Events on Thursday, April 23
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- Reading
- Literary Death Match
- @ Pianos
- Opium magazine's Literary Death Match reaches its unluckiest installment yet. Episode 13 marks the series' first date at Pianos on the... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio
- @ Gramercy Theatre
- Lou Reed's 1975 double-album, Metal Machine Music, would have to be the least poppy album ever released by a superstar. Recorded... View details »
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- More Flavor: Party
- Black Dynamite Launch Party w/ Cash Money and Skeme Richards
- @ Von
- New flick (but truly vintage-looking) Black Dynamite is an homage to the crazy, sexy, campy Blaxploitation genre of the '70s. After... View details »
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- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- @ World Financial Center
- We gasped out loud when we realized that it's been 25 years since TMNT first fought their way into our hearts.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- From Zane Grey's far-fetched dime novels to homespun images describing a seemingly limitless stretch of adventure, the American West — as... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Red Fly/Blue Bottle
- @ HERE Arts Center
- Red Fly/Blue Bottle is a multimedia experiment conducted by the play's protagonist, Clarissa. An entomologist, her scientific specialty both explains and... View details »
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- The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Pictures Generation pulls the curtain on the young laboratory of the New York art scene in the '70s and '80s.... 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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- Kenneth Anger
- @ 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... 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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- 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: 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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- charity: water at Chelsea Market
- @ Chelsea Market
- Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of... View details »
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- Hernan Bas
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- West Side Story
- @ The Palace Theatre
- Argentine opera singer Josephine Scaglione's magnetically angelic presence contrasts beautifully with the unforgiving world around her in Arthur Laurents' gritty revival... View details »
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- Alyssa Monks
- @ DFN Gallery
- Alyssa Monks' new paintings up at DFN are simply stunning. A continuation of the artist's bather series (contemporary versions of classic... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- ROOMS a Rock Romance
- @ New World Stages
- ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a... View details »
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- KRAZY!
- @ Japan Society
- For all the otaku and hikikomori out there, this exhibition needs no further explanation — but for anyone curious about how... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- Winners of the Prix Louis Delluc
- @ BAM Rose Cinemas
- Prix Louis Delluc winners are an illustrious bunch, indeed. In 1950, the ascetic splendor of Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country... View details »
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- Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them
- @ The Public Theater
- Christopher Durang's latest satirical comedy, Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, doesn't take itself too seriously despite... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Valentino: The Last Emperor
- @ Film Forum
- The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt... View details »
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- Surveillance from the Doll House
- @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.
- Laurie Simmons' 2006 mini-musical film in three acts, The Music of Regret, eloquently captures the tone of this bittersweet and poignant... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Waiting for Godot
- @ Studio 54
- Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by... View details »
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- Il Divo
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Il Divo is a searing political biopic of three-time Italian Prime Minister and Senator-for-life Giulio Andreotti, which focuses on his unparalleled... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- American Swing
- @ Quad Cinema
- We first heard about Plato's Retreat from a small cameo in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. Years later, we didn't need... 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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- Jonathan Horowitz
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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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- The Old West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Tall tales of the Old West loom over our imaginations like the Sequoias out yonder. Many of these myths were self-invented:... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hair
- @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre
- Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... View details »
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- Spring Exhibitions
- @ Artists Space
- Flowers that manage to exist in cement-road crevices: a timeless analogy for nature's resiliency in the face of man, and also,... View details »
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- Hunger
- @ IFC Center
- Hunger takes its aesthetic and narrative cues from its protagonist, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). Focusing on Sands' last... 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: 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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- Sophie Calle
- @ Paula Cooper Gallery
- Displaying a unique approach to what might otherwise inflict emotional trauma, artist Sophie Calle rose to challenge an ex's breakup email... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Exit the King
- @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre
- 400-year-old King Berenger (Geoffrey Rush) doesn't know he has only 90 minutes left to live at the beginning of Ionesco's rarely... View details »
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- Jenny Holzer
- @ 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... View details »
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- Viridiana
- @ Film Forum
- Blasphemy is to Luis Buñuel's iconographic oeuvre as faith is to Catholicism — one-word tenets for worshippers of each Spanish institution.... View details »
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- Surrendering the Absolutes
