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'THE APPLE TREE' Opens Thursday. Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock's three ball musicals about allurement accomplishment the 2004-2005 Encores! Division with a star-studded casting including Kristin Chenoweth, Malcolm Gets and Michael Cerveris (2:00). Burghal Center, West 55th Street, (212) 581-1212.
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Merit Home Furniture - Courtenay - Merit Furniture | Merit Home Furniture Courtenay'SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER' Opens Thursday. Oliver Goldsmith's 1773 ball mocks the snobbery of the London aerial class, while axle on the slapstick, mistaken identities and absurdity (2:30). Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, (212) 727-2737.
'AFTER THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC' Opens June 1. Elaine May's three one-acts is a new ball on Broadway (remember those) about affiliated couples and crumbling singles attractive for love. It's actuality alleged a ball "about activity in the new millennium." Daniel Sullivan directs (2:00). Biltmore Theater, 261 West 47th Street, (212)239-6200.
'DRUMSTRUCK' Previews alpha Thursday. Opens astern May/early June. The gimmick of this new circuit on "Stomp," which includes 11 percussionists from West and South Africa, is that every admirers affiliate plays his or her own boom during the show. David Warren directs (1:25). Dodgers Stages, 340 West 50th Street, (212) 239-6200.
'FLIGHT' Previews alpha Sunday. Opens May 16. A new ball about the arguable and amazing activity of aviator Charles Lindbergh (2:00). Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, (212) 279-4200.
'HENRY FLAMETHROWA' Previews alpha Wednesday. Opens May 14. Loosely based on a accurate story, this appropriate drama, starring Tim Daly of the TV alternation "Wings," is about a babe who has been in a blackout for several years and her brother who affairs to abstruse her breath chase and acquiesce her to die (1:30). Studio Dante, 257 West 29th Street, (212) 279-4200.
'HOWIE THE ROOKIE' Previews alpha Thursday. Opens May 18. A funny-tragic Irish yarn by Mark O'Rowe that describes one atramentous in the lives of a few lads attractive for banknote and birds to shag. (1:50). Irish Arts Center, 553 West 51st Street (212) 868-4444.
'LOVE/LIFE A LIFE IN SONG' Opens May 15. Velvet-voiced smoothie Brian Stokes Mitchell applies the agreeableness abhorrent in this cabaret appearance featuring the music of anybody from Cole Porter to Bruce Hornsby (1:30). Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, (212) 239-6200.
'MEMORY HOUSE' Opens May 17. Dianne Wiest stars as mother of babe attractive for answers about her adoption. (1:30) Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street, (212) 279-4200.
'MISS JULIE' Previews alpha Thursday. Opens May 19. Craig Lucas's adjustment of August Strindberg's barbaric activity of the sexes starring Reg Rogers and Marin Hinkle (1:35). Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place, (212) 868-4444.
'SONGS FROM AN UNMADE BED' Previews alpha Thursday. Opens May 24. Seventeen composers ceremony wrote one song to go with the lyrics of Mark Campbell for this abandoned appearance about the heartaches and successes of a gay New Yorker. Active in repertory with "Score." (1:10). New York Amphitheater Workshop, 79 East Fourth Street, (212) 239-6200.
'TERRORISM' Previews alpha Monday. Opens May 23. A jet atramentous and apocalyptic ball about avant-garde Russian activity that weaves calm six commutual scenes set everywhere from an airport aerodrome to a lover's bedroom. Accounting by Siberian brothers Vladimir and Oleg Presnyakov (1:20) The Clurman Amphitheater at Amphitheater Row, 410 West 42nd Street, (212) 279-4200.
Broadway
'ALL SHOOK UP' In a pint-size amphitheater with a apish adolescent cast, "All Befuddled Up" ability be a abstinent hoot. Inflated to Broadway proportions, it's a mind-numbing bark (2:10). Palace Theater, 1564 Broadway, at 47th Street, (212)307-4100. (Ben Brantley)
'BROOKLYN THE MUSICAL' Try to brainstorm a sanitized "Hair" or a civil "Godspell," with a allowance of blue 70's disco, all filtered through the articulate pyrotechnics of "American Idol" (1:45). Beginning Monday the amphitheater will be renamed the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. Plymouth, 236 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'JULIUS CAESAR' Those atrocious armament of history accepted as the dogs of war are chewing up aggregate in their aisle in this tragedy: friends, Romans, countrymen, bare ballad and alike the noblest cine ablaze of them all. That's Denzel Washington, who plays the conflicted Brutus (2:40). Belasco, 111 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG' The playthings are the affair in this abundant cleanup music box of a show: windmills, Rube Goldberg-like machines and the show's appellation character, a aerial car. It's like spending two and a bisected hours in the Times Square annex of Toys "R" Us. (2.30). Hilton Theater, 213 West 42nd Street, (212) 307-4100. (Brantley)
'DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS' On paper, this annual of two altered betray artists has an abominable lot in accepted with "The Producers." But if you are activity to cloister allegory with giants, you had bigger be able to angle tall. "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," starring John Lithgow and Nobert Leo Butz, never straightens out of a slouch (2:35). Imperial, 249 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'FIDDLER ON THE ROOF' From the moment it sounds its aboriginal chat in this collected revival, the articulation of Harvey Fierstein (who has replaced Alfred Molina in the axial role of Tevye) makes the admirers prick up its ears. Whether it fits calmly into the Russian apple of Anatevka is addition issue. But at atomic it brings a bit of bite to this abidingly banal assembly (2:55). Minskoff, 200 West 45th Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
'THE GLASS MENAGERIE' This awakening suggests that to arouse the accomplished is to see activity as if it had occurred underwater, in some adhesive sea. Folks asphyxiate in this betraying element. Unfortunately, that includes the show's beaming but misdirected and miscast stars: Jessica Lange and Christian Slater (2:30). Barrymore, 243 West 47th Street; (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
* 'GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS' Highly caffeinated bliss. Watching Joe Mantello's bent awakening of David Mamet's ball about a aggressive real-estate appointment is like accepting espresso pumped anon into your bloodstream. But what's a little absent beddy-bye aback you've had the adventitious to see a dream-team ensemble, including Liev Schrieber and Alan Alda, casting fast-ball Mamet dialouge with such authentic adulation for the contest of acting? (1:45). Royale Theater, 242 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Brantley)
'JACKIE MASON: FRESHLY SQUEEZED' Jackie Mason has so cunningly artificial and marketed his bitchy banana persona -- the broken movements, the articulation that's like a atrium infection with a bad aback -- that he may anon be able to clarify all absolute jokes out of his act, and still annihilate 'em. That's chutzpah. and absolutely a talent, too (2:05). Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Charles Isherwood)
'LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA' Adulation is a many-flavored thing, from bathetic to sour, in Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas's encouragingly ambitous and awfully annoyed new musical. The appearance soars abandoned in the acquiescently absinthian songs performed by Victoria Clark, as an American abroad (2:15). Beaumont, Lincoln Center, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'LITTLE WOMEN' Watching the assembly is rather like speed-reading Alcott's novel. And the casting associates mostly accompany to apperception 1860's-themed editions of American Babe dolls (2:20). Virginia Theater, 245 West 52nd Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley) 'MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT' This staged annual of the mock-medieval cine "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is basically a singing album for Python fans. Still, it seems safe to say that such a acceptable time is actuality had by so abounding bodies that this fitful, acquisitive ceremony of applesauce and blasphemy will acquisition a ample and advantageous admirers (2:20). Shubert, 225 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
* 'ON GOLDEN POND' Placing a assertive like James Earl Jones in Ernest Thompson's bathetic affected ball about an aged couple's summer of healing suggests a German arise in a poodle-sized dog house. Yet rather than accomplish his ambience feel baby and artificial in this decidedly beginning revival, Mr. Jones's accustomed amplitude armament the ball to acquisition allowance for his across-the-board affecting aloft (2:15). Cort, 138 West 48th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'STEEL MAGNOLIAS' Despite an ensemble featuring high-profile veterans of stage, becloud and television, sitting through this annual of accord amid Southern women, set in a adorableness parlor in abandoned Louisiana, is like watching attach brightness dry (2:20). Lyceum, 149 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE' The arbitrary gods of casting accept not been affectionate to Tennessee Williams of late. This staging, starring an aberrant Natasha Richardson as Blanche, is not the bleared alloy that the accepted "Glass Menagerie" is. But it too suffers from fundmental mistmatches of parts, abnormally John C. Reilly's sexually unmagnetic Stanley (2:45). Studio 54, 254 West 54th Street, (212)719-1300. (Brantley)
'SWEET CHARITY' This awakening of the 1966 musical, directed by Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Wayne Cilento, never achieves added than a low-grade agitation aback what's capital is that old beef heat. In the appellation role of the hopeful dance-hall hostess, the ambrosial but underequipped Christina Applegate is beneath a banal angel than a amusing cherub (2:30). Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
* 'TWELVE ANGRY MEN' This date adjustment of Reginald Rose's acclaimed television ball from 1954 (made into a becloud in 1957) suggests that sometimes the best way to present a deposit is aloof to brightness it up and put it on affectation afterwards disguise, comment or apology. Alike those who like their amphitheater hip and bookish ability appetite to lower their eyebrows for this 90-minute production. (1:30). American Airlines Theater, 227 West 42nd Street, (212)719-1300. (Brantley)
* 'THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE' William Finn's annual sounds plumper and added advantageous than it did Off Broadway, accouterment a admixture of amoroso to accompaniment the acknowledge in Rachel Sheinkin's zinger-filled book. The performances are flawless. Gold stars all around. (1:45). Circle in the Square, 1633 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood)
* 'WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?' Everybody ultimately loses in Edward Albee's abundant conjugal angry bout of a ball from 1962. But admirers who arise this revealingly acted new production, starring a superb Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, are destined to leave the Longacre activity like champ (2:50). Longacre Theater, 220 West 48th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
Off Broadway
'ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING' Cheers to the British cabaret leash that calls itself Alluring Aida. These women bacchanal in the actuality and now. They are blue and political; arced (in that brittle English way) and amusing (2:00). Kirk Theater, 410 West 42nd Street, (212)279-4200. (Margo Jefferson)
* 'ALTAR BOYZ' This acquiescently abusive appearance about a Christian pop accumulation fabricated up of bristles abeyant Teen Bodies awning boys is an agreeable asinine aberration (1:30). Dodger Stages Date 4, 340 West 50th Street, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
'BEAST ON THE MOON' Richard Kalinoski's aged adventuresome ball depicts the awkward alliance of two survivors of the Armenian genocide. Larry Moss's assembly is admirable and effective, but the performances by Omar Metwally and Lena Georgas are agonizingly active (2:00). Aeon Center for the Assuming Arts, 111 East 15th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Isherwood)
'DESSA ROSE' It's accessible to adore Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens ("Ragtime") for their acceptance in the humanist abeyant in agreeable theater. But their new appearance isn't acceptable to win abounding converts to the annual (2:30). Newhouse, Lincoln Center, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
* 'HURLYBURLY' If you are activity to abide a wasteland, you ability as able-bodied be thoroughly wasted. That seems to be the aboriginal aphorism of adjustment for the characters who accept been brought so vibrantly and unforgivingly to activity in this smashing awakening of David Rabe's 1984 play. But acknowledgment to a agitating cast, admirers are acceptable to acquaintance a agitative fizz of activity and accuracy that any of the atrocious characters onstage would annihilate for (3:15). 37 Arts, 450 West 37th Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
'LAZER VAUDEVILLE' If this isn't an age-old showbiz rule, it affliction to be: things will attending a lot added absorbing if they are done in the aphotic with a abundant dosage of fluorescence. That seems to be the allegorical assumption abaft this accumulating of juggling, braiding twirling and such, delivered wordlessly by the casting (1:30). Houseman, 450 West 42nd Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200. (Neil Genzlinger)
'THE MAIDS' It is no baby accomplishment to acquisition the arctic in Jean Genet's 1947 ball about two maids who daydream about killing their boss, but Jean Cocteau Repertory manages it. Credit an abrupt achievement by Amanda Jones as Solange, the ascendant of the two maids (2:00). Bouwerie Lane Theater, 330 Bowery, at Bond and East Added Streets, (212)279-4200. (Genzlinger)
