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When the Curtain Never Comes DownAmerican Folk Art Museum : 12:00 p.m. daily until July 5 |
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![]() This fresh collection of outsider art explores ritual, selfpromotion, and performance in the creative acts of the selftaught. The efforts are wonderfully odd. In homage to a sea goddess, Raimundo Borges Falcão rollerskates in elaborate outfits assembled from trash.... More >> |
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West 50s | Art - Museums |
Trenton Doyle HancockStudio Museum Harlem : 12:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until June 28 |
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![]() Hancock's selfportrait — a demonic figure with giant tubeshaped breasts — is decidedly unflattering, but it captures the essence of an artist immersed in the perversely humorous world of underground comics. This extensive survey features his longrunning mythological... More >> |
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Harlem | Art - Museums |
Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) : 10:30 a.m. daily from March 30 until July 19 |
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![]() In 1955, the MoMA exhibited a ten-year survey called "Latin American Architecture Since 1945." You can imagine how much building in Latin America has expanded, parsed down, twisted, and gone beyond the imaginations of anybody who saw that original exhibit 60 years ago. Latin America in... More >> |
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West 50s | Art - Museums |
Marsha CottrellEleven Rivington : 12:00 p.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until April 5 |
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![]() Since 1998, Cottrell has used laser printers to make her drawings, achieving fields of impenetrable blacks – sometimes by reprinting the same sheet and building up layers of the rich iron-oxide toner – striated with white lines, circles, and other geometries, both hard-edged and... More >> |
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Lower East Side | Art - Galleries |
Gabriel FigueroaEl Museo Del Barrio : 11:00 a.m. daily until June 27 |
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![]() Gabriel Figueroa was a prolific cinematographer who worked in both American and Mexican film, lending his singular imagery to the work of such legendary directors as John Huston, Luis Buñuel, and John Ford. He left his mark on over 200 films, and his sweeping, contemplative, often... More >> |
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East Harlem | Art - Museums |
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and MurderWalter Kerr Theatre : 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Thu.; 2:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat.; 8:00 p.m. every Wed., Fri., Sat.; 3:00 p.m. every Sun. |
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![]() Any chance to see Tony winner Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man) on the boards is not to be missed, but his role in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder should be a treat eight times over. In this story, gentleman Monty (played by Bryce Pinkham) has... More >> |
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West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Queens Museum Studio Program ExhibitionQueens Museum of Art : 5:00 p.m. daily until June 28 |
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![]() The Queens Museum is perhaps best known for its massive panorama of the city, but there's a lot more going on, especially since its dramatic renovation in 2013. The institution celebrates its diverse home borough with cutting-edge and international art, and its studio program, which hosts... More >> |
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Flushing | Art - Museums |
Liz Gerring/Michelle DorranceJoyce Theater : 7:30 p.m. daily from March 31 until April 5 |
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![]() Who says female choreographers can't get work? These two garner rave reviews and pack houses; offering beauty and brains in contemporary and tap styles, they split the week. Go twice. Gerring's cool, elegant glacier takes its name from Michael Schumacher's score and its austere look from... More >> |
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Chelsea | Dance |
Hip-Hop RevolutionMuseum of the City of New York : 10:00 a.m. daily from April 1 until September 13 |
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![]() Jazz was invented in New Orleans, and London has some claim to punk (or so the Brits insist), but hip-hop is all New York's own. Today the Museum of the City of New York opens Hip-Hop Revolution, a photography exhibit showcasing the early days of a new cultural movement, from its birth on city... More >> |
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East Harlem | Art - Museums |
Kehinde WileyBrooklyn Museum : 11:00 a.m. daily until May 24 |
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![]() Kehinde Wiley, only 38 years old but with a career spanning 14 years, already has his own retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, and rightly so. The works in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic feature young black subjects in poses associated with historical paintings. In Napoleon Leading the Army... More >> |
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Prospect Heights | Art - Museums |
39 StepsUnion Square Theatre : 2:00 p.m. every Wed., Sat. from April 1 until September 7; 8:00 p.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. from April 1 until September 7; 3:00 p.m. every Sun. from April 5 until September 7; 7:00 p.m. every Mon. from April 6 until September 7 |
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![]() This Tony-winning spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 classic has played in New York numerous times before — prior venues include the American Airlines Theatre, the Cort Theatre, and the Helen Hayes — and was such a rousing success that a return run ought to be embraced with open... More >> |
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Union Square | Theater |
Life of Cats: Selections from the Hiraki Ukiyo-e CollectionJapan Society : 9:30 a.m. daily until June 7 |
