All events on Wednesday April 30
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- Public Art Fund presents Paul Chan
- Wednesday Apr 30 (6:30pm) @ The New School
- Paul Chan's work is practically a meteorological occasion, and tonight the Public Art Fund plays storm chaser. His 7 Lights series, currently on view at... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Dave Hill's Festival of Sight and Sound and Other Stuff
- Wednesday Apr 30 (8pm) @ Comix
- Dave Hill knows suits (pinstriped ones, specifically) and music — he's the frontman for local rock band Valley Lodge, plays guitar for Children of the... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Jason Anderson
- Wednesday Apr 30 (10pm) @ Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg
- Free
- Jason Anderson is disarmingly sincere. In the past, his tunes, both as a solo artist and the slightly more abrasive Wolf Colonel, have gathered everything... View details »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Gordon Ramsay
- Wednesday Apr 30 (7pm) @ Borders Park Ave
- Free
- Frozen, prepackaged food makes Gordon Ramsay say the f-word a lot. Actually, lots of things make him say the f-word a lot, but fast food... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Wednesday Apr 30 (8pm) @ Linda Gross Theater More times»
- "I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A lot. So do middle-aged... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Wednesday Apr 30 (2 & 7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times»
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (2pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- © MURAKAMI
- Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art in Bklyn More times»
- Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ 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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Wednesday Apr 30 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times»
- Giveaway
- Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy of meteorological description. In... View details »
- Film
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ Various locations More times»
- The Tribeca Film Festival always heaps on the glitz and glamor with its high-profile mainstream films (Tina Fey's Baby Mama kicks things off). But the... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Music
- [SOLD OUT] Feist
- Wednesday Apr 30 (8pm) @ Hammerstein Ballroom More times»
- Sold Out!
- No one could have foreseen Leslie Feist's slingshot rise to indie stardom. Actually, on second thought, wasn't it always kind of obvious? After all, Feist's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ 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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (2 & 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 »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ Various locations More times»
- Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of sitcom, even after garnering... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Wednesday Apr 30 (2 & 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
- Kanishka Raja
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ 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
- Big Kids Little Kids
- Wednesday Apr 30 (2–8pm) @ Cinders in Wburg 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 »
- Art
- After the Reality 2
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (2:30 & 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 »
- More Flavor: Conference
- PEN World Voices
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ Various locations More times»
- The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is, as the name suggests, an annual celebration of language, writing, and free speech. Now entering its... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ 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
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ 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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (8pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ Angelika Film Center More times»
- Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times»
- Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift either skyward or down... View details »
- Art
- Lots of Things Like This
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Yellow Moon
- Wednesday Apr 30 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times»
- Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several Smiths LPs-worth of adolescent... View details »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Art
- Tamara Kostianovsky
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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: Theatre
- Steve & Idi
- Wednesday Apr 30 (8pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in New York More times»
- Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then, just as Steve's on... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fire Island
- Wednesday Apr 30 (6pm) @ 3LD Art & Technology Center More times»
- Sitting on floor cushions and deck chairs, the audience provides the stage here, playing an integral role in recreating the relaxed, beachy feel of notoriously... View details »
- More Flavor: Workshop
- Tribeca Film Festival and Apple
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ The Apple Store, Soho More times»
- Free
- For the fourth year running, the Apple Store teams up with the Tribeca Film Festival for a series of free filmmaking workshops and discussions. The... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Emancipation
- Wednesday Apr 30 (7:30pm) @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center More times»
- The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of Nat Turner's historical 19th-century... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- EATfest
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- 123 Festival
- Wednesday Apr 30 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times»
- ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 — the second companies of American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Paul Taylor Dance Company,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Sound and the Fury
- Wednesday Apr 30 (8pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop in New York More times»
- Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel without summarizing or paraphrasing.... View details »
- Art
- The New Normal
- Wednesday Apr 30 (2–8pm) @ Artists Space More times»
- Free
- Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public — has inspired ample... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ IFC Center More times»
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
- Film
- Stuff and Dough
- Wednesday Apr 30 (1, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times»
- Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life — from a dripping sink... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Endgame
- Wednesday Apr 30 (7:30pm) @ BAM in Bklyn More times»
- In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but dark humor still reigns.... View details »
- Art
- Lucas Reiner
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
- Performing Arts
- UniverSoul Circus
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ Various locations More times»
- Step right up to behold ghetto-fabulous pachyderms, comedic acrobats, and hip-hop in the big top! Based out of Atlanta and inspired by black vaudeville from... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Wednesday Apr 30 @ 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 »
- Art
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation
- Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times»
- Free
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and DIY spirit. The title... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Wednesday Apr 30 (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 »
