Saturday, January 4 5pm Target First Saturdays: Art on the Edge. Brooklyn Museum. It's the first Saturday of the month, which means the Brooklyn Museum has another great line-up of free art, music and film raring to go. The festivities kick off with Dendê and Band, a group that take Brazilian music and infuse it with Afrobeat grooves. From there, you can attend a screening Suroosh Alvi's Heavy Metal in Baghdad, watch an interactive dance and multimedia performance by Purring Tiger, or end your night catching ScienZe (aka Jamal Monsanto) + the Ellavators perform old-school hip hop. The exhibits are also open for browsing, including The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier, which offers discounted admission ($10 instead of $15) throughout the evening.
Tuesday, 7th, 7 p.m. // The Comedy Notebook has some big names on the docket this month, including Janeane Garofalo and other surprise guests. Think of it like a really inexpensive evening of comedy without that pesky drink minimum to boot.Housing Works Bookstore Cafe // .
Wednesday, January 8 | Doors open at 6:30 pm SciCafe: Which Came First, the Bird or the Bird Brain? New research provides evidence that dinosaurs evolved the brainpower necessary for flight well before they actually took to the air as birds. Join Museum Curator Mark Norell and Research Associate Amy Balanoff as they describe the cutting-edge research that continues to support the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds, showcasing their latest findings, from iridescent feathers to skull comparisons.
Saturday, January 11th, 8 p.m. // Freddy's //Geek Night "As You Wish- Eighties Fantasy Edition," where you'll test your knowledge of all things '80s cinema from visiting aliens to Rodents of Unusual Size. Bone up on David Bowie's extraordinary endowments and the many creatures of Fantasia for the chance to be crowned trivia champ. There's also a costume contest, so drag out your Jordache and lace gloves if you haven't been ironically rocking them anyway. It's free to play plus the bar will be offering fun drink specials to get your throwback juices flowing.
sunday,14th 3pm Ride without pants! The 13th Annual No Pants Subway Ride will take place on January 12 in New York York City. Details will be released the first week of January. Save the date!History of the No Pants Subway Ride: http://improveverywhere.com/missions/the-no-pants-subway-ride/Information on starting a ride in your own city:http://improveverywhere.com/2013/12/02/save-the-date-no-pants-subway-ride-2014
TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series. The series helps producers hone their skills while offering musical buffs an opportunity to check out the latest plays for free. First up, Wild and Willful Women, which sounds like The Crucible meets Footloose; then it's Brindlebeast, a three-story piece performed in both voice and American Sign Language; and finally Popesical, a musical comedy about selecting the next father of the Catholic church. Mingle with performers and crew following each performance for wine and cheese plus a panel discussion on how to bring these fledgling shows to the Great White Way.
Mondays, January 13, 20 and February 3 // Baruch Performing Arts Center // Free; email TRUStaff1@gmail.com for reservations
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Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost, Pace Gallery - West 25th Street. Pace Gallery is honored to present Paradise Lost, a three-venue exhibition of London-based Kashmiri artist Raqib Shaw. This is his first public presentation in New York since the 2008 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Opulent scenes of beastly anthropomorphic figures amidst fantastical worlds of idyllic skies and classical ruins fills Shaw’s first exhibition at three venues at Pace. Included in the exhibition are ten paintings, three sculptures, and five drawings. Based on the theme of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, they are a fusion of Indian mythological figures, hybrids of man and beast, warring in landscapes inspired by Quattrocento and Renaissance painting. They are a synthesis of Indian miniatures painted with precision and delicacy and Western classical architecture inspired by Carlo Crivelli’s The Annunciation in the National Gallery, London. Shaw’s series can be interpreted as a direct confrontation between East and West where the shattered monuments suggest the triumph of the East. Paradise Lost will be on view from November 8, 2013 through January 11, 2014. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Thursday, November 7 from 6 to 8 PM. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition and include an essay by art historian Sir Norman Rosenthal. http://www.pacegallery.com/newyork/exhibitions/12600/paradise-lost
Museum.Housed in an abandoned freight-elevator shaft, Museum’s recently unveiled second season displays collected oddities--most of which have pretty much nothing in common aside from a quirky-cool factor. Think foreign toothpaste tubes and rejected Cambodian menu photography. Even the shoe that was thrown at George W. Bush is included--right above children’s Disney-themed bulletproof backpacks. (We told you it’s weird.)Our favorite items, though, are the tip jars from around NYC, which come from places like Katz’s Deli and Grand Central’s shoeshine stations.Now, how exactly do you find it? It’s on the south-most end of the alley, right around the corner from Franklin Street. On weekends (11 a.m. to 7 p.m.), the doors are open to the public, but should you want to catch it another time, just peer through the doors’ viewing windows (available all hours of the day) and dial into the audio tour on your cell: 888-763-8839.Read more: Museum Cortlandt Alley
Michael Amorillo 11:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until January 31 @ Wooster Street Social Club flag. Growing up in Queens, Michael Amorillo was influenced early by the graffiti he saw all over the highways and billboards on drives into the city. After more than a decade of living in SoCal and shifting his work from the street to canvas, Monstrinho (a nickname given to him meaning “little monster” in Portuguese) is back in the city that first sparked his interest in art. A show of new works, "68 Inches Above Sea Level" is Amorillo's first exhibition in New York City. Inspired by artists such as Keith Haring, Dr. Seuss, and Os Gêmeos, he creates sweet-faced monsters in a range of vibrant colors and styles that he says are full of “free child energy.” DJ Goldie Was Here supplies the beats.
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