Events on Friday, April 24

New York Tropical Five feat. Maluca

Party

New York Tropical Five

Friday 4/24 @ Glasslands Gallery

The Dutty Artz dudes Geko Jones and Uproot Andy get all rainforesty tonight with the April edition of the Tropical party... 

Terry Riley's "In C"

Music: Classical

Terry Riley

Friday 4/24 @ Carnegie Hall

For sheer all-star power, tonight is kind of like the Oscars of classical music. Kindly wizard and minimalist composer Terry Riley... 

Reza Aslan in Conversation with Ari Folman

Special Event

Reza Aslan

Friday 4/24 @ LIVE from the NYPL

Though you aren't actually likely to find noted young scholar Reza Aslan's latest book in the How-To section, it does contain... 

Littl'ans

Music

Littl'ans

Friday 4/24 @ Cameo

Littl'ans stirred the Britpop pot a few years ago after gaining the attention of that infamous Libertine, Pete Doherty. Doherty not... 

Tinariwen

Music: Global

Tinariwen

Friday 4/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Tinariwen are often thrown into the ever-polarizing "world music" category. Manu Chao had nothing to do with the making of this... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Never Late Than Better</em>

Art

Never Late Than Better

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Art

Malcolm Morley

Friday 4/24 @ Sperone Westwater

Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Martha Friedman: <em>The Organization of Batter</em>

Art

Martha Friedman

Friday 4/24 @ Wallspace

Riffing on Rosalind Krauss' essay, "The Double Negative," in which the author considers the "organization of matter" through systems and repetition,... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Friday 4/24 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Friday 4/24 @ Studio 54

Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by... 

<em>Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West</em>

Art: Photography

Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>Hunger</em>

Film

Hunger

Friday 4/24 @ IFC Center

Hunger takes its aesthetic and narrative cues from its protagonist, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). Focusing on Sands' last... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>Goodbye Solo</em>

Film

Goodbye Solo

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>American Swing</em>

Film: Documentary

American Swing

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>Surrendering the Absolutes, New Works by Robert Longo</em>

Art

Surrendering the Absolutes

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>Anvil</em>

Film: Documentary

Anvil

Friday 4/24 @ 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.... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Ward Shelley: <em>Who Invented the Avant Garde</em>

Art

Ward Shelley

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Friday 4/24 @ 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.... 

<em>ROOMS a Rock Romance</em>

Theatre

ROOMS a Rock Romance

Friday 4/24 @ New World Stages

ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Friday 4/24 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Friday 4/24 @ 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>The Old West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention</em>

Film

The Old West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention

Friday 4/24 @ 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:... 

Theatre

Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>C.H.U.D.Z.</em>

Art

C.H.U.D.Z.

Friday 4/24 @ Cinders Gallery

"Chudz," according to Urban Dictionary, is a term that can mean either sex or a "complete and utter" pimp (although said... 

Sophie Calle: <em>Take Care of Yourself</em>

Art

Sophie Calle

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

First Light: Satyajit Ray from the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy

Festival: Performing Arts

First Light: Satyajit Ray from the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy

Friday 4/24 @ 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.... 

Open Tables

Workshop/Class

Open Tables

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Art

\'flō\: art, text, new media

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 4/24 @ Paragraph

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

Theatre

West Side Story

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Art

KRAZY!

Friday 4/24 @ Japan Society

For all the otaku and hikikomori out there, this exhibition needs no further explanation — but for anyone curious about how... 

Mike Nichols

Film

Mike Nichols

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

Desire Under the Elms

Friday 4/24 @ 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,... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Friday 4/24 @ IFC Center

No less than Marty Scorsese helped distribute this grim intersection of five interlocking storylines about the Camorra, the Italian mafia arm... 

<em> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Friday 4/24 @ Laura Pels Theatre

In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the... 

Hernan Bas: <em>Works from the Rubell Family Collection</em>

Art

Hernan Bas

Friday 4/24 @ 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,... 

<em>Viridiana</em> (1961)

Film

Viridiana

Friday 4/24 @ Film Forum

Blasphemy is to Luis Buñuel's iconographic oeuvre as faith is to Catholicism — one-word tenets for worshippers of each Spanish institution.... 

Art

Jenny Holzer

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Nam June Paik: <em>Live Feed, 1972-1994</em>

Art

Nam June Paik

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>La Didone</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Didone

Friday 4/24 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

Gleefully existing at the intersection of camp and high-brow culture, the Wooster Group's La Didone sets a new standard for genre-bending... 

Spring Exhibitions

Art

Spring Exhibitions

Friday 4/24 @ 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,... 

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Friday 4/24 @ 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,... 

<em>Exit the King</em>

Theatre

Exit the King

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Friday 4/24 @ Various locations

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

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Friday 4/24 @ 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>Tangled Alphabets</em>: Le&oacute;n Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Art

Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Friday 4/24 @ Chelsea Market

Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of... 

<em>Dance/Speak: The Life of Agnes de Mille</em>

Dance

Dance/Speak

Friday 4/24 @ Florence Gould Hall

Choreographer Agnes de Mille is legendary for a reason. Her groundbreaking numbers for shows such as Oklahoma! and Brigadoon helped tell... 

<em>This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection</em>

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Friday 4/24 @ International Center of Photography

The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures... 

Theatre

Chasing Manet

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Art

Surveillance from the Doll House

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>Il Divo</em>

Film

Il Divo

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Winners of the Prix Louis Delluc

Festival: Performing Arts

Winners of the Prix Louis Delluc

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

Pretty Theft

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

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

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Friday 4/24 @ Various locations

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

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 4/24 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

<em>Performance 1</em>: Tehching Hsieh

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Food/Wine

Dine in Brooklyn

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Art

Sites

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Alyssa Monks

Art

Alyssa Monks

Friday 4/24 @ DFN Gallery

Alyssa Monks' new paintings up at DFN are simply stunning. A continuation of the artist's bather series (contemporary versions of classic... 

<em>Valentino: The Last Emperor</em>

Film: Documentary

Valentino: The Last Emperor

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

<em>Red Fly/Blue Bottle</em>

Theatre

Red Fly/Blue Bottle

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Art

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Friday 4/24 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Friday 4/24 @ 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...