All events on Tuesday April 15
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- Daz-I-Kue and Osborne
- Tuesday Apr 15 (10pm) @ APT
- Giveaway
- The monthly My Favorite Things party welcomes broken-beat maestro Daz-I-Kue (of West London's Bugz in the Attic crew) and Ghostly International's Todd Osborn, who appears... View details »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Tuesday Apr 15 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times »
- The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
- Art
- Anne Hardy
- Tuesday Apr 15 (6–8pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
- OpeningFree
- Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs — five of which are... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Dead Meadow
- Tuesday Apr 15 (8:30pm) @ Maxwell's
- Thousands of bands imitate Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer, but few do so with the finesse of Dead Meadow. The power trio is as comfortable... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
- Tuesday Apr 15 (9pm) @ Knitting Factory
- Giveaway
- This year Owen Ashworth, the SF-based film-school dropout and master of melancholy, celebrates ten years of his aptly named musical project, Casiotone for the Painfully... View details »
- Music
- Bobby Previte
- Tuesday Apr 15 (8pm) @ South Street Seaport More times »
- Rare is the drummer whose compositions attract as much praise as his timekeeping; Bobby Previte is one of the few. For his second year of... View details »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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
- Tuesday Apr 15 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Etta James
- Tuesday Apr 15 (8pm) @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill More times »
- Blessed with a voice both brassy and bluesy, and admired by present-day belters such as the Gossip's Beth Ditto, Etta James has always performed music... View details »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- Tuesday Apr 15 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the stage (he was a... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Tuesday Apr 15 @ 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
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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 »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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 »
- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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 »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Tuesday Apr 15 @ 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
- Passing Strange
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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
- Martin McMurray
- Tuesday Apr 15 (11am–6pm) @ Jeff Bailey Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- Jeremy Boyle
- Tuesday Apr 15 (11am–6pm) @ Hudson Franklin Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- Kanishka Raja
- Tuesday Apr 15 (10am–6pm) @ Envoy Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- Peter Coffin
- Tuesday Apr 15 (10am–6pm) @ Andrew Kreps Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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
- New York African Film Festival
- Tuesday Apr 15 @ Various locations More times »
- Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch. But due to the... View details »
- Art
- After the Reality 2
- Tuesday Apr 15 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
- Free
- Tokyo gallerist Hiromi Yoshii revisits Japan's post-superflat art scene with After the Reality 2, a group exhibition featuring several first-time exhibitors and the return of... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Gregory Crewdson
- Tuesday Apr 15 (10am–6pm) @ Luhring Augustine Gallery More times »
- Free
- For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with an army of production... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Tuesday Apr 15 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Women Center Stage Festival
- Tuesday Apr 15 @ Culture Project More times »
- Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation with a former death-row... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Tuesday Apr 15 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God's Ear
- Tuesday Apr 15 (7pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
- Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives the production with a... View details »
- Art
- Lots of Things Like This
- Tuesday Apr 15 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
- Free
- Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and image. The list of... View details »
- Art
- Tseng Kwong Chi
- Tuesday Apr 15 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times »
- Free
- Without newlyweds or a bus-load of septuagenarians, photographs of "picture-perfect" places like the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, and Cinderella's Castle are just postcards — it's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Mandance Project
- Tuesday Apr 15 @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- Eliot Feld's Mandance Project returns for its fourth Joyce season. The first program includes solos for two lovely ladies: former Martha Graham dancer Fang-Yi Sheu... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Another Vermeer
- Tuesday Apr 15 (7:30pm) @ Dorothy Strelsin Theatre More times »
- In historical drama Another Vermeer, notorious art forger Han van Meegeren sells his own painting — claiming it a crecently discovered Johannes Vermeer — to... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Untitiled Mars
- Tuesday Apr 15 (8pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
- Jay Scheib's experimental play, Untitled Mars (This Title May Change), attempts to answer David Bowie's age-old question, "Is there life on Mars?" Immediately upon entering... View details »
- Art
- Lucas Reiner
- Tuesday Apr 15 (11am–6pm) @ Kips Gallery More times »
- Free
- Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it comes to painting, he's... View details »
- Art
- The Date Farmers
- Tuesday Apr 15 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
- Free
- Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with Southern California's multi-ethnic culture,... View details »
- Art
- Residential Erection
- Tuesday Apr 15 (11am–6pm) @ Postmasters More times »
- Free
- In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a political cartoonist and the... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Tuesday Apr 15 @ 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 »
