Events on Friday, May 2
Friday 5/ 2 @ Webster Hall
What sets the Brooklyn-based Hold Steady apart from other indie "bar bands" who like their guitars thick and ballads beer-drenched, is...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Comix
Whether or not you're planning on attending the annual freaknik festival that is Burning Man, you can still wild out a...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Along with producers like Ghislain Poirier, Montreal-based remixers Megasoid are helping to bring "lazer bass" to the masses. Comprised of Ninja...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Madison Square Garden
Jigga Man and Ms. Mary Jane — the king of hip-hop and the queen of R&B, respectively — go together like...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Studio B
The folks at Studio B have proven to be pretty powerful trend-spotters, booking every next-big-thing from Justice to Santogold — and...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Grand Ballroom
Hailing from the land of ABBA, Robyn reminds us that Swedes are second-to-none when it comes to insanely catchy, Euro-infused pop...
Friday 5/ 2 @ The Bowery Ballroom
With a hometown like Eugene, Oregon, and a name like Ramble John, an upcoming DJ is sure to stand out. So,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/ 2 @ Film Forum
Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life —...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Various locations
Step right up to behold ghetto-fabulous pachyderms, comedic acrobats, and hip-hop in the big top! Based out of Atlanta and inspired...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ The Joyce Theater
ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 — the second companies of American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 59E59 Theaters
Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Tribeca Film Festival and Apple
Friday 5/ 2 @ The Apple Store, Soho
For the fourth year running, the Apple Store teams up with the Tribeca Film Festival for a series of free filmmaking...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Jack the Pelican
David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his...
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Friday 5/ 2 @ Susan Inglett Gallery
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Metropolitan Opera House
The Met's new production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment is an exceptional reason to journey uptown. An everyman epic full...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Quad Cinema
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Cinders Gallery
There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...
Friday 5/ 2 @ IFC Center
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of...
Friday 5/ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre
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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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,...
Friday 5/ 2 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Mother Hips' anthemic rock is punctuated by falsetto howls and soaring, multi-layered orchestration. Tempered by a fundamental NorCal-style of experimental...
New York African Film Festival
Friday 5/ 2 @ Various locations
Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....
Friday 5/ 2 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 5/ 2 @ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Bellwether Gallery
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —...
Sunday in the Park with George
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Artists Space
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Kips Gallery
Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Various locations
The Tribeca Film Festival always heaps on the glitz and glamor with its high-profile mainstream films (Tina Fey's Baby Mama kicks...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center
The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of...
Friday 5/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Various locations
The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is, as the name suggests, an annual celebration of language, writing, and free...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Billie Holiday Theater
Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Sitting on floor cushions and deck chairs, the audience provides the stage here, playing an integral role in recreating the relaxed,...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Angelika Film Center
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Friday 5/ 2 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Carolines
Jeff Garlin brings his self-deprecating brand of humor back to New York for a weekend of shows at Carolines. The multi-talented...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ PaceWildenstein
Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Postmasters
In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Friday 5/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Sergio Leone may have pioneered the spaghetti western with his "Dollar Trilogy," but the Italian director's true masterpiece is the dark,...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 2 @ Landmark Sunshine
Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...
Friday 5/ 2 @ 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...
