Events on Friday, May 1
Friday 5/ 1 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
After an insane (and frankly, unforgettable) showing at McCarren Park Pool (RIP) last summer, King Khan and his Shrines are back...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Glasslands Gallery
Just in time for May Day, the gnomes venture forth from their hibernation hideaways. Yes, gnomes. To gear up for the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/ 1 @ Cinders Gallery
"Chudz," according to Urban Dictionary, is a term that can mean either sex or a "complete and utter" pimp (although said...
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Museum of Art and Design
As a German Down Under, glass-art virtuoso Klaus Moje has single-handedly made Australia a hub for that fine art's evolution. Artist...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Laura Pels Theatre
In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the...
The Old West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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:...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Goff + Rosenthal Gallery
Iraqi-born American painter Ahmed Alsoudani builds tumultuous compositions about violence, war, and human suffering, juxtaposing human and bestial figures whose violent...
Friday 5/ 1 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
If an auteur's debut is their "Dear reader," then their last few films come into sight as postscripts: variations on a...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Jazz Standard
Saxophone virtuoso Chris Potter has been at it for years, presenting his compositions in a variety of bands that highlight his...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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,...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 5/ 1 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Veteran choreographer Trisha Brown brings Glacial Decoy, her famed 1979 collaboration with artist Robert Rauschenberg, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music...
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Various locations
This year's PEN World Voices Festival draws 160 writers together to celebrate literature from around the world. The weeklong gathering features...
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Friday 5/ 1 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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,...
Surveillance from the Doll House
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Wallspace
Riffing on Rosalind Krauss' essay, "The Double Negative," in which the author considers the "organization of matter" through systems and repetition,...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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....
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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....
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ DFN Gallery
Alyssa Monks' new paintings up at DFN are simply stunning. A continuation of the artist's bather series (contemporary versions of classic...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Sperone Westwater
Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Connelly Theatre
British playwright Chloe Moss has received a number of awards and commissions, but her work hasn't been produced in the US...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts
A champion of the good old-fashioned methods of observation and draughtsmanship, Gregory Crane populates urban and rural landscapes with spirited sets...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Friday 5/ 1 @ 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...
