Events on Tuesday, January 13

Cluck Cluck What the Fuck!? feat. Hearts of Darknesses w/ Living Days, Ed Schrader, Electric Tickle Machine, and host Andrew W.K.

Music: Electronic

Hearts of Darknesses

Tuesday 1/13 @ Santos Party House

We'd be lying if we told you we knew exactly what to expect from tonight's Cluck Cluck What the Fuck!? party,... 

Ongoing Events

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Tuesday 1/13 @ Lehmann Maupin

In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths,... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Tuesday 1/13 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Tuesday 1/13 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 1/13 @ 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... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Tuesday 1/13 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... 

Nayland Blake: <em>Behavior</em>

Art

Nayland Blake

Tuesday 1/13 @ Location One

Location One presents a survey of Nayland Blake's provocative mixed-media work, drawing from nearly every facet of Blake's 25-year career. Blake,... 

<em>Revolutionary Road</em>

Film

Revolutionary Road

Tuesday 1/13 @ Various locations

Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,... 

Art

Fred Sandback

Tuesday 1/13 @ David Zwirner

Fred Sandback's famed wire and colored yarn "sculptures" are as precise and chaste as priests preparing for mass. With their vertical,... 

Gallim Dance

Dance

Gallim Dance

Tuesday 1/13 @ Joyce Soho

Former Batsheva Ensemble dancer Andrea Miller comes to Joyce Soho tonight, hot off being named one of "25 to Watch" in... 

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Tuesday 1/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,... 

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Tuesday 1/13 @ Studio 54

Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Tuesday 1/13 @ Angelika Film Center

English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... 

<em>Terre Haute</em>

Theatre

Terre Haute

Tuesday 1/13 @ 59E59 Theaters

Terre Haute imagines conversations between Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and author Gore Vidal with unsentimental compassion. McVeigh contacted Vidal after... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Tuesday 1/13 @ Landmark Sunshine

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... 

Oliver Sudden & Michael Portnoy: <em>The Dudion Levers</em>

Art

The Dudion Levers

Tuesday 1/13 @ Martos Gallery

At the 1998 Grammys, "Director of Behavior" Michael Portnoy achieved as-seen-on-TV notoriety when he spazzed out beside a bewildered Bob Dylan... 

<em>The Secret of the Grain</em>

Film

The Secret of the Grain

Tuesday 1/13 @ IFC Center

That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Tuesday 1/13 @ Gladstone Gallery

In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 1/13 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 1/13 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 1/13 @ The People's Improv Theater

Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... 

<em>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Tuesday 1/13 @ IFC Center

In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 1/13 @ 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... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Tuesday 1/13 @ New York City Center

Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's... 

Peter Callesen: <em>Folded Thoughts</em>

Art

Peter Callesen

Tuesday 1/13 @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery

Using ephemeral, everyday sheets of paper, Danish artist Peter Callesen realizes magical 3-D sculpture installations. His first solo US show, this... 

Under the Radar Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Under the Radar Festival

Tuesday 1/13 @ Various locations

In his fifth year of producing the Under the Radar Festival, downtown legend — and former artistic director of avant-performance space... 

Ray Mortenson: <em>Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx</em>

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Tuesday 1/13 @ Museum of the City of New York

The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 1/13 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Tuesday 1/13 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

Parsons Dance

Dance

Parsons Dance

Tuesday 1/13 @ The Joyce Theater

David Parsons starts off 2009 with his first full-length piece, a yet-unnamed collaboration with the Grammy-nominated East Village Opera Company. Vocalists... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Tuesday 1/13 @ Landmark Sunshine

Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... 

Stephen Sprouse: <em>Rock on Mars</em>

Art

Stephen Sprouse

Tuesday 1/13 @ Deitch Projects

Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective... 

<em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tuesday 1/13 @ Various locations

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born... 

Nick Cave: Recent Soundsuits

Art

Recent Soundsuits

Tuesday 1/13 @ Jack Shainman Gallery

Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found... 

<em>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Tuesday 1/13 @ 2econd Stage Theatre

Becky Shaw mixes screwed-up pseudo-siblings, a lightning-fast marriage, and an awkward blind date into one fantastic screwball romance of a play.... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Tuesday 1/13 @ Wollman Rink

While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... 

Cedar Lake Winter Season

Dance

Cedar Lake Winter Season

Tuesday 1/13 @ Cedar Lake Theater

Cedar Lake's Winter Season features two world premieres from established European choreographers Didy Veldman and Luca Veggetti. In Veldman's frame of... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Tuesday 1/13 @ Angelika Film Center

This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... 

<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Tuesday 1/13 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is... 

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Tuesday 1/13 @ Linda Gross Theater

Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new... 

<em>The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality</em>

Art

The Labyrinth Wall

Tuesday 1/13 @ Exit Art

Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth... 

<em>The Wrestler</em>

Film

The Wrestler

Tuesday 1/13 @ Landmark Sunshine

There's a lot of Oscar buzz building over Mickey Rourke's performance in The Wrestler, but does Darren Aronofsky's movie live up...