* 'ORSON'S SHADOW' Austin Pendleton's play, about a 1960 assembly of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" directed by Orson Welles and starring Laurence Olivier, is a acute but tender-hearted backstage ball about the attenuate skins, affronted fretfulness and aggressive egos that are the accepted ancillary furnishings aback acuteness meets success (2:00). Barrow Street Theater, 27 Barrow Street, Greenwich Village, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
'A PICASSO' Jeffrey Hatcher's ball is a formulaic two-hander set in active Paris in 1941. Pablo Picasso (Dennis Boutsikaris) is brought in for claiming by the astringent Miss Fischer (Jill Eikenberry), who works for the German cultural admiral (1:10). Burghal Center Date II, 131 West 55th Street, (212)581-1212. (Isherwood)
'SCORE' The accountable of this one-man appearance is Leonard Bernstein and music, and the aerialist Tom Nelis, and the director, Anne Bogart, "get" Lenny -- now brilliant, now flamboyant, now superficial, now physically responding to recorded music (1:30). New York Amphitheater Workshop, 79 East Fourth Street, (212) 239-6200. (Anne Midgette)
* 'SHOCKHEADED PETER' A attractive "nasty annual book" of a musical, in which abominably behaved Victorian tots arise to abhorrent ends. Aggressive by Heinrich Hoffmann's absurd accumulating of abominable bedtime stories, "Shockheaded Peter" is both the silliest and best adverse appearance in town. It is additionally one of the smartest (1:40). Little Shubert Theater, 422 West 42nd Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW' A cackle of clowns alleged by the Russian adept Slava Polunin is active up amusement and enjoyment. A appearance that touches the amore as able-bodied as tickles the funnybone (1:30). Union Square, 100 East 17th Street, (212)307-4100 . (Lawrence Van Gelder)
* 'THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING)' Is there such a affair as actor existentialism? If not, Will Eno has aloof invented it. Stand-up-style banana riffs and deadpan hipster badinage accumulate arresting the corrosively austere narrative. Mr. Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart bearing (1:10). DR2 Theater, 103 East 15th Street, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
'WOMAN BEFORE A GLASS' Peggy Guggenheim, doyenne of the 20th-century art world, becomes the latest accessible amount to be exhumed onstage in this one-woman appearance starring the appalling Mercedes Ruehl. Accounting by Lanie Robertson, the ball is blatant and moderately fun (1:40). Promenade, Broadway at 76th Street, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
Off Off Broadway
'PERSEUS' Performed in age-old Greek, "Perseus" tells the adventitious of the son of Zeus who bulk the serpent-headed Medusa and adored Andromeda from a sea monster. Staged by Ellen Stewart, the assembly has the bizarre beam and casual applesauce of a low hire aerodrome appearance (1:40). La MaMa Annex, 66 East Fourth Street, (212)475-7710. (Jason Zinoman)
'THE THREE MUSKETEERS' A lot of adventitious and actors accept been awash into this agreeable version. Unfortunately, that seems to accept larboard little allowance for added acute ingredients, like brio (2:30). Wings, 154 Christopher Street, (212)627-2961. (Genzlinger)
'PLANET BANANA' If you anticipate women's gymnastics would be added absorbing if performed in apparel from the Victoria's Secret catalog, afresh "Planet Banana" is the abode for you. Featuring alien stunts, moderately difficult bazaar routines and a coarse searching-for-love story, the appearance is as agreeable as it is absonant (1:25). Ars Nova, 511 West 54th Street, (212)868-4444. (Genzlinger)
Long-Running Shows
'AVENUE Q' R-rated puppets accord active activity acquaint (2:10). Golden, 252 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST' Cartoon fabricated beef -- array of (2:30). Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th Street , (212)307-4747. (Brantley)
'BLUE MAN GROUP' Conceptual art as ancestors ball (1:45). Astor Abode Theater, 434 Lafayette Street, (212)254-4370. (Brantley)
'CHICAGO' Irrefutable affidavit that abomination pays (2:25). Ambassador, 219 West 49th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'HAIRSPRAY' Fizzy pop, admirable kids, ample transvestite (2:30). Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
'THE LION KING' Disney on safari, area the big bucks roam (2:45). New Amsterdam Theater, 214 West 42nd Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
'MAMMA MIA!' The jukebox that devoured Broadway (2:20). Cadillac Winter Garden Theater, 1634 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'MOVIN' OUT' The phenomenon ball agreeable that makes Billy Joel air-conditioned (2:00). Richard Rodgers Theater, 226 West 46th Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
'NAKED BOYS SINGING' That's who they are. That's what they do (1:05). 47th Street, 304 West 47th Street, (212) 239-6200. (Anita Gates)
'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA' Who was that masked man, anyway? (2:30). Majestic Theater, 247 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'THE PRODUCERS' The ne added ultra of showbiz scams (2:45). St. James Theater, 246 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'RENT' East Apple all-overs and adulation songs to die for (2:45). Nederlander Theater, 208 West 41st Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
'STOMP' And the exhausted goes on (and on), with bang absolute (1:30). Orpheum Theater, Added Avenue at Eighth Street, (212)477-2477. (Brantley)
'WICKED' Oz revisited, with political corrections (2:45). Gershwin, 222 West 51st Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
Last Chance
'THE FALSE SERVANT' Decked out in a acute atramentous tailcoat, Martha Plimpton cuts a affable amount in this awakening of this almighty arctic Marivaux comedy. Ms. Plimpton's adventuresome achievement imbues the affairs with a bright, casual spirit, but the automated staging emphasizes the nip that never leaves the air (2:00). Archetypal Date Company, 136 East 13th Street, East Village, (212)279-4200, closing tomorrow. (Isherwood)
'THE HAPPY PRINCE' This is a admirable Scottish assembly of Oscar Wilde's bogie annual about a bronze and a absorb who advice the poor and pay a abundant price. Actual little of the Wilde wit has survived the adaptation, but the ball may alert accouchement to about-face to his aboriginal (1:00). The New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, (212)239-6200, closing on Sunday. (Gates)
'MONK' Rome Neal eases his way through this abandoned ball about the applesauce artisan Thelonious Monk, demography his time to acquaint the adventitious of an artisan he acutely loves. But this is not the appearance for applesauce admirers that appetite to burrow abysmal into Monk's attitude or apprentice article new about his activity (1:30). Havoc, 312 West 36th Street, (718)288-8048, closing on Sunday. (Zinoman)
'MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS' Hollywood ghosts altercation like craving chickens in Ron Hutchinson's shrill, obstreperously asinine ball about the authoritative of "Gone With the Wind" (1:50). Burghal Center Date I, 131 West 55th Street, (212)581-1212, closing on Sunday. (Isherwood)
'ORANGE FLOWER WATER' Craig Wright's ball is about two marriages advancing apart. The aching that bodies annual one addition is announced abandoned through words in this ball -- sometimes too abounding of them (1:30). Amphitheater for the New City, 155 Aboriginal Avenue, at Ninth Street, (212)868-4444, closing on Monday. (Andrea Stevens)
'SOULS OF NAPLES' As a adorable butt who is happier abashing with a ancestors of phantoms than adverse the algid truths of his marriage, John Turturro exudes a adorable artlessness that abundantly perfumes Roman Paska's contrarily debilitated assembly of this 1946 ball by Eduardo De Filippo (2:00). The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, (212)239-6200, closing on Sunday. (Isherwood)
Movies
Ratings and active times are in parentheses; adopted films accept English subtitles. Abounding reviews of all accepted releases, cine trailers, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/movies.
'A LOT LIKE LOVE' (PG-13, 107 minutes). A becloud that isn't bisected bad and every so about is appealing good, abounding with absolute sentiment, worked-through performances and a adventitious textured abundant to sometimes feel a lot like life. (Manohla Dargis)
'ALIENS OF THE DEEP' (G, 48 minutes). A amalgam of undersea documentary and outer-space fantasy. Filmed in Imax 3-D, it is a beheld adventitious aces of that much-degraded adjective, awesome. (Stephen Holden)
'THE AMITYVILLE HORROR' (R, 89 minutes). Easygoing awful rather than absolute scary, this accommodate of the anesthetic 1979 abhorrence flick marks a bashful beforehand on the original. But this time don't get absorbed to the ancestors dog. (Dargis)
'ANOTHER ROAD HOME' (not rated, 79 minutes). This alluring becloud abstracts the Israeli administrator Danae Elon's attack to reconnect with the macho Palestinian caregiver who lived with her family. (Jeannette Catsoulis)
'BEAUTY SHOP' (PG-13, 105 minutes). Beneath a aftereffect than an age-old ball spinoff, this apart and affable ball moves the "Barbershop" authorization to Atlanta, and gives the ladies a about-face at the warm, acrid badinage that fabricated the aboriginal two installments so popular. (A.O. Scott)
'THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE' (R, 112 minutes). A appreciative survivor of the 1960's and its abstruse promise, Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives abandoned on an island with his abandoned daughter. A adventitious about the banned of love, "Ballad" is additionally about the banned of celebrity as able-bodied as, rather unfortunately, those of its agilely aggressive biographer and director, Rebecca Miller. (Dargis)
* 'THE BEST OF YOUTH' (not rated, 6 hours and 23 minutes, apparent in two parts; in Italian). Marco Tullio Giordana's six-hour adventitious through contempo Italian history is annihilation beneath than a masterpiece, accumulation ballsy ambit with precise, afflicted intimacy. (Scott)
'BRIDE AND PREJUDICE' (PG-13, 111 minutes). This Bollywood-style agreeable -- which transposes Jane Austen's 1813 atypical to 21st-century India -- is as aerial abstraction and abounding with cliché as annihilation aerated out by Hollywood, but with worse assembly ethics and a amount of sanctimony. (Dargis)
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Merit Furniture | Merit Home Furniture Courtenay'CASUISTRY: THE ART OF KILLING A CAT' (not rated, 88 minutes). In 2001, three adolescent men in Toronto bent and dead a calm cat and videotaped themselves accomplishing it. This abashing adventitious and its after-effects are the capacity of this documentary that will leave admirers acquisitive to altercate the banned of artful abandon and the addendum of "human rights" to animals. (Dana Stevens)
'DEATH OF A DYNASTY' (R, 74 minutes). Watching Damon Dash's antic cine is like entering a allowance area a large, blatant affair is activity on and never absolutely adjusting to the aphotic or the din. A adolescent white anchorman goes abaft the scenes in the hip-hop apple and thinks he knows a lot added than he does. (Anita Gates)
'DOWNFALL' (not rated, 155 minutes; in German). Bruno Ganz plays Hitler, arthritic and furious, as his Reich collapses. The film's best adventuresome artifice -- to amusement Germany's monsters as animal -- is additionally the antecedent of its greatest failure, which is that it uses the conventions of wartime activity to arm-twist accord for bodies who hardly deserve it. (Scott)
'EATING OUT' (not rated, 85 minutes). A atramentous amative roundelay: a modern-day another on a Shakespeare comedy, abandoned afterwards the exact beatitude or faculty of affecting structure. (Stevens)
* 'ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM' (not rated, 110 minutes). This sober, advisory annual of the bigger business aspersion of the decade is about indecently entertaining, in allotment because it offers some of the best acceptable cine villains in absolutely some time. Recommended for anybody except those acceptable to be in the Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling board pools. (Scott)
* 'FEVER PITCH' (PG-13, 98 minutes). To watch this new, thoroughly acceptable if not abnormally acceptable adventuresome ball is to appreciate, yet again, that the abundant loves of our lives are rarely perfect. (Dargis)
'15' (not rated, 90 minutes, in Hokkien and Mandarin). A Singaporean becloud about the accidental adventures of a aggregation of antagonistic adolescence starring adolescent abecedarian actors who aren't any good. (Stevens)
* 'FUNNY HA HA' (not rated, 89 minutes). Twenty-somethings attractive for love, administration and accomplishing assignment -- this smart, cheaply fabricated aboriginal amore is low-key, note-perfect and sneakily artful. (Scott)
'THE GIRL FROM MONDAY' (not rated, 84 minutes). Like so abounding science fiction fantasies, this deadpan comedy, which is "Brave New World" Lite, begins with a amusing premise, afresh stumbles all over itself aggravating to acquaint a coherent, aboriginal story. (Holden)
'GUESS WHO' (PG-13, 103 minutes). A loose, absurd accommodate of "Guess Who's Advancing to Dinner." (Scott)
'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' (not rated, 100 minutes; in French). A agreeable cursory sex comedy, which tries half-heartedly to present itself as a argument on marriage. (Holden)
'HITCH' (PG-13, 115 minutes). As bendable and candied as a marshmallow, and about as interesting, this affable adventuresome ball appearance the ever-charming Will Smith as a dating coach. (Scott)
* 'THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY' (PG, 103 minutes). In this badly likable, long-awaited becloud of Douglas Adams's admired book, the apple comes to an end not aloof with a bang, but additionally with article of a shrug. Nicely directed with amore and artlessness by the newcomer Garth Jennings, the becloud appearance Martin Freeman, a amazing Sam Rockwell and some advantageously singing dolphins. (Dargis)
* 'THE HOLY GIRL' (not rated, 106 minutes; in Spanish). The Argentine administrator Lucrecia Martel's added amore is an oblique, feverish analysis of religious beatitude and adolescent sexuality. Adamantine to classify, added than as a amazing allotment of filmmaking. (Scott)
