All events on Wednesday March 26

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Music: Rock/Pop
Drive-By Truckers
Wednesday Mar 26 (8pm) @ Terminal 5
Georgia's Drive-By Truckers used last year's Dirt Underneath tour to adjust to their lineup without guitarist Jason Isbell (the ex-husband of bassist Shonna Tucker) and... View details »
Drive-By Truckers
Film
New Directors/New Films
Wednesday Mar 26 @ Various locations More times »
There's never a shortage of good film festivals and programs in New York, but the annual New Directors/New Films consistently emerges as the showcase with... View details »
New Directors/New Films
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Poet in New York
Wednesday Mar 26 (8pm) @ St. Marks Church
It seems there can't be enough books written about our most narcissistic of cities. However, it's hard to ignore the release of a new translation... View details »
Poet in New York
Film
Project P-Town
Wednesday Mar 26 (8:30pm) @ Monkey Town
Giveaway
Project P-Town is the result of a drugged-out pilgrimage that filmmaker Scott Hug and his band of colorful friends made to John Waters' annual summer... View details »
Project P-Town
Art: Fair
SCOPE New York
Wednesday Mar 26 (10am–8pm) @ Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts More times »
The SCOPE fair brings together the beauty, violence, and humor of emerging artists in the global community. Exhibitors from Brooklyn to Oslo contribute installations, including... View details »
SCOPE New York
Music: Rock/Pop
Samara Lubelski
Wednesday Mar 26 (8pm) @ Glasslands Gallery
Giveaway
Despite her solid career as a singer/songwriter, producer, and engineer, Samara Lubelski only gained notice outside indie circles last summer, when Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox... View details »
Samara Lubelski
Music: Rock/Pop
Rutlemania
Wednesday Mar 26 (8pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy More times »
Giveaway
According to esteemed commentator Stanley J. Krammerhead III, the Rutles were "essentially imperical malengistes of a rhythmically radical yet verbally passé and temporally transcended lyrically... View details »
Rutlemania
More Flavor: Competition
The Music Quiz
Wednesday Mar 26 (8–10:30pm) @ Freddy's Bar & Backroom
Tonight, the Music Quiz bolsters its usual trivia with a few rounds dedicated to arcane music knowledge of the Emerald Isle. So if you know... View details »
The Music Quiz

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Art
Tara Donovan
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (2 & 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
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Wednesday Mar 26 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Art
Francis Alÿs
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Wednesday Mar 26 (7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
Jump
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Art
Jan de Cock
Wednesday Mar 26 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The Belgian artist brings his... View details »
Jan de Cock
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Lady Pink and Aiko
Wednesday Mar 26 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
Free
Brick Ladies of NYC celebrates Lady Pink and Aiko Nakagawa, longstanding heavy hitters in both the street-art scene and the modern-art collections of the Brooklyn... View details »
Lady Pink and Aiko
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Art
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Jasper Johns
Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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
Art: Architecture/Design
Design and the Elastic Mind
Wednesday Mar 26 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
Design and the Elastic Mind
Art
Sterling Ruby
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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
Wednesday Mar 26 (2 & 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
Wednesday Mar 26 (8pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Wednesday Mar 26 (2 & 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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Martin McMurray
Wednesday Mar 26 (11am–6pm) @ Jeff Bailey Gallery More times »
Free
In his second solo exhibition at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Martin McMurray presents The Unreliable Narrator, a series of subtle-toned, soft-focus acrylics. The pieces set up... View details »
Martin McMurray
Art
Jeremy Boyle
Wednesday Mar 26 (11am–6pm) @ Hudson Franklin Gallery More times »
Free
Like Sol Lewitt trapped in RadioShack, Jeremy Boyle surrenders his artistic role to mechanical gizmos. The latest version of his Self-Playing Guitar replaces the musician... View details »
Jeremy Boyle
Art
Kanishka Raja
Wednesday Mar 26 (10am–6pm) @ Envoy Gallery More times »
Free
Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from an idyllic British colonial... View details »
Kanishka Raja
Art
Peter Coffin
Wednesday Mar 26 (10am–6pm) @ Andrew Kreps Gallery More times »
Free
In Peter Coffin's latest solo show, 30 video screens play archival footage of frolicking animals, while a motorized, roller coaster-like contraption pulls balloons through the... View details »
Peter Coffin
Art
Beka Goedde and David Meanix
Wednesday Mar 26 (11am–7pm) @ Leo Kesting Gallery More times »
Free
In two separate exhibitions, Beka Goedde and David Meanix present the fractured beauty of cityscapes and human faces, exploring in tandem the relationships between people... View details »
Beka Goedde and David Meanix
Performing Arts: Theatre
Romeo and Juliet
Wednesday Mar 26 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row More times »
In this updated, witty interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, familiar tropes clash with contemporary archetypes. The four-actor cast stays true to the bard's words... View details »
Art
Georganne Deen
Wednesday Mar 26 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter Georganne Deen is an icon among West Coast post-punk aesthetes, and well-known to readers of Juxtapoz magazine as a proponent of lyrical... View details »
Georganne Deen
Art
ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: Ides of March
Wednesday Mar 26 (6–8pm) @ ABC No Rio More times »
Free
ABC No Rio has been a hub for LES radicals and artists for over a quarter of a century, and now it's set for demolition... View details »
ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: Ides of March
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Four of Us
Wednesday Mar 26 (2:30 & 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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Art: Fair
DiVA
Wednesday Mar 26 (noon–8pm) @ West Chelsea, Gallery District More times »
Free
Now in its fourth year, DiVA provides an apt visual expression for the week's artistic traffic jam, as the gallery district resorts to curbside shipping... View details »
DiVA
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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