Events on Friday, January 23
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- Remembering Richard
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Twenty years after his sudden passing, Richard Roud's fingerprints on our film culture are evident in any repertory program. During film's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- The Moth
- @ The Players Club
- The Moth kicks off the new year at its old haunt, the regally cozy Players Club, with a new host: comedian... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Stephanie Lempert: GeoBiographies
- @ Claire Oliver
- As dense with words as the asteroid belt is with space detritus, Stephanie Lempert's photographs are framed in quotation marks. In... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
- @ Cort Theatre
- Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will... View details »
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- Nayland Blake
- @ 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,... View details »
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- The Secret of the Grain
- @ IFC Center
- That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- NYC Restaurant Week
- @ Various locations
- Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
- @ International Center of Photography
- The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Uncle Vanya
- @ Classic Stage Company
- If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and... View details »
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- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- @ 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... View details »
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- South Pacific
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Corrector in the High Castle
- @ Various locations
- Justin Lieberman's concurrent exhibitions at Marc Jancou Contemporary and Zach Feuer Gallery, The Corrector in the High Castle, is based on... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ruined
- @ New York City Center
- Playwright Lynn Nottage uses Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children as a jumping-off point to explore the brutality of what's... View details »
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- I've Loved You So Long
- @ 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... View details »
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- Keith Haring
- @ Deitch Studios
- Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... View details »
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- Synecdoche, New York
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tehching Hsieh
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Art and life are inseparable for Tehching Hsieh. The Taiwan-born artist, who literally jumped ship into the US in 1974, created... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ofri Cnaani
- @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Israel-born artist Ofri Cnaani now resides in NYC, which serves as the urban backdrop for her noir, graffiti-inspired drawings. In contrast... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Cripple of Inishmaan
- @ Linda Gross Theater
- Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new... View details »
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- Mr.
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Funeralogues
- @ Unitarian Church of All Souls
- The Funeralogues turns a comical light on the darkest moment of the human experience. This site-specific (set in the Church of... View details »
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- Fred Sandback
- @ David Zwirner
- Fred Sandback's famed wire and colored yarn "sculptures" are as precise and chaste as priests preparing for mass. With their vertical,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Freshwater
- @ Women's Project
- Bloomsbury novelist Virginia Woolf's one and only play, Freshwater, pokes fun at Art with a capital "A." Staged by Ann Bogart's... View details »
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- Street Art, Street Life
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- @ Various locations
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- House Wine, House Music
- @ V&A
- Erik Lindman is a talented young artist whose work reflects both a mature sensibility and a goofy sense of humor. House... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Becky Shaw
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Alexander Melamid
- @ Forum Gallery
- Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Judgment of Paris
- @ Duo Theater
- It took ten years and some creative thinking for the Greeks to defeat Troy. The six multitasking dancers of Company XIV... View details »
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- More Flavor: Shopping
- Taschen Books Warehouse Sale
- @ Taschen Store NY
- World-renowned art-book publisher Taschen's exclusive editions can often run into the thousands. Thankfully, its New York outpost offers bibliophiles a three-day... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Terre Haute
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- Terre Haute imagines conversations between Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and author Gore Vidal with unsentimental compassion. McVeigh contacted Vidal after... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Calder Jewelry
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Enter Laughing
- @ The Theatre at Saint Peter's
- Enter Laughing: The Musical is old-school musical comedy at its best. Joseph Stein, who wrote the book for Fiddler on the... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- @ Quad Cinema
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
- @ 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... View details »
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- Quilts of the 1930s
- @ 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... View details »
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- Marlene Dumas
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Closed Caption Comics
- @ Cinders
- The products of Baltimore collective Closed Caption Comics include varied narrative, tactile, and visual experiences — from psychedelic vignettes inspired by... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Billy Elliot
- @ Imperial Theatre
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... View details »
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- Mario Merz
- @ Gladstone Gallery
- In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pal Joey
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Labyrinth Wall
- @ Exit Art
- Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Eight
- @ P.S. 122
- Eight swept the major awards at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival — including the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, which... View details »
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- NeoHooDoo
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... View details »
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- Revolutionary Road
- @ Various locations
- Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,... View details »
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- Recent Soundsuits
- @ Jack Shainman Gallery
- Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- New York City Ballet
- @ New York State Theater
- New York City Ballet usually dances to the music of one Russian composer whose last name begins with "S." Last season... View details »
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- American Politics: From the Archives
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Thanks to Illinois' backroom politics, Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — in which a crooked governor handpicks idealistic, straight-arrow... View details »
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- Stephen Sprouse
- @ Deitch Projects
- Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective... View details »
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- The Wrestler
- @ 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... View details »
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- Alex Brown
- @ Feature Inc.
- Alex Brown's puzzle-like oil paintings are Op-Art wonders: landscapes and headshots as elaborate, pixilated mosaics in a Pantone-worshipping color palette. Brown's... View details »
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- More Flavor: Workshop
- Open Tables
- @ 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... View details »
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- Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection
- @ Gagosian Gallery
- Almost as much of a force in the NYC art world as the works presented in this exhibit, Ileana Sonnabend's taste... View details »
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- Music: Classical
- FOCUS! A Century of New Music
- @ Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Juilliard
- Last century, California proved to be one of the most fertile centers for composers of new music. Well-funded LA and SF-based... View details »
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- Rachel Getting Married
- @ Various locations
- The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Ice Skating in Prospect Park
- @ Wollman Rink
- While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sixty Miles to Silver Lake
- @ Soho Rep
- Dan LeFranc's Sixty Miles to Silver Lake is a fresh take on the well-worn plot line: deadbeat dad and kid reconcile.... View details »
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- Let the Right One In
- @ 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... View details »
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- Pipilotti Rist
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- William Eggleston
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Animation
- Waltz With Bashir
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Behind the Screen: Video Game Technology
- @ Museum of the Moving Image
- Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But... View details »
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- Speed-the-Plow
- @ 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... View details »
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- Broken Glass
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ecstasy
- @ The Red Room
- In an effective and almost uncomfortably naturalistic style, Horse Trade's revival of Ecstasy depicts an evening of drunken revelry and reminiscing... View details »
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- Back Back Back
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich.... View details »
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