Tuesday Mar 11 @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan), there are sly references... View details »
- Art
- Luc Tuymans
- Tuesday Mar 11 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
- Free
- Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a media-saturated era, he's tackled... View details »
- Art
- Sterling Ruby
- Tuesday Mar 11 (10am–6pm) @ The Drawing Center More times »
- Free
- Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project space. In addition to... View details »
- Art
- Matt Leines
- Tuesday Mar 11 (11am–6pm) @ Clementine Gallery More times »
- Free
- Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who studied illustration at RISD,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Tuesday Mar 11 (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Tuesday Mar 11 @ Broadhurst Theatre More times »
- Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The weighty issues on display... View details »
- Art
- The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
- Tuesday Mar 11 (10am–6pm) @ Milk Gallery More times »
- Free
- Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that reached out to people... View details »
- Film
- J'entends plus la guitare
- Tuesday Mar 11 @ Cinema Village More times »
- J'entends plus la guitare is Philippe Garrel's tribute to art-rock muse Nico. Though most famous for her recordings with the Velvet Underground, the German-born icon... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Tuesday Mar 11 (8pm) @ The Belasco Theatre More times »
- The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel Breaker) who flees his... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Paradise Park
- Tuesday Mar 11 (7pm) @ Signature Theatre More times »
- Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the playwright's third and final... View details »
- More Flavor: Shopping
- Housing Works Thrift Sales
- Tuesday Mar 11 (5–8pm) @ Various locations More times »
- Shopping for spring-fashion essentials at Manhattan prices ain't easy, but Housing Works' city-wide shopping extravaganza eases the pain with discounts on designers like Diane von... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Tuesday Mar 11 (8pm) @ Studio 54 More times »
- Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon... View details »
- Art
- Cao Fei
- Tuesday Mar 11 (10am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery More times »
- Free
- Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City is a virtual metropolis designed for the online world Second Life, and Lombard-Freid Gallery is exhibiting a scale model... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Tuesday Mar 11 (7:30pm) @ New York City Center More times »
- Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan Safran Foer. A fictionalized... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Tim Minchin
- Tuesday Mar 11 (8pm) @ New World Stages More times »
- Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his self-deprecating, raunchy humor. Armed... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Tuesday Mar 11 @ Paragraph More times »
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
