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 @ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...
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 @ 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 @ 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
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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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...
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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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...
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...
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 @ 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 @ 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
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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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...
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 @ Bellwether Gallery
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —...
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 @ Artists Space
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public...
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 @ 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 @ 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...
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 @ 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...
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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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...
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...
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
Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making...
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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ Angelika Film Center
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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...
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 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