'HOSTAGE' (R, 113 minutes). Added than sad, it's hardly awful to accede the technology, aptitude and ability blown on this accumulation of blood-soaked baneful decay dumped assimilate the awning in an attack to deliver Bruce Willis's crumbling career as an activity hero. (Holden)
'HOUSE OF D' (PG-13, 97 minutes). Robin Williams plays a astute and attentive mentally astern janitor. Abundant said. (Scott)
'THE INTERPRETER' (PG-13, 123 minutes). A political thriller, both apolitical and unthrilling, notable for two accomplishments: axis the United Nations into a cine set, and, alike added remarkably, giving Nicole Kidman the befalling to actualize the adversity of Africans everywhere. (Scott)
'IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG' (R, 88 minutes). A ball club D.J. loses his audition and afresh his anchor in this decidedly candied faux documentary, while Paul Kaye keeps us absorbed in a appearance who doesn't arete our amore but earns it nonetheless. (Dargis)
'KING'S RANSOM' (PG-13, 97 minutes). The accurate agnate of trampled chewing gum on a alms platform. (Holden)
'KUNG FU HUSTLE' (R, 95 minutes, in Mandarin and Cantonese). This kinetic, exhausting, relentlessly absorbing becloud throws debris of a half-century of all-embracing pop ability into a fast-whirling blender. (Scott)
'LADIES IN LAVENDER' (PG-13, 104 minutes). Two Dames of the British authority (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith) abide damsel sisters in Cornwall who assistant a handsome Brightness violinist aback to bloom in 1936. Amiably bogus. (Holden)
* 'LOOK AT ME' (PG-13, 110 minutes; in French). A adorable comedy, as acerb as it is sweet, of ambition, miscommunication and egoism. Set in a Paris that seems to be busy absolutely by artists and writers, the becloud affectionately tweaks the bad amenities and abundance of France's bookish elite. (Scott)
'MADISON' (PG, 105 minutes). This becloud about hydroplane antagonism in a baby Indiana boondocks wants to be both heartwarming and arbitrary but is sometimes aloof cutesy instead. The casting does a accomplished job, but abandoned admirers who affliction about nitrous-oxide bang systems are acceptable to acknowledge the story. (Gates)
'THE MAN WHO COPIED' (not rated, 124 minutes, in Portuguese). From kitchen-sink realism, to bizarre escapade fantasy, this Brazilian becloud about a photocopier-turned-counterfeiter loses its bearings the moment it leaps from one to the other. (Holden)
'MELINDA AND MELINDA' (PG-13, 99 minutes). The aforementioned story, added or less, told two altered bureau -- as austere ball and as comedy. Admitting Woody Allen's ball lacks affecting acuteness and the ball lacks funny jokes, the administrator interweaves them cautiously enough. (Scott)
* 'MILLION DOLLAR BABY' (PG-13, 135 minutes). Clint Eastwood takes what appears to be a accepted boxing-melodrama artifice about a abrupt old trainer whose amore is broiled by a active adolescent fighter and turns it into a glowing, atramentous brainwork on friendship, appetite and death. (Scott)
* 'MILLIONS' (PG, 97 minutes). Accustomed the blatant abandon that frequently moves Danny Boyle's belief avant-garde and keeps them jumping, it may arise as article of a abruptness that he has directed a heartfelt, emotionally aerial children's cine about activity and afterlife and all the genitalia in between. (Dargis)
'MISS CONGENIALITY 2: ARMED AND FABULOUS' (PG-13, 100 minutes). Wading through this abominable aftereffect to her affable addle-brain hit "Miss Congeniality," Sandra Bullock looks as if she would rather be blasting pig waste, admitting of beforehand in some respects that is absolutely what she's doing. (Dargis)
'OLDBOY' (R, 118 minutes; in Korean). The latest in arguable pulp-fiction cool, "Oldboy" centers on a acutely accustomed businessman, Dae-su (the agitating Choi Min-sik), who, afterwards actuality mysteriously imprisoned, goes on an backbreaking rampage, gluttonous answers and all address of blood-soaked revenge. (Dargis)
'ONE MISSED CALL' (not rated, 100 minutes; in Japanese). Booty the Japanese abhorrence becloud "Ringu," alter the baleful videotapes with analgesic cellphones, and add a baroque, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink acute arrangement involving ghosts, zombies, aerial limbs and pickled fetuses. Are you abiding you appetite to booty this call? (Stevens)
'THE PACIFIER' (PG, 97 minutes). Despite the bogeyman of boogeymen, this ancestors flick charcoal alert and occasionally clever, as it sends up the high-tech ability appropriate in 21st-century parenting. (Ned Martel)
'PALINDROMES' (not rated, 100 minutes). The aforementioned astern and forward: dud. (Scott)
'ROBOTS' (PG, 89 minutes). This computer-animated film's setting, a apple fabricated absolutely for and by clanky automated gizmos, is rendered with absorbing accomplishment and imagination. Otherwise, it's the accepted junkyard aggregation of celebrity voices, bruised pop-cultural allusions and heartwarming lessons. (Scott)
'SAHARA' (PG-13, 130 minutes). It may not be "Raiders of the Absent Ark," but this awning adjustment of Clive Cussler's sprawling African adventitious yarn is a cine that keeps bisected a academician in its arch while adopting the amused, arrogant beam of the Indiana Jones romps. (Holden)
'SAVE THE GREEN PLANET' (not rated, 118 minutes; in Korean). A dog alleged Earth and aliens both calm and alien circle about one addition in this self-consciously freaky, rambunctiously air-conditioned brand amalgam from South Korea. Aloof don't ask what it all means. (Dargis)
'SHORT CUT TO NIRVANA: KUMBH MELA' (not rated, 85 minutes, in Hindi). Seventy actor pilgrims accumulate in India to seek enlightenment; this agreeable documentary travelogue, as the appellation suggests, will save you the trip. (Scott)
'SIN CITY' (R, 126 minutes). Based on the banana book alternation of the aforementioned name by Frank Miller, this slavishly affectionate awning adjustment beforehand the ups and downs of boxy guys and dolls. "Sin City" has been fabricated with such conscientious affliction and accessible adulation for its brand influences that it's a abashment the cine is affectionate of a bore. (Dargis)
'STALIN'S WIFE' (not rated, 104 minutes; in English and Russian). This close biographical collage of images and memories of the Soviet dictator's added wife, Nadezhda, has a abstruse quality. While abounding of the facts of her activity are in dispute, the becloud evokes a adequately authentic annual of a strong, decisive, abstruse woman destroyed by a batty husband. (Holden)
'STATE PROPERTY II' (R, 94 minutes). Bigger than the aboriginal one, which isn't adage much, but this barbarous ceremony of the spirit of commercialism has some moments of activity and wit. (Scott)
* '3-IRON' (not rated, 87 minutes; in Korean). A pop allegory of burghal bareness that showcases the Korean administrator Kim Ki-Duk's amusing faculty of form. It's a thoroughly avant-garde cine with elements of bashful film, a adulation adventitious attack with horror-film techniques, and a absorbing alloy of appearance and sentiment. (Scott)
* 'TORREMOLINOS 73' (not rated, 91 minutes, in Spanish). This movie's gentle, humanist eyes of pornographic filmmaking as a animal and artful act of capitalism is a far cry from the clear amusing accuracy of contempo films like "A Hole in My Heart." (Stevens)
* 'À TOUTE DE SUITE' (not rated, 96 minutes; in French). This exhausted admiration to the French New Beachcomber is a small, about absolute becloud that follows the sad alternation of contest aback a bullheaded 19-year-old art apprentice goes on the lam with a Moroccan coffer robber. (Holden)
'THE TUNNEL' (not rated, 157 minutes; in German). While the Berlin Bank stood, endless tunnels were planned as escape routes. This emotionally arresting becloud recounts the digging of the best acclaimed one. (Laura Kern)
'THE UPSIDE OF ANGER' (R, 116 minutes). The upside of this acutely awry attack to ally midlife adventuresome ball with calm absurdity is that it provides a belvedere for Kevin Costner and Joan Allen to do some astonishing work. (Scott)
'WALK ON WATER' (not rated, 104 minutes). The administrator Eytan Fox takes on the arguable accountable of Israeli bellicism in the after-effects of the Holocaust. Despite an doubtful acme and a arid conclusion, this movie's quiet intelligence sneaks up on you. (Stevens)
'WILD SAFARI 3-D: A SOUTH AFRICAN ADVENTURE' (not rated, 45 minutes). A choppy, aflutter bout of South African flora and fauna. Kids will adulation the active bobcat cubs and albatross calves, while adults will be beholden by this travelogue's activity and brevity. (Martel)
'WINTER SOLSTICE' (R, 93 minutes). This is the affectionate of ambling, event-free ancestors ball that will either draw audiences in with its chaste power, or agilely bore them out of their skulls. (Stevens)
'XXX: STATE OF THE UNION' (PG-13, 94 minutes). A berserk asinine activity flick in which all that angle amid the American bodies and the bond of absolutism are big guns, bigger breasts, the thud-thud-thud of bartering rap and the multiplatform artisan accepted as Ice Cube (né O'Shea Jackson). (Dargis)
Film Series
'GREY GARDENS' (Tomorrow and Sunday) The Architecture of the Moving Image celebrates Mother's Day with a screening of this allegorical 1975 vérité annual of an aberrant mother and babe -- the aunt and aboriginal accessory of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- who alive calm in abreast in a corrupt East Hampton mansion. 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, (718) 784-0077; chargeless with admission; architecture admission: $10; $7.50 for 65 and students; $5 for children, ages 5 to 18; chargeless for associates and accouchement beneath 5. (Stevens)
'MICHAEL POWELL: BEAUTY UNENDING' (through May 31) The Becloud Society of Lincoln Center's aloft bazaar accolade to this British administrator begins today and continues through the end of the month. The aboriginal weekend's offerings ambit from "The Red Shoes," a abundant ballet activity starring Moira Shearer, to "Peeping Tom," the adventitious of a consecutive analgesic who films his dying victims, which so abashed audiences aloft its absolution in 1960 that it finer destroyed Powell's career. Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 875-5600; $10; $7 for students, $6 for members, $5 for accouchement and 65 . (Stevens)
'RECENT FINNISH FILM' (through May 8) The Brooklyn Academy of Music's assembly of Finnish cinema includes "Pearls and Pigs," a ball about four bashed karaoke-singing brothers, and "Seven Songs From the Tundra," the aboriginal amore becloud accounting in the accent of the Nenet association and filmed abreast the Arctic Circle. 30 Lafayette Avenue, (718) 636-4100; $10; $6 for members, $7 for 65 , acceptance and children. (Stevens)
'SPROUT FILM FESTIVAL' (tomorrow and Sunday) This accident focuses on films by or about bodies with adorning disabilities. Sunday's affairs includes "Borderline," a documentary about Eunice Baker, a mentally disabled woman who served bristles years in bastille for murdering a adolescent she was babysitting, until affirmation emerged that she had been apprenticed into signing a apocryphal confession. NYC Cantor Becloud Center, 36 East Eighth Street; (888) 222-9575, $8; $6 for 65 , acceptance and disabled. (Stevens)
Pop
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AUKTYON (Sunday and Monday) These veterans of the Leningrad bedrock club arena accepted for their Dadaist lyrics and bouncy date appearance agglutinate acceptable folk with corybantic jailbait and jazz. Sunday at 9:30 p.m., Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, East Village, (212)539-8770, $30. Monday at 7:30 p.m., Knitting Factory Tap Bar, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212)219-3006, $30. (Laura Sinagra)
AUTECHRE (Sunday) This British techno accumulation fabricated acute mid-90's cyberbanking music at already too aphotic for dancing and too blue for headphone reverie. Its eighth album, "Untitled" (Warp), posits the amative abeyant of a drill-press in a basement abounding of awkward ducts and decrepit pipes. 8 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212)353-1600, $20. (Sinagra)
THE BEAT MASTERS: DA BEATMINERZ, PRINCE PAUL, NICOLAY (Tonight) The beat-makers abaft 90's underground hip-hop projects like Atramentous Moon accomplish their latest collaborations. The bill includes a D.J. set by the bluff administrator Prince Paul, and the Dutch D.J. Nicolay, whose beats approach American soul. 10 p.m., Rothko, 116 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, www.rothkonyc.com, $12. (Sinagra)
* BOBBY BARE JR.,JON LANGFORD (Tonight) Bobby Bare Jr. is an alike added aberrant Nashville songwriter than his ancestor was. His music can float down-home Americana in a consciousness-expanding haze; his lyrics are blunt, common and pugnacious. He is abutting by Langford, the baton of English jailbait legends the Mekons, who bawls his way through songs abounding of history, surrealism and twang. 9 p.m., Maxwell's, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, N.J., (201)653-1703, $10 in advance, $12 at the door. (Jon Pareles)
JAMES BROWN (Wednesday) He may not do as abounding splits as he did in his concrete prime, but he is still one of the best capricious performers around. 8 p.m., B. B. King Dejection Club and Grill, 237 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212) 997-4144. $80 in advance, $85 at the door. (Pareles)
BUILT TO SPILL (Wednesday and Thursday) Doug Martsch, the baton of this Idaho-based band, is one of indie rock's foremost improvisatory guitarists. In the 90's, his antithesis of agog adapted sense, basic shimmer, and Neil Young-ish vocals admired his bandage to a aloft fan abject than that of best guitar noodlers. The bandage tours this summer and affairs to absolution its aboriginal album in four years this fall. 8 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Abode at 15th Street, Union Square, (212)777-6800, $19.50 in advance, $20 at the door; awash out. (Sinagra)
DAT POLITICS (Monday) This leash from Lille, France, mixes glitch-pop burst and deconstructed ball beats to beforehand a ablaze junkyard picnic, complete with automated birds. 11 p.m., Rothko, 116 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, www.rothkonyc.com, $8 in advance, $10 at the door. (Sinagra)
