Events on Friday, March 13
Friday 3/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Despite their peace-loving name, Japanese psych-metal clan Flower Travellin' Band were immersed in raw, Black Sabbath-style riffage. Blazing a trail through...
Friday 3/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Comic-book panels, hardboiled detectives, and the evaporative nature of urban romances are all motifs that circulate freely in Jonathan Lethem's novels...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/13 @ Exit Art
As far as fields of practice go, art and science have often been split like coasts — the former deciphers our...
Friday 3/13 @ 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...
Friday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Cinders Gallery
Known for her kaleidoscopic highlighter-bright designs, but also for venturing through organic patterns and naturalistic wood-panel drawings, Maya Hayuk is a...
Friday 3/13 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Friday 3/13 @ The Mint Theater
D.H. Lawrence is infamous for his provocative novels like Lady Chatterley's Lover and The Rainbow, but he also wrote eight plays....
Friday 3/13 @ Deitch Projects
Jon Kessler spies on his own kinetic sculptures, feeding live video of his mobile creations into banks of jury-rigged monitors. His...
Friday 3/13 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Friday 3/13 @ Ohio Theatre
The central character of Robert Lyons' Red-Haired Thomas is a snarky Thomas Jefferson (Alan Benditt). The lively patriot tells the tale...
Friday 3/13 @ Invisible-Exports
Lisa Kirk's stellar career reached a new high with last year's solo show at P.S.1, but the artist's latest project is...
Friday 3/13 @ 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...
Friday 3/13 @ The New York Botanical Garden
The recession might have trampled your plans for a tropical getaway, but that doesn't mean you can't still pretend. As spring...
Friday 3/13 @ IFC Center
Kyoshi Kurosawa normally plies his trade in the horror genre, so Tokyo Sonata, a meditation about modern domesticity, marks a compelling...
Friday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ The Flea Theater
Kaspar Hauser (Preston Martin) is one little boy who should have stayed lost. The real-life 19th-century Nuremberg foundling is the spirited...
Friday 3/13 @ James Cohan Gallery
Simon Evans debuts his artistic pluralism at the James Cohen Gallery with Island Time, a series of works inspired by island-survival-as-metaphor....
Friday 3/13 @ (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 3/13 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 3/13 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
A playground altercation between two preteen boys escalates to full-on war when their parents get involved in French playwright Yasmina Reza's...
Friday 3/13 @ 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....
Friday 3/13 @ The Public Theater
Given the current debate about living in a post-racial United States, Tracey Scott Wilson's The Good Negro is a particularly timely...
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Friday 3/13 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
An annual holiday from the local cineplex and its wholesale American fare, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema arrives touting the recent best...
Friday 3/13 @ Laura Pels Theatre
In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the...
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Friday 3/13 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Friday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video...
Friday 3/13 @ 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...
Friday 3/13 @ IFC Center
While his recent work has fixated more on the nature of violence, no other filmmaker has delved into our unholy relationship...
Friday 3/13 @ 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...
Friday 3/13 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Hernan Bas is Miami's biggest home-grown art star, known for darkly poetic, romanticized works that read as chapters in an epic,...
Friday 3/13 @ Landmark Sunshine
Director Jan Troell hails from a different, more staid era of Swedish filmmaking, a time before vampires chewed up that country's...
Friday 3/13 @ P.S. 122
The National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA) is much more subversive than its official name implies. This fearless...
Friday 3/13 @ Gana Art Gallery
The erotic monstrosities of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights meets Giacometti's minimalist haunted-house sculpture, The Palace at 4 a.m.,...
You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
Friday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Playwrights Horizons
Crazy is relative in Evan Smith's very funny new play about a born-again evangelical door-to-door missionary, played with farcical exuberance by...
Friday 3/13 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Friday 3/13 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Friday 3/13 @ Roseland Ballroom
The Pogues' enduring take on traditional Irish folk — filtered through Joe Strummer's bark and Keith Richards' health regimen — proved...
Friday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Friday 3/13 @ Chelsea Market
Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of...
Friday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ 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...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Friday 3/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From setup to snap and on through to print, the picture postcard of the early 1900s aimed to be a simple,...
Friday 3/13 @ Vineyard Theatre
Downtown docu-musical-theatre collective the Civilians created This Beautiful City from interviews they conducted in Colorado Springs, the conservative evangelical capital of...
Friday 3/13 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Jenny Holzer thrives outside the more traditional, brick-and-mortar art world of paint and photography, using LED and light projection as her...
Friday 3/13 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Friday 3/13 @ New World Stages
ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a...
Friday 3/13 @ 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 3/13 @ Ars Nova Theater
Two Girls for Five Bucks sounds cheap, but really it's a steal. This sketch-comedy duo's show — complete with the Ten-Dollar...
Friday 3/13 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Friday 3/13 @ Asia Society and Museum
Check out the premiere U.S. museum showing of Yang Fudong's Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest. The five-part cinematic masterpiece depicts...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 3/13 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Friday 3/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched...
