All events on Tuesday April 01
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
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Human Giant
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Tuesday Apr 1 (6pm) @ Paley Center
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Human Giant isn't all dude-humor and inappropriate behavior. OK, so it pretty much is — but Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and Paul Scheer are three... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Nellie McKay
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Tuesday Apr 1 (11:30pm) @ Joe's Pub
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"If you don't want them to take over your neighborhood, don't give such good directions!" Thus spoke Nellie McKay, introducing Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A'... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Converge
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Tuesday Apr 1 (7pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy
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Even though they've been around since 1990, Converge didn't blast onto the extreme-metal scene until 2001, when their mind-exploding album Jane Doe debuted. (Perhaps the... View details »
- Film: Shorts
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Fools!
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Tuesday Apr 1 (8pm) @ Light Industry
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After a day of hoaxes, scandals, and embarrassment, spend the first of April with a few on-screen fools at Sunset Park's newest venue, Light Industry.... View details »
- Music: Classical
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TinAlley String Quartet
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Tuesday Apr 1 (7pm) @ The Americas Society
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Australia's TinAlley String Quartet kick off the spring music season at the Americas Society with an intriguing program that features a quartet by a teenaged... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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FrostituTron
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Tuesday Apr 1 (7pm) @ Eczema Room
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From the dirt-stained child pornographers of Frostitute comes this year's hottest, steaming-est pile of beat-powered dance-floor napalm: FrostituTron. Slinging passive-aggressive tracks the way cafeteria lunch... View details »
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- Art
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Tara Donovan
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Tuesday Apr 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 »
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Francis Alÿs
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Tuesday Apr 1 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America
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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 »
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Lee Friedlander
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Tuesday Apr 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 »
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Jasper Johns
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Tuesday Apr 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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: Photography
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Archive Fever
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Tuesday Apr 1 @ International Center of Photography
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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 »
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Cai Guo-Qiang
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Tuesday Apr 1 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum
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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 »
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Gustave Courbet
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Tuesday Apr 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 »
- Music: DJ
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Afrika Bambaataa
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Tuesday Apr 1 (10pm) @ APT
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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 »
- Art: Photography
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Irving Penn
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Tuesday Apr 1 (10am–5pm) @ The Morgan Library
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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 »
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Jasper Johns
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Tuesday Apr 1 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
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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 »
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Cao Fei
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Tuesday Apr 1 (10am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery
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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 »
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Subodh Gupta
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Tuesday Apr 1 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery
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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 »
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Martin McMurray
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Tuesday Apr 1 (11am–6pm) @ Jeff Bailey Gallery
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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 »
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Jeremy Boyle
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Tuesday Apr 1 (11am–6pm) @ Hudson Franklin Gallery
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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 »
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Kanishka Raja
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Tuesday Apr 1 (10am–6pm) @ Envoy Gallery
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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 »
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Peter Coffin
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Tuesday Apr 1 (10am–6pm) @ Andrew Kreps Gallery
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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 »
- Film: Shorts
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Cartune Xprez
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Tuesday Apr 1 (7:30pm & midnight) @ Monkey Town
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Cartune Xprez, a Technicolor roadshow of animated short films, stops at Monkey Town for two nights of its "Spring Cruiser" tour, in support of its... View details »
