Events on Wednesday, March 26

Samara Lubelski w/ True Primes

Music

Samara Lubelski

Wednesday 3/26 @ Glasslands Gallery

Despite her solid career as a singer/songwriter, producer, and engineer, Samara Lubelski only gained notice outside indie circles last summer, when... 

The Music Quiz: Irish Edition

Special Event

The Music Quiz

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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.... 

Federico Garc&iacute;a Lorca's <em>Poet In New York</em>

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Poet in New York

Wednesday 3/26 @ St. Mark's Church

It seems there can't be enough books written about our most narcissistic of cities. However, it's hard to ignore the release... 

<em>Project P-Town</em>

Film

Project P-Town

Wednesday 3/26 @ Monkey Town

Project P-Town is the result of a drugged-out pilgrimage that filmmaker Scott Hug and his band of colorful friends made to... 

Drive-By Truckers w/ the Whigs

Music

Drive-By Truckers

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Wednesday 3/26 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

Theatre

Romeo and Juliet

Wednesday 3/26 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row

In this updated, witty interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, familiar tropes clash with contemporary archetypes. The four-actor cast stays true... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Wednesday 3/26 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

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

Art

Cao Fei

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Wednesday 3/26 @ Imperial Theatre

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

SCOPE New York

Art: Happening

SCOPE New York

Wednesday 3/26 @ Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

The SCOPE fair brings together the beauty, violence, and humor of emerging artists in the global community. Exhibitors from Brooklyn to... 

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

Art

Matt Leines

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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>Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions</em>

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

Jan de Cock: <em>Denkmal 11</em>

Art

Jan de Cock

Wednesday 3/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The... 

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

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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>Paradise Park</em>

Theatre

Paradise Park

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Irving Penn

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

Lady Pink and Aiko: <em>Brick Ladies of NYC</em>

Art

Lady Pink and Aiko

Wednesday 3/26 @ Ad Hoc Art

Brick Ladies of NYC celebrates Lady Pink and Aiko Nakagawa, longstanding heavy hitters in both the street-art scene and the modern-art... 

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

Art

Lee Friedlander

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

Jeremy Boyle

Art

Jeremy Boyle

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Wednesday 3/26 @ Paragraph

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

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Marvin Franklin

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

New Directors/New Films

Film

New Directors/New Films

Wednesday 3/26 @ Various locations

There's never a shortage of good film festivals and programs in New York, but the annual New Directors/New Films consistently emerges... 

Tim Minchin

Comedy

Tim Minchin

Wednesday 3/26 @ New World Stages

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

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

Art

The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito

Wednesday 3/26 @ Milk Studios

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

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Peter Coffin

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

DiVA

Art: Happening

DiVA

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Wednesday 3/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,... 

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

Art

Jasper Johns

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Wednesday 3/26 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

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

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

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Wednesday 3/26 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: <em>Ides of March</em>

Art

ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: Ides of March

Wednesday 3/26 @ ABC No Rio

ABC No Rio has been a hub for LES radicals and artists for over a quarter of a century, and now... 

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

Art

Subodh Gupta

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Martin McMurray

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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.... 

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

Special Event

blog.mode

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

<em>Design and the Elastic Mind</em>

Art

Design and the Elastic Mind

Wednesday 3/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation... 

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

Film

J'entends plus la guitare

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

<em>Rutlemania</em>

Music

Rutlemania

Wednesday 3/26 @ Gramercy Theatre

According to esteemed commentator Stanley J. Krammerhead III, the Rutles were "essentially imperical malengistes of a rhythmically radical yet verbally passé... 

Sterling Ruby: <em>CHRON</em>

Art

Sterling Ruby

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kanishka Raja

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

Georganne Deen: <em>The Love that Has No Opposite</em>

Art

Georganne Deen

Wednesday 3/26 @ Smith-Stewart

Los Angeles painter Georganne Deen is an icon among West Coast post-punk aesthetes, and well-known to readers of Juxtapoz magazine as... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Beka Goedde and David Meanix

Wednesday 3/26 @ Leo Kesting Gallery

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

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

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Wednesday 3/26 @ 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...