Events on Friday, January 30
Friday 1/30 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
During the rough-and-tumble '70s, revolutionary movements were sprouting up around the world like weeds, the byproducts of sociopolitical factors x, y,...
Friday 1/30 @ Danbro Studios Warehouse
Dan Deacon more than proved himself and his fellow Wham Citizens masters of the unconventional live format with last fall's whirlwind,...
Friday 1/30 @ The Mercury Lounge
Brazilian break-out Curumin delivers a modern version of the danceable funk and samba-influenced rock that made countrymen Jorge Ben and Gilberto...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Friday 1/30 @ Deitch Projects
Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective...
Friday 1/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The daughter of famed animators Faith and John Hubley, Emily Hubley has crafted her own cachet through wondrous handiwork, as in...
Friday 1/30 @ American Airlines Theater
Hedda Gabler Tesman is neither subtle nor delicate, which is why Christopher Shin's adaptation and Ian Rickson's production of Ibsen's classic...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Duo Theater
It took ten years and some creative thinking for the Greeks to defeat Troy. The six multitasking dancers of Company XIV...
Friday 1/30 @ David Zwirner
Fred Sandback's famed wire and colored yarn "sculptures" are as precise and chaste as priests preparing for mass. With their vertical,...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection
Friday 1/30 @ Gagosian Gallery
Almost as much of a force in the NYC art world as the works presented in this exhibit, Ileana Sonnabend's taste...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Cinders Gallery
The products of Baltimore collective Closed Caption Comics include varied narrative, tactile, and visual experiences — from psychedelic vignettes inspired by...
The Corrector in the High Castle
Friday 1/30 @ Various locations
Justin Lieberman's concurrent exhibitions at Marc Jancou Contemporary and Zach Feuer Gallery, The Corrector in the High Castle, is based on...
Friday 1/30 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Avant-garde puppetry genius Dan Hurlin's newest work depicts the life of Mike Disfarmer, a portrait photographer in small-town Arkansas from the...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Friday 1/30 @ 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...
Friday 1/30 @ 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...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Friday 1/30 @ Jack Shainman Gallery
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Friday 1/30 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Friday 1/30 @ 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....
Friday 1/30 @ 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,...
American Politics: From the Archives
Friday 1/30 @ 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...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
Friday 1/30 @ Cort Theatre
Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will...
Friday 1/30 @ Exit Art
Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth...
Friday 1/30 @ Film Forum
Al Pacino's second film appearance finds him as a wily hustler, hunting for skag, wearing a headband, and palling around with...
Friday 1/30 @ 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...
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Friday 1/30 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Like many early 20th-century painters, Pierre Bonnard retreated to the hinterland for his twilight years. But rather than twiddling his artistic...
Friday 1/30 @ 59E59 Theaters
Terre Haute imagines conversations between Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and author Gore Vidal with unsentimental compassion. McVeigh contacted Vidal after...
Friday 1/30 @ V&A
Erik Lindman is a talented young artist whose work reflects both a mature sensibility and a goofy sense of humor. House...
Friday 1/30 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Classic Stage Company
If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and...
Stephanie Lempert: GeoBiographies
Friday 1/30 @ Claire Oliver
As dense with words as the asteroid belt is with space detritus, Stephanie Lempert's photographs are framed in quotation marks. In...
Friday 1/30 @ Various locations
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Friday 1/30 @ Various locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Friday 1/30 @ (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...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Friday 1/30 @ 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...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Friday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Friday 1/30 @ IFC Center
That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 1/30 @ 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...
