All events on Wednesday May 07
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- Superheroes
- Wednesday May 7 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Ariadne Unhinged
- Wednesday May 7 (7:30pm) @ The Playhouse, Abrons Arts More times »
- The Gotham Chamber Opera's Ariadne Unhinged is the story of a woman who, deserted on a Greek island, steps up to the very edge of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Stripped Stories
- Wednesday May 7 (8pm) @ Comix
- Sex is funny. No one can deny this. Tonight, writer, performer, and comedian Giulia Rozzi and fellow funnywoman Margot Leitman host a night of candid... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Pharoahe Monch
- Wednesday May 7 (9pm) @ S.O.B.'s
- Giveaway
- Raised in South "suicide" Queens, Pharoahe Monch could have easily become a well-to-do drug dealer or a gully rapper riddled with bullet holes. Instead, he... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Wednesday May 7 (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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Electric Prunes
- Wednesday May 7 (8pm) @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
- There's nothing wrong with a well-timed redux, but neo-garage bands like the White Stripes, the Hives, and the Kooks don't have much on the originals... View details »
- More Flavor: Lecture
- Union Hall Secret Science Club
- Wednesday May 7 (8pm) @ Union Hall
- Free
- Union Hall's popular Secret Science Club jumps onto the hot topic (ha cha!) of global warming. Dr. Wallace Broecker, the Newberry Professor of Earth and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Wednesday May 7 (2 & 7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Wednesday May 7 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Wednesday May 7 (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
- Jump
- Wednesday May 7 (7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Wednesday May 7 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- Wednesday May 7 (2pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Wednesday May 7 (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
- © MURAKAMI
- Wednesday May 7 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
- Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Wednesday May 7 (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 »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Wednesday May 7 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making modern paintings before the... View details »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Wednesday May 7 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Wednesday May 7 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy of meteorological description. In... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Wednesday May 7 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Wednesday May 7 (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
- Wednesday May 7 @ 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
- Wednesday May 7 (2 & 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
- Wednesday May 7 @ 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
- Wednesday May 7 (2 & 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 »
- Art
- Kanishka Raja
- Wednesday May 7 (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
- Wednesday May 7 @ 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
- Wednesday May 7 @ 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
- Wednesday May 7 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Wednesday May 7 (2:30 & 7:30pm) @ New York City Center More times »
- Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan Safran Foer. A fictionalized... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Wednesday May 7 @ Quad Cinema More times »
- Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects. What's unusual about Constantine's... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Wednesday May 7 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God's Ear
- Wednesday May 7 (8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
- Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives the production with a... View details »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Wednesday May 7 @ 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
- Paul Chan
- Wednesday May 7 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift either skyward or down... View details »
- Art
- Lots of Things Like This
- Wednesday May 7 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
- Free
- Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and image. The list of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Yellow Moon
- Wednesday May 7 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
- Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several Smiths LPs-worth of adolescent... View details »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Wednesday May 7 (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
- Anne Hardy
- Wednesday May 7 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
- Free
- Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs — five of which are... View details »
- Art
- Tamara Kostianovsky
- Wednesday May 7 (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
- Wednesday May 7 (8pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre 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 »
- Music
- [SOLD OUT] Flight of the Conchords
- Wednesday May 7 (8pm) @ Town Hall More times »
- Sold Out!
- If you consider brushing your teeth part of foreplay, chances are you're familiar with "business time" — the intense two-minute form of lovemaking made famous... View details »
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- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Wednesday May 7 @ 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: Dance
- 123 Festival
- Wednesday May 7 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 — the second companies of American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Paul Taylor Dance Company,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Sound and the Fury
- Wednesday May 7 (8pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop 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
- Wednesday May 7 (2–8pm) @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Wednesday May 7 @ IFC Center More times »
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Endgame
- Wednesday May 7 (7:30pm) @ BAM More times »
- In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but dark humor still reigns.... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Charlie Haden, Ethan Iverson, and Paul Motian
- Wednesday May 7 (9 & 11pm) @ Village Vanguard More times »
- For this five-night stand, legendary Jazz drummer Paul Motian (perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio) teams up with Bad Plus... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- STRETCH (a fantasia)
- Wednesday May 7 (8pm) @ The Living Theatre More times »
- Kristin Griffith gives an uninhibited performance as Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods in Susan Bernfield's STRETCH (a fantasia). History remembers Woods for "accidentally" erasing... View details »
- Art
- Residential Erection
- Wednesday May 7 (11am–6pm) @ Postmasters More times »
- Free
- In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a political cartoonist and the... View details »
- Film
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her
- Wednesday May 7 @ Film Forum More times »
- In Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard curbs his usual bravado to muse on the title's double entendre — Her refers... View details »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Wednesday May 7 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Wednesday May 7 @ 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 »
- Art
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation
- Wednesday May 7 (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
- Wednesday May 7 (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
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Wednesday May 7 (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
- Wednesday May 7 (2 & 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
- Wednesday May 7 (2 & 8pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Wednesday May 7 (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
- Purvis Young
- Wednesday May 7 (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: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- Wednesday May 7 (11am–7:30pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
- Free
- When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
