Events on Friday, April 18
Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?
Friday 4/18 @ Landmark Sunshine
Some call him a poor man's Michael Moore, but filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, 2004) has an undeniable knack for...
Friday 4/18 @ Market Hotel
High Places' free-associative clatter recalls the odd robo-poetry of spam email, painted pink. The Brooklyn calypso deconstructionists relish digital static and...
Friday 4/18 @ Monkey Town
In multimedia installation Shades of Jazz on Noir, film excerpts combine with live music: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) collides with Otto...
Friday 4/18 @ Love
Unlike the Burning Man-esque dubstep festivals sprouting up across the US, Dave Q and Joe Nice's Dub War residency at Love...
Friday 4/18 @ Symphony Space
Last year, Malian band Tinariwen blew North American audiences away with their off-kilter desert blues. Now, hailing from a little further...
Friday 4/18 @ Public Assembly
Kalabrese's fantastic album Rumpelzirkus showcased his band, Rumpelorchester, laying down left-field grooves under squiggly guitar lines, muted horns, and rambling vocals...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/18 @ Apollo Theater
Since replacing Susie Ibarra as the drummer in David S. Ware's free-jazz quartet, Guillermo E. Brown has explored the idea that...
Friday 4/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation...
Friday 4/18 @ The Joyce Theater
Eliot Feld's Mandance Project returns for its fourth Joyce season. The first program includes solos for two lovely ladies: former Martha...
Friday 4/18 @ Andrew Kreps Gallery
In Peter Coffin's latest solo show, 30 video screens play archival footage of frolicking animals, while a motorized, roller coaster-like contraption...
Friday 4/18 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient...
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Friday 4/18 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120...
Friday 4/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws...
Friday 4/18 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Friday 4/18 @ Hudson Franklin Gallery
Like Sol Lewitt trapped in RadioShack, Jeremy Boyle surrenders his artistic role to mechanical gizmos. The latest version of his Self-Playing...
Friday 4/18 @ P.S. 122
Jay Scheib's experimental play, Untitled Mars (This Title May Change), attempts to answer David Bowie's age-old question, "Is there life on...
Friday 4/18 @ Postmasters
In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a...
Friday 4/18 @ Quad Cinema
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....
Friday 4/18 @ Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
In historical drama Another Vermeer, notorious art forger Han van Meegeren sells his own painting — claiming it a crecently discovered...
Friday 4/18 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order...
Friday 4/18 @ Jacob K. Javits Center
New York Comic Con features a who's-who lineup of illustrators, writers, filmmakers, artists, and actors. With celebrities like postmodern author Neil...
Friday 4/18 @ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...
Friday 4/18 @ The Belasco Theatre
The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel...
Friday 4/18 @ Smith-Stewart
Los Angeles painter Georganne Deen is an icon among West Coast post-punk aesthetes, and well-known to readers of Juxtapoz magazine as...
Friday 4/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop...
Friday 4/18 @ Best Buy Theatre
Not everyone "gets" the Kids in the Hall's humor (it helps if you prefer a good deal of absurdity peppering your...
Friday 4/18 @ Black & White Gallery
Tamara Kostianovsky's debut solo exhibition, Actus Reus, is the second part of a three-part series, titled The Proper Animal and hosted...
Friday 4/18 @ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...
Friday 4/18 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Friday 4/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The...
A Hard Day's Night and The Knack, and How to Get It
Friday 4/18 @ Film Forum
A Hard Day's Night may be the first music video ever made. After all, Richard Lester's black-and-white montage of Beatlemania is...
Friday 4/18 @ Café Pick Me Up
Upon arriving at Café Pick Me Up, you're handed a coffee, a prop to wear, and a piece of paper outlining...
Friday 4/18 @ Envoy Gallery
Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from...
Friday 4/18 @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater...
Friday 4/18 @ Ad Hoc Art
Brick Ladies of NYC celebrates Lady Pink and Aiko Nakagawa, longstanding heavy hitters in both the street-art scene and the modern-art...
Friday 4/18 @ Bellwether Gallery
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —...
Friday 4/18 @ Jeff Bailey Gallery
In his second solo exhibition at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Martin McMurray presents The Unreliable Narrator, a series of subtle-toned, soft-focus acrylics....
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Friday 4/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His...
Friday 4/18 @ South Street Seaport
Rare is the drummer whose compositions attract as much praise as his timekeeping; Bobby Previte is one of the few. For...
Friday 4/18 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with...
Friday 4/18 @ Culture Project
Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation...
Friday 4/18 @ New York City Center
Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Friday 4/18 @ American Folk Art Museum
The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and...
Friday 4/18 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Sitting on floor cushions and deck chairs, the audience provides the stage here, playing an integral role in recreating the relaxed,...
Friday 4/18 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
Friday 4/18 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 4/18 @ Deitch Projects
Tokyo gallerist Hiromi Yoshii revisits Japan's post-superflat art scene with After the Reality 2, a group exhibition featuring several first-time exhibitors...
Friday 4/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop...
Sunday in the Park with George
Friday 4/18 @ Studio 54
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat...
Friday 4/18 @ Apex Art
Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and...
Friday 4/18 @ International Center of Photography
Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution...
Friday 4/18 @ Kraine Theater
The new indie-rock musical Hostage Song offers a glimpse into the dark, hallucinatory experiences of two bound and blindfolded American civilians....
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Friday 4/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,...
Friday 4/18 @ Landmark Sunshine
Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...
Friday 4/18 @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center
The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of...
Friday 4/18 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...
Friday 4/18 @ Cinders Gallery
There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's...
Friday 4/18 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery
Without newlyweds or a bus-load of septuagenarians, photographs of "picture-perfect" places like the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, and Cinderella's Castle are...
Friday 4/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making...
Friday 4/18 @ Kips Gallery
Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it...
New York African Film Festival
Friday 4/18 @ Various locations
Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....