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![]() Depictions of felines, it seems, have been popular throughout the ages. Before there was “Best Cat Vines of 2014,” Japanese artists created woodblock prints of their furry friends. Starting today, the Japan Society Gallery features Life of Cats: Selections from the Hiraki Ukiyo-e... More >> |
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East 40s | Art - Museums |
Chelsea Nights Concert SeriesThe Chelsea Market : 7:00 p.m. first Fri. of every month |
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![]() Ever since it got cozy with the High Line in 2009, Chelsea Market has solidified its status as the classiest shopping mall that ever there was — where else can you pry into top-notch lobster while enjoying the sprawling vistas of an Anthropologie store? It also houses the Food Network... More >> |
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Chelsea | Music |
Billy JoelMadison Square Garden : 8:00 p.m. April 3; 8:00 p.m. May 28; 8:00 p.m. June 20; 8:00 p.m. July 1; 8:00 p.m. August 20; 8:00 p.m. September 25; 8:00 p.m. October 21; 8:00 p.m. November 19; 8:00 p.m. December 17 |
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![]() Las Vegas was once the go-to spot for legendary musicians looking to settle down for a residency, but it looks like MSG and Billy Joel have found a way to take that concept home to New York. After playing a New Year's Eve show at Barclays, the Bronx-born, Long Island–bred performer, who... More >> |
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Chelsea | Music |
BjörkMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) : 10:30 a.m. daily until June 7 |
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![]() It’s about time Björk Guðmundsdóttir got herself a retrospective. As the mononymous singer, songwriter, and composer, she’s been freaking us out consistently for two decades now — in the best possible way. Starting today, the Icelandic artist claims three... More >> |
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West 50s | Art - Museums |
Cry, Trojans!St. Ann's Warehouse : 8:00 p.m. daily until April 19 |
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![]() Invited by the Royal Shakespeare Company to collaborate on a production of Troilus and Cressida, the Wooster Group went for high irony, portraying their Trojans as pre-colonial Native Americans complete with teepees, lacrosse sticks, and odd shamanistic rituals. In Cry, Trojans!, the Woosters'... More >> |
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Dumbo | Theater |
Matthew Weiner's Mad MenMuseum of the Moving Image : 10:30 a.m. daily until June 14 |
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![]() The final season of Mad Men debuts on April 5, and we’ll have to say goodbye, after eight years, to all the smoking, drinking, striving, cheating, casual sexism, and slick mid-century style of Don Draper and his pals. But starting today, the Museum of the Moving Image hosts a tribute to... More >> |
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Astoria | Television |
Victor MoscosoAndrew Edlin : 10:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until April 25 |
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![]() One-time boyfriend of Eva Hesse, student of Josef Albers and Franz Kline, Victor Moscoso (born 1936) brought sophisticated concepts of color and composition to the burgeoning fields of psychedelic-rock posters and underground comics in the 1960s. After studies at Yale and Cooper Union, Moscoso... More >> |
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West Village | Art - Galleries |
Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole BindlerJACK : 8:00 p.m. daily until April 5 |
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![]() There's a mystical connection between these two Philadelphia choreographers, whose work has been described as "joyfully disorienting," and this new-ish Brooklyn space, demonstrated by The Dance Apocalypse/Solos, the deconstruction of a duet into two solos engaging questions of "clitoral... More >> |
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Prospect Heights | Dance |
Overdue: James B. HarrisBAM Rose Cinemas : 7:30 p.m. daily from April 1 until April 6 |
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![]() "Overdue," a traveling series co-programmed by film critics Nick Pinkerton and Nicolas Rapold, returns to BAMcinématek with yet another genre delight: an eightfilm retrospective of the work of producer, screenwriter, and director James B. Harris. While the titles on display... More >> |
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Fort Greene | Film - Repertory and Special Screenings |
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Chinatown TourChinatown : 6:00 p.m. every Thu.; 12:00 p.m. every Fri.; 10:30 a.m. every Sat. |
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Tour and discover the delicious cuisine, history, and culture of New York City's Chinatown. Your Foods of New York guide will lead you through this diverse neighborhood as you taste the delicious foods that makes this area of downtown New York so unique. More >> |
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Chinatown | Tours, Food and Drink |
How to Be a New YorkerPlanet Hollywood : 7:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat.; 1:30 p.m. every Sat. |
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Robert Ross Parker directs Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle's comedy about the ins and outs of being a New Yorker — with an Italian meal included. 212-352-3101. More >> |
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West 40s | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Whitey MorganThe Mercury Lounge : 10:30 p.m. April 3 |
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With Brothers NYC More >> |
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Lower East Side | Music |
Steve Cohen's Chamber Magic: A Demonstration of Modern ConjuringWaldorf Astoria Hotel : 7:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat.; 2:00 p.m. every Sat. |
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Magician and mind reader Steve Cohen performs his tricks for an audience that is dressed to impress. 866-811-4111. More >> |
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East 40s | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Dagger & HELLOThe Peoples Improv Theater : 9:30 p.m. every Fri. |
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The PIT's house teams sing and dance their way through improvised musicals. More >> |
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Gramercy Park | Comedy |