All events on Wednesday October 29
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- Idol Talk
- Wednesday Oct 29 (8:30pm) @ Monkey Town
- Politi-speak often comes across as coded and peculiar as baseball's esoteric sign language, leaving the uninitiated asking what it all means. With less than a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Grand Inquisitor
- Wednesday Oct 29 (8pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop More times »
- Famed British director Peter Brook helms this well-staged parable from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. A co-presentation by New York Theatre Workshop and Theatre for a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- The Moth: Guts
- Wednesday Oct 29 (7:30pm) @ The Players Club
- "Simon Says" columnist and fashionista extraordinaire Simon Doonan hosts tonight's show centered on the topic of guts. Storytellers regale us with their personal accounts of... View details »
- Art
- Christa Toole
- Saturday Nov 1 (6–8pm) @ Phoenix Gallery More times »
- Free
- In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of physics, specifically the movement... View details »
- Music: Experimental
- A Week of Noise
- Wednesday Oct 29 (8pm) @ Issue Project Room More times »
- Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore concludes the Issue Project Room's Decades project this week, bringing the cream of the East Coast noise scene together for three... View details »
- More Flavor: Sports
- Knicks Season Opener
- Wednesday Oct 29 (7:30pm) @ Madison Square Garden
- After a disastrous season both on and off court last year that ended in one of the worst records in the NBA, the Knicks kick... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The First Basket
- Wednesday Oct 29 @ Village East Cinema More times »
- For the Jewish kids who came of age in New York's tenements — mostly children of immigrants —... aying sports meant shooting hoops. From the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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 29 @ 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 »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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 »
- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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
- Rachel Getting Married
- Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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 29 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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
- Fault Lines
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 »
- Art
- Daisy Bell
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- DanceNOW
- Wednesday Oct 29 (8pm) @ Dance Theater Workshop More times »
- Bringing together 65 artists from all five boroughs, the DanceNOW festival throbs with the pulse of NYC during its weeklong run. Emerging soloists share the... View details »
- Film
- Ashes of Time Redux
- Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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
- I've Loved You So Long
- Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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
- Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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
- Filth and Wisdom
- Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Atheist
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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: Photography
- Olaf Breuning
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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
- Perverted by Theater
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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
- Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 @ 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 29 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- Wednesday Oct 29 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
- '80s Babies
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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
- Ann Lislegaard
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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
- Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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 »
- Art
- Elizabeth Peyton
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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: Architecture/Design
- Chanel Mobile Art
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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 »
- Art
- In the Language of Angels
- Wednesday Oct 29 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
- Free
- This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly minimal prepubescent nudes with... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- If You See Something Say Something
- Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Farragut North
- Wednesday Oct 29 (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 »