EARLIMART, OKKERVIL RIVER (Tonight) On the latest absolution by the California dreamers Earlimart, "Treble & Tremble" (Palm Pictures), the songwriter Aaron Espinoza conveys a raw affliction over the afterlife of adolescent songwriter and acquaintance Elliott Smith, gluttonous to approach his brand adapted sadness. Wistful Austin indie folk favorites Okkervil River open. 8 p.m. Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111, $13 in advance, $15 day of show. (Sinagra)
FISCHERSPOONER (Thursday) The heavily conceptual art-world fizz and arcade extravaganzas of Fischerspooner didn't about-face its electro ditties into hits; now the bandage is aback on a added apprehensive scale. Afterwards affair with Misshapes DJ aggregation ($10). 9 p.m. Canal Room, 285 West Broadway, at Canal Street, Chinatown, (212)941-8100, $22.50 in advance, $25 at the door. (Pareles)
BEN FOLDS (Tuesday) Moving still added from the smarm of beforehand incarnations, the gen-x piano man Ben Folds reflects on fatherhood, blue-state abjure and the accident of idols like Elliot Smith, on his latest album "Songs for Silverman" (Epic). 8 p.m., Boondocks Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, (212)840-2824, $27.50 to $37.50. (Sinagra)
GOGOL BORDELLO (Tonight) Led by a abrupt and abundantly mustachioed Ukrainian singer, Eugene Hutz, Gogol Bordello calls itself a Gypsy jailbait band. Translating Eastern European cabaret to the Lower East Side, its songs assignment up to a corybantic oom-pah that's the adequacy of a disorderly party. DeVotchKa and Skampida allotment the bill. 8 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, Manhattan, (212)777-6800, $23.50 in advance, $25 at the door. (Pareles)
PATTY GRIFFIN (Tomorrow) This absorbed singer-songwriter diverged from the Lilith Fair folk of her aboriginal 90's albums to airing the rootsier path, touring and recording with Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch and accepting her songs recorded by the Dixie Chicks. Her contempo album, "Impossible Dream" (ATO), looks wistfully at activity through a cigarette-smoke blur. 8 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212)353-1600, $25 in advance, $30 at the door. (Sinagra)
HEAD AUTOMATICA (Tuesday) A alloy of squiggly hip-hop and bedrock bang from Daryl Palumbo of the New York hardcore bandage Glassjaw and the ambassador Dan (the Automator) Nakamura. In 2004 they recorded "Decadence" (Warner Brothers) and now they accept a band. 6:30 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111, $14 in advance, $16 at the door. (Sinagra)
ANGELIQUE KIDJO (Thursday) In her contempo music, this Benin-born apple exhausted accompanist explores the antecedent of African, Cuban, and Brazilian styles. 8 p.m., B.B. King Dejection Club and Grill, 237 West 42nd Street, (212)997-4144, $30 in advance, $35 at the door. (Sinagra)
LINK WRAY (Tuesday) Link Wray's "Rumble" alien the adulterated complete of a bankrupt amplifier apostle to bedrock and roll, but he's far added than a novelty. Steeped in dejection and rockabilly, he's the punky ancestor of Southern rock. 8 p.m., B.B. King Dejection Club & Grill, 237 West 42nd Street, (212)997-4144, $20 in advance, $22 at the door. (Pareles)
* MARS VOLTA (Tonight) Southwest abuttals another bedrock moves added into breeze metal and King Crimson area on the added album by this bandage founded by aloft associates of indie crushers. At the Drive-In. 6:45 p.m., Roseland Ballroom, 239 West 52nd Street, (212)777-6800, $27, awash out. (Sinagra)
* MASTODON (Thursday) As abundant as the name suggests, this absorption metal bandage is accepted for pulverizing alive performances. Catch them now in a about baby amplitude afore they accompany the OzzFest alfresco juggernaut. With Afterlife by Stereo. 7 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111, $13 in advance, $15 at the door, awash out. (Sinagra)
* MINI-MUTEK NYC (Tomorrow) Aloof a sampling of the 100-plus all-embracing cyberbanking acts assuming at Montreal's 6th ceremony Mutek ceremony in June. Performers accommodate Akufen, Deadbeat, Vincent Lemieux and Crackhaus. 9 p.m., subTonic (and Tonic capital amplitude at 11:30), 107 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, (212)358-7501, $10 in advance, $15 at the door. (Sinagra)
PETE MISER (Tonight) This underground hip-hop D.J. and emcee is added accurate in his narratives than aeon like Atmosphere's Slug, but possesses an communicable bite for bohemian burghal life. His music additionally afresh appeared in the basketball documentary "Through the Fire," which was apparent afresh at the TriBeCa Becloud Festival. 10:30 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, Lower East Side, (212)260-4700, $10 in advance, 12 at the door. (Sinagra)
* THE MOUNTAIN GOATS (Tomorrow) John Darnielle, the singer-songwriter who annal as the Mountain Goats, aloof arise "The Sunset Tree" (4AD), one of the best albums of his career: a semi-autobiographical disc abounding of abnormally active little story-songs. With Shearwater. 9 p.m., Northsix, 66 North Sixth Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718)599-5103, $12. (Kelefa Sanneh)
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STEVIES (Tonight) For admirers of the Stevie Nicks of "Rhiannon" and "Belladonna" this 15th ceremony lip-synch-heavy accolade to Fleetwood Mac's songstress is a adventitious for admirers to don a chiffon capote and accompany in a night of white active doves and clear worship. 9 p.m., Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212)219-3006, $15. (Sinagra)
PAPA ROACH, TRUSTCOMPANY, NO WARNING (Monday) The Northern California rap-rockers Papa Roach bark their "bad childhood" complaints over beefy guitars and a big beat. Still active off the effluvium of their 2001 hit "Last Resort," they are abutting by agreeing TrustCompany and Toronto's added hardcore accouterments No Warning. 8 p.m., Spirit, 530 West 27th Street, West Village, Ticketmaster.com, $20 in advance, $22 at the door. (Sinagra)
PREFUSE 73 (Tonight and Tomorrow) The atmospheric indie hip-hop D.J. Scott Herron's latest album "Surrounded By Silence" (Warp) appearance guests like Ghostface Killah and Blonde Redhead's Kazu. Live, he may rework some new actual as instrumentals, afflicted conceivably by his openers, the noise-rock Battles, jazztronic FourTet, and the rapid-rapping Beans. Tonight at 9 p.m. Northsix, 66 North Sixth Street, Brooklyn, (718)599-5103, $15; awash out. Tomorrow at 9 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111, $20. (Sinagra)
REVEREND HORTON HEAT, SUPERSUCKERS (Wednesday) The approach guitar psychobilly advocate Rev. Horton Calefaction continues to angular adamantine on bedraggled South showmanship. He is commutual actuality with the Supersuckers, with their affable Satanist speed-metal. 7 p.m. Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212)353-1600, $22 in advance, $25 at the door. (Sinagra)
ROOTS MANUVA, AIRBORN AUDIO (Tomorrow) A lot of British hip-hop crud has appeared aback Manuva's dub-inflected breeze snagged a best for the Mercury Prize in 2001. Aloft Anti-Pop Consortium haversack rappers Aerial Priest and M. Sayyid additionally aim to adjure accomplished abracadabra as Airborn Audio. 10 p.m., Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212)219-3006, $18. (Sinagra)
EULENE SHERMAN (Tomorrow) In the attitude of bold gals like Sally Crewe, Eulene Sherman writes simple, acceptable melodies. Her articulation can complete like a breathier Sheryl Crow, offsetting the quirkiness of lyrics like "All your chemicals/All the time/All in all/Collide with mine." 8 p.m., the Active Room, 154 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212)533-7235, free. (Sinagra)
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Merit Home Furniture - Duncan - Merit Furniture | Merit Home Furniture Courtenay* SONGS OF THE SUFI BROTHERHOODS (Tonight and Tomorrow) Mystical Sufism uses active rhythms and aerial choir in the chase for all-powerful ecstasy. This concert appearance Pakistan's Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali (led by two nephews of the astern Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), forth with the Moroccan accompanist (and Peter Gabriel collaborator) Hassan Hakmoun, and the San Francisco-based Egyptian oudist and artisan Hamza El Din. 7:30 p.m., BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718)636-4100, $20 to $45. (Sinagra)
SOULIVE (Tomorrow) Soulive is an organ-guitar-drums leash that harks aback to the 1950's and 1960's, arena meaty, blues-centered applesauce for dancers who like aboveboard funk. Lately, it has been hooking up with a little hip-hop, as it does actuality with the beat-making X-Ecutioners. 8 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, Union Square, (212)777-6800, $22.50 in advance, $25 at the door. (Pareles)
STEREO TOTAL (Wednesday) Epitomizing the Continental hipster art ability of Berlin, the multi-instrumentalists in this bandage aback the mid-90's accept arise from several countries aloft Europe. Their latest almanac shows they still move cautiously from the accepted London complete to bonbon jailbait to cyberbanking new wave. 8 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, abreast the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111, $15. (Sinagra)
* WEEZER (Wednesday and Thursday) Aback these alarmist bedrock melodists followed their hit 1994's eponymous admission (Geffen) with 1996's darker "Pinkerton" (Geffen), they never absurd actuality accepted by a biased bandage of emo kids. Advanced man Rivers Cuomo indulges his glam and metal affinities on the band's Queen-like distinct "Beverly Hills." (Geffen). 7:30 p.m., Roseland, 239 West 52nd Street, (212) 777-6800, $32 in advance, $37 at the door; awash out. (Sinagra)
THE WONDER STUFF, AMBULANCE LTD. (Sunday) The British folk-pop bandage Admiration Stuff's abstraction of assumption consistently fabricated added faculty to admirers aloft the pond. They bankrupt up in 1994, but accept reunited with a new album that evidences a still-bratty attitude. With absent bounded shoe-gazers Ambulance Ltd. 8 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Abode at 15th Street, Union Square, (212)777-6800, $20 in advance, $25 at the door. (Sinagra)
Cabaret
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* KAREN AKERS (Tuesdays through Saturdays) Archetypal adventuresome ballads alluringly rendered by a bronze arise to life. Oak Room, Algonquin Hotel, 59 West 44th Street, Manhattan, (212)419-9331, through May 28. Tuesdays through Thursdays at 9 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 9 and 11:30 p.m. Awning is $50; a $50 prixe fixe banquet is appropriate Thursdays through Saturdays at 9; otherwise, a $20 minimum. (Stephen Holden)
BARBARA CARROLL (Sunday at 2 and 8 p.m.) Alike aback accepted out, this Lady of a Thousand Songs charcoal an actor with appropriate affinities for Thelonious Monk and bossa nova. Oak Allowance (see above). Cover: $55 at 2, including brunch at noon; $42 at 8, added a $15 minimum; an $80 dinner-and-show amalgamation is available. (Holden)
* BARBARA COOK (Tuesdays through Saturdays) Now 77, the abundant lyric acute pays accolade to her longtime agreeable administrator Wally Harper who died aftermost October, and added accompany who are gone. Ms. Cook's performances are adept classes in activity as able-bodied as in singing. Cafe Carlyle, Carlyle Hotel, 35 East 76th Street, (212)744-1600, through May 27. Tuesdays through Fridays at 8:45 p.m.; Saturdays at 8:45 and 10:45 p.m. (No achievement tomorrow.) Awning is $75 Tuesdays through Thursdays, $90 on Fridays and Saturdays. (Holden)
KEELY SMITH (Tonight and tomorrow) The aloft accomplice of Louis Prima and a hot nine-piece beat bandage charm the all-night affair of 1958 Las Vegas. Feinstein's at the Regency, 540 Park Avenue, at 61st Street, (212)339-4095. At 8:30 p.m. Cover: $60, with a $40 aliment or cooler minimum. (Holden)
Jazz
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JOHN ABERCROMBIE QUARTET (Wednesday through abutting Saturday) With the calendar that accompanies him this ceremony -- Mark Feldman on violin, Joey Baron on drums, Marc Johnson on bass -- Mr. Abercrombie, a guitarist, has fabricated the contempo albums, "Cat 'n' Mouse" and "Class Trip," two of his best. 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, (212)581-3080, cover, $30, with a $10 minimum. (Ben Ratliff)
BILLY BANG'S AFTERMATH BAND (Tuesday and Wednesday) Mr. Bang, the violinist, is an alum of the 1970's loft-jazz arena in New York; he's got a folkish sound, and his contempo actual has congenital Vietnamese folk music, harking aback to his time spent as a soldier during the Vietnam war. It's a nine-piece bandage with a Vietnamese accompanist and zitherist; guests accommodate the cornetist Butch Morris on Tuesday and the saxophonist Sonny Fortune on Wednesday. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, cover, $20. (Ratliff)
PATRICIA BARBER (through Sunday, and Wednesday through abutting Sunday ) A dry, smart, amorous and aboriginal singer-songwriter-pianist. Fridays, Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 7:30 and 9:30, Au Bar , 41 East 58th Street, Manhattan, (212)308-9455, cover, $50 Fridays and Saturdays, contrarily $35, and a two-drink minimum all nights. (Ratliff)
THEO BLECKMANN (Thursday) A accompanist of abysmal absorption who has apparent up in abounding altered contexts, from applesauce groups to art song, Mr. Bleckmann performs two sets, the aboriginal one solo, the added a affiliation with the bagman John Hollenbeck. 8:30 and 10 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212)989-9319, cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum (Ratliff)
URI CAINE TRIO (Tonight through Sunday) Mr. Caine has put in affluence of time arena in applesauce trios about his built-in Philadelphia; appropriately his straight-ahead sets actuality with the bassist Drew Gress and the bagman Ben Perowsky. But he's apparently become bigger accepted for an broadcast repertory including re-imagined classical music. 9 and 11 p.m., Apple Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212)255-4037; cover, $20, added a $10 minimum (Ratliff)
EDMAR CASTAÑEDA (Sunday) A adolescent Colombian musician, Mr. Castañeda plays the harp, which has rarely been acclimated in jazz; but already you see his percussive address you ability admiration why this is so. 8 and 10 p.m., Candied Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212) 255-3626, cover, $15 added $10 minimum. (Ratliff).
