All events on Friday April 04
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- Gregory Crewdson
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Janeane Garofalo
- Friday Apr 4 (8:30 & 10:30pm) @ Comix More times »
- Janeane Garofalo might be a fixture around the Village, but her hometown standup sets are increasingly rare. Catch the politically outspoken comedienne (and former Air... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Meowskers
- Friday Apr 4 (8pm) @ Union Hall
- As of March 2007, epic rockers Meowskers didn't have a single song recorded, but were still selling out shows based on the reputation of their... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Maurice Fulton
- Friday Apr 4 (10pm) @ APT
- Maurice Fulton is one of dance music's most creative, enigmatic producers. His recent 12-inch under the Syclops moniker harkens back to the early days of... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Optimo
- Friday Apr 4 (10pm–4am) @ Studio B
- Giveaway
- Glasgow's weirdest post-disco purveyors finally set it off in New York. DJs Twitch and JG Wilkes (aka Optimo) are known for kaleidoscopic mixes like Psyche... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Matthew Dear
- Friday Apr 4 (11pm–4am) @ Public Assembly
- Giveaway
- The Spectral Sound residency continues at the Bunker with a set from Matthew Dear. Dear is one of the longest-standing names on the Spectral label;... View details »
- Film
- The Saragossa Manuscript
- Friday Apr 4 @ BAM More times »
- The Saragossa Manuscript is a labyrinthine film that plays like a Napoleonic-era Arabian Nights. Based on a novel, the film follows a soldier who discovers... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Extreme Behavior
- Friday Apr 4 (7:30pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
- In Extreme Behavior, two performance artists get weird — really, really weird. Neal Medlyn's latest piece, The Neal Medlyn Experience Live, spoofs Beyonce's concert DVD... View details »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Friday Apr 4 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
- Friday Apr 4 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Friday Apr 4 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Friday Apr 4 (8 & 10:30pm) @ 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
- Friday Apr 4 (8pm) @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- blog.mode
- Friday Apr 4 @ 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 »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Friday Apr 4 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
- Friday Apr 4 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Jan de Cock
- Friday Apr 4 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Friday Apr 4 (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
- Lady Pink and Aiko
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Friday Apr 4 @ 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
- Friday Apr 4 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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
- Friday Apr 4 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
- Friday Apr 4 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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: Photography
- Irving Penn
- Friday Apr 4 (10:30am–9pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Friday Apr 4 @ 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 »
- Art
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Friday Apr 4 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Stephen Petronio Company
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Friday Apr 4 (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
- Friday Apr 4 @ 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
- Friday Apr 4 (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
- Paradise Park
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Art
- Yoon Lee
- Friday Apr 4 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi More times »
- Free
- In paintings by Californian artist Yoon Lee, colorful tendrils churn and dive in a storm that becomes indistinguishable from the landscape beneath it. Each canvas... View details »
- Film
- New Directors/New Films
- Friday Apr 4 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Friday Apr 4 (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
- Cao Fei
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Art
- Subodh Gupta
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Art
- Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Art
- Martin McMurray
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Art
- Jeremy Boyle
- Friday Apr 4 (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
- Friday Apr 4 (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
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Art
- Beka Goedde and David Meanix
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Art
- Big Kids Little Kids
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Film
- New York Underground Film Festival
- Friday Apr 4 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Romeo and Juliet
- Friday Apr 4 @ 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
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Art
- ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: Ides of March
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Friday Apr 4 (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: Comedy
- Tim Minchin
- Friday Apr 4 (9pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Lots of Things Like This
- Friday Apr 4 (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
- Friday Apr 4 (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
- Another Vermeer
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Street Limbo Blues
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hostage Song
- Friday Apr 4 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Friday Apr 4 @ 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 »
