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Blondie+X
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The punk band who deftly integrated disco, hip-hop, and new wave well before popular music took heed to all of those elements is back with a new album titled Ghosts of Download and a Beth Ditto-featuring single called "A Rose by Any Name." Always up on the modern and never a band to back into... More >> |
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| West 50s | Music |
Christine Salem
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This contralto singer from the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean works a sophisticated version of maloya, a local percussion-powered genre that combines sufferer lyrics with a dense skein of percussion. Her Creole, Malagasy, Comorian, and Swahili lyrics take on an incantatory aspect... More >> |
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| West 90s | Music |
Oneida
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As one of Brooklyn's most prolific and resilient units, rock experimentalists Oneida maintain a state of perpetual motion that equals only their own hypnotic rhythms. In the past three years, they've played day-long "Ocropolis" concerts, they've put out albums, singles, and live LPs, and... More >> |
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| Brooklyn | Music |
Marc Ribot and Ceramic Dog
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"Not a 'project': a real band" promises this experimental power trio consisting of Marc Ribot (guitar), Shazad Ismaily (bass, electronics), and Ches Smith (drums). And their fairly recent Your Turn proves it with a lubricious hard-rock frenzy miles beyond their clinkety-clank 2011 debut. It's... More >> |
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| Brooklyn | Music |
Christian Joy
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When not dreaming up wild outfits for Karen O to rock out in (who could forget the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer in her Indian headdress at the Glastonbury festival?), Christian Joy is busy working on her own outlandish art. The talented designer’s latest show at Secret Project Robot is titled... More >> |
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| Williamsburg | Fashion and Style, Arts, Art - Galleries |
Gary Lucas's 'The Edge of Heaven'
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Among the best of this fine all-over-the-map guitarist's albums is his 2003 tribute to Zhou Xuan and Bai Guang, two of China's so-called Seven Great Singing Stars during the 1930s and '40s. Lucas, who discovered the shidaiqu sound while living in Taiwan, updates their sultry, sentimental, and... More >> |
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| Brooklyn | Music |
Betrayal
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In a recent interview with The New York Times, real-life married couple Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz seemed as happy as could be: She thinks he’s a great cook, they love to go on luxury vacations, and they relish opportunities to work together. In other words, when they break each... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Opening |
ThreeASFOUR
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A couple of seasons ago, we attended a ThreeASFOUR presentation in a West Village loft that resembled an underground party more than a Fashion Week event. Designers Gabriel Asfour, Adi Gil, and Angela Donhauser have long remained true to their aesthetic, and they rarely present their shows in a... More >> |
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| East 80s | Fashion and Style, Arts, Art - Galleries |
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'Fixed' w/ the Field+JDH & Dave P
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For the first of two shows celebrating their ninth anniversary, local promoters Fixed bring over Axel Willner (a/k/a the Field) whose debut album of amniotic loop techno, From Here We Go Sublime, was rapturously received and who has continued the sample-based ethereality with this year's... More >> |
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| Williamsburg | Music |
Avi Hoffman's Still Jewish After All These Years
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| West 70s | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Breakfast With Mugabe
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Any experienced psychiatrist will expect to encounter a range of patients, some straightforward, some difficult. It seems safe to assume that Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe belongs in the latter category and Fraser Grace’s play imagines the autocrat’s interactions with an analyst... More >> |
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| Garment District | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Final Analysis
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Running in repertory with Breakfast with Mugabe, Otho Eskin’s play at Pershing Square also centers on a psychoanalyst—in this case Sigmund Freud and his prewar Viennese milieu. In this coffeehouse-set play, he’s joined by Gustav and Alma Mahler. Josef Stalin and a proto-Nazi,... More >> |
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| Garment District | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Fun Home
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Not long after Alison Bechdel wrote a letter to her parents telling them she was a lesbian, her father, Bruce, was struck and killed by a Sunbeam Bread truck. But, she wonders in her bestselling 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home, could it have been a suicide? Returning to her childhood, she tells... More >> |
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| Greenwich Village | Theater, Off-Broadway: Opening |
Handball
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| East Village | Recreation |
PRELUDE. 13
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You don't have to be an insider to know what's new in the performing arts. PRELUDE. 13 gives you a sneak peek with tickets to work-in-progress presentations, open rehearsals, and conversations with the artists. The best part? It's all free. The incredible lineup of performers includes Taylor... More >> |
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| Murray Hill | Off-Off-Broadway: Opening, Theater, Festivals |
Brooklyn Boulders
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Have you ever stared longingly at the Brooklyn Bridge and thought, I wish I could climb that? Brooklyn Boulders, an 18,000-square-foot refuge for the urban climber located near the Gowanus, is happy to give you a shot. In addition to providing massive synthetic boulders, 360-degree climbing... More >> |
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| Brooklyn | Recreation |
1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered?
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If you've never been inside the magnificent Church of St. Paul the Apostle, the artist collective Openings is giving you a fun incentive to drop by. Their new show, 1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered?, which will be held at the historic church, features the works of 37 artists... More >> |
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| West 50s | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself
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At first glance, Dorothea Rockburne’s works look like straightforward lines on a wall, but they are far from simplistic. They are mathematical solutions. Rockburne has said that “drawing is the bones of thought,” and has applied her studies in math and astronomy to her work... More >> |
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| West 50s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection
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| East 80s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Ashley Bickerton
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A pioneer of the ’80s Neo-Geo movement (short for neo-geometric conceptualism), along with Jeff Koons, Peter Halley, and Meyer Vaisman, Ashley Bickerton suddenly dropped out of the East Village scene in 1993 and moved to Bali, where he remains two decades later. His latest show, and his... More >> |
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| Lower East Side | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Robert Motherwell: Early Collages
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As one of the revolutionaries in the New York art movement of the 1940s, Robert Motherwell started a gang of sorts that included other abstract or “automatic” artists, as he called them, like Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, William Baziotes, and Willem de Kooning. And the leader of... More >> |
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| East 80s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York
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| East Harlem | Photography, Arts, Art - Museums |
Here Is Where We Jump
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It’s been turbulent times at El Museo del Barrio, where they recently cut back on hours and staff and are facing charges of gender discrimination brought by former director Margarita Aguilar. But with their major biennial opening today, all that is put aside to make room for what matters... More >> |
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| East Harlem | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Blek le Rat
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Born in Paris in 1951, Blek le Rat first discovered graffiti in New York in the early ’70s and, a decade later, became one of the first graffiti artists in Paris. He is also credited as the first to use life-size stencils—his signature stencil being a rat silhouette. As critic Carlo... More >> |
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| Chelsea | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Bryant Park Juggling
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“The little trick of getting three objects to dance around in your hands has always managed to keep a small sense of magic,” says instruction book Juggling for the Complete Klutz. As we could all use some magic in our lives, get out today and have some fun with the Bryant Park... More >> |
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| Murray Hill | Recreation |