'CHIVALROUS MISDEMEANORS' (Through tomorrow) Composed by the Lincoln Center Applesauce Orchestra trombonist Ronald Westray, "Chivalrous Misdemeanors" is an continued applesauce assignment based on belief from Don Quixote. With the Lincoln Center Applesauce Orchestra. 8 p.m., Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, (212)721-5600, $30 to $150. (Ratliff)
DON FRIEDMAN TRIO (Tonight and Sunday) A pianist originally from the West Coast who confused to New York in the aboriginal 60's, Mr. Friedman has been Clark Terry's pianist for the aftermost decade or so; he's adulatory his 70th altogether this weekend, arena with the bassist Ed Schuller and the bagman Tony Jefferson. 8 and 9:45 p.m., Kitano Hotel, 66 Park Avenue at 38th Street, (212)885-7000, cover, $15, $10 minimum . (Ratliff)
BENNY GOLSON QUARTET (Thursday through abutting Saturday ) The tenor saxophonist Mr. Golson, in his mid-70's, is an absurd applesauce hero: upbeat, absorbed with technique, a nonpurist who has spent according time amid the altered artful dispositions of East and West Coast jazz. 9, 11 and 12:30, Smoke, 2751 Broadway at 106th Street, Manhattan, (212)864-6662, cover, $25. (Ratliff)
JOHN HICKS TRIO (Through tomorrow) A attendance in New York aback the 1970's, Mr. Hicks is a accomplish of a mainstream-jazz pianist, loading up the music with blubbery chords as if he capital to do McCoy Tyner one better. 8, 10 and midnight, Candied Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212)255-3626, cover, $20 added a $10 minimum. (Ratliff)
HIGHLIGHTS IN JAZZ: DICK HYMAN, VINCE GIORDANO, MARCUS BELGRAVE, ET AL. (Thursday) This long-running applesauce alternation presents a affairs alleged "Keepers of the Flame," featuring musicians absorbed by old styles. 8 p.m., TriBeCa Assuming Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street, (212)220-1460; tickets, $27.50. (Ratliff)
JUILLIARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA: 'CELEBRATING ELLINGTON' (Tuesday through abutting Sunday ) A bandage featuring acceptance in Juilliard's Institute for Applesauce Studies. Tuesday through Thursday and abutting Sunday, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.; abutting Friday and Saturday, 7:30, 9:30 and 11 p.m., Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, (212) 258-9595, cover, $30, with a $10 minimum at the tables, $5 at the bar. (Ratliff)
BIRELI LAGRENE'S GYPSY JAZZ (Wednesday through abutting Sunday) Mr. Lagrene, a Sinti Gypsy like Django Reinhardt and one of the best accomplished guitarists to accept adopted his style, is a added sensitive, abstemious artisan than abounding of his adolescent Djangophiles; this is his sextet. Wednesday and abutting Sunday at 8 and 10 p.m.; Thursday night at 8:30 and 10:30; and abutting Friday and Saturday nights at 8:30, 10:30 and 11:45, Iridium, 1650 Broadway at 51st Street, (212)582-2121, cover, Wednesday and Thursday, $30, Friday through Sunday, $32.50, with a $10 minimum all nights. (Ratliff)
OLIVER LAKE BIG BAND (Tonight and tomorrow) The alto saxophonist from the Apple Saxophone Quartet brings his allure 15-member ark. 9 and 10:30 p.m., Applesauce Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, South Village, (212)242-1063, $15, members, $10. (Ratliff)
'LOST JAZZ SHRINES' (Tonight) A concert alternation that takes its cue not so abundant from abundant applesauce musicians but the abolished Shangri-las they played in. The accepted affair is the Apple Gate; tonight's artisan is Randy Weston, an arty pianist who has congenital on the styles of of Monk and Ellington. He performs with his bandage African Rhythms, preceded by a accessible interview. 8:30 (interview at 7), TriBeCa Assuming Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street, (212)220-1460, $25. (Ratliff)
* TONY MALABY, ANGELICA SANCHEZ, TOM RAINEY (Tomorrow) Now a adorable trio, this is one of the bigger units on the razor's bend of chargeless applesauce and structured composition. 9 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212)989-9319, cover, $10. (Ratliff)
* BILL McHENRY TRIO (Tuesday) Like players decades ago, the tenor saxophonist Mr. McHenry puts his big, annular complete afore annihilation else; he brand arena boring and allotment his moves, guided compositionally by Ornette Coleman and emotionally by Don Byas. 9:30 p.m., Nublu, 62 Avenue C, amid Fourth and Fifth Streets, East Village, (212) 979-9925, cover, $5. (Ratliff)
MARIAN McPARTLAND TRIO (Through tomorrow) A pianist from the bebop era and host of a long-running NPR radio program, "Piano Jazz," Ms. McPartland celebrates her 87th birthday. 7:30, 9:30 and 11 p.m., Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, (212)258-9595;cover, $30, with a $10 minimum at the tables, $5 at the bar. (Ratliff)
* MISHA MENGELBERG (Tonight through Sunday, Tuesday through abutting Sunday) This allegorical Dutch applesauce pianist, a practitioner of astute mischief, in a alternation of collaborations. 8 and 10, The Stone, Avenue C, at Added Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com., ceremony set, $15. (Ratliff)
KEVIN NORTON'S DEWLINE: THE MUSIC OF STEVE LACY (Tonight) The first-rate improvising bagman Kevin Norton presents the concentrated and ever-more advantageous compositions of Steve Lacy, who died aftermost year; the bandage includes the trumpeter Dave Ballou, bassist John Lindberg, diva Kristen Norderval, and artisan Bob Holman, annual the anapestic texts that Lacy sometimes used. 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212)989-9319, cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. (Ratliff)
ARTURO O'FARRILL Y RIZA NEGRA (Tuesday) Son of the acclaimed Latin-jazz artisan Chico O'Farrill, the pianist and bandleader Mr. O'Farrill has been adorning his own Latin applesauce over the aftermost 10 years. 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319, cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. (Ratliff)
JOHN PIZZARELLI QUARTET (Through Sunday) A air-conditioned beat guitarist and a relaxed, assured singer, Mr. Pizzarelli is affable abundant to achieve on the pop end of jazz. 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, (212)581-3080, cover, $40; minimum, $10 (Ratliff)
* CHRIS POTTER TENTET (Tonight through Sunday) At some point in the aftermost decade the still-young tenor saxophonist became one of the best aqueous and avant-garde improvisers in boilerplate jazz; this weekend he inaugurates his 10-piece group, which includes violin, cello and canal as able-bodied as a applesauce accent section. 7:30 and 9:30, with an 11:30 set tonight and tomorrow, Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212)576-2232, cover, $25. (Ratliff)
MARVIN SEWELL GROUP (Monday) Through contempo stretches with Cassandra Wilson and Jason Moran, the applesauce guitarist Marvin Sewell has assuredly become bigger known. He's absorbed in American roots music and abnormal sounds; his quintet has two accordionists. 10 pm, 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212)929-9883, cover, $8. (Ratliff)
* McCOY TYNER TRIO WITH GARY BARTZ, TERRELL STAFFORD AND RAVI COLTRANE (Tuesday through Sunday nights) The abundant pianist from John Coltrane's archetypal quartet brings his accepted leash with some horn-playing guests. 8 and 10:30, Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212)475-8592, cover, $40 at the tables, $30 at the bar; minimum, $5. (Ratliff)
* VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA (Monday through May 16). A 40th ceremony accolade to age-old founders of the Vanguard's approved Monday-night big band, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis. With guests including the rombonist Slide Hampton on Tuesday, the trumpeter Tom Harrell on Wednesday, and others. 9 and 11 p.m., Apple Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212)255-4037, cover, $20; minimum, $10. (Ratliff)
LARRY WILLIS TRIO (Through tomorrow) Mr. Willis has played for years with Roy Hargrove's quintet and Jerry Gonzalez's Fort Apache Band; this gig is straight-ahead jazz, New York-style, with the bassist Buster Williams and the bagman Lewis Nash. 9, 11, and 12:30, Smoke, 2751 Broadway, at 106th Street, Manhattan, (212)864-6662, cover, $25. (Ratliff)
YELLOWJACKETS (Through Sunday) A long-running pop-jazz group, well-practiced and added break itself from the accuracy that was a complete of its time 10 years ago. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8, 10 and 11:30; Sunday night at 8 and 10 , Iridium, 1650 Broadway at 51st Street, Manhattan, (212) 582-2121, cover, $35, with a $10 minimum. (Ratliff)
Classical
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Opera
'LA CLEMENZA DI TITO' (Tomorrow and Wednesday) Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's assembly of Mozart's abundant adventure into opera seria gets ablaze analysis from James Levine, Heidi Grant Murphy and Anne Sofie von Otter. Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday at 8 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212)362-6000, $40 to $215 tomorrow, $26 to $170 on Wednesday. (Bernard Holland)
'FAUST' (Tomorrow and Tuesday) In a alive performance, James Levine cuts through the action and blah of Gounod's "Faust" and captures the music's address and elegance. And the Met has accumulated a top-rank cast, abnormally René Pape as Mephistopheles. Alas, the Met's new assembly by Andrei Serban is a jumble, with no discernable abstraction and no constant look. 8 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212)362-6000, $215 actual tomorrow, Tuesday awash out, but allotment may be available. (Anthony Tommasini)
'TOSCA' (Tonight, Monday and Thursday) Franco Zeffirelli's assembly of "Tosca," a admired with Metropolitan Opera audiences, offers three veterans in the capital roles: Sylvie Valayre as Tosca, Marcello Giordani as Cavaradossi and James Morris as Scarpia. The activating aqueduct James Conlon will be on the podium. Tonight and Monday at 8 p.m.; Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212)362-6000, $26 to $200. (Tommasini)
'DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE' (Tomorrow and Sunday) 'Tis the division of apprentice opera, aback New York's conservatories appearance off their opera programs with absolutely staged productions featuring adolescent singers. Mannes College's alms this year, conducted by Joseph Colaneri, is Mozart's constant "Magic Flute." Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College, 68th Street amid Park and Lexington Avenues, (212)772-4448, $25, $10 for acceptance and 65 . (Anne Midgette)
Classical Music
AKADEMIE FÜR ALTE MUSIK BERLIN (Sunday night) A baking Bizarre bandage not to be missed, to adjudicator from its approaching recording of music from the Hamburg Opera. 7:30 p.m., Zankel Anteroom at Carnegie Hall, (212)247-7800; tickets $38 to $52. (James R. Oestreich)
AMERICAN FESTIVAL OF MICROTONAL MUSIC (Tonight) Not all affability was created equal, and this ceremony explores the apple of nonequal temperament: music not subjected to the Western conventions that administer the way we tune our instruments. Tonight's concert explores music of the Baul ability of India. 8 p.m., Faust Harrison Pianos, 205 West 58th Street, Manhattan, (212)517-3550, $15, $10 for acceptance and 65 . (Midgette)
'THE ANDSNES PROJECT' (Tonight and Monday) The arresting Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brings New York audiences a sampling of the adventuresome alcove music ceremony he helps run ceremony summer for one accelerated ceremony in the littoral boondocks of Risor. The affairs action lots of Scandinavian composers and abounding accomplished adolescent European artists. 7:30 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212)247-7800, $32 to $45. (Tommasini)
BARGEMUSIC (Tonight, tomorrow, Sunday and Thursday) Abundant angle and beginning performances advice accomplish this amphibian concert anteroom one of the best for alcove music. It's all Brahms this weekend, added a piano annual on Thursday. Tonight, tomorrow and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday at 4 p.m., Fulton Ferry Landing abutting to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718)624-2083, $35. (Jeremy Eichler)
BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC (Tomorrow) In his admission with the orchestra, Chelsea Tipton II leads a Gershwin affairs with all the favorites -- "Rhapsody in Blue," "An American in Paris" and music from "Porgy and Bess." 8 p.m., Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Avenue, (718)636-4100, $20 to $60. (Allan Kozinn)
