Events on Friday, January 2
Friday 1/ 2 @ Issue Project Room
Tzadik's resident theremin adventurer, Pamelia Kurstin, hits Issue Project Room tonight alongside performance artist/vocal instigator Shelley Hirsch and rock-ventriloquist Carla Rhodes....
Friday 1/ 2 @ Southpaw
The Dickies have been playing happy-go-lucky hardcore for over 30 years, making them one of punk's oldest bands. Known for their...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/ 2 @ Deitch Studios
Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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,...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Sputnik
Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Friday 1/ 2 @ Museum of Arts and Design
To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Helen Hayes Theatre
Slava Polunin's style of pantomime, which he calls "Expressive Idiotism," is on display at the revived Slava's Snowshow. When he first...
Friday 1/ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Ad Hoc Art
Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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,...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker
Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Friday 1/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Silver Shed
Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Comix
Comic Todd Barry starts your new year right: with self-deprecating humor about an under-appreciated life in the doldrums. What, you wanted...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Brad Pitt and David Fincher peer up at the De Niro/Scorsese crest for actor-director collaborations, ranking as one of recent cinema's...
Friday 1/ 2 @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get...
Friday 1/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Friday 1/ 2 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 59E59 Theaters
Ireland's Rough Magic Theatre Company makes its US debut with Improbable Frequency, an absurd, over-the-top musical comedy about a British spy...
Friday 1/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Working from photographic source material — both found media imagery and personal snapshots — Marlene Dumas has constructed an impressive body...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 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 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ IFC Center
That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Film Forum
Let it never be said that Theater of War does not cover serious ground: the documentary is about war, the power...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Smith-Stewart
Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup....
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Friday 1/ 2 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Theater for the New City
Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Various locations
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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....
Friday 1/ 2 @ Film Forum
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 1/ 2 @ IFC Center
In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
Friday 1/ 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 1/ 2 @ Exit Art
Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Friday 1/ 2 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 1/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...
