Events on Wednesday, April 23
Wednesday 4/23 @ Montauk Club
Journalist Alex Prud'homme helped his great-aunt Julia Child write My Life in France, a memoir recounting the late TV chef's time...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Union Pool
Jolie Holland's songs are at once old and new — too freaky for blues, too jazzy for folk, and too punky...
Wednesday 4/23 @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
If you aren't hip to country or bluegrass, you might not know him by name, but you've definitely heard Dobro ace...
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Wednesday 4/23 @ The Mercury Lounge
If Virgins frontman Donald Cumming looks familiar, it may be because you've seen his bits 'n pieces gracing the walls of...
Ongoing Events
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Queens Theatre in the Park
Hosted by the most diverse of the five boroughs and now in its third year, the week-long Asian Cultural Festival showcases...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Film Forum
Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life —...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Dance Theater Workshop
Seán Curran's work, which draws on his experience as a former Bill T. Jones dancer and theater choreographer, appeals to dance...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Culture Project
Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 59E59 Theaters
Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Kips Gallery
Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Various locations
The Tribeca Film Festival always heaps on the glitz and glamor with its high-profile mainstream films (Tina Fey's Baby Mama kicks...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Landmark Sunshine
Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Cinders Gallery
There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...
Sunday in the Park with George
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Postmasters
In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a...
New York African Film Festival
Wednesday 4/23 @ Various locations
Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Bellwether Gallery
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Dizzy's Club
Whether she's singing scat to standards or playing trombone on her original tunes, Brooklyn-based musician elizabeth! makes an impression. Before relocating...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ The Joyce Theater
Don't let the commedia dell'arte name fool you — this 60-year-old troupe is very nieuwe wereld. Artistic director Ed Wubbe mows...
Wednesday 4/23 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Quad Cinema
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Wednesday 4/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with...
Wednesday 4/23 @ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...
