All events on Friday October 10
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- Nerd Nite
- Friday Oct 10 (8pm) @ Galapagos Art Space
- Long-running lecture series Nerd Nite upgrades its digs from a cramped East Village bar to new DUMBO hot spot Galapagos, complete with a 1,200-square-foot moat... View details »
- Film
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- Friday Oct 10 @ 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 »
- Music: DJ
- MSTRKRFT
- Friday Oct 10 (11pm) @ Webster Hall
- As MSTRKRFT, producer ALP and former Death from Above 1979 bassist Jesse F. Keeler have become one of indie dance music's go-to remix teams. Retooling... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- San Francisco Ballet
- Friday Oct 10 (8pm) @ New York City Center More times »
- Giveaway
- The oldest US ballet company has a New York pedigree. Former SFB director Lew Christensen was the first American to dance George Balanchine's Apollo, and... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
- Friday Oct 10 (7pm) @ Symphony Space
- Giveaway
- In their new book, State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, editors Matt Weiland (Paris Review) and Sean Wilsey (McSweeney's) determine the state of... View details »
- Film
- Ashes of Time Redux
- Friday Oct 10 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai was never fully... View details »
- Film
- Lola Montes
- Friday Oct 10 (1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
- With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes, netted a touch-up. In... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Next Level
- Friday Oct 10 (7:30pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
- Giveaway
- Once upon a time, computer games were the domain of children and uber-nerds, but the proliferation of technology in the last decade has blurred the... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Will People Believe Anything?
- Friday Oct 10 (6pm) @ Princeton Club
- Free
- We'd like to believe that we live during an enlightened age in which reason has vanquished the superstitions of old. But many of us also... View details »
- Art
- Stas Orlovski
- Saturday Oct 11 (6–8pm) @ Mixed Greens More times »
- Free
- One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from painting, drawing, and collage... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
- New York Magazine's 40th Anniversary
- Friday Oct 10 (8pm) @ Hammerstein Ballroom
- Giveaway
- Born from the lo-fi bedroom recordings of frontman Edward Droste, Grizzly Bear have received acclaim from critics and adoration from those within the industry. To... View details »
- Art
- The Genretron
- Friday Oct 10 (6–8pm) @ Winkleman Gallery More times »
- OpeningFree
- In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the Chadwicks. The British family... View details »
- More Flavor: Benefit
- Mending Bee for Change
- Friday Oct 10 (8pm) @ Various locations
- Free
- In 2004 a team of young patriots began assembling the largest handmade flag in Brooklyn (an unconfirmed, but quite plausible record), unfurling to 129 feet... View details »
- Art
- Jean Dubuffet
- Friday Oct 10 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
- Free
- Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art brut" (which involved mixing... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Friday Oct 10 (8 & 10:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Friday Oct 10 (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
- Friday Oct 10 @ 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 »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Friday Oct 10 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
- Film
- Battle in Seattle
- Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations More times »
- In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political agenda. Most protest films... View details »
- Art
- William Pope.L
- Friday Oct 10 (10am–6pm) @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash More times »
- Free
- In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through the city, titled The... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
- Free
- Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
- Film
- Towelhead
- Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations More times »
- It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded in the Texas suburbs... View details »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Friday Oct 10 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center More times »
- In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- Friday Oct 10 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
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- Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
- Friday Oct 10 (5:30–7pm) @ North Cove Marina More times »
- With ever-increasing skyscrapers and gridlock traffic, it's easy to forget that we are surrounded by water. Get into the island-living mindset by climbing aboard an... View details »
- Art
- Kehinde Wiley
- Friday Oct 10 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem More times »
- Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Friday Oct 10 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Dreamland Roller Rink
- Friday Oct 10 (7pm–midnight) @ Dreamland Roller Rink More times »
- Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this weekend. With some initial... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Invasion 68: Prague
- Friday Oct 10 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
- Free
- For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies... View details »
- Art
- Mario Merz
- Friday Oct 10 (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
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- Friday Oct 10 (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
- Street Art, Street Life
- Friday Oct 10 (noon–8pm) @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts More times »
- Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator Lydia Yee of the... View details »
- Art
- Other Options
- Friday Oct 10 @ Eyebeam More times »
- Free
- Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails of securing support for... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Glass Cage
- Friday Oct 10 (8pm) @ The Mint Theater More times »
- The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that are enjoyed on the... View details »
- Art
- Kevin Bewersdorf
- Friday Oct 10 (noon–6pm) @ V&A More times »
- Free
- Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells himself like a televangelist... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Break Out
- Friday Oct 10 (7 & 10pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
- The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of De La Guarda. Korean... View details »
- Film
- Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
- Friday Oct 10 @ MoMA More times »
- As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's movie scene in the... View details »
- Film
- Burn After Reading
- Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations More times »
