All events on Tuesday May 20
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- DNCHRD IV
- Tuesday May 20 (9pm) @ Secret NYC Location
- Even if the party-pranksters at LVHRD weren't Flavorpill besties, we'd still be singing their praises. Known for turning ingenious ideas into evenings of creative debauchery... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Candlemass
- Tuesday May 20 (8pm) @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
- The title of Candlemass' first album, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, succinctly summed up the subgenre they pioneered — melodic, menacing, huge-sounding doom. Original vocalist Johan Längqvist... View details »
- Film
- Films by Jennifer Reeves
- Tuesday May 20 (8pm) @ Light Industry
- Filmmaker Jennifer Reeves was clearly inspired by Stan Brakhage, but she's also undeniably her own artist, using animation, optical printing, and sound manipulation to tackle... View details »
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- Underground America
- Tuesday May 20 (8pm) @ 826NYC
- Free
- With Dubya's Department of Homeland Security moving to speed 670 miles of barriers to completion by year's end (breaking dozens of laws in the process),... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Tuesday May 20 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times»
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- Tuesday May 20 (9pm) @ Barbès in Park Slope 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- NY Design Week
- Tuesday May 20 @ Various locations More times»
- As the design community flocks to New York for the 20th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center (May 17-19), over 50 design... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Film
- The Fall
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
- Art
- Kanishka Raja
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
- Film
- Redbelt
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Film
- James Nares Retrospective
- Tuesday May 20 (7:30pm) @ Anthology Film Archives More times»
- As befits a linchpin of film's no wave movement, an anti-commercial culture founded partly in response to downtown NYC's new wave, director James Nares is... View details »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
- Art
- Walton Ford
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Film
- Noise
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
- Film
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Tuesday May 20 @ IFC Center More times»
- New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de... View details »
- Film
- Poultrygeist
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
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- Superheroes
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Robert Therrien
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Tamara Kostianovsky
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Steve & Idi
- Tuesday May 20 (8pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in New York 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 »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Sound and the Fury
- Tuesday May 20 (7pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop in New York 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 »
- Art
- The New Normal
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- MOMIX
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- I Wish to Say
- Tuesday May 20 (12:30–2:30pm) @ Bryant Park More times»
- Free
- Shadowing the campaign tours of Obama, Clinton, and McCain, performance artist Sheryl Oring has traveled all over the country to gather information for the upcoming... View details »
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- Paragraph
- Tuesday May 20 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Neo Rauch
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- GlassLab
- Tuesday May 20 (10am–5pm) @ Cooper-Hewitt More times»
- The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its annual series GlassLab. Working... View details »
- Art
- Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Tuesday May 20 (10am–5pm) @ NYCAMS More times»
- Free
- Two years ago, Brooklyn College's MFA thesis exhibition became a First Amendment cause célèbre, after city officials closed the show because certain works weren't "appropriate... View details »
- Art
- Cameron Hayes
- Tuesday May 20 (10am–6pm) @ Ronald Feldman Gallery More times»
- Free
- For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with an absurdist sense of... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Tuesday May 20 (10am–6pm) @ International Center of Photography More times»
- Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese cultural norms. Riffing on... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Top Girls
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Zhang Huan
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Bouffon Glass Menajoree
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Bill Shannon
- Tuesday May 20 (noon–7pm) @ Douz and Mille More times»
- Free
- Outside the world of visual arts, Bill Shannon is best known as the breakdancer (and sometime-skater) deftly balanced on a pair of crutches. Born with... View details »
- Art
- Christian Vincent
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Tom Sachs
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
- Art
- Francisco de Goya
- Tuesday May 20 (10am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho More times»
- Free
- Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series of small etchings titled... View details »
- Art
- Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
- Tuesday May 20 (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 »
