Events on Tuesday, May 19
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- More Flavor: Party
- Issue Project Room Party
- @ Galapagos Art Space
- To celebrate their sixth anniversary and raise money for the renovation of their new, larger digs in downtown Brooklyn, the folks... View details »
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- Jessica Stockholder
- @ Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
- Jessica Stockholder gets wild with layered compositions of paint blobs, handmade paper, laser-cut textiles (some furry, some shiny), and other collaged... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- @ Barbès
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Dishwashers
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- Morris Panych's dark comedy The Dishwashers is reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett work, complete with existential philosophizing and dialogue that prompts... 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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- 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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- Film: Festival
- The Con Film Festival
- @ Film Forum
- A few albums back, Jay-Z flowed, "I'm living proof that crime do pay/Say hooray to the bad guy." Behold Film Forum's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Coraline
- @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
- It's no fluke that beloved songwriter Stephin Merritt chose to set Neil Gaiman's book-turned-movie Coraline to music. The darkly droll circumstances... View details »
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- Huang Yong Ping
- @ Gladstone Gallery
- Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation... 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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- David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
- @ International Center of Photography
- By August 1944, France had been liberated from the clutch of the Vichy regime, but war had left its proud-as-a-peacock couture... View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- Comic Book Club
- @ The People's Improv Theater
- Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... View details »
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- Ahmed Alsoudani
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Our House
- @ Playwrights Horizons
- Whip-smart playwright Theresa Rebeck's newest play, Our House, is a dark send-up of television and how the news and reality TV... View details »
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- More Flavor: Shopping
- Japan Brand Pop-Up Store
- @ Felissimo Design House
- Bring home a taste (or a tasteful element) of Japan from Felissimo Design House's Japan Brand Pop-Up store. If MUJI just... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- True West
- @ 181 Ave B
- "I wanted to write a play about double nature, one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff,"... 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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- 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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- The Late Film
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- Film: Festival
- Yesterday's Loner: Steve McQueen
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Steve McQueen is probably the only man on the planet who could have made a turtleneck and blazer look badass. It's... 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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- More Flavor: Competition
- Sputnik Chess Knights
- @ Sputnik
- Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit... 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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- 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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- 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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- Stuart Semple
- @ Anna Kustera Gallery
- The toast of London's contemporary art world, Stuart Semple brings a warped progression on Pop Art to New York. Everlasting, Nothing... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Play on Words
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- True to its title, Brian Dykstra's A Play on Words is an English major's idea of non-stop fun. A Play on... 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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- Art: Photography
- Avedon Fashion 1944–2000
- @ International Center of Photography
- For photographer Richard Avedon, the decisive moment came as a flash of mischief. Picture: two lovely femmes, their coated backs shielding... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- \'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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Learn By Doing
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- In conjunction with Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, the Sackler Center for Arts Education presents Learning By Doing, an exhibition... View details »
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- A Year with Children 2009
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- A Year with Children 2009 showcases art by students participating in Learning Through Art (LTA), an artist-in-residence program of the Solomon... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- After two years of major construction and renovation, the Met’s Charles Engelhard Court—the spectacular, light-filled pavilion along Central Park—has reopened to... View details »
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- Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- One of the most innovative artists of the postwar period, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) is best known for sculptures and drawings... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the newly restored Frank Lloyd Wright-designed landmark—the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The anniversary year opens... View details »
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