All events on Tuesday October 21
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- The Atheist
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Quilts of the 1930s
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Deerhoof
- Tuesday Oct 21 (10pm) @ Spiegelworld
- Leave it to heady avant-garde rockers Deerhoof to leak sheet music to build hype for an upcoming album. Rather than go with the now-common call... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Singing DJ Jens Lekman
- Tuesday Oct 21 (7pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- If you aren't familiar with the rare beast known as the "singing DJ," check out Swedish crooner Jens Lekman's oddball set at BrooklynVegan's CMJ party.... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Trus'me
- Tuesday Oct 21 (10pm) @ Le Souk
- Manchester's Trus'me manufactures just the kind of deep and dirty house, funk, and soul that you'd expect from a child of that post-industrial metropolis. (Think... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Gilles Vonsattel w/ Klimek
- Tuesday Oct 21 (7:30pm) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- During a show that marries the classical and contemporary, three electronic-music masters share Poisson Rouge's stage with pianist Gilles Vonsattel. The Swiss-born prodigy has won... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Cool Kids
- Tuesday Oct 21 (9pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy
- Young retro rappers the Cool Kids are bringing '88 back, slow and low — just how we like it. Even if there isn't a mega-watt... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Lykke Li
- Tuesday Oct 21 (8pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
- Sold Out!
- A singer whose sense of pop composition mirrors equally skewed Swedish superstars like Jens Lekman and Robyn, Lykke Li is at once an avant-indie pretty... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Evidence w/ Aceyalone
- Tuesday Oct 21 (9pm) @ Sullivan Hall
- Indie-hop label Decon Media reunites its cross-country rap team tonight: fresh coast's rap-jabberwocky Aceyalone and his LA cohorts Evidence and DJ Babu throw down warped... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Wale w/ the Rumble Strips and Mark Ronson
- Tuesday Oct 21 (9pm) @ S.O.B.'s
- Hip-hop's been feeling a lot of heat lately, but tonight's show should restore faith in the future of the game. After releasing The Mixtape About... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Salt & Samovar w/ the GoStation
- Tuesday Oct 21 (8pm) @ Fontana's
- There's something classic about Salt & Samovar, and it's not just the old-timey lettering they use on handbills and album covers. Their music evokes a... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Thing-One
- Tuesday Oct 21 (7pm) @ Mercury Lounge
- For just four dudes, Thing-One make a lot of noise — but it's not some crazy cacophony. Listening to expansive tracks like "The Thief" from... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Radioclit w/ the So So Glos
- Tuesday Oct 21 (11pm) @ Santos Party House
- According to Brooklyn-based collaborators No Surrender, Radioclit are "making music for your grandchildren's children's children." But this generation seems to be catching on fast. Brave... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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!
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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 »
- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Tuesday Oct 21 (10pm) @ APT More times »
- Giveaway
- Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- William Pope.L
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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: Discussion
- Comic Book Club
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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
- Blek Le Rat
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
- Free
- French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints. In 1981, Blek took... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Invasion 68: Prague
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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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- Tuesday Oct 21 (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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Glass Cage
- Tuesday Oct 21 (7pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Burn After Reading
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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 »
- Film
- Humboldt County
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Seagull
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fifty Words
- Tuesday Oct 21 (7pm) @ 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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (8pm) @ 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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (10am–6pm) @ 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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Festival
- I Kiffe NY
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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 »
- Film
- Ashes of Time Redux
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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
- Filth and Wisdom
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ IFC Center More times »
- The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna? Euro Madonna? Blond Ambition... View details »
- Film
- Lola Montes
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Free Night of Theater 2008
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in cities across the country.... View details »
- Art
- Four Color Sound
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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 »
- Art
- Stas Orlovski
- Tuesday Oct 21 (10am–6pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Untethered
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Martín Ramírez
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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!
- Tuesday Oct 21 (7pm) @ 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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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: Festival
- National Design Week
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ Cooper-Hewitt More times »
- Free
- The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum opens its doors to the public for an entire week of free admission and programs. Peruse two to-scale-sized rooms... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Olaf Breuning
- Tuesday Oct 21 (10am–6pm) @ Metro Pictures More times »
- Free
- Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's work is wonderfully funny, co-opting the bright neon colors of contemporary art and the artificial conceit of pop culture. His newest... View details »
- Art
- The Genretron
- Tuesday Oct 21 (11am–6pm) @ Winkleman Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Black Watch
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ 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
- Jean Dubuffet
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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 »
- Art
- '80s Babies
- Tuesday Oct 21 (11am–7pm) @ Leo Kesting Gallery More times »
- Free
- With his graphic style and street-wise influence, Jason Douglas Griffin gives us 80's Babies. These portraits of twentysomethings include paintings on canvas, board, and scraps... View details »
- Art
- Sue Williams
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Chanel Mobile Art
- Tuesday Oct 21 (8:30am–6pm) @ Rumsey Field in Central Park More times »
- Free
- Visionary architect Zaha Hadid collaborates with Chanel and fashion baron Karl Lagerfeld to land an ephemeral museum in the middle of NYC. Celebrating 50 years... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- If You See Something Say Something
- Tuesday Oct 21 @ Joe's Pub More times »
- We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded terror alerts and arbitrary... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Beachwood Drive
- Tuesday Oct 21 (7pm) @ June Havoc Theatre More times »
- Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a world of prostitution and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- Tuesday Oct 21 (7:30pm) @ 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
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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
- Streamers
- Tuesday Oct 21 (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 »
