Events on Tuesday, March 25

Air Band Tour 2008 Kick-off

Special Event

Air Band Tour 2008

Tuesday 3/25 @ Luna Lounge

Air Band 2008 is for those of us who always sing better in the car; for the ones who realize their... 

eMC w/ Termanology, Double Barrel, and Don Cerino

Music: Hip-Hop

eMC

Tuesday 3/25 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

Stage performers always say they owe it to the fans, so the creation of eMC seems appropriate; members Stricklin, Punchline, Wordsworth,... 

<em>SMITH</em> magazine presents Six-Word Memoirs

Books: Reading

Six-Word Memoirs

Tuesday 3/25 @ KGB Bar

Hemingway's famous six-word story — "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" — was the inspiration for SMITH magazine's online six-word memoir... 

Science Fiction Lounge Music

Art

Science Fiction Lounge Music

Tuesday 3/25 @ Monkey Town

Science Fiction Lounge Music features old-school movie screenings alongside improvised music. Tonight's flicks include George Méliès' Le Voyage dans la Lune... 

LVHRD presents Master-Disaster PHTHRD II

Special Event

PHTHRD II

Tuesday 3/25 @ Secret NYC Location

With PHTHRD II, the guerilla creatives at LVHRD pit three "master storytellers" against one another in a battle of wit, narrative,... 

Ongoing Events

Jeremy Boyle

Art

Jeremy Boyle

Tuesday 3/25 @ Hudson Franklin Gallery

Like Sol Lewitt trapped in RadioShack, Jeremy Boyle surrenders his artistic role to mechanical gizmos. The latest version of his Self-Playing... 

<em>J'entends plus la guitare </em>(1991)

Film

J'entends plus la guitare

Tuesday 3/25 @ Cinema Village

J'entends plus la guitare is Philippe Garrel's tribute to art-rock muse Nico. Though most famous for her recordings with the Velvet... 

Cao Fei: <em>RMB City</em>

Art

Cao Fei

Tuesday 3/25 @ Lombard-Freid Gallery

Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City is a virtual metropolis designed for the online world Second Life, and Lombard-Freid Gallery is... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 3/25 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>

Art

Marvin Franklin

Tuesday 3/25 @ New York Transit Museum

Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may... 

Tim Minchin

Comedy

Tim Minchin

Tuesday 3/25 @ New World Stages

Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Tuesday 3/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop... 

DiVA

Art: Happening

DiVA

Tuesday 3/25 @ West Chelsea, Gallery District

Now in its fourth year, DiVA provides an apt visual expression for the week's artistic traffic jam, as the gallery district... 

<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>

Special Event

blog.mode

Tuesday 3/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Tuesday 3/25 @ Hispanic Society of America

While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year... 

Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: <em>Collaborative Drawings</em>

Art

Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh

Tuesday 3/25 @ Tina Kim Gallery

Works by Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh don't appear often outside of collaborations like these with Ghada Amer. Her nature scenes and... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Tuesday 3/25 @ The Belasco Theatre

The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel... 

Irving Penn: <em>Close Encounters: Portraits of Artists and Writers</em>

Art: Photography

Irving Penn

Tuesday 3/25 @ The Morgan Library

Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is... 

<em>The Four of Us</em>

Theatre

The Four of Us

Tuesday 3/25 @ New York City Center

Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan... 

<em>Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions</em>

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Tuesday 3/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His... 

Martin McMurray: <em>The Unreliable Narrator</em>

Art

Martin McMurray

Tuesday 3/25 @ Jeff Bailey Gallery

In his second solo exhibition at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Martin McMurray presents The Unreliable Narrator, a series of subtle-toned, soft-focus acrylics.... 

<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tuesday 3/25 @ Broadhurst Theatre

Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The... 

<em>The Vision and Art of  Shinjo Ito</em>

Art

The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito

Tuesday 3/25 @ Milk Studios

Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that... 

Afrika Bambaataa

Music: DJ

Afrika Bambaataa

Tuesday 3/25 @ APT

Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance... 

Peter Coffin: <em>You Are Me</em>

Art

Peter Coffin

Tuesday 3/25 @ Andrew Kreps Gallery

In Peter Coffin's latest solo show, 30 video screens play archival footage of frolicking animals, while a motorized, roller coaster-like contraption... 

<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Tuesday 3/25 @ Studio 54

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat... 

Lee Friedlander: <em>A Ramble in Olmsted Parks</em>

Art

Lee Friedlander

Tuesday 3/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop... 

<em>Paradise Park</em>

Theatre

Paradise Park

Tuesday 3/25 @ Signature Theatre

Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 3/25 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

Beka Goedde: <em>Entropically Favorable</em> and David Meanix: <em>This City</em>

Art

Beka Goedde and David Meanix

Tuesday 3/25 @ Leo Kesting Gallery

In two separate exhibitions, Beka Goedde and David Meanix present the fractured beauty of cityscapes and human faces, exploring in tandem... 

Subodh Gupta: <em>Still steal steel</em>

Art

Subodh Gupta

Tuesday 3/25 @ Jack Shainman Gallery

Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 3/25 @ 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... 

Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Tuesday 3/25 @ Guggenheim Museum

Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Tuesday 3/25 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Tuesday 3/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making... 

Matt Leines: <em>The Righteous Age</em>

Art

Matt Leines

Tuesday 3/25 @ Clementine Gallery

Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who... 

<em>Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art </em>

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Tuesday 3/25 @ International Center of Photography

Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution... 

Sterling Ruby: <em>CHRON</em>

Art

Sterling Ruby

Tuesday 3/25 @ The Drawing Center

Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project... 

Kanishka Raja: <em>Indian Yellow</em>

Art

Kanishka Raja

Tuesday 3/25 @ Envoy Gallery

Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Tuesday 3/25 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Tuesday 3/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 3/25 @ 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... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Drawings 1997-2007</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Tuesday 3/25 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the...