All events on Thursday April 17
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- Asha Bhosle
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Carnegie Hall
- Bette and Barbra, move over — Asha Bhosle has the market cornered on divahood. Armed with a formidable set of pipes and saris more sparkly... View details »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Thursday Apr 17 (6–9pm) @ Animazing Gallery More times »
- OpeningFree
- With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's worked with comix demigod... View details »
- Film
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity
- Thursday Apr 17 (7pm) @ Asia Society
- Giveaway
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity is the first of The Yakuza Papers, a five-film series that's been called the "Japanese Godfather." The epic cycle of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Ángel Salazar
- Thursday Apr 17 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Comic Strip Live
- Famous for his catchphrase "sheck it out," Ángel Salazar has been busting guts for more than 20 years now. The Cuban-born standup has been known... View details »
- Music: Classical
- Ingrid Fliter
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Ingrid Fliter won the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, becoming only the fifth pianist to receive the distinction. The New York Times called her brash style... View details »
- Art
- Tamara Kostianovsky
- Thursday Apr 17 (6–8pm) @ Black & White Gallery More times »
- OpeningFree
- Tamara Kostianovsky's debut solo exhibition, Actus Reus, is the second part of a three-part series, titled The Proper Animal and hosted by Black & White... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- EATfest
- Thursday Apr 17 (7pm) @ Roy Arias Theatre Center More times »
- On TV, Dr. Phil commands us to lose weight and our politicians beg us to trust them. Emerging Artist Theatre's EATfest 2008 encourages us to... View details »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 Apr 17 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 Apr 17 (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
- Lee Friedlander
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 Apr 17 (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 Apr 17 (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
- Macbeth
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Lady Pink and Aiko
- Thursday Apr 17 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
- Free
- Brick Ladies of NYC celebrates Lady Pink and Aiko Nakagawa, longstanding heavy hitters in both the street-art scene and the modern-art collections of the Brooklyn... View details »
- Art
- © MURAKAMI
- Thursday Apr 17 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
- Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Thursday Apr 17 @ 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
- Whitney Biennial
- Thursday Apr 17 @ 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 »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Thursday Apr 17 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 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: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- In the Heights
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 @ 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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 @ 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
- Big Kids Little Kids
- Thursday Apr 17 (2–8pm) @ Cinders More times »
- Free
- There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's a suburb of whom,... View details »
- Art
- After the Reality 2
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 »
- Art
- Georganne Deen
- Thursday Apr 17 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart More times »
- Free
- Los Angeles painter Georganne Deen is an icon among West Coast post-punk aesthetes, and well-known to readers of Juxtapoz magazine as a proponent of lyrical... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 @ 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
- Thursday Apr 17 @ 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
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ 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
- Paul Chan
- Thursday Apr 17 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift either skyward or down... View details »
- Art
- Lots of Things Like This
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 @ 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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 »
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- Anne Hardy
- Thursday Apr 17 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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
- Bobby Previte
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fire Island
- Thursday Apr 17 (6pm) @ 3LD Art & Technology Center More times »
- Sitting on floor cushions and deck chairs, the audience provides the stage here, playing an integral role in recreating the relaxed, beachy feel of notoriously... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Street Limbo Blues
- Thursday Apr 17 (7–9:30pm) @ Café Pick Me Up More times »
- Upon arriving at Café Pick Me Up, you're handed a coffee, a prop to wear, and a piece of paper outlining your character in Street... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Untitiled Mars
- Thursday Apr 17 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Emancipation
- Thursday Apr 17 (7:30pm) @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center More times »
- The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of Nat Turner's historical 19th-century... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hostage Song
- Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Kraine Theater More times »
- The new indie-rock musical Hostage Song offers a glimpse into the dark, hallucinatory experiences of two bound and blindfolded American civilians. Between imagined conversations and... View details »
- Art
- Lucas Reiner
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 (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
- Thursday Apr 17 @ 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 »