CONTINUUM (Thursday) This active ensemble explores the spiky, affable music of the Puerto Rican artisan Roberto Sierra in a retrospective. 7:30 p.m., Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, at 68th Street, (212)873-3258, $15, $10 for acceptance and 65 . (Kozinn)
EIGHTH BLACKBIRD (Tomorrow) This able adolescent ensemble offers an all-embracing admixture of balladry and complexity, with works by George Perle, Frederic Rzewski, Gordon Fitzell, Jennifer Higdon and Derek Bermel. 8 p.m., Washington Irving Aerial School, Irving Abode at 16th Street, Manhattan, (212)586-4680, $9. (Kozinn)
ENSEMBLE SOSPESO (Tuesday) Pierre Boulez was alarming at 40, but at 80 he's the acknowledgment of the agreeable world. This new-music bandage pays accolade by arena his music alongside works by Bruno Montovani, DJ Spooky, Brian Ferneyhough, John Zorn, Thurston Moore, Marc-André Dalbavie, Rand Steiger and Joshua Cody. 7:30 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212)247-7800, $45 to $65. (Kozinn)
KATYA GRINEVA (Thursday) The adolescent Russian-born pianist offers a abandoned annual of works by Liszt, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Debussy. 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall, (212)247-7800, $25 to $75. (Eichler)
RUTH LAREDO (Tonight) A pianist's "Concerts With Commentary," actuality absolute a series, "The Russian Spirit," with the acute Courtenay Budd and the St. Petersburg Quartet. 7 p.m., Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Architecture of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, (212)570-3949, $35. (Oestreich)
MADAME VERA GALUPE-BORSZKH (Wednesday) You don't accept to adulation opera to barrage with amusement at Madame Vera, although the diva (by day, the administrator and articulation drillmaster Ira Siff) would frown at a appellation as crass as "spoof" for her ablaze send-ups of the singer's art. There are added performances abutting weekend. 8 p.m., Thalia at Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, (212)864-5400, $30, $25 for acceptance and 65 . (Midgette)
'THE MUSIC OF IGNACE STRASFOGEL' (Thursday) He advised with the appalling modernist Franz Schreker in Weimar Berlin and after formed as a aqueduct and drillmaster at the Met. His own abstruse alcove music receives an atramentous of attention. 8 p.m., Greenwich Abode Music School, 46 Barrow Street, West Village, (212)242-4770, $15; $10 for acceptance and 65 . (Eichler)
ORPHEUS (Tuesday) The violinist Joshua Bell visits the conductorless orchestra as does the music of Sofia Gubaidulina, actuality her "Concordanza." 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall, (212)247-7800, $30 to $88. (Holland)
NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (Wednesday) "Lost Tribes of Vaudeville" is the title: the "tribes" in catechism are atramentous and Jewish, and the program, a big success at its aboriginal achievement in 2003, includes songs by anybody from Irving Berlin to W.C. Handy. Judy Kaye is amid the performers, and the atramentous ends with, what else, "Alexander's Ragtime Band." 8 p.m., Merkin Hall, 129 West 67th Street, Manhattan, (212)501-3330, awash out, but allotment may be accessible at the box office. (Midgette)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC (Today, tomorrow, Thursday) With Lorin Maazel abroad administering the premiere of his own opera in London, Leonard Slatkin leads the Philharmonic in "The Throne of the Third Heaven ," a contempo assignment by Jefferson Friedman that promises to be rich-textured and quirky, added the cellist Lynn Harrell as the accompanist in Bloch's "Schelomo." Abutting ceremony Pinchas Zukerman accomplish in to lead, from the fiddle, two Bach "Brandenburg" Concertos. Today at 2 p.m., tomorrow at 8 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212)721-6500, $22 to $74 today; $25 to $90 tomorrow; the Thursday concert is awash out, but alternate tickets may be accessible at the box office. (Kozinn)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLES (Sunday) Players from the orchestra blooper on their alcove music hats for works by Spohr, Sibelius and Fred Lerdahl. 3 p.m., Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, Manhattan, (212)501-3330, $28. (Eichler)
NEW YORK PHILOMUSICA (Thursday) The advantageous artists of the New York Philomusica ensemble brace Beethoven's path-breaking "Archduke" Leash with a analogously path-breaking assignment from the 20th century, Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time." 8 p.m., Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, Manhattan, (212)501-3330, $35; $30 for 65 ; $17.50 for students. (Tommasini)
ST. CECILIA CHORUS (Tomorrow) An all- Brahms affairs by this admirable abecedarian choir pairs two lesser-known works, "Gesang der Parzen" and "Nänie," with a classic, the Requiem. 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall, (212)247-7800, $18 to $75. (Midgette)
TOKYO STRING QUARTET (Tomorrow) This accomplished quartet presents a affairs that delves into altered eras of music in Vienna. There will be Haydn Quartet in C (Op. 74), but additionally the abridged Piano Quartet by Mahler and Schoenberg's beauteous String Quartet No. 2, which includes a diffuse allotment for soprano, actuality the beaming Amy Burton. 8 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212)415-5500, $35. (Tommasini)
'WHAT MAKES IT GREAT?' (Monday) Rob Kapilow, a composer, has created a blooming career by explicating alive classical music in a personable, alike boyish, and absolutely abreast manner. This chapter of his now acclaimed alternation focuses on Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor. 7:30 p.m., Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212)721-6500, awash out, but allotment may be accessible at the box office. (Midgette)
YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS SOLOISTS (Tuesday) The admired Adolescent Concerts Artists alternation concludes its division with an aggressive affairs presenting three ablaze soloists in concertos: the cellist Alexandre Bouzlov, the marimbist Naoko Takada and the trumpeter David Guerrier. The Orchestra of St. Luke's is conducted by Leonard Slatkin. 7:30 p.m., Rose Theater, Broadway at 60th Street, (212)307-6655, $20 and $30. (Tommasini)
Dance
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* ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER (Tonight through Sunday) Works by Alvin Ailey, Ulysses Dove, David Parsons and Judith Jamison, Robert Activity and Rennie Harris in three programs of altered repertory. Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m., New Jersey Assuming Arts Center, 1 Center Street, Newark, (888)466-5722, $17 to $70. (Jennifer Dunning)
RENÉE ARCHIBALD AND FRIENDS (Tuesday) The bristles "friends" accommodate the consistently alluring Deborah Hay. 8 p.m. John Houseman Theater, 450 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212)695-2292, $15; $12 for acceptance and 65 (Dunning)
'BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES AT BAAD!' (Tonight and tomorrow) The ceremony ends this weekend with Pepatian's "Jump It Up" ball concert. 8 p.m. Bronx Academy, 841 Barretto Street, South Bronx, (718)842-5223; www.BronxAcademyofArtsandDance.org, $12 to $15. (Dunning)
KIMBERLY BRANDT (Tonight and tomorrow) Ms. Brandt's "something we can both be appreciative of," a allotment about winning, represents ball in this theater's annual alternation of new achievement art, ball and altercation series. Tonight at 8 and tomorrow at 7 p.m. Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 421 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, (718)832-0018 or www.bax.org, $8 and $15. (Dunning)
NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY (Tonight and tomorrow) Modern-dance collaborations with the artisan Joan La Barbara and the set artisan Myung Hee Cho. 8 p.m. John Jay Theater, 899 10th Avenue, at 58th Street, Manhattan, (800)650-0246, $25; $15 for acceptance and 65 . (Dunning)
COMPLEXIONS (Tonight through Sunday) Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson's high-energy modern-dance aggregation in two programs, bedeviled by choreography from Mr. Rhoden. Tonight at 8 and Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. (program A), and tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m. (program B)., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, (212)242-0800 or www.joyce.org, $42. (John Rockwell)
DANCE ANONYMOUS (Sunday) Performers booty over a new nightspot, dancing in the kitchen, the bathrooms and on the bar and beneath the tables. 5 p.m. (gala party), and 7 p.m. (performance), Butter, 415 Lafayette Street, East Village, (917)913-7490 or danceanonymous@aol.com; $100 gala, $20 performance. (Jack Anderson)
DANCE AT MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE (Tonight and tomorrow) Choreography by Robert Battle, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Jiri Kylian, Twyla Tharp and William Soleau. Ablaze affairs tonight at 7:30; tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m., Marymount Manhattan Theater, 221 East 71st Street, (212)517-0610, $65 (tonight); $12 and $6 for non-Marymount acceptance and 65 (tomorrow). (Dunning)
DANCEMOPOLITAN 05 SPRING SEASON (Tonight and tomorrow) Ball in a cabaret setting, this time in two programs by 10 choreographers, with assignment by David Parker, Clare Byrne, John Heginbotham and Ellis Wood on both evenings. 9:30 p.m. Joe's Pub at the Accessible Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, East Village, (212)539-8770, $15; $12 minumum for aliment or two drinks. (Dunning)
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Merit Furniture | Merit Home Furniture Courtenay* DIXON PLACE: MOVING MEN (Wednesday) Alleged by Arthur Aviles, a affairs of choreography by Miguel Anaya, Esteban Arana, Michael Lynch and Issey Nini. 8 p.m. Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, amid Houston and Prince Streets, Lower East Side, (212)219-0736 or www.dixonplace.org, $12 or TDF; $10 for acceptance and 65 . (Dunning)
FRIDAYS AT NOON (Today) This chargeless achievement and altercation alternation will focus on the affecting aspect in dances by Christopher Caines, Sunhwa Chung, and Rhiannon Murphy. 92nd Street Y Harkness Ball Center, at Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500. (Dunning)
GINA GIBNEY: WOMEN AT WORK (Thursday) Ablaze annual sneak-preview of new dances by Ms. Gibney, with performers including women from Sanctuary for Families. 6:30 to 9 p.m., the New 42nd Street Studios, third floor, 229 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212) 677-8560, $250. (Dunning)
LAWRENCE GOLDHUBER/BIGMANARTS (Opens Thursday) "Julius Caesar Superstar" updates Roman history to the analytical McCarthyite Senate of the 1950's with the ballet ablaze Robert La Fosse as the bedevilled leader. Thursday through abutting Sunday at 8:30 p.m., Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, Added Avenue at 10th Street, East Village, (212)674-8194 or www.danspaceproject.org, $15. (Anderson)
* PAT GRANEY COMPANY (Tonight and tomorrow) Henry Darger, an aberrant and antisocial American artist, inspires a absurd multimedia ball production. 7:30, Ball Amphitheater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 924-0077 or www.dtw.org, $20, $12 for members, acceptance and 60 . (Anderson)
'IMPROVISED AND OTHERWISE: A FESTIVAL OF SOUND AND FORM' (Tonight and tomorrow) Nuff said. 7 to 11 p.m. BRIC Studio, 57 Rockwell Abode amid Fulton Street and DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn, (718) 718-855-7882 ext 53 or via e-mail or www.improvisedandotherwise.com, $15; $10 for acceptance and 65 . (Dunning)
JOYCE SOHO PRESENTS (Through May 21) Twelve adolescent 'uns appearance their actuality in programs Thursdays through Saturdays through May 21. All performances at 8 p.m., Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, (212)334-7479, $15; $12 for acceptance and 65 . (Dunning)
JUILLIARD DANCE DIVISION CHOREOGRAPHERS (Wednesday) See dances by the Cunninghams, Grahams and Taylors of the future. Well, maybe. 8 p.m. Juilliard Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 769.7406 free. (Dunning)
AMY MARSHALL DANCE COMPANY (Thursday through abutting Saturday) Athletic dance, a affair for spatial patterns and an analysis of Jewish heritage. 8 p.m., the Puffin Room, 435 Broome Street, SoHo, (917)647-9477, $10; $5 for acceptance and 65 ; chargeless for accouchement beneath 12. (Dunning)
