Events on Thursday, April 9
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Superdrag
- @ The Bowery Ballroom
- Superdrag's "Sucked Out" was one of the prime pop confections of 1996, with cherry-red guitar distortion and John Davis' hoarse vocals... View details »
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- Que Bajo?!
- @ APT
- Jumping on Nacotheque's indie/Latin party train, Dutty Artz curators Geko Jones and Uproot Andy have officially arrived on the scene with... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Lucinda Childs
- @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
- Choreographer and dancer Lucinda Childs has cut a wide swath through the international art world since her groundbreaking mid-'60s residency at... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- The Books
- @ Miller Theatre
- Sample-happy electro-acoustic wonders the Books perform a headlining set for tonight's entry in the Wordless Music Series. Turn up early to... View details »
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- Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)
- @ Exit Art
- As far as fields of practice go, art and science have often been split like coasts — the former deciphers our... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- An Oresteia
- @ Classic Stage Company
- CSC's production of poet Anne Carson's An Oresteia — a new translation of three separate Greek tragedies — is a fascinating... 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Orchid Show
- @ 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... View details »
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- BELLES
- @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row
- The punny title of Mark Dunn's BELLES refers to both the now-archaic telephone company nickname "Ma Bell" and the six Walker... 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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- 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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- Pierre Bonnard
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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: 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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- Ruined
- @ New York City Center
- Playwright Lynn Nottage uses Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children as a jumping-off point to explore the brutality of what's... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- Macbeth
- @ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
- Shakespeare leaves everything to the imagination, which is why the production of Macbeth by director John Castro and his Hipgnosis Theatre... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Good Negro
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- 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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- End Days
- @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
- Deborah Zoe Laufer's End Days is a comedic and carefully observed portrait of a family that left NYC for the suburbs... 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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- 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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- @ Cinders
- Maxwell Williams curates \/1R7U4L 1|\|$4|\|17'/ ("Virtual Insanity"), a show of cheeky art that both celebrates and undermines our ever-tightening relationship with... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Tokyo Sonata
- @ IFC Center
- Kyoshi Kurosawa normally plies his trade in the horror genre, so Tokyo Sonata, a meditation about modern domesticity, marks a compelling... 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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- Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
- @ The Playhouse, Abrons Arts
- A collaborative effort between San Francisco's Shotgun Players and New York downtown theatre ensemble Banana Bag & Bodice, Beowulf: A Thousand... View details »
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- Art: Competition
- Work to Do
- @ 112 Greene Street
- Soho's artistic heyday wasn't all that long ago, but thanks to the tourist-clogged streets and uber-fancy shops that sent many art-pushers... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Rambo Solo
- @ Soho Rep
- Contrary to what its name implies, the Obie award-winning Nature Theater of Oklahoma is based in New York, and is known... 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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- Ofri Cnaani
- @ (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... 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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- 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: 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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