All events on Thursday March 06
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- Tales of Times Square
- Thursday Mar 6 (7–9pm) @ Museum of Sex
- In his book Tales of Times Square, former Screw editor Josh Alan Friedman spins gritty, grimy gold from the quarter peeps and live sex shows... View details »
- Art
- Whitney Biennial
- Thursday Mar 6 @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
- Giveaway
- For its 74th installment, the Whitney Biennial expands its exhibition space and (lightly) trims its list of contributors. Through March, the Seventh Regiment Armory hosts... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Thursday Mar 6 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fight Girl Battle World
- Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ Center Stage More times »
- Now that graphic novels and sci-fi movies possess some geek-chic caché, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company has translated that aesthetic to the stage with its newest... View details »
- Reading: Poetry
- Third Annual Asian American/African American Poetry Reading
- Thursday Mar 6 (7:30pm) @ Asian American Writers' Workshop
- Maybe we're not far enough removed from slam poetry to really appreciate it again. But the readers at the third annual Asian American/African American Poetry... View details »
- Music: DJ
- diskJokke
- Thursday Mar 6 (10–4am) @ APT
- Though perhaps not as well known as his countrymen Lindström and Prins Thomas, Norway's diskJokke (born Joachim Dyrdahl) is an equally influential figure in Scandinavia's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- I Like Attention
- Thursday Mar 6 (8–9pm) @ Sound Fix in Williamsburg
- I Like Attention is Williamsburg's alt-comedy fourth-grade talent show, with host Max Silvestri (Gabe & Max's Internet Thing) hand-picking the finest in histrionic nerds every... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Thursday Mar 6 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times »
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- Art
- Extreme Embroidery
- Thursday Mar 6 (10am–8pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Lucian Freud
- Thursday Mar 6 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly paints with a chisel,... View details »
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- blog.mode
- Thursday Mar 6 @ 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 »
- Art
- New York States of Mind
- Thursday Mar 6 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art in Flushing More times »
- Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what has made New York... View details »
- Art
- Jaishri Abichandani
- Thursday Mar 6 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art in Flushing More times »
- Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished curator and a practicing... View details »
- Art
- Unmonumental
- Thursday Mar 6 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial squad brings together 30... View details »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Jan de Cock
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Marvin Franklin
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Open House
- Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ Various locations More times »
- Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry Theatre stages Open House... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Betrayed
- Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ Culture Project in New York More times »
- George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five years. Betrayed follows three... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Grace
- Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Thursday Mar 6 @ 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 »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Apple Sisters
- Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ The People's Improv Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- 1940s Americana isn't typical sketch-comedy fodder, but that doesn't deter the Apple Sisters, who lovingly recreate the radio era onstage with endearing chemistry and a... View details »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Irving Penn
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Be Kind Rewind
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Thursday Mar 6 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- The Unforeseen
- Thursday Mar 6 @ 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 »
- Art
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Thursday Mar 6 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in LIC More times »
- With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120 international female artists working... View details »
- Art
- Xu Zhen
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Nayland Blake
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Life in a Marital Institution
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The 39 Steps
- Thursday Mar 6 @ 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 »
- Film
- It's a Free World...
- Thursday Mar 6 @ BAM Rose Cinemas in Bklyn 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 »
- Art
- Luc Tuymans
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Questa
- Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ Wings Theatre More times »
- Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in self-defense. Paul's resulting guilt... View details »
- Art
- Sterling Ruby
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Matt Leines
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Jen DeNike
- Thursday Mar 6 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart More times »
- Free
- At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united by a recurring motif... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
- Thursday Mar 6 (10am–9pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Thursday Mar 6 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
- Free
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Paradise Park
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gray Area
- Thursday Mar 6 (8pm) @ Barrow Group Theatre More times »
- When a jaded New York City theatre critic berates Civil War re-enactors on the radio, his cruel jests reach the ears of three Southern enthusiasts... View details »
- More Flavor: Shopping
- Housing Works Thrift Sales
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Art
- Cao Fei
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Romeo and Juliet
- Thursday Mar 6 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Tim Minchin
- Thursday Mar 6 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Thursday Mar 6 @ 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 »