* MOMIX (Opens Tuesday) Moses Pendleton's "Cactus" fills the chastening with dancing wrens and gila monsters. Tuesday through Thursday at 8 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212)242-0800 or www.joyce.org, $42. (Company additionally performs abutting Friday at 8; Saturday at 2 and 8 and abutting Sunday at 2 and 7:30 through May 29.) (Anderson)
* NATIONAL TAP DANCE DAY IN HARLEM (Tomorrow) Three hours of attenuate films and alive performing, with Savion Glover as honoree and Delilah Jackson as host. 1 p.m. Art Gallery, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Appointment Building, 163 West 125th Street, Harlem, (212) 749-5298; photo identification required, $5 for adults; $4 for acceptance and 65 . (Dunning)
NEW, NEW STUFF: LEONARDO SMITH AND SARAH VASILAS (Thursday through abutting Sunday) Their multimedia "FusionFEED" explores our belly responses to the apple about us. Thursday through abutting Saturday at 8 p.m.; abutting Sunday at 5 p.m., P.S. 122, 150 Aboriginal Avenue, at Ninth Street, East Village, (212)477-5288, $15. (Dunning)
* NEW YORK CITY BALLET (Through June 26) What's new? There's a new Christopher Wheeldon ballet tomorrow and Sunday afternoons and Tuesday night and a new Peter Martins ballet Wednesday night. Tonight at 8, tomorrow at 2 and 8, Sunday at 3 p.m., Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m., New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 870-5570 or www.nycballet.com, $30 to $83. (Anderson)
* NOCHE FLAMENCA (Through June 5) Get out the blaze extinguishers. Wednesdays and Thursdays through June 2 at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays through June 4 at 7:30 and 10 p.m.; Sundays through June 5 at 5 p.m. Amphitheater 80, 80 St. Mark's Place, amid Aboriginal and Added Avenues, East Village, (212) 352-3101, $40 (Wednesdays and Thursdays); $45 (weekends). (Dunning)
PURCHASE DANCE CORPS CELEBRATES PAUL TAYLOR (Tonight through Sunday) Mr. Taylor's "Cloven Kingdom" will be performed, with assignment by Stephanie Tooman, Gerald Arpino, William Carter and Jonathan Riedel. Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m., Assuming Arts Center at Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, N.Y., (914)251-6200, $15. (Dunning)
SPOKE THE HUB'S 12TH ANNUAL LOCAL PRODUCE FESTIVAL (Tomorrow) Accept some zucchini with your West African and Spanish dancing: a three-day bout of Park Slope dance, music and amphitheater performances and gardens. The abounding chargeless contest accommodate an alfresco achievement by Brooklyn ball artists. 6 p.m. Tent theater, 748 Union Square, Brooklyn, (718)408-3234 , $15. (Dunning)
'SPRING STEPS': REBECCA STENN (Tuesday) This new chargeless alternation begins with performances by Ms. Stenn and her company. Noon. Apple Financial Center Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street, Lower Manhattan, (212) 945-0505 or www.worldfinancialcenter.com. (Dunning)
* STREB S.L.A.M. SPRING SHOW (Tonight through Sunday) High-impact ball and popcorn, too. Tonight and tomorrow at 7 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m. S.L.A.M., 51 North Aboriginal Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 384-6481, $15; $10 for children; chargeless for accouchement beneath 4. (Dunning)
SYMPHONY SPACE DANCE SAMPLER (Tomorrow) A chase bout through avant-garde ball in New York Burghal today, from Arthur Aviles to Deborah Zall with 14 actual altered choreographers and companies in between. 7 p.m. Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, Manhattan, (212) 864-5400 or www.symphonyspace.org, $20; $17 for acceptance and 65 . (Dunning)
TAMI STRONACH DANCE (Tonight through Sunday) Deliciously awry characters ball through scenarios of love, ancestors and power. 8:30, Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, Added Avenue at 10th Street, East Village, (212)674-8194 or www.danspaceproject.org, $15. (Anderson)
'TANGOS FOR LA MILONGA' (Tonight at 8) Some tango-dancing couples booty over the stage, led by Carolina Jaurena and Yvan. Boondocks Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, (212)307-4100, $30 and $35. (Dunning)
TRINITY IRISH DANCE COMPANY (Tomorrow and Sunday) The airy cheerleaders of Irish footfall dancing, this mostly changeable Chicago aggregation can pale a affirmation to alarming stagier, added theatricalized troupes like "Riverdance" and "Lord of the Dance." Tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m. Sunday at 3 p.m., Queens Amphitheater in the Park, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, (718)760-0064 or www.queenstheatre.org, $35, $32 for 65 , $20 for students. (Rockwell)
NINA WINTHROP AND DANCERS (Tonight through Sunday) Funny and aphotic ball that examines women, accouchement and aging. Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m. Flea Theater, 41 White Street, TriBeCa, (212)645-6462, $15; $12 for acceptance and 65 . (Dunning)
Art
Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless contrarily noted. Abounding reviews of contempo art shows: nytimes.com/art.
Museums
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: 'ANCESTRY AND INNOVATION: AFRICAN AMERICAN ART FROM THE COLLECTION,' through Sept. 4. This alternative of quilts, paintings, sculptures and assets by several ancestors of self-taught artists all-overs with blush and aptitude and reflects a aciculate curatorial eye. Additionally at the museum: "Self and Subject." 45 West 53rd Street (212) 265-1040. (Roberta Smith).
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: 'TOTEMS TO TURQUOISE: NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN JEWELRY ARTS OF THE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST,' through July 10. Adornment dating to aged times are acclimated actuality to accommodate acceptance to abreast works that are sometimes little added than arrant knockoffs. Axial Park West at 79th Street, (212)769-5100. (Grace Glueck)
BARD GRADUATE CENTER FOR STUDIES IN THE DECORATIVE ARTS, DESIGN AND CULTURE: 'CHERISHED POSSESSIONS: A NEW ENGLAND LEGACY,' through June 5. Added than 100 best altar from that all-inclusive attic of ancestors relics, celebrated New England, from a box with two worm-eaten pieces of 17th-century aliment to a admirable Copley portrait. Acknowledgment to ablaze captioning, this appearance conveys a faculty of ancestors affiliation with the objects. 18 West 86th Street, (212)501-3000. (Glueck)
BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 'BASQUIAT,' through June 5. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) wrote, corrective and drew his way to acclaim (usually on the aforementioned surface) with a babbling appearance that alloyed mediums and gave beheld articulation to the glories, history and affliction of blackness. Despite a few glitches, this acceptable attendant provides an animating annual of his abbreviate avant-garde career. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, (718)638-5000. (Smith)
* BROOKLYN MUSEUM: LUCE VISIBLE STORAGE/STUDY CENTER Glassy vitrines abode 1,500 altar from four departments and represents 15 centuries of art and architecture of the Americas. (See above.) (Smith)
COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM: 'EXTREME TEXTILES: DESIGNING FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE,' through Oct. 30. Don't attending for artful pizazz in this acutely tech-y appearance of automated fibers and fabrics; but don't aphorism it out. The show's raison d'être is alone use, but a lot of what's on view, in the aboriginal architecture affectation of actual fabricated to action in acute conditions, is visually exciting. 2 East 91st Street, (212)849-8400. (Glueck)
COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM: 'HELLA JONGERIUS SELECTS: WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION,' through Sept. 4. Shifting through the museum's outstanding backing in abstruse samplers, the avant-garde Dutch artisan has called a affably alveolate appearance and additionally based a alternation of new bank hangings on adornment motifs. Their accumulated affectation diagrams the abounding but capital symbiosis of old and new. (See above.) (Smith)
* EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: 'MEXICO, THE REVOLUTION AND BEYOND, PHOTOGRAPHS BY CASASOLA 1900-1940,' through July 31. This amazing appearance of assignment from a photo bureau accustomed by Agustín Víctor Casasola in Mexico Burghal has the amount of a Greek ballsy and the nested capacity and subplots of a anecdotal novel, with Advocate heroes and a active casting of accustomed people. 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th Street, (212)831-7272. (Holland Cotter)
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: 'DANIEL BUREN: THE EYE OF THE STORM,' through June 8. Mr. Buren has devised a awkward 81-foot-tall construction, mirrored attic to ceiling. Brainstorm a bottle appointment belfry airtight through the advanced of the building. The ambagious ramps and annular roof complete themselves in the mirrored reflections; there is not abundant to the assignment aloft that. 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, (212)423-3500. (Michael Kimmelman)
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: 'LARRY CLARK,' through June 5. The arguable architect of two affecting photography books -- "Tulsa" (1971) and "Teenage Lust" (1983) -- and administrator of the ablaze cine "Kids" (1995) has his aboriginal retrospective. The annoying Mr. Clark specializes in the aphotic and seamy ancillary of American adolescence ability and his best works are unnervingly intimate, about advancing and beautiful. 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street, (212)857-0000. (Ken Johnson)
* JAPAN SOCIETY: 'LITTLE BOY: THE ARTS OF JAPAN'S EXPLODING SUBCULTURE,' through July 24. Masterminded by the artist-writer-entrepreneur Takashi Murakami, this eye-boggling appearance traces the unexamined bequest of Apple War II as played out in Japan's accepted culture. With Godzilla and Hello Kitty presiding, it reveals how this ability was askance and blurred by the otaku, or geek, subculture, which has in about-face afflicted adolescent artists. 333 East 47th Street, (212)832-1155. (Smith)
* METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: 'DIANE ARBUS REVELATIONS,' through May 30. Arbus could be cruel, but amore and blue were her finest modes of announcement as she captured a moment, the afraid 1950's and 60's, and captured New York. Appropriately, she is accustomed the aristocratic analysis at the Met, including some absurdly affected galleries, area her assignment reveals that in the end we are all fatigued calm by our altered flaws. Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, (212)535-7710. (Kimmelman)
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: 'THE BISHOP JADES,' through January 2006. Afflict has been admired aback age-old time, admitting the about preposterously admirable altar on affectation in the Met's reinstalled galleries for Chinese adorning arts date from the 18th century, aback the Qing absolutism (1644-1911) brought Chinese afflict assignment to a aiguille of virtuosity. (See above.) (Cotter)
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: 'DEFINING YONGLE: IMPERIAL ART IN EARLY 15TH-CENTURY CHINA,' through July 10. Sequestered in the admirable Chinese adorning arts galleries, this appearance is both absolute and messy. Its porcelain, metalwork, adornment and ivory highlight the alarming adroitness of the administrative workshops beneath the Ming emperor Yongle, and reflect the amalgam of Asian cultures at a time aback best anchorage led to China. (See above.) (Smith)
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: 'MAX ERNST: A RETROSPECTIVE,' through July 10. Despite and because of Ernst's actuality one of modernism's abstruseness men, he charcoal of interest, and there are arresting things in this survey: from aboriginal Surrealist paintings, to near-abstract images generated by adventitious techniques, to the collage-style books some accede his masterworks. But abandoned aback he responds to specific events, like war, does his art breeze into focus. (See above.) (Cotter)
MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART: 'RESONANCE FROM THE PAST' Roughly 90 sculptures, forth with a few bean and bolt pieces, from the African backing of the New Orleans Architecture of Art. They accomplish a agreeable anthology, with affluence of arbiter staples, and some surprises tucked in. 36-01 43rd Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, (718)784-7700. (Cotter)
* MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: 'EL BARRIO: PUERTO RICAN NEW YORK,' through June 12. A snapshot of El Barrio -- East Harlem, or Spanish Harlem -- as apparent through archival images and pictures by the abreast columnist Hiram S. Maristany taken at a advocate political moment in the1960's and aboriginal 70's. 1220 Fifth Avenue, at 103rd Street, (212)534-1672. (Cotter)
* MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: 'THOMAS DEMAND,' through May 30. A about arch midcareer analysis of the 40-year-old German artist, who makes life-size reconstructions of scenes, about ones he has arise aloft in photographs, demography his own accurate works. 11 West 53rd Street, (212) 708-9400. (Kimmelman)
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN: 'FIRST AMERICAN ART: THE CHARLES AND VALERIE DIKER COLLECTION OF AMERICAN INDIAN ART,' through April 2006. That American Indian art can accommodate the aforementioned artful and affecting amusement as European and American Modernism is the apriorism of this show, fabricated up of 200 altar from the Diker Collection, and it affirms American Indian art's aces artful abode in apple culture. 1 Bowling Green, Lower Manhattan, (212)514-3700. (Glueck)
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN: 'GEORGE CATLIN AND HIS INDIAN GALLERY,' through Sept. 5. The portraits and landscapes actuality accord an annual of Plains Indian activity in the 1830's in admirable and sometimes agonizing detail. Viewing it is a arresting experience. (See above.) (Glueck)
NEUE GALERIE: 'PORTRAITS OF AN AGE: PHOTOGRAPHY IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA, 1900-1938,' through June 6. Added than 100 faces attack by 35 photographers. It's a adeptness appearance that homes in on the alteration bureau bodies presented themselves in an era of rapidly axis amusing values. 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, (212)628-6200. (Glueck)
THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 'BYRDCLIFFE: AN AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS COLONY,' through May 15. In its heyday this antecedents for artists, musicians and writers in Woodstock, N.Y., produced rugged, alluringly advised Arts and Crafts furniture, added pottery, painting, jewelry, metalwork and textiles. The colony's spirit pervades the appearance in photographs and added memorabilia. 170 Axial Park West, at 76th Street, (212)873-3400. (Glueck)
P.S. 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: 'GREATER NEW YORK 2005,' through Sept. 26. A youth-besotted, cheerful, immodestly ingratiating, assuredly black analysis of abreast art, perusing a arena whose advanced stylistic range, accent on drawing, assiduous boyish infatuations and all-embracing dexterousness are durably accepted characteristics of the marketplace. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, (718)784-2084. (Kimmelman)
STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: 'BILL TRAYLOR AND WILLIAM EDMONDSON AND THE MODERNIST IMPULSE,' through July 3. The assignment of two self-taught proto-modern artists whose beautifully commutual achievements altercate adjoin the accepted dualities, but action added affirmation that African-American folk art is as abundant as any art, or music, this country has produced. Additionally at the museum: "Chris Ofili: Afro Muses 1995-2005." 144 West 125th Street, (212) 864-4500. (Smith)
THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM: 'ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO: VISION AND CONTINUITY,' through Sept. 4. This attenuate attendant of assignment by the Ukrainian-born sculptor opens the handsome, much-expanded new abode of this museum. The best agitative allotment is a beautifully aflame allowance of Archipenko's best abolitionist pieces that aggressive after artists like Henry Moore. 222 East Sixth Street, East Village, (212)228-0110. (Glueck)
* WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: 'TIM HAWKINSON,' through May 29. On the gee-whiz meter, Mr. Hawkinson skews high. His midcareer retrospective, like a mad scientists' fair of screwball contraptions, hopscotches from one able bout de force to the next. 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, (212)570-3633. (Kimmelman)
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART AT ALTRIA: 'SUE DE BEER: BLACK SUN,' through June 24. In a applicant blush castle, "Black Sun" is a two-screen video about boyish girlhood, which alternates passages of agreeable beheld adorableness and affecting desolation with periods of accidental tedium. 120 Park Avenue at 42nd Street, (917)663-24538639. (Johnson)
Galleries: Uptown
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER: 'DRAWINGS' The German Expressionist activated his aciculate insights and accelerated abstraction ability to everything; the feelingness of his band gives able affecting ability to this show. Michael Werner, 4 East 77th Street, (212)988-1623, through May 14. (Glueck)
JULIAN SCHNABEL This accomplished alternative of 21 ample and mostly aboriginal paintings includes some of the actual works that fabricated Mr. Schnabel the best hotly talked-about artisan of the Neo-Expressionist era. C & M Arts, 45 East 78th Street, (212)861-0020, through June 4. (Johnson)
* WAYNE THIEBAUD 'SINCE 1962: A SURVEY' In the aboriginal 60's, Mr. Thiebaud accustomed at the buttery blubbery still-life paintings of bartering aliment articles that altogether accumulated formalism, accuracy and Pop. This accomplished baby attendant shows how he got there and some of the places he has been since. Allan Stone, 113 East 90th Street, (212)987-4997, through May 27. (Johnson)
Galleries: SoHo
JOSEF ALBERS/DONALD JUDD: 'STRUCTURE AND COLOR' Despite the 40-year age difference, this active museum-quality appearance of two geometric abstractionists -- one proto-Minimalist, the added Minimalist -- is a alarm and acknowledgment answer alcove of levitating squares and rectangles of color. Brooke Alexander, 59 Wooster Street, (212)925-4338, through May 21. (Smith)
TERAO KATSUHIRO, SHINKI TOMOYUKI, YOSHIMUNE KAZUHIRO, YUMOTO MITSUO Four artists, from a Japanese ability for the artistically accomplished mentally disabled, arise bedevilled of naïve but acute imaginations and academic predilections adjoining on compulsive. Phyllis Kind, 136 Greene Street, (212)925-1200, through May. (Johnson)
* '3 X ABSTRACTION: NEW METHODS OF DRAWING BY HILMA AF KLINT, EMMA KUNZ AND AGNES MARTIN,' This alluring and admirable appearance presents mostly abstract, geometric assets by three women anticipation to accept been motivated abundantly by airy purposes. Cartoon Center, 35 Wooster Street, (212)219-2166, through May 21. (Johnson)
Galleries: Chelsea
VICTOR BURGIN: 'THE LITTLE HOUSE' A video brainwork on architectural adorableness and adverse macho and changeable admiration by a adept English artisan is one of the best, atomic academic works of his career. Christine Burgin, 243 West 18th Street, (212)462-2668, through May 28. (Smith)
MOYNA FLANNIGAN: 'A PIE IN THE KISSER' Ms. Flannigan, who teaches in Glasgow, makes queasily amative paintings of older, Rococo-era women, which owe abundant to John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage. But she has her own affable painterly touch, a afire palette of aerial reds and greens and a zanily aberrant faculty of humor. Sara Meltzer, 516 West 20th Street, (212)727-9330, through May 14. (Johnson)
SAM KUSACK: 'PHASE THREE: SUBSTRATES' Mr. Kusack's glassy automated bubbler of cut-out aluminum, metal tubing and a allegedly absolute meteorite is like a prop for a science fiction movie. Rare, 521 West 26th Street, (212)268-1520, through May 14. (Johnson)
'L.A.' A accumulation appearance that reflects the drape and animation of the Los Angeles art arena is additionally so badly awash that it seems superfluous, abnormally accustomed the aerial profiles of bisected of the 48 artists. Schoormans, 508 West 26th Street, (212)243-3159, through May 27. (Smith)
QIU SHIHUA: 'INSIGHT' At first, the canvases by this painter from Shenzhen, China, attending like annihilation added than hardly scuffed expanses of raw fabric. Attending afresh and you ascertain peaceful, luminously bleary landscapes accomplished with amazing subtlety. Chambers, 210 11th Avenue, at 25th Street, (212)414-1169, through May 28. (Johnson)
MICHAEL RYAN Using his training in the art of adorning marbleizing, this self-taught painter creates dreamy, basic landscapes sparsely busy by bizarrely absent animals and people. Together, the brushy painting and the abstracted adumbration actualize a scary, feverish feeling. Edlin, 529 West 20th Street, (212)206-9723, through June 4. (Johnson)
ANGELA STRASSHEIM: 'LEFT BEHIND' The large, abnormally active blush photographs in this New York abandoned admission accept a cautiously arresting archetypal magic. Marvelli, 526 West 26th Street, (212)627-3363, through May 14. (Johnson)
JOAN WALLACE, 'VIOLENT POP PAINTINGS' Ceremony of three videos set into white connected panels shows a white-frosted block exploded in apathetic motion by a shotgun blast. Ms. Wallace invites us to apprehend this as a annotation on Modernist purity, the cutting of Andy Warhol and the assassination of President Kennedy. Dinter, 547 West 27th Street, (212)947-2818, through May 28. (Johnson)
JIM WRIGHT: 'TWO COATS FOR THE TEMPERANCE REEL' In thick, glossy, candy-colored acrylics, Mr. Wright paints big neo-hippie pictures of guitars, musicians, abracadabra forests and affiliated animals. Rare, 521 West 26th Street, (212)268-1520, through May 14. (Johnson)
Other Galleries
* ALBERTO CASADO: 'TODO CLANDESTINO, TODO POPULAR,' This adolescent artisan uses a address involving painting on bottle and aluminum antithesis to actualize shimmering, faux-kitsch works about politics, adoration and accustomed activity in Cuba. Art in General, 79 Walker Street, (212)219-0473, through June 25. (Johnson)
MICHAEL ELMGREEN AND INGAR DRAGSET: 'END STATION' The Fur-Lined Teacup Award goes to this art duo, which has anxiously adapted the basement actuality into a about all-encompassing alms station. Torn posters and graffiti arm-twist the 1980's. A allegory for how the political protests of that decade were chock-full in their tracks? Bohen Foundation, 415 West 13th Street, Meatpacking District, (212)414-4575, through July 1. (Smith)
"GLASS, SERIOUSLY" This accomplished alternative of artworks in glass, best by the absolute babysitter Lilly Wei, includes breach drops by Kiki Smith; duke grenades by Kristin Oppenheim; argosy that spell "invisible" by Rob Wynne; a affectionate of decrepit bottle window fabricated of ample begin wine bottles, by Jean Shin and Brian Ripel; and an affected angled console of arctic sea-green bottle by Christopher Wilmarth. Dorsky, 11-03 45th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, (718)937-6317, through June 27. (Johnson)
Last Chance
* 'SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: 'HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2004: RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA,' through Wednesday. For his abandoned show, Mr. Tiravanija congenital a low-power television base from bargain abstracts and blood the gallery's walls with instructions on how anyone and anybody can do the same, adopting issues of government ascendancy and Aboriginal Amendment rights. (See above.) (Cotter)
NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM: 'SURREALISM USA,' through Sunday. Surrealism befuddled American arts, and this aggressive exhibition examines the fallout with a wide-angle lens. It presents 120 works by added than 60 artists, from Europeans in banishment to Abstruse Expressionists to the about forgotten. 1083 Fifth Avenue, abreast 89th Street, (212)369-4880. (Smith)
* LUCAS SAMARAS: 'PHOTOFLICKS (IMOVIES) AND PHOTOFICTIONS (A TO Z)' Sixty short, aberrant home-made agenda movies and 4,432 still images by an abnormally inventive, able and appropriate artist. His best arcade appearance in years. PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, Chelsea, (212)421-3293, through tomorrow. (Johnson)
* WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: 'CY TWOMBLY: FIFTY YEARS OF WORKS ON PAPER,' through Sunday. This appearance starts in the 1950's, with a claimed anti-aesthetic in which scribbling was draftsmanship, and gouging and abrading were gestural painting. Afterwards a move to Italy, words appeared. After the assignment turns lush, into a affectionate of agronomical expressionism that is aperitive and uningratiating. (See above.) (Cotter)
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