Events on Tuesday, April 8

Joell Ortiz w/ Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas, J the S, Don Cerino, and Dan Johns
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Music: Hip-Hop
Joell Ortiz
@ 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,...  View details »
Pro Musica Hebraica Concert
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Music: Classical
Pro Musica Hebraica
@ 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...  View details »
Free
[SOLD OUT] Pig Butchering feat. Tom Mylan
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
More Flavor: Food/Wine
[SOLD OUT] Pig Butchering
@ Brooklyn Kitchen
The culinary trend these days is to get closer to our food — and short of playing fetch with a pig...  View details »
Sold Out!
Ya Ho Wha 13 w/ No-Neck Blues Band, Tom Greenwood, and Spectre Folk
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Music: Rock/Pop
Ya Ho Wha 13 w/ No-Neck Blues Band
@ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Invigorated by the definitive new book The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and the Source...  View details »
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NY Moth Storyslam: Making Peace
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
NY Moth Storyslam
@ 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...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Tara Donovan
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Tara Donovan
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Jasper Johns: <em>Drawings 1997-2007</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_09
Art
Jasper Johns
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
South Pacific
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Gustave Courbet
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Gustave Courbet
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Women Center Stage Festival
Month_04 Wednesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Women Center Stage Festival
@ Culture Project
Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation...  View details »
Ongoing
Jeremy Boyle
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Jeremy Boyle
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung: <em>Residential Erection</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Residential Erection
@ Postmasters
In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Slavic Soul Party!
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
@ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...  View details »
Ongoing
Irving Penn: <em>Close Encounters: Portraits of Artists and Writers</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
@ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Macbeth</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
Macbeth
@ Lyceum Theatre
Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the...  View details »
Ongoing
Tim Minchin
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Comedy
Tim Minchin
@ New World Stages
Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his...  View details »
Ongoing
Kanishka Raja: <em>Indian Yellow</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Kanishka Raja
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_09
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Another Vermeer</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
Another Vermeer
@ Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
In historical drama Another Vermeer, notorious art forger Han van Meegeren sells his own painting — claiming it a crecently discovered...  View details »
Ongoing
Tseng Kwong Chi: <em>Self Portraits 1979-1989</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Tseng Kwong Chi
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art </em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_09
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Jasper Johns
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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15th Annual New York African Film Festival<em> </em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_09
Film
New York African Film Festival
@ Various locations
Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....  View details »
Ongoing
Martin McMurray: <em>The Unreliable Narrator</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Martin McMurray
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Date Farmers: <em>The Crying Playboy</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
The Date Farmers
@ Jonathan Levine Gallery
Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Afrika Bambaataa
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Music: DJ
Afrika Bambaataa
@ APT
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance...  View details »
Ongoing
Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
@ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Passing Strange</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: <em>Collaborative Drawings</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Four of Us</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Four of Us
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Gregory Crewdson
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art: Photography
Gregory Crewdson
@ Luhring Augustine Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Paragraph
Month_04 Wednesday Day_09
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
@ Paragraph
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing...  View details »
Ongoing
Lee Friedlander: <em>A Ramble in Olmsted Parks</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Lee Friedlander
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
@ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>After the Reality 2 </em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
After the Reality 2
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Eliot Feld's Mandance Project
Month_04 Wednesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Dance
Mandance Project
@ The Joyce Theater
Eliot Feld's Mandance Project returns for its fourth Joyce season. The first program includes solos for two lovely ladies: former Martha...  View details »
Ongoing
Dave Eggers curates <em>Lots of Things Like This</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Lots of Things Like This
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Francis Alÿs
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Subodh Gupta: <em>Still steal steel</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Subodh Gupta
@ Jack Shainman Gallery
Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Adding Machine</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
@ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>August: Osage County</i>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as...  View details »
Ongoing
Peter Coffin: <em>You Are Me</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Peter Coffin
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Saragossa Manuscript</em> (1968)
Month_04 Wednesday Day_09
Film
The Saragossa Manuscript
@ BAM
The Saragossa Manuscript is a labyrinthine film that plays like a Napoleonic-era Arabian Nights. Based on a novel, the film follows...  View details »
Ongoing
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Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_04 Tuesday Day_08
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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Ongoing
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