Events on Tuesday, May 13

[SOLD OUT] Kanye West w/ Rihanna, N.E.R.D., and Lupe Fiasco
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Music: Hip-Hop
[SOLD OUT] Kanye West
@ Madison Square Garden
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DAM w/ Rebel Diaz
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Music: Hip-Hop
DAM
@ Southpaw
Count your lucky stars that the preeminent Palestinian hip-hop group DAM managed to get a visa to tour the US, even...  View details »
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<em>Artists Using YouTube</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Film
Artists Using YouTube
@ The Kitchen
With its massive library of user-generated videos (notwithstanding some dumbfounding offenses against the English language), YouTube is a goldmine for those...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
@ American Folk Art Museum
The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Roman de Gare</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Film
Roman de Gare
@ Angelika Film Center
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's...  View details »
Ongoing
Adolph Gottlieb: <em>Paintings from Four Decades</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Adolph Gottlieb
@ PaceWildenstein
Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
@ Ars Nova Theater
Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Endgame</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
Endgame
@ BAM
In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but...  View details »
Ongoing
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Ralph Bakshi
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Ralph Bakshi
@ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Son of Rambow</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Film
Son of Rambow
@ Angelika Film Center
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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
Robert Therrien
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Robert Therrien
@ Gagosian Gallery
Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Afrika Bambaataa
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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
Zhang Huan: <em>Blessings</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Zhang Huan
@ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Pharoah Sanders
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Music: Jazz/Blues
Pharoah Sanders
@ Birdland
Pharoah Sanders is not the Kangol-clad, cable-knit-sweater-wearing, electric-clarinet kind of jazz musician. A link between Coltrane's free-form experiments and the fusion...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
@ American Airlines Theater
Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Then She Found Me</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Film
Then She Found Me
@ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The New Normal </em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
The New Normal
@ Artists Space
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Redbelt</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Film
Redbelt
@ Various locations
Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the...  View details »
Ongoing
Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown: <em>Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
@ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, bu­t you can still see it, sort of. American gallery...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Macbeth</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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
Tamara Kostianovsky: <em>The Proper Animal, Part II</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Tamara Kostianovsky
@ Black & White Gallery
Tamara Kostianovsky's debut solo exhibition, Actus Reus, is the second part of a three-part series, titled The Proper Animal and hosted...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Visitor</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Film
The Visitor
@ Landmark Sunshine
Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Steve & Idi</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
Steve & Idi
@ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Top Girls </em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
Top Girls
@ Biltmore Theater
Top Girls isn't what you'd call a "feel-good" play. It's more like a provocative, hard-to-digest one that will leave you thinking...  View details »
Ongoing
Kanishka Raja: <em>Indian Yellow</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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
<em>Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Film
Poultrygeist
@ Village East Cinema
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of...  View details »
Ongoing
MOMIX <em>Passion</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Dance
MOMIX
@ The Joyce Theater
Moses Pendleton's gravity-defying MOMIX dance company performs Passion, a visually stunning piece that kicks off the group's four-week season at the...  View details »
Ongoing
Anne Hardy
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Anne Hardy
@ Bellwether Gallery
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Bouffon Glass Menajoree</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bouffon Glass Menajoree
@ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street
In a hilariously twisted parody of Tennessee Williams' drama The Glass Menagerie, the dysfunctional Wingfield family recasts itself as a bunch...  View details »
Ongoing
The Bruce High Quality Foundation: <em>The Retrospective </em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
@ Susan Inglett Gallery
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
Yellow Moon
@ 59E59 Theaters
Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Sound and The Fury (April Seventh, 1928)</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Sound and the Fury
@ New York Theatre Workshop
Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
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
Tom Sachs:  <em>ANIMALS</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Tom Sachs
@ Sperone Westwater
In one of his two latest exhibitions, high-profile craftsman Tom Sachs (and his basement factory of art-elves) transform a Chelsea gallery...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Passing Strange</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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
Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Purvis Young
@ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
15th Annual New York African Film Festival<em> </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
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
<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
@ LIVE from the NYPL
When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Constantine's Sword</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Film: Documentary
Constantine's Sword
@ Quad Cinema
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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
Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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>Noise</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Film
Noise
@ Various locations
With Noise, writer/director Henry Bean has made a feature about urban sound pollution that doesn't grate on its viewers. It's no...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Port Authority</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
Port Authority
@ Linda Gross Theater
"I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>August: Osage County</i>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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
Walton Ford
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Walton Ford
@ Paul Kasmin Gallery
Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
E.S.T. Marathon 2008
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
E.S.T. Marathon
@ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually...  View details »
Ongoing
Neo Rauch
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Neo Rauch
@ David Zwirner
Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Slavic Soul Party!
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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
<em>God's Ear</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
God's Ear
@ Vineyard Theatre
Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives...  View details »
Ongoing
Paragraph
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
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
Christian Vincent: <em>Runyon Canyon</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Christian Vincent
@ Mike Weiss Gallery
  The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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
<em>Boeing Boeing </em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
@ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Fall</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Film
The Fall
@ Landmark Sunshine
In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone....  View details »
Ongoing
<em>From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
@ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
New York Photo Festival
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Photography
New York Photo Festival
@ Various DUMBO locations
As March's art fairs fade from memory, fans of contemporary photography have carved out an event all to themselves. For five...  View details »
Ongoing
Gustave Courbet
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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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<em>Adding Machine</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_05 Tuesday Day_13
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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