Thursday's Tenement Talks will feature the new book, Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing, will be sponsored by the Orchard Street Contemporaries. The "Contemporaries" are a group of young professionals committed to advancing the mission of the Tenement...
Julius Singer Press and Awkward Press team up to present "Old Notebooks," an evening of readings by authors Sara Jaffe (The Art of Touring), Chris Leo (Feathers Like Leather), Zack Lipez (No Seats On The Party...
Law & Order SVU's B.D. Wong (a Tony winner for M. Butterfly) is taking the stage this evening at Dixon Place in A Very MARY Holiday, a concert benefiting the Ali
Forney Center (the nation's largest organization dedicated to
homeless...
Tomorrow night at the Abrons Arts Center, it's the return of the Nutcracker, reimagined for the Lower East Side. In its ninth year, the Urban Ballet Theater's take on Tchaikovsky's classic ballet incorporates flamenco, hip-hop, African, and Asian dance...
"Julian Plenti is Skyscraper," is the solo debut of Paul Banks, the vocalist of the downtown indie band, Interpol. The Times says: "It is full of prickly,
post-punk guitars and sharp-but-distant vocals (all familiar territory
for Interpol fans). But Julian Plenti...
Tonight at White Box Projects, the opening of Spanish Artist Juanli Carrion's "Atlas Shrugged." The exhibition takes its title from "Ayn Rand's groundbreaking 1957 novel. The title is appropriated," according to White Box, "in an ironic way, as opposed...
We stopped by the opening party for Malachi Farrell's exhibit, The Shops Are Closed, at Abrons Arts Center on Friday. Along with a version of his famous electronically animated air-conditioning tubes, there is a sculptural installation involving two missiles...
Arts for Art (the annual host of Vision Festival) is bringing 28 Hours of Innovative Art - A Benefit for the Community of Downtown Innovators by a Community of Downtown Innovators to the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center tonight. ...
Korean performance artist Sung Hwan Kim brings One From "In The Room" to The New Museum tonight in conjunction with the currently on-going, city-wide Performa '09 biennial. In the Netherlands and Korea, Sung Hwan Kim developed the “In...
