Events on Wednesday, May 14
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- Gustave Courbet
- @ 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- @ 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 » View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- @ 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- © MURAKAMI
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Olafur Eliasson
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy... View details » View details »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,... View details » View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- @ New York Public Library
- When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of... View details » View details »
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- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- @ Storm King Art Center
- In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Paul Chan
- @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
- Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- Corporate Carnival
- @ World Financial Center
- Corporate Carnival turns the World Financial Center Winter Garden into a circus sideshow of daring acts: ambitious executives climbing the corporate... View details » View details »
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- La Chinoise
- @ Film Forum
- France's student riots of May 1968 are now a widely mythologized example of late-60s' turbulence and strife. Jean-Luc Godard captures the... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Prisoner of the Crown
- @ Irish Repertory Theatre
- The Chelsea-based Irish Repertory Theatre company is devoted to Irish and Irish-American work. The New York premiere of Richard F. Stockton's... View details » View details »
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- More Flavor: Party
- Ladies of the Corridor
- @ Hurley's
- Dorothy Parker's collaboration with Arnaud d'Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor, was her last major project and also her most overlooked.... View details » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- The Moth feat. Jonathan Ames
- @ Museum of Jewish Heritage
- It seems fitting that Jonathan Ames, best known for his audacious personal essays (including one recounting a shower mishap that resulted... View details » View details »
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- Jump
- @ Union Square Theatre
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- The Autobiography of a Biographer
- @ Symphony Space
- The modern-day biographer's job ain't easy. It requires exhaustive research and demands equal attention to both the subject's commendable and reprehensible... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- La Femme Est Morte
- @ P.S. 122
- Having picked up the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Best Ensemble award last summer, the Shalimar company returns to New York with eight... View details » View details »
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- STRETCH (a fantasia)
- @ The Living Theatre
- Kristin Griffith gives an uninhibited performance as Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods in Susan Bernfield's STRETCH (a fantasia). History remembers... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Bonde do Role
- @ Club Europa
- Discovered by Diplo on a trip to Rio, Bonde do Role put their stamp on baile funk with '80s guitar riffs,... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Negative Approach
- @ Southpaw
- Negative Approach typify the knuckle-dragging but high-minded brutality of classic '80s hardcore. With the glut of meat-headed bands these days, it's... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Whitney Biennial
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- For its 74th installment, the Whitney Biennial expands its exhibition space and (lightly) trims its list of contributors. Through March, the... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
