Events Today
Ty Segall, White Fence, The Strange Boys, The Men
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopWed., May 16, 7:30 p.m.
Well, this sure should be loud and jubilant and messy and fun, with both Ty Segall and White Fence leading their bands of psych-leaning rock before collaborating together for a set. We'll see you there, being loud and jubilant and messy and having fun. $15, $17 at the door
The Blow, Future of What
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopWed., May 16, 9:30 p.m.
While YACHT’s had plenty of moments, nothing Jona Bechtolt has put out since his 2006 work on The Blow’s Paper Television has been quite as great. Which is why we are still very interested in what Khaela Maricich (the half of The Blow who is is still, you know, The Blow) has to say. The electro-pop group is just now finally making another record with new collaborator Melissa Dyne joining Maricich. Sneak peeks of its songs are certain here. SOLD OUT
Werner Herzog
Talks & ReadingsWed., May 16, 12 p.m.
Enigmatic and opinionated director Werner Herzog discusses his films and his contribution to the 2012 Whitney Biennial. FREE ((with museum admission)
The Films of Kieslowski
Special EventsWednesdays, 7 p.m. Continues through May 16
See three films from Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski at the NYPL. "Camera Buff" on April 11, "Blind Chance" on April 18, and "A Short Film About Killing" on April 25. Director Krzysztof Kieslowski, although best known for his Three Colors trilogy (Blue, White, and Red) and the French/Polish production Double Life of Véronique, produced the vast majority of his work in Communist-era Poland. As a student at Lódz Film School, he was greatly influenced by Ken Loach's Kes, as well as works by fellow alumni Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi.
In Living Color
ArtWednesdays-Saturdays. Continues through May 19
Sadly, there are no direct references to the same-named television show in this group exhibition of brightly chromatic works by some of the biggest names in contemporary art. Happily, it includes some stunning recent works like a huge Kristin Baker painting on PVC, a dazzling mural by assume vivid astro focus and one of Cy Twombly's last paintings.
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You are in an open field
Theater: Off BroadwayMondays, Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7 p.m. Continues through May 19
Three New York Neo-Futurists create their own versions of Zork, Minecraft and Zelda live onstage in the New York Neo-Futurists' first nerdcore musical — a modern hip-hoperetta that explores community and identity while its protagonists try to defeat the kickball monsters. $18
Steps
Special EventsTuesdays-Saturdays, 2-7 p.m. Continues through May 19
Through her video, photographs and sound pieces, Kyoung eun Kang explores the idea of family, community, and people as a fluid, absorbed, mixed and moving form continuously transforming, expanding, and blending. As she traverses from continent to continent, she explores small, simple everyday gestures that can have a very large meaning, capturing the subtle behaviors that constitute the human experience. FREE
Luciana Achugar: Feel….Form
DanceThrough May 19, 8 p.m.
FEEL...FORM is a dance meditation on the relationship between aesthetics and ideology. It presents dance as a celebration of experience, and pleasure as the consummation of experience. In FEELingpleasuresatisfactiocelebrationholyFORM four women engage in a psychedelia inspired kaleidoscope that multiplies their experience and reflects both rigorous formalism and corporeal excess. $15
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Uncle Vanya
Theater: Off BroadwaySaturdays, Sundays, 4:30 p.m. and Mondays, Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8:30 p.m. Continues through May 19
I remember Uncle Vanya. He was… it was… so beautiful and sad, but… funny… Yes…What a funny beautiful strange play. Yes, yes, that’s it! Think you know Uncle Vanya? Look again. $25
The Wundelsteipen
Theater: Off Broadwaycheck site for specific times and days
A slave is responsible for waking Caligula in the morning…Two adolescent brothers are visited by a sex fairy from the internet…The story of Salome is retold as a Disney fairy tale, with a talking vulture and scorpion… THE WUNDELSTEIPEN (and Other Difficult Roles for Young People) is an evening of dark comedic pieces which are nasty, brutal, and short. $20
Color Between the Lines
Theater: Off BroadwayWednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Continues through May 24
Slave labor-dependent commodities were a major part of Brooklyn's port-town economy in the mid-19th century. But this "public history project" explores the borough's abolitionists, who pushed back against those moneyed interests, from superstars like Henry Ward Beecher to the ordinary people who signed petitions and raised money. Tuesdays $10, W-Sat $35
Artists and Other Frenchmen: portrait prints from Nanteuil to Villon
ArtWednesdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Continues through May 25
Donning regal vestments not dissimilar from the gallery's one-evening grand reopening exhibition, The Queen and I, is Pocket Utopia's first bona fide exhibition, Artists and Other Frenchmen, a gathering of cherished portrait prints culled from the history-steeped holdings of partner gallery C.G Boerner. As suggested by the show's title, truly royal visages such as those of Francois I, the French king and patron of Leonardo da Vinci, and Louis XIV will not be the only ones on display, for the physiognomies of a host of long-since vanished artists will also figure into the group. Of not minor note is that one of everyone's favorite proto-hipsters, Charles Baudelaire, will be among those gazing faces as well, in two early 20th-century engravings by Jacques Villon. FREE
BRADFORD WILLINGHAM: MY BONG, MY LOWRE AND FAMBLING CHEATES
ArtThrough May 27
A new solo exhibition from video artist Bradford Willingham. Viewings by appointment. FREE
Overview of Contemporary Glass Art
ArtTuesdays, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Mondays, Wednesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Continues through May 29
Presentation of international glass sculptures and objects made by artists from the Czech Republic, Israel, Korea, Slovakia, USA, Luxembourg and France. FREE
Pier Paolo Calzolari: When the Dreamer Dies, What Happens to The Dream?
ArtTuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Continues through June 2
A retrospective of Arte Povera artist Pier Paolo Calzolari, featuring some installations never before seen in America. The 25 years' worth of work feature room-sized installations featuring materials from lead to butter. FREE
