All events on Wednesday October 22
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- Mirah w/ No Kids
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ Highline Ballroom
- Leave it to bespectacled indie bookworm Mirah to add a subtle sensuality to the asexual world of entomology. On 2007's Share This Place, the C'mon... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Rejection Show
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ Comix
- Giveaway
- Unfortunately, rejection is a part of life. But if you're a comedian, at least you can turn the capital N-O into some solid material. Case... View details »
- Reading
- Happy Ending Music and Reading Series feat. Deb Olin Unferth
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ Happy Ending
- Free
- Hailed by New York magazine and New York Press as one of the best local events of its kind, Amanda Stern's Happy Ending Music and... View details »
- Reading
- Art Spiegelman
- Wednesday Oct 22 (7pm) @ The Strand
- Free
- In the late '70s, Art Spiegelman published his first major work, Breakdowns, a collection of strips that tackle the artist's own nervous break and time... View details »
- Art
- Perverted by Theater
- Wednesday Oct 22 (6–8pm) @ Apex Art More times »
- OpeningFree
- 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 »
- Music: Experimental
- Essential Repertoire
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ Issue Project Room More times »
- During a certain week in October, NYC experiences a sharp influx of music-industry nerds, reminding everyone of this city's musical history and still-thriving scene. Darmstadt,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Death Vessel w/ Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and the Jealous Girlfriends
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ Webster Hall
- Free
- Joel Thibodeau's stratospherically high voice and bright delivery don't sound particularly funereal, but he carries his Death Vessel moniker with unflinching pride. His 2005 release... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Margot And The Nuclear So & So's w/ Shugo Tokumaru
- Wednesday Oct 22 (7pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
- Unlike the band's namesake — elusive playwright Margot Tenenbaum in Wes Anderson's delightful The Royal Tenenbaums — bittersweet indie collective Margot & the Nuclear So... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Beach House w/ Ecstatic Sunshine
- Wednesday Oct 22 (7pm) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Baltimore-based dream-pop purveyors Beach House bring their shimmering, spectral arrangements to Poisson Rouge tonight. The duo has only improved since releasing its critically acclaimed self-titled... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Ane Brun w/ Theresa Andersson
- Wednesday Oct 22 (7pm) @ The Living Room
- It seems like Swedish chanteuse Theresa Andersson's new disc, Hummingbird, Go!, is inspired by every type of sound there is. The New Orleans-based prodigy holed... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- dead prez
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8:30pm) @ Studio B
- Equal parts Malcolm X and Abbie Hoffman, dead prez make hyper-intelligent and unflinchingly combative hip-hop that marries thug narratives and progressive politics. A Dave Chappelle... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Madlib w/ Peanut Butter Wolf
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ Gallery Bar
- Free
- Hip-hop is for nerds, or so seems to be the sentiment of LA's Stones Throw records. You won't see the label's founder, Peanut Butter Wolf,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Ex Reverie
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8:30pm) @ Glasslands Gallery
- Noa Babayof and Ex Reverie are part of the same Philadelphia scene that spawned Espers, so the two bands naturally gravitate toward the gothic side... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Women
- Wednesday Oct 22 (7pm) @ Cake Shop
- Women's lo-fi punk rockers are more melodic than similarly fuzzed-up acts like Time New Viking, but don't let that fool you: there's plenty of aggression... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- My Teenage Stride
- Wednesday Oct 22 (7pm) @ Knitting Factory
- Brooklynites My Teenage Stride are pretty criminally unknown, as far as we're concerned. Everything about their Brit-poppy, melancholy melodies is endearing. Their latest album has... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Deerhoof
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Farragut North
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ Linda Gross Theater More times »
- Playwright Beau Willimon served on the staff of many political campaigns... ash; including Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid... ash;... his knowledge gives us an insider's perspective on... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Kehinde Wiley
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- The Glass Cage
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (2 & 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: Photography
- Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Wednesday Oct 22 (2 & 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker More times »
- Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells an engaging and very... View details »
- Film
- Choke
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Gilbert & George
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Atheist
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Martín Ramírez
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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!
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
- More Flavor: Tour
- Pizza Walking Tour
- Wednesday Oct 22 (11am) @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- New York has some legendary pizza, but there's also some real crap out there; save the cash you'll waste finding the best 'za, and let... View details »
- Art: Festival
- National Design Week
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Sun K Kwak
- Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–7pm) @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- The Genretron
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
- Art
- Quilts of the 1930s
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Elizabeth Peyton
- Wednesday Oct 22 (noon–6pm) @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (8:45pm) @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (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
- Wednesday Oct 22 (2 & 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 »
