Events on Tuesday, May 19
Tuesday 5/19 @ Galapagos Art Space
To celebrate their sixth anniversary and raise money for the renovation of their new, larger digs in downtown Brooklyn, the folks...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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,...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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,...
Surveillance from the Doll House
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 59E59 Theaters
Morris Panych's dark comedy The Dishwashers is reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett work, complete with existential philosophizing and dialogue that prompts...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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,...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Tuesday 5/19 @ Chelsea Market
Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of...
Tuesday 5/19 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ Sperone Westwater
Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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....
Tuesday 5/19 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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....
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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,...
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Tuesday 5/19 @ 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...
