All events on Tuesday April 22
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- Seán Curran Company
- Tuesday Apr 22 (7:30pm) @ Dance Theater Workshop More times »
- Giveaway
- Seán Curran's work, which draws on his experience as a former Bill T. Jones dancer and theater choreographer, appeals to dance connoisseurs and theater buffs... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
- Tuesday Apr 22 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- Don't let the commedia dell'arte name fool you — this 60-year-old troupe is very nieuwe wereld. Artistic director Ed Wubbe mows synthetic grass in The... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- elizabeth!
- Tuesday Apr 22 (11pm) @ Dizzy's Club More times »
- Whether she's singing scat to standards or playing trombone on her original tunes, Brooklyn-based musician elizabeth! makes an impression. Before relocating to New York, she... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Múm
- Tuesday Apr 22 (7pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy
- Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Silje Nes makes spare, warm sound-gems that shrink any room to bedroom size. Just one or two instruments — a beat-up synth, an... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Buckshot and 9th Wonder
- Tuesday Apr 22 (9pm) @ S.O.B.'s
- Giveaway
- A few years ago, acclaimed young producer 9th Wonder and Brooklyn's Boot Camp Clik head honcho Buckshot teamed up to make the indie-hip-hop classic Chemistry.... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- The Cinematic Orchestra
- Tuesday Apr 22 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Jazz Standard
- Best described as a Penguin Café Orchestra for the iPod generation, the Cinematic Orchestra's elegant compositions combine traditional instrumentation (saxophone, piano, bass) with turntablism and... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Destroyer
- Tuesday Apr 22 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- As if universal healthcare isn't enough, Vancouver's Dan Bejar strengthens the case for our red, white, and maple neighbors to the north. Under the Destroyer... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Tuesday Apr 22 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Tuesday Apr 22 (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 22 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday Apr 22 (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 »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Tuesday Apr 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 @ 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 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 @ 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 22 (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 22 (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
- Jeremy Boyle
- Tuesday Apr 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 @ 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 22 (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 22 (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
- Ralph Bakshi
- Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–7pm) @ Animazing Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Tuesday Apr 22 (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 22 @ 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: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Tuesday Apr 22 @ Quad Cinema More times »
- Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects. What's unusual about Constantine's... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Tuesday Apr 22 @ 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 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Tuesday Apr 22 (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 22 (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: Rock/Pop
- [SOLD OUT] She & Him
- Tuesday Apr 22 (7pm) @ Hiro Ballroom More times »
- Sold Out!
- Expect winsome pop melodies and a whole lot of blogger flashbulbs when folk whiz M. Ward and indie cover-girl Zooey Deschanel hit Hiro for a... View details »
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- Art
- Tamara Kostianovsky
- Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–6pm) @ Black & White Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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: Opera
- Satyagraha
- Tuesday Apr 22 (8pm) @ Metropolitan Opera House More times »
- Satyagraha comes to the Met following an acclaimed run in London. This new production of Philip Glass' 1979 opera about Gandhi's formative years in Africa... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Untitiled Mars
- Tuesday Apr 22 (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
- EATfest
- Tuesday Apr 22 (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 »
- Art
- Lucas Reiner
- Tuesday Apr 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 @ 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 »
