Events on Tuesday, January 6

<em>24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro</em>

Film

24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Guggenheim Museum

Back in the '80s, there were those lamentable Psycho sequels in which Anthony Perkins milked Norman Bates' dementia. Then, in 1998,... 

PopRally presents Silent But Deadly: An Evening of Comedy Shorts

Film: Shorts

Silent But Deadly

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

PopRally kicks off the new year with a program of silent and not-so-silent comedic shorts. MoMA's assistant film curator Ron Magliozzi... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Peter Callesen

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Wollman Rink

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

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Barbès

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

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

Film

Let the Right One In

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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... 

Parsons Dance

Dance

Parsons Dance

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Linda Gross Theater

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

Nayland Blake: <em>Behavior</em>

Art

Nayland Blake

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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>The Wrestler</em>

Film

The Wrestler

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Various locations

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

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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>Revolutionary Road</em>

Film

Revolutionary Road

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

The Labyrinth Wall

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Exit Art

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

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Paragraph

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

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Laura Pels Theatre

Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

<em>Wendy and Lucy</em>

Film

Wendy and Lucy

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Film Forum

Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the... 

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

Film

The Secret of the Grain

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ IFC Center

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

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

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Dudion Levers

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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.... 

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

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Quad Cinema

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

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Theater of War</em>

Film: Documentary

Theater of War

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Film Forum

Let it never be said that Theater of War does not cover serious ground: the documentary is about war, the power... 

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

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tuesday 1/ 6 @ Various locations

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