Events on Tuesday, May 6
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Russian Samovar
If you like a splash of intelligentsia with your vodka, then the Russian Samovar serves your ideal cocktail. The long-standing bar,...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Cake Shop
Berkeley's John Ringhofer occasionally plays with both Sufjan Stevens and Danielson, and his solo work as Half-handed Cloud fits pretty neatly...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Armed with little more than a massively fuzzed-up guitar and ferociously pounded drum kit, No Age's sloppy, restless sound is true...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Film Forum
In Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard curbs his usual bravado to muse on the title's double...
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Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Town Hall
If you consider brushing your teeth part of foreplay, chances are you're familiar with "business time" — the intense two-minute form...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Joyce Theater
ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 — the second companies of American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Charlie Haden, Ethan Iverson, and Paul Motian
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Village Vanguard
For this five-night stand, legendary Jazz drummer Paul Motian (perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio) teams...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Susan Inglett Gallery
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ PaceWildenstein
Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street
In a hilariously twisted parody of Tennessee Williams' drama The Glass Menagerie, the dysfunctional Wingfield family recasts itself as a bunch...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Film Forum
Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life —...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ IFC Center
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Artists Space
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Landmark Sunshine
Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Postmasters
In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Bellwether Gallery
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ New York State Theater
NYCB's season-long tribute to choreographer Jerome Robbins continues with an all-Robbins/Leonard Bernstein program — the work of lifelong friends and occasional...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
New York African Film Festival
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Various locations
Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 59E59 Theaters
Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Angelika Film Center
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
Sunday in the Park with George
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ APT
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Quad Cinema
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....
