All events on Tuesday April 08
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- Pro Musica Hebraica
- Tuesday Apr 8 (8pm) @ Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall
- Free
- The Jewish Folk Music Society was founded 100 years ago in St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida), providing many of tonight's featured composers with an opportunity... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Joell Ortiz
- Tuesday Apr 8 (8pm) @ 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, Aftermath, and Koch —... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- NY Moth Storyslam
- Tuesday Apr 8 (7pm) @ Nuyorican Poet's 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 Satya Graha for a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Women Center Stage Festival
- Tuesday Apr 8 @ Culture Project More times »
- Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation with a former death-row... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Ya Ho Wha 13 w/ No-Neck Blues Band
- Tuesday Apr 8 (9pm) @ Knitting Factory
- Invigorated by the definitive new book The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and the Source Family, the Source Family... View details »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- [SOLD OUT] Pig Butchering
- Tuesday Apr 8 (6:30pm) @ Brooklyn Kitchen
- Sold Out!
- The culinary trend these days is to get closer to our food — and short of playing fetch with a pig before it's killed, you... View details »
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The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Tuesday Apr 8 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- blog.mode
- Tuesday Apr 8 @ 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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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 »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- Tuesday Apr 8 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Tuesday Apr 8 @ 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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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 »
- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Tuesday Apr 8 (10pm) @ APT More times »
- Giveaway
- Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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: Photography
- Irving Penn
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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 »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Tuesday Apr 8 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 @ 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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Subodh Gupta
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- After the Reality 2
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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 »
- Film
- New York Underground Film Festival
- Tuesday Apr 8 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Gregory Crewdson
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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 »
- Film
- The Saragossa Manuscript
- Tuesday Apr 8 @ 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 »
- Art
- Lots of Things Like This
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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 »
- Art
- The Date Farmers
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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
- Tuesday Apr 8 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Tuesday Apr 8 @ 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 »
