All events on Tuesday March 18

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More Flavor: Lecture
A Rare Book Evening
Tuesday Mar 18 (7–9pm) @ 92nd St Y
Though bibliophiles and collectors may salivate over an original 1456 edition of the Gutenberg Bible, most people find it difficult to imagine dropping upwards of... View details »
A Rare Book Evening
Music: DJ
The Rub and DJ Lindsey present The Rap Party
Tuesday Mar 18 (10pm) @ APT
Free
Celebrating the 21st installment of their History of Hip-Hop series on Brooklyn Radio, all-city party champs the Rub break it down tonight like their podcast:... View details »
The Rub and DJ Lindsey present The Rap Party
Music: Classical
counter)induction
Tuesday Mar 18 (8pm) @ Kaufman Center
The kind of hyperbole found in counter)induction's ecstatic reviews is usually reserved for headlining performers at Carnegie Hall — but rather than playing pieces by... View details »
counter)induction
Music: Rock/Pop
The Mountain Goats
Tuesday Mar 18 (8:30pm) @ Webster Hall
Giveaway
John Darnielle has recorded so much under his Mountain Goats moniker that it's getting hard to track the shades of heartbreak. The North Carolina-based songwriter... View details »
The Mountain Goats
Music: Jazz/Blues
Trevor Dunn plays Ornette Coleman
Tuesday Mar 18 (8:30pm) @ Knitting Factory
As a member of Mr. Bungle, bassist Trevor Dunn explored the outer edges of seedy cartoon jazz, avant-funk, and demon-rolling heavy metal. While his band's... View details »
Trevor Dunn plays Ornette Coleman
Music: Global
Haru Ichiban
Tuesday Mar 18 @ Drom More times »
Giveaway
Not all the music at this festival is light and gentle. Sure, headliner Michiyo Yagi can coax twinkling prettiness from her massive, 17-string koto, but... View details »
Haru Ichiban

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Art
Tara Donovan
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Tara Donovan
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Tuesday Mar 18 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Francis Alÿs
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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 »
blog.mode
Art
Lee Friedlander
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Lee Friedlander
Art
Jasper Johns
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Jasper Johns
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Slavic Soul Party!
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Adding Machine
Art
Marvin Franklin
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Marvin Franklin
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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 »
Archive Fever
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Cai Guo-Qiang
Art
Gustave Courbet
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Gustave Courbet
Music: DJ
Afrika Bambaataa
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Afrika Bambaataa
Art
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Irving Penn
Art
Be Kind Rewind
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Be Kind Rewind
Art
Jasper Johns
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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 »
Jasper Johns
Film: Documentary
The Unforeseen
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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 »
The Unforeseen
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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 »
The 39 Steps 
Art
Luc Tuymans
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Luc Tuymans
Art
Sterling Ruby
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Sterling Ruby
Art
Matt Leines
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Matt Leines
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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 »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Art
The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
The Vision and Art of  Shinjo Ito
Film
J'entends plus la guitare
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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 »
J'entends plus la guitare
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Passing Strange
Performing Arts: Theatre
Paradise Park
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Paradise Park
More Flavor: Shopping
Housing Works Thrift Sales
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Housing Works Thrift Sales
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Sunday in the Park with George
Art
Cao Fei
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Cao Fei
Art
Subodh Gupta
Tuesday Mar 18 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
Free
Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils and clichéd scenes of... View details »
Subodh Gupta
Art
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
Tuesday Mar 18 (10am–6pm) @ Tina Kim Gallery More times »
Free
Works by Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh don't appear often outside of collaborations like these with Ghada Amer. Her nature scenes and wallpaper-like patterns are prim... View details »
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
Art
Asian Contemporary Art Week
Tuesday Mar 18 @ Various locations More times »
Asian Contemporary Art Week corrals dozens of artists for countless shows and lectures. At Ch'i, some of China's fresher faces work in the shadow of... View details »
Asian Contemporary Art Week
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Four of Us
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
The Four of Us
Performing Arts: Comedy
Tim Minchin
Tuesday Mar 18 (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 »
Tim Minchin
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Tuesday Mar 18 @ 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 »
Paragraph