Events on Tuesday, March 4

C.K. Williams

Books: Poetry

C.K. Williams

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ The New School

C.K. Williams found his poetic voice in the '60s — outraged, like many of his contemporaries, over the Vietnam war and... 

[SOLD OUT] Dengue Fever w/ Cordero

Music

[SOLD OUT] Dengue Fever

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ The Mercury Lounge

After years spent testing their wares in sunny Silverlake, LA-by-way-of-Phnom Penh band Dengue Fever have finally emerged... 

First Tuesday Series presents Craig Unger

Books: Reading

Craig Unger

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ McNally Robinson Booksellers

Part investigative report, part philosophical tract, Craig Unger's latest take on politics, The Fall of the House of Bush, draws evidence... 

[SOLD OUT] Boris w/ Growing

Music

[SOLD OUT] Boris

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

Boris rattle the brain harder than any flag-waving, metal-zone-stomping, B.C. Rich-tapping good ol' boys ever could. The Japanese doom lords are... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Matt Leines

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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>The 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ American Airlines Theater

Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan),... 

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

Art: Photography

Irving Penn

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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>Life in a Marital Institution</em>

Theatre

Life in a Marital Institution

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 59E59 Theaters

In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a... 

Carrie Mae Weems: <em>A Survey</em>

Art: Photography

Carrie Mae Weems

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Jack Shainman Gallery

  African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to New York with a mini-retrospective at Chelsea's... 

Tim Minchin

Comedy

Tim Minchin

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ New World Stages

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

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Michel Gondry: <em>Be Kind Rewind</em>

Art

Be Kind Rewind

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Deitch Projects

In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a... 

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

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Museum of Art and Design

Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from... 

Afrika Bambaataa

Music: DJ

Afrika Bambaataa

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ APT

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

Luc Tuymans: <em>Forever</em>

Art

Luc Tuymans

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ David Zwirner

Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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>Grace</em>

Theatre

Grace

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of... 

<em>It's a Free World... </em>

Film

It's a Free World...

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

British director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006) just may be the reigning king of cinematic socialist realism.... 

Robert Mapplethorpe: <em>Certain People</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Mapplethorpe

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Sean Kelly Gallery

Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly... 

<em>The Unforeseen</em>

Film: Documentary

The Unforeseen

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Angelika Film Center

For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this... 

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

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

Jonathan Richman

Music

Jonathan Richman

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

King naïf Jonathan Richman brings his relentless touring machine to Williamsburg for a two-night stand. The proto-punk veteran's willfully simple, '50s-inspired... 

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

Art

The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Milk Studios

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

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

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Housing Works Thrift Shops: Annual Spring Preview Sales

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Housing Works Thrift Sales

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Various locations

Shopping for spring-fashion essentials at Manhattan prices ain't easy, but Housing Works' city-wide shopping extravaganza eases the pain with discounts on... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Paragraph

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

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

Art

Marvin Franklin

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Xu Zhen:<em> Just Did It </em>

Art

Xu Zhen

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ James Cohan Gallery

A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Cao Fei

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Nayland Blake: <em>What the Whiskey Said, What the Sun Is Saying </em>

Art

Nayland Blake

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

For many years, Nayland Blake's surrogate was a big white bunny that showed up in his drawings and sculptures. But in... 

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

Art

Jasper Johns

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Barbès

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

Sterling Ruby: <em>CHRON</em>

Art

Sterling Ruby

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

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

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

Art

Lee Friedlander

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

blog.mode

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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...