- @ Metro Pictures
- In Robert Longo's Surrendering the Absolutes, his signature large-scale charcoal drawings explore the atmospheric effects of light, and the ways in... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Desire Under the Elms
- @ St. James Theater
- Robert Falls' strikingly visceral production breathes new life into Eugene O'Neill's problematic, oedipal love triangle of a play. In other hands,... View details »
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- Mike Nichols
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- When Mike Nichols debuted in the late '50s as one half of the improv duo Nichols and May, few could've predicted... View details »
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- Martha Friedman
- @ Wallspace
- Riffing on Rosalind Krauss' essay, "The Double Negative," in which the author considers the "organization of matter" through systems and repetition,... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- First Light: Satyajit Ray from the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Long before India became the center of the cinematic universe, Satyajit Ray was radioing in vivid, day-in-the-life messages from the subcontinent.... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Anvil
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Based on cultural stereotypes involving maple syrup, socialized health care, and general congeniality, heavy metal wouldn't seem to be Canada's forte.... View details »
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- Malcolm Morley
- @ Sperone Westwater
- Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Distracted
- @ Laura Pels Theatre
- In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the... 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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- Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- For all its fundamental utility, language can also warp into an abstract whatsit — at least in the artful hands of... 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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- 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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- Never Late Than Better
- @ EFA Project Space
- On the Futurist Manifesto's centennial anniversary, Never Late Than Better aesthetically evaluates our notion of time. Rethinking, defying, or just palling... View details »
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- Gomorrah
- @ IFC Center
- No less than Marty Scorsese helped distribute this grim intersection of five interlocking storylines about the Camorra, the Italian mafia arm... 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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- 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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- Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Thirty-odd years after reintroducing Gustave Caillebotte to American audiences, the Brooklyn Museum offers another marvelous paean to a figure whose posthumous... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God of Carnage
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Sites
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- Back in 1982, artist Agnes Denes staged an environmental coup (not to mention a conceptual beaut) by planting two acres of... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Dine in Brooklyn
- @ Various Brooklyn restaurants
- It's great that the "week" in Restaurant Week has lasted for two months, but the series still doesn't cater (ha-cha!) to... View details »
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- Nam June Paik
- @ James Cohan Gallery
- With his passing in 2006, Nam June Paik left a legacy as one of the ancestors of early video art. Paik's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pretty Theft
- @ Access Theater
- Allegra, the teenage heroine of Adam Syzymkowicz's play, Pretty Theft, is as pretty as her name. She's also had a great... View details »
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- Ward Shelley
- @ Pierogi
- The Byzantine details of Ward Shelley's "timeline drawing" mind-maps bear a fuzzy likeness to American Splendor. Applying ultimate to-do list techniques... View details »
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- Goodbye Solo
- @ Angelika Film Center
- At a time when the American cinematic landscape is as barren as a date between two mumblecore actors, North Carolina-born Ramin... View details »
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- The Norman Conquests
- @ Circle in the Square Theatre
- Norman's plan for a "dirty weekend" with his sister-in-law Annie turns into a couple days of chaos with the whole family... View details »
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- \'flō\: art, text, new media
- @ Center for Book Arts
- A motley collection of works by 30 artists makes up the \'flō\: art, text, new media exhibition, which examines the use... View details »
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- Our Town
- @ Barrow Street Theater
- David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Chasing Manet
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- Tina Howe brings offbeat wit to nursing homes in her well-observed new play Chasing Manet. In it, a famous painter who's... View details »
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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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- Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
- @ 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... View details »
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- Sadie Benning: Play Pause
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist Sadie Benning is known for her experimental video narratives, which she started making in the late 1980s. First shown here... View details »
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- Art: Exhibition
- Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary... View details »
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- Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
- @ 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... 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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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- Lutz Bacher: MY SECRET LIFE
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present MY SECRET LIFE, Lutz Bacher's first museum survey exhibition, which spans several decades... View details »
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- Intervals
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Intervals is a new contemporary art series designed to reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative practices. Conceived to take place... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the... View details »
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