All events on Tuesday March 04

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Reading: Poetry
C.K. Williams
Tuesday Mar 4 (6:30pm) @ The New School
C.K. Williams found his poetic voice in the '60s — outraged, like many of his contemporaries, over the Vietnam war and racial segregation. But Williams'... View details »
C.K. Williams
Music: Rock/Pop
Jonathan Richman
Tuesday Mar 4 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg More times »
Giveaway
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 numbers, like "I'm a... View details »
Jonathan Richman
Reading
Craig Unger
Tuesday Mar 4 (7pm) @ McNally Robinson Booksellers
Free
Part investigative report, part philosophical tract, Craig Unger's latest take on politics, The Fall of the House of Bush, draws evidence from ancient religious writings,... View details »
Craig Unger
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Boris
Tuesday Mar 4 (7pm) @ Knitting Factory
Sold Out!
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 just heavy in a... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Boris
More Flavor: Shopping
Housing Works Thrift Sales
Tuesday Mar 4 (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
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Dengue Fever
Tuesday Mar 4 (8pm) @ Mercury Lounge
Sold Out!
After years spent testing their wares in sunny Silverlake, LA-by-way-of-Phnom Penh band Dengue Fever have finally emerged as a nationwide phenomenon.... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Dengue Fever

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Art
Tara Donovan
Tuesday Mar 4 (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 4 (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
Extreme Embroidery
Tuesday Mar 4 (10am–6pm) @ Museum of Art and Design More times »
Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Art and Design once again draws glares from grandmas everywhere. In... View details »
Extreme Embroidery
Art
Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Mar 4 (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 4 (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 4 @ 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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grace
Tuesday Mar 4 (7pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of real people. On Religion,... View details »
Grace
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Tuesday Mar 4 @ 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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 @ 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 4 @ 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
Art
Xu Zhen
Tuesday Mar 4 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery More times »
Free
A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring countries with remote-controlled toy... View details »
Xu Zhen
Art
Nayland Blake
Tuesday Mar 4 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
For many years, Nayland Blake's surrogate was a big white bunny that showed up in his drawings and sculptures. But in his new pieces at... View details »
Nayland Blake
Art: Photography
Robert Mapplethorpe
Tuesday Mar 4 (11am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
Free
Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly Gallery presents nearly 50... View details »
Robert Mapplethorpe
Performing Arts: Theatre
Life in a Marital Institution
Tuesday Mar 4 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a liberal commune in upstate... View details »
Life in a Marital Institution
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
Tuesday Mar 4 @ 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 
Film
It's a Free World...
Tuesday Mar 4 @ BAM Rose Cinemas More times »
British director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006) just may be the reigning king of cinematic socialist realism. In It's a Free... View details »
It's a Free World...
Art
Luc Tuymans
Tuesday Mar 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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
Art
The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
Tuesday Mar 4 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Tuesday Mar 4 (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
Art: Photography
Carrie Mae Weems
Tuesday Mar 4 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
Free
... rican American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to New York with a mini-retrospective at Chelsea's Jack Shainman Gallery. Weems... View details »
Carrie Mae Weems
Performing Arts: Theatre
Paradise Park
Tuesday Mar 4 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Tuesday Mar 4 (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 4 (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
Performing Arts: Comedy
Tim Minchin
Tuesday Mar 4 (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 4 @ 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