All events on Tuesday May 13

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Music: Hip-Hop
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Tuesday May 13 (7:30pm) @ Madison Square Garden
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Performing Arts: Dance
MOMIX
Tuesday May 13 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
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 Joyce. Breathtaking physical feats... View details »
MOMIX
Film
Artists Using YouTube
Tuesday May 13 (7pm) @ The Kitchen
Giveaway
With its massive library of user-generated videos (notwithstanding some dumbfounding offenses against the English language), YouTube is a goldmine for those who take time to... View details »
Artists Using YouTube
Music: Hip-Hop
DAM
Tuesday May 13 (8pm) @ Southpaw
Giveaway
Count your lucky stars that the preeminent Palestinian hip-hop group DAM managed to get a visa to tour the US, even with an album titled... View details »
DAM
Performing Arts: Theatre
Top Girls
Tuesday May 13 (8pm) @ Biltmore Theater More times »
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 for days, maybe years... View details »
Top Girls
Music: Jazz/Blues
Pharoah Sanders
Tuesday May 13 (8:30 & 11pm) @ Birdland More times »
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 of the '70s and... View details »
Pharoah Sanders

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Tuesday May 13 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
Macbeth
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
Macbeth
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
Slavic Soul Party!
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
Adding Machine
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
Cai Guo-Qiang
Art
Gustave Courbet
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
Gustave Courbet
Music: DJ
Afrika Bambaataa
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
Afrika Bambaataa
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tuesday May 13 @ 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 »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
Passing Strange
Film
Then She Found Me
Tuesday May 13 @ Various locations More times »
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of sitcom, even after garnering... View details »
Then She Found Me
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
Sunday in the Park with George
Film
The Fall
Tuesday May 13 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
The Fall
Art
Kanishka Raja
Tuesday May 13 (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 »
Kanishka Raja
Film
New York African Film Festival
Tuesday May 13 @ 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 »
New York African Film Festival
Film
Redbelt
Tuesday May 13 @ Various locations More times »
Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the martial art's principles. But... View details »
Redbelt
Art
Ralph Bakshi
Tuesday May 13 (10am–7pm) @ Animazing Gallery More times »
Free
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's worked with comix demigod... View details »
Ralph Bakshi
Film: Documentary
Constantine's Sword
Tuesday May 13 @ Quad Cinema More times »
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects. What's unusual about Constantine's... View details »
Constantine's Sword
Film
The Visitor
Tuesday May 13 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
The Visitor
Performing Arts: Theatre
God's Ear
Tuesday May 13 (7pm) @ 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 »
God's Ear
Film
Roman de Gare
Tuesday May 13 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
Roman de Gare
Art
Walton Ford
Tuesday May 13 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times »
Free
Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In Dying Words, Ford plays... View details »
Walton Ford
Film
Noise
Tuesday May 13 @ Various locations More times »
With Noise, writer/director Henry Bean has made a feature about urban sound pollution that doesn't grate on its viewers. It's no small feat, especially given... View details »
Noise
Performing Arts: Theatre
Yellow Moon
Tuesday May 13 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several Smiths LPs-worth of adolescent... View details »
Yellow Moon
Film
Poultrygeist
Tuesday May 13 @ Village East Cinema More times »
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of sex and dismemberment alive.... View details »
Poultrygeist
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Tuesday May 13 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume and clothing. Superheroes delves... View details »
Superheroes
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Tuesday May 13 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times »
The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Art
Anne Hardy
Tuesday May 13 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs — five of which are... View details »
Anne Hardy
Art
Robert Therrien
Tuesday May 13 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
Free
Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized chairs lean propped against... View details »
Robert Therrien
Art
Tamara Kostianovsky
Tuesday May 13 (11am–6pm) @ Black & White Gallery More times »
Free
Tamara Kostianovsky's debut solo exhibition, Actus Reus, is the second part of a three-part series, titled The Proper Animal and hosted by Black & White... View details »
Tamara Kostianovsky
Performing Arts: Theatre
Steve & Idi
Tuesday May 13 (8pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre More times »
Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then, just as Steve's on... View details »
Steve & Idi
Film
Son of Rambow
Tuesday May 13 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
Son of Rambow
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Sound and the Fury
Tuesday May 13 (7pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop More times »
Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel without summarizing or paraphrasing.... View details »
The Sound and the Fury
Art
The New Normal
Tuesday May 13 (noon–6pm) @ Artists Space More times »
Free
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public — has inspired ample... View details »
The New Normal
Performing Arts: Theatre
Endgame
Tuesday May 13 (7:30pm) @ BAM More times »
In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but dark humor still reigns.... View details »
Endgame
Performing Arts: Theatre
E.S.T. Marathon
Tuesday May 13 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times »
Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually a mixed bag, but... View details »
E.S.T. Marathon
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Tuesday May 13 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House More times »
Free
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia House hosts work by... View details »
Recent Icelandic Art
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Tuesday May 13 @ 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 »
Paragraph
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Tuesday May 13 (8pm) @ Ars Nova Theater More times »
Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain Clamp and his shipmates... View details »
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Art
Neo Rauch
Tuesday May 13 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding art-world buzz and a... View details »
Neo Rauch
Art
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Tuesday May 13 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times »
Free
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and DIY spirit. The title... View details »
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Performing Arts: Theatre
Port Authority
Tuesday May 13 (8pm) @ Linda Gross Theater More times »
"I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A lot. So do middle-aged... View details »
Port Authority
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Tuesday May 13 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Tuesday May 13 (7pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its subsequent film adaptation, hit... View details »
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Tuesday May 13 (7pm) @ Longacre Theatre More times »
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying spectacle — and, miraculously,... View details »
Boeing Boeing
Art
Adolph Gottlieb
Tuesday May 13 (9:30am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and European contemporaries — he... View details »
Adolph Gottlieb
Art
Zhang Huan
Tuesday May 13 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric Western world — must... View details »
Zhang Huan
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bouffon Glass Menajoree
Tuesday May 13 (10:30pm) @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker St Theatres More times »
In a hilariously twisted parody of Tennessee Williams' drama The Glass Menagerie, the dysfunctional Wingfield family recasts itself as a bunch of deformed clowns. This... View details »
Bouffon Glass Menajoree
Art
Christian Vincent
Tuesday May 13 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery More times »
Free
... e realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they seem to be parts... View details »
Christian Vincent
Art
Purvis Young
Tuesday May 13 (1pm–midnight) @ GalleryBar More times »
Free
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and had a dream, wherein... View details »
Purvis Young
Art
Tom Sachs
Tuesday May 13 (10am–6pm) @ Sperone Westwater More times »
Free
In one of his two latest exhibitions, high-profile craftsman Tom Sachs (and his basement factory of art-elves) transform a Chelsea gallery into a ten-room menagerie... View details »
Tom Sachs
Art
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Tuesday May 13 (10am–6pm) @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery More times »
Free
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, bu­t you can still see it, sort of. American gallery owner Gavin Brown and... View details »
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Tuesday May 13 (11am–7:30pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
Free
When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
Eminent Domain