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- Frost/Nixon
- Today (6:30pm) @ Paley Center
- Showing a human, fragile and, to some extent, remorseful side of the former president for the first time, David Frost's 1977 interview with Richard Nixon... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Opening Night
- Today (7:30pm) @ BAM Harvey Theater More times »
- The Swedish dramatist August Strindberg once resolved that, "On a flimsy framework of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns." John Cassavettes' 1977 film Opening... View details »
- Art
- Nayland Blake
- Today (noon–6pm) @ Location One More times »
- Free
- Location One presents a survey of Nayland Blake's provocative mixed-media work, drawing from nearly every facet of Blake's 25-year career. Blake, a New York native,... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- El Guincho
- Today (10:30pm) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Born in the Canary Islands and now residing in Barcelona, Pablo Díaz-Reixa (aka El Guincho) draws as much from the beach as from Brooklyn, offering... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Limón Dance Company
- Today (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- José Limón's thriving company celebrates his centenary with a week at Joyce. Two familiar works, A Choreographic Offering, Limón's homage to company co-founder Doris Humphrey,... View details »
- Music: Experimental
- Silver Apples
- Today (8pm) @ The Kitchen
- As the experimental electronic-music scene blossomed, modern knob-twiddlers have traced their genealogy only to find Silver Apples perched near the top of the family tree.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Darker My Love
- Today (7pm) @ Mercury Lounge
- Darker My Love's overdriven soul isn't the most original thing in the world — imagine the Jesus and Mary Chain channeled by Brian Jonestown Massacre... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Today (6pm) @ Kellogg Center at Columbia University, International Affairs Bldg
- Free
- Jonathan Safran Foer's protagonist in his acclaimed novel Everything is Illuminated travels to Ukraine to look for a woman who allegedly saved his grandfather from... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Today (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- Today (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Today (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Today @ Paragraph More times »
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Comic Book Club
- Today (8pm) @ The People's Improv Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily, the Comic Book Club... View details »
- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Today @ Various locations More times »
- Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
- Art
- Mario Merz
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera ("poor art"), a movement... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- [title of show]
- Today (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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- Art
- Mr.
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
- Free
- In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths, standing stark naked in... View details »
- Film
- Rachel Getting Married
- Today @ Various locations More times »
- The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand up for her sister... View details »
- Film
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- Today @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but he truly excels when... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Seagull
- Today (7pm) @ Walter Kerr Theatre More times »
- Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully realized performance as Arkadina... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Rudy Burckhardt
- Today (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped with an outsider's eye... View details »
- Art
- Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
- Today (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- 1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived — but also deeply influential... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- Today @ Various locations More times »
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's famous Speaker's Corner, and... View details »
- Art
- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- Today (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time when his thick impasto... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Today (8pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims of its leader. In... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- We Are Wizards
- Today @ Cinema Village More times »
- Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and not a magical one)... View details »
- Film
- I've Loved You So Long
- Today @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes sense that she's finally... View details »
- Film
- Let the Right One In
- Today @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- A pitch-perfect suspense film from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In is that rare bird: a chiller with heart. Alfredson casts two... View details »
- Film
- A Christmas Tale
- Today @ IFC Center More times »
- In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the country manse) — the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Atheist
- Today (8–10pm) @ Barrow Street Theater More times »
- In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago. The 90 minutes of... View details »
- Art
- Perverted by Theater
- Today (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
- Free
- In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David Young mock his thesis,... View details »
- Art
- Quilts of the 1930s
- Today @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch More times »
- For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women during the Great You-Know-What.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Black Watch
- Today (8pm) @ St. Ann's Warehouse More times »
- If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based on the true stories... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Broken Glass
- Today (10am–5pm) @ Museum of the City of New York More times »
- The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's gestation. Photographer Ray Mortenson's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- Today (7pm) @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre More times »
- Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is finally a true ensemble... View details »
- Art
- Ann Lislegaard
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Murray Guy More times »
- Free
- For parts two and three of her highly referential 3D video trilogy, artist Ann Lislegaard filters her consuming mind-and-matter explorations about time, space, and human... View details »
- Film
- Synecdoche, New York
- Today @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovitch), but it is... View details »
- Film
- JCVD
- Today @ Angelika Film Center More times »
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- Art: Photography
- Andreas Gursky
- Today (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
- Free
- Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art world's alabaster walls for... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Cindy Sherman
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Metro Pictures More times »
- Free
- After a four-year hiatus, Cindy Sherman returns strong at Metro Pictures. Her striking self-portraits continue in the clever, satirical tradition of her earlier work, while... View details »
- Art
- Richard Prince
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
- Free
- Part post-apocalyptic vision, part biographical flashback, Richard Prince's Canal Zone is set in primal overdrive. Filled with an abundance of virile bodies, pulp beauties, and... View details »
- Film
- Repo! The Genetic Opera
- Today @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Not even Paris Hilton can detract from the unlikely appeal of this science-fiction goth-rock opera.... 's the year 2056, and a rash of organ failures... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Blasted
- Today (7:30pm) @ Soho Rep. More times »
- It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production makes up for the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Billy Elliot
- Today @ Imperial Theatre More times »
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot, a sentimental musical about... View details »
- Art
- Robert Morris
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Leo Castelli Gallery More times »
- Free
- Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity, or the army of... View details »
- Art
- Cory Arcangel
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Team Gallery More times »
- Free
- Cory Arcangel rose to art-world fame with his hall-of-mirrors work, which cleverly (and cheekily) reappropriates media to highlight technology's protean relationship with humans. From an... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Taking Over
- Today (7pm) @ The Public Theater More times »
- Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make the audience howl and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Streamers
- Today (7:30pm) @ Laura Pels Theatre More times »
- Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's 1976 play is neither... View details »
- More Flavor: Shopping
- Union Square Holiday Market
- Today (11am–8pm) @ Union Square More times »
- Free
- Holiday shopping is often the stuff of anxiety attacks, but it doesn't have to be bankruptcy-inducing or mind-numbing, thanks to the long-running Union Square Holiday... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Ice Skating in Prospect Park
- Today (8:30am–5pm) @ Wollman Rink More times »
- While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks of cold weather do... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Carole Lombard Festival
- Today @ Film Forum More times »
- Film Forum pays tribute to 1930's funny lady Carole Lombard, underrated and often eclipsed by her on-screen male co-stars and off-screen romances, in typical early-Hollywood... View details »
- Art
- Sean Fader
- Today (8am) @ 3rd Ward More times »
- Free
- Thespian and award-winning photographer Sean Fader reveals his unsettling self portraits at 3rd Ward's third solo art show. In the tradition of Cindy Sherman, Fader... View details »
