Arts

Be sure to catch Elaine Showalter in conversation with Wendy Martin (We Are the Stories We Tell) as they discuss Showalter's book, A Jury of Her Peers - American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. Ms. Showalter's...

It's your last weekend to catch the world premier of the "danceumentary," In Search of the Invisible People, at Dixon Place.  Invisible People was created by Niles Ford and The Uban Dance Collective as a commissioned piece...

Cuchifritos, the art gallery/project space located inside The Essex Street Market will present the exhibition “Yumi Janairo Roth: F.O.B.”, tomorrow with an opening reception and panel discussion from 4-6pm. The exhibit features recent work by Colorado artist Yumi...

If you're looking for a blast from the past (when babysitting mis-adventures were much more fantastic) this weekend's midnight movie at the Sunshine is Jim Henson's cult classic fantasy/adventure/musical, Labyrinth, with a young Jennifer Connely and a...

Select artists from the most recent round of the Rhizome Commissions will present and discuss their works in progress tomorrow night at the New Museum. Rhizome, a non-profit affiliate of the New Museum, was founded in the 90's...

The monthly variety show, "Skits 'n Tits", highlighting "the best of downtown burlesque beauties, comedians, sketch, variety acts, and music" is back at The Bowery Poetry Club tonight at 10pm. This month’s line up will include Adrienne Lapalucci...

Tonight at the Tenement Museum -- an interesting look at the origins of the "modern surveillance state." Author Jennifer Fronc discusses her book, "New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era." It was relatively common, it turns...

  This month's ever-enlightened Lucid NYC party/presentation event will be at The Slipper Room tomorrow night.  Presenters will include Andy Bichlbaum of the political (and environmental) hoax team, Yes Men,  Leo Bonanni, creator of the mind boggling...

photo courtesy of Mark La Rosa for The Lo-DownFor more than a decade, the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center on Suffolk Street has been a house divided. But now, according to CSV Executive Director Jan Hanvik, a long...

Three art gallery openings of note tonight:  DCKT Contemporary (195 Bowery) presents Zoe Crosher’s The Unraveling of Michelle duBois. Reception 6-8pm.Thierry Goldberg Projects (5 Rivington) presents Blood of a Poet, a group exhibition with works by Harold Ancart, Olivier Babin,...