Events on Saturday, April 26
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- Anatomy of a Murder
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Otto Preminger's early knack for noir resurfaces in his controversial, entertaining courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder. In a stirring story... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Ford & Fitzroy
- @ Trash Bar
- Ford & Fitzroy are a seriously stand-out local band who're still paying dues. (That is to say, these guys wail and... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- Sigmund Droid w/ Boy/Crisis
- @ The Steampoint
- Every once in a while, conscience creeps into your calendar — happily, at tonight's benefit fest for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Stefny
- @ The Annex
- After ten years as a DJ, Stefny has steadily, humbly begun working her way into the production world. Her Radiolaria EP... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Meat Beat Manifesto
- @ Highline Ballroom
- Since forming in Swindon in 1987, MBM have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving out a... View details »
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- Global Underground
- @ University Settlement
- Ever since its beginnings in the South Bronx, hip-hop has been a till-the-breaka-dawn kind of thing — so it's fitting that... View details »
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- More Flavor: Party
- Dances of Vice
- @ Montauk Club
- Located not far from Park Slope's sleepy preschool nexus, the gothic, stained-glass Montauk Club feels like a time machine built for... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- @ Minetta Lane Theatre
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... View details »
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- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- @ 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... View details »
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- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- @ 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... View details »
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- Roman de Gare
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's... View details »
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- Georganne Deen
- @ 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... View details »
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- Asian Cultural Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Cai Guo-Qiang
- @ Guggenheim Museum
- Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with... View details »
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- Yellow Moon
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several... View details »
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- The New Normal
- @ Artists Space
- Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- FUERZA: El Swing del Flamenco
- @ Connelly Theatre
- Óscar Valero joins his Flamenco Dance Company artists to shake it to some sultry Andalusian rhythms. A heavyweight on the local... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Gregory Crewdson
- @ Luhring Augustine Gallery
- For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with... View details »
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- South Pacific
- @ 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... View details »
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- Anne Hardy
- @ Bellwether Gallery
- Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —... View details »
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- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- Tribeca Film Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Lots of Things Like This
- @ 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... View details »
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- Hostage Song
- @ Kraine Theater
- The new indie-rock musical Hostage Song offers a glimpse into the dark, hallucinatory experiences of two bound and blindfolded American civilians.... View details »
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- New York African Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch.... View details »
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- The Date Farmers
- @ Jonathan Levine Gallery
- Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with... View details »
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- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Lee Friedlander
- @ 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... View details »
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- Sunday in the Park with George
- @ 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... View details »
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- Olafur Eliasson
- @ 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... View details »
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- Untitiled Mars
- @ 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... View details »
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- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- @ 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... View details »
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- Stuff and Dough
- @ Film Forum
- Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life —... View details »
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- The Visitor
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins... View details »
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- After the Reality 2
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- @ IFC Center
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of... View details »
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- More Flavor: Shopping
- Brooklyn Flea
- @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. Every Saturday in Fort... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Birthright
- @ Billie Holiday Theater
- Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates... View details »
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- White Like Me
- @ Jack the Pelican
- David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Zvidance
- @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios
- Originally from Israel, where he performed with Batsheva Dance Company, choreographer Zvi Gotheiner complements his lush, sweeping movement with a remarkable... View details »
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- Peter Coffin
- @ 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... View details »
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- Endgame
- @ BAM
- In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but... View details »
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- Tseng Kwong Chi
- @ 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... View details »
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- Passing Strange
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jeremy Boyle
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica
- @ Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
- Rex Nettleford is the director of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica. He's also an Oxford Rhodes Scholar, a Vice... View details »
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- Tara Donovan
- @ 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... View details »
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- Macbeth
- @ Lyceum Theatre
- Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the... View details »
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- Then She Found Me
- @ Various locations
- Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of... View details »
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- Lucas Reiner
- @ Kips Gallery
- Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it... View details »
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- Emancipation
- @ 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... View details »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- @ 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,... View details »
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- EATfest
- @ Roy Arias Theatre Center
- On TV, Dr. Phil commands us to lose weight and our politicians beg us to trust them. Emerging Artist Theatre's EATfest... View details »
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- Gustave Courbet
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- La Fille du Régiment
- @ Metropolitan Opera House
- The Met's new production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment is an exceptional reason to journey uptown. An everyman epic full... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- @ Quad Cinema
- Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects.... View details »
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- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- @ 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... View details »
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- God's Ear
- @ Vineyard Theatre
- Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives... View details »
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- Big Kids Little Kids
- @ Cinders
- There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's... View details »
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- More Flavor: Workshop
- Tribeca Film Festival and Apple
- @ The Apple Store, Soho
- For the fourth year running, the Apple Store teams up with the Tribeca Film Festival for a series of free filmmaking... View details »
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- Paul Chan
- @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
- Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- elizabeth!
- @ 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... View details »
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- Kanishka Raja
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Four of Us
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ralph Bakshi
- @ Animazing Gallery
- With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's... View details »
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- In the Heights
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- © MURAKAMI
- @ 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... View details »
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- Steve & Idi
- @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
- Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,... View details »
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- The Bruce High Quality Foundation
- @ Susan Inglett Gallery
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and... View details »
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- Jump
- @ Union Square Theatre
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... View details »
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- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- @ Broadhurst Theatre
- Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The... View details »
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- Tamara Kostianovsky
- @ 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... View details »
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- Seán Curran Company
- @ 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... View details »
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- Residential Erection
- @ Postmasters
- In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a... View details »
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- Fire Island
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Jasper Johns
- @ 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... View details »
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- Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
- @ 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... View details »
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- Women Center Stage Festival
- @ Culture Project
- Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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