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More Flavor: Discussion
[SOLD OUT] Wong Kar-wai
Thursday Apr 3 (7pm) @ The Times Center
Sold Out!
The temporarily homeless Museum of the Moving Image invites Wong Kar-wai to discuss his influential work at the Times Center. In time for tomorrow's US... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Wong Kar-wai
More Flavor: Discussion
Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman
Thursday Apr 3 (6:30–7:30pm) @ Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY
Free
Authors Francisco Goldman and Junot Díaz discuss the challenges of writing — from portraying history and politics to capturing the lives of their characters —... View details »
Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman
Music: Rock/Pop
The Helio Sequence
Thursday Apr 3 (8pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
Giveaway
The Helio Sequence's new Sub Pop record, Keep Your Eyes Ahead, is an electro-folk knockout. Former Modest Mouse member Benjamin Weikel and Brandon Summers play... View details »
The Helio Sequence
More Flavor: Party
Gangi Record Release Party
Thursday Apr 3 (9pm) @ Glasslands Gallery
To coincide with Glasslands' post-renovation reopening, Gangi's record-release party features a multimedia lineup of suitably psychedelic performers. Matt Gangi's mono-monikered alter-ego plays folk pop with... View details »
Gangi Record Release Party
Art
Tseng Kwong Chi
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Tseng Kwong Chi
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hostage Song
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Hostage Song

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Art
Tara Donovan
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Tara Donovan
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Thursday Apr 3 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Art
Francis Alÿs
Thursday Apr 3 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
Free
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Jump
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Thursday Apr 3 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere.... View details »
blog.mode
Art
Lee Friedlander
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Lee Friedlander
Art
Jasper Johns
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Jasper Johns
Art
Jan de Cock
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Jan de Cock
Performing Arts: Theatre
Macbeth
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Macbeth
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Adding Machine
Art
Lady Pink and Aiko
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Lady Pink and Aiko
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Thursday Apr 3 @ 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 »
Archive Fever
Art
Whitney Biennial
Thursday Apr 3 @ 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 »
Whitney Biennial
Art
Gustave Courbet
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Gustave Courbet
Art
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
Thursday Apr 3 (10am–5pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is best known for iconic,... View details »
Irving Penn
Art
Jasper Johns
Thursday Apr 3 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the last decade. Johns, now... View details »
Jasper Johns
Art
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Art: Architecture/Design
Design and the Elastic Mind
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Design and the Elastic Mind
Performing Arts: Dance
Stephen Petronio Company
Thursday Apr 3 (8pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
Giveaway
Stephen Petronio's choreography is inextricably linked with the music it accompanies — his latest production could just as easily be a concert for celebrated downtown... View details »
Stephen Petronio Company
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Thursday Apr 3 @ 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 »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Passing Strange
Performing Arts: Theatre
Paradise Park
Thursday Apr 3 (8pm) @ Signature Theatre More times »
Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the playwright's third and final... View details »
Paradise Park
Film
New Directors/New Films
Thursday Apr 3 @ Various locations More times »
There's never a shortage of good film festivals and programs in New York, but the annual New Directors/New Films consistently emerges as the showcase with... View details »
New Directors/New Films
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Sunday in the Park with George
Art
Cao Fei
Thursday Apr 3 (10am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery More times »
Free
Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City is a virtual metropolis designed for the online world Second Life, and Lombard-Freid Gallery is exhibiting a scale model... View details »
Cao Fei
Art
Subodh Gupta
Thursday Apr 3 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
Free
Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils and clichéd scenes of... View details »
Subodh Gupta
Art
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
Thursday Apr 3 (10am–6pm) @ Tina Kim Gallery More times »
Free
Works by Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh don't appear often outside of collaborations like these with Ghada Amer. Her nature scenes and wallpaper-like patterns are prim... View details »
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
Art
Martin McMurray
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Martin McMurray
Art
Jeremy Boyle
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Jeremy Boyle
Art
Kanishka Raja
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Kanishka Raja
Art
Peter Coffin
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Peter Coffin
Art
Beka Goedde and David Meanix
Thursday Apr 3 (11am–7pm) @ Leo Kesting Gallery More times »
Free
In two separate exhibitions, Beka Goedde and David Meanix present the fractured beauty of cityscapes and human faces, exploring in tandem the relationships between people... View details »
Beka Goedde and David Meanix
Art
Big Kids Little Kids
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Big Kids Little Kids
Film
New York Underground Film Festival
Thursday Apr 3 @ Anthology Film Archives More times »
Giveaway
For 15 years, the New York Underground Film Festival has showcased overlooked, unexpected, and experimental gems. Due to restructuring efforts, however, this year marks NYUFF's... View details »
New York Underground Film Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
Romeo and Juliet
Thursday Apr 3 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row More times »
In this updated, witty interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, familiar tropes clash with contemporary archetypes. The four-actor cast stays true to the bard's words... View details »
Art
Georganne Deen
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Georganne Deen
Art
ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: Ides of March
Thursday Apr 3 (6–8pm) @ ABC No Rio More times »
Free
ABC No Rio has been a hub for LES radicals and artists for over a quarter of a century, and now it's set for demolition... View details »
ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: Ides of March
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Four of Us
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
The Four of Us
Performing Arts: Comedy
Tim Minchin
Thursday Apr 3 (8pm) @ New World Stages More times »
Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his self-deprecating, raunchy humor. Armed... View details »
Tim Minchin
Art
Lots of Things Like This
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Lots of Things Like This
Performing Arts: Theatre
Another Vermeer
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
Another Vermeer
Performing Arts: Theatre
Street Limbo Blues
Thursday Apr 3 (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 »
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Thursday Apr 3 @ 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 »
Paragraph