- After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift both their tone and... View details »
- Film
- Rachel Getting Married
- Friday Oct 10 @ 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
- Humboldt County
- Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations More times »
- Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest communities whose sole source... View details »
- Film
- Ballast
- Friday Oct 10 (1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
- When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew James, and James' mother,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Seagull
- Friday Oct 10 (8pm) @ 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
- We Burn, We Shiver
- Friday Oct 10 (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
- In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
- Friday Oct 10 (noon–5pm) @ Brooklyn Historical Society More times »
- From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many faces. With help from... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fifty Words
- Friday Oct 10 (8pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
- In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic night alone soon sours:... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fault Lines
- Friday Oct 10 (7 & 10pm) @ Cherry Lane Theatre More times »
- David Schwimmer's latest directorial effort, Fault Lines, starts out with a cue from his long-lasting festival of canned laughs, Friends: a couple of likable buddies... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Rudy Burckhardt
- Friday Oct 10 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
- Friday Oct 10 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
- Friday Oct 10 @ 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
- Doug Aitken
- Friday Oct 10 (10am–6pm) @ 303 Gallery More times »
- Free
- Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303 Gallery. His new show... View details »
- Art
- Signs of Change
- Friday Oct 10 (10am–8pm) @ Exit Art More times »
- Free
- The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice movements from over 40... View details »
- Art
- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- Friday Oct 10 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
- Friday Oct 10 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Arts and Design More times »
- To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items — buttons, keepsakes, bits... View details »
- More Flavor: Sports
- City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
- Friday Oct 10 (10am–5pm) @ Governors Island More times »
- Free
- Family vacay meets interactive art party for Figment's mini-golf open, an all-day picnic and sports competition on Governors Island. Manhattan's southern cousin is just a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Friday Oct 10 (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
- Choke
- Friday Oct 10 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all her wonderful fangs), and... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Ear to the Earth Festival
- Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical beauty. Francisco López's Trilogy... View details »
- Art
- Daisy Bell
- Friday Oct 10 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
- Free
- In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God. The exhibit's titular song... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- I Kiffe NY
- Friday Oct 10 @ Various locations More times »
- The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past few years. But what... View details »
- Art
- Gilbert & George
- Friday Oct 10 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
- The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In 1970, the pair painted... View details »
- Art
- Four Color Sound
- Friday Oct 10 (10am–6pm) @ The Project More times »
- Free
- Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello transforms Project into a... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Beck
- Friday Oct 10 (8pm) @ United Palace More times »
- Sold Out!
- The recent release of Modern Guilt, Beck's latest dark-and-dank collab with Danger Mouse, would be reason enough to make a beeline for the United Palace... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Residents
- Friday Oct 10 (9pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy More times »
- Fans of the bizarre, the occult, and the avant-garde gather tonight as the Residents kick off their first national tour in six years. Dressed to... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Untethered
- Friday Oct 10 (noon–6pm) @ Eyebeam More times »
- Free
- Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in which common modern-day objects... View details »
- Art
- The Outsiders
- Friday Oct 10 (11am–7pm) @ Lazarides Gallery NYC More times »
- Free
- Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla wheatpasting, collage, stencil, and... View details »
- Art
- Martín Ramírez
- Friday Oct 10 (11am–6pm) @ Ricco Maresca Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era economy and cut off... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Wig Out!
- Friday Oct 10 (8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
- Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The colorful story moves through... View details »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- Friday Oct 10 (4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
- Free
- Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
- Art
- Sun K Kwak
- Friday Oct 10 (6–9pm) @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art More times »
- OpeningFree
- Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and galleries in New York... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Black Watch
- Friday Oct 10 (3 & 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Chekhov Lizardbrain
- Friday Oct 10 (7 & 10pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
- This dance/clown/theatre ensemble has received lots of awards since forming in 1995, but you can't attribute its success to any one member: Pig Iron tours,... View details »
- Art
- The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
- Friday Oct 10 @ Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill More times »
- Free
- Banksy, the art world's man of mystery (and controversy), continues to play the role of provocateur at The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill. Cages... View details »
- Art
- Elizabeth Peyton
- Friday Oct 10 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits feature an array of... View details »
- Art
- Sue Williams
- Friday Oct 10 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
- Free
- From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a tight formal language of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- Friday Oct 10 (8:45 & 10:45pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
- This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a shopping mall, Spiegelworld's old... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Blasted
- Friday Oct 10 (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 »
