All events on Wednesday April 09
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- New York African Film Festival
- Wednesday Apr 9 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- I Eat Pandas and Shockwave
- Wednesday Apr 9 (8pm) @ Comix
- I Eat Pandas improvise three entire musicals — complete with dancing and melodrama — based on audience suggestions (eat your heart out, Wayne Brady). The... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God's Ear
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Spoon
- Wednesday Apr 9 (8:30pm) @ Terminal 5 in New York
- Spoon don't need us to tell you to go see them. Like nearly every record they've released, 2007's aptly titled Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Kaki King
- Wednesday Apr 9 (9pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
- Giveaway
- Enigmatic guitarist/singer Kaki King recently left her cushy major label to release her newest record, Dreaming of Revenge, on Velour Music, the indie label that... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Dirty Projectors
- Wednesday Apr 9 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg in Williamsburg
- Giveaway
- One of the few experimental bands that are actually pleasing to the ears, Dirty Projectors combine dizzying, scooped-out harmonies with choppy guitars. Led by headstrong... View details »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Food in Film
- Wednesday Apr 9 (6:30pm) @ 92nd St Y
- Historian and Movie Menus author Francine Segan gives both foodies and film fans the lowdown on famous onscreen nosh moments. Segan covers culinary masterpieces like... View details »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Conversations on Color
- Wednesday Apr 9 (6:30pm) @ MoMA
- With an eye for bright colors, David Batchelor assembles luminescent stacks, strings, and cascades of empty containers and 99-cent-store junk. Tonight he sits down with... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Mandance Project
- Wednesday Apr 9 @ The Joyce Theater More times»
- Eliot Feld's Mandance Project returns for its fourth Joyce season. The first program includes solos for two lovely ladies: former Martha Graham dancer Fang-Yi Sheu... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Untitiled Mars
- Wednesday Apr 9 (8pm) @ P.S. 122 More times»
- Jay Scheib's experimental play, Untitled Mars (This Title May Change), attempts to answer David Bowie's age-old question, "Is there life on Mars?" Immediately upon entering... View details »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (2 & 7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times»
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 9 (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 9 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- blog.mode
- Wednesday Apr 9 @ 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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 9 (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 »
- Art
- Jan de Cock
- Wednesday Apr 9 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- © MURAKAMI
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 9 @ 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 9 (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 9 (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 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 @ 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: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 9 @ 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 9 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- Subodh Gupta
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- Big Kids Little Kids
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 9 (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 9 (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
- Georganne Deen
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Tim Minchin
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Women Center Stage Festival
- Wednesday Apr 9 @ Culture Project in New York 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 »
- Film
- The Saragossa Manuscript
- Wednesday Apr 9 @ BAM in Bklyn 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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 (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 9 (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
- Wednesday Apr 9 @ 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 »
