Events on Tuesday, April 8
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Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Brooklyn Kitchen
The culinary trend these days is to get closer to our food — and short of playing fetch with a pig...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall
The Jewish Folk Music Society was founded 100 years ago in St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida), providing many of tonight's featured...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Moth's monthly spoken-word mashups are one-part open mic and one-part discussion. Tonight, the group teams up with the peacemakers of...
Ya Ho Wha 13 w/ No-Neck Blues Band
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Invigorated by the definitive new book The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and the Source...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ S.O.B.'s
Puerto Rican rapper Joell Ortiz isn't afraid of taking chances. After securing deals and subsequently parting ways with So So Def,...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Culture Project
Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Jack Shainman Gallery
Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Jeff Bailey Gallery
In his second solo exhibition at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Martin McMurray presents The Unreliable Narrator, a series of subtle-toned, soft-focus acrylics....
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Hispanic Society of America
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ APT
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
In historical drama Another Vermeer, notorious art forger Han van Meegeren sells his own painting — claiming it a crecently discovered...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
New York Underground Film Festival
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Anthology Film Archives
For 15 years, the New York Underground Film Festival has showcased overlooked, unexpected, and experimental gems. Due to restructuring efforts, however,...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ New World Stages
Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Postmasters
In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a...
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Tina Kim Gallery
Works by Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh don't appear often outside of collaborations like these with Ghada Amer. Her nature scenes and...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ BAM
The Saragossa Manuscript is a labyrinthine film that plays like a Napoleonic-era Arabian Nights. Based on a novel, the film follows...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday in the Park with George
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 8 @ 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...
