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Agenda: What?s Good This Week

Today: 10/1/09

Friday: 10/2/09

Saturday: 10/3/09

Sunday: 10/4/09

Monday: 10/5/09

Tuesday: 10/6/09

Wednesday: 10/7/09

All of Today’s Picks All Friday Picks All Saturday Picks All Sunday Picks All Monday Picks All Tuesday Picks All Wednesday Picks

art

imageGeorgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction
Whitney Museum of American Art

More than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by one of the most famous female painters of the twentieth century, as well as selected examples from Alfred Stieglitz's famous photographic portrait series of an often naked O'Keeffe. More »

movie

imageThe Invention of Lying

High-concept comedy about an alternate reality in which lying--even the notion of a lie--does not exist, and everyone speaks nothing but the truth. More »

art

imageAuste

A magical elixir of a show of the almost totally overlooked punk diva drawer-painter. More »

movie

imageCoco Before Chanel

Biopic about iconic designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. More »

community

imageThe New York Film Festival
Alice Tully Hall

The eagerly anticipated annual film bonanza. More »

theater

imageA Boy and His Soul
Vineyard Theatre

Written and performed by Colman Domingo ("Passing Strange"), this new play looks back on his upbringing in Philadelphia and the importance of soul music in his and his family's lives. More »

art

imageThe Bichon Frise in Art

Reproductions of the little white breed in works by Goya and Monet, as well as Fragonard and Courbet, both of whom portray women in sexually suggestive poses with the little white canines. More »

classical

Emanuel Ax
Avery Fisher Hall

Iconic pianist Emanuel Ax joins the orchestra for Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, on a concert also featuring the world premiere of composer-in-residence Magnus Lindberg's EXPO and Ives's Symphony No. 2 and "The Unanswered Question." More »

art

Tauba Auerbach
Deitch Projects

The anagram title, "Here And Now/And Nowhere," reflects the intricately--yet often randomly--coded paintings that look like something between wedding invitations commissioned by the rich and famous, and the artistic renderings of the inside of a mathematical genius's brain. More »

nightlife

Amazing Baby
Bowery Ballroom

The newish local crew's poppy, dreamy sounds might be explained by their friendship with MGMT. More »

nightlife

Sufjan Stevens
Bowery Ballroom

Indie America's killer-voiced sweetheart brings four sold-out shows to town. Start scalping! More »

nightlife

Everclear
HighLine Ballroom

The multiplatinum Portland, Oregon, outfit that shot to fame in the mid-nineties then conquered the New York club scene is entering its next phase by taking a look back at their biggest grunge-punk hits. More »

reading

Andrew Solomon
KGB Bar

An evening with the award-winning author of "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression." More »

reading

Michael Chabon
Barnes & Noble

Highbrow popular fiction's leading man reads from his collection of essays, "Manhood for Amateurs," about his thoughts on being a man. More »

art

Jefferson R. Burdick: Baseball Cards
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A display of bubblegum prizes may seem a little out of place alongside antique furniture and silverware, but, really, what's more American for the American Wing than mementos of the national pastime? More »

movie

A Serious Man

A midwestern professor's perfect life starts falling apart. More »

nightlife

The Jaguar Club
Cake Shop

A whole night's lineup of newbie Brooklyn talent (plus one band, Raise High the Roof Beam, from Chicago). More »

movie

Capitalism: A Love Story

Moore's latest goes after corporate greed and the roots of the global economic meltdown. More »

reading

Joseph O'Neill and Rabih Alameddine
92nd Street Y

PEN/Faulkner-winning Irish author of "Netherland" in discussion with Lebanese-American novelist Rabih Alameddine, whose "The Hakawati" is "one of the finest novels" Junot Diaz has read in years More »

reading

Poems & Pints
Fraunces Tavern

Drinks and poetry with seasoned poets Susan Wheeler, Jill Bialosky, and a bunch of literary folk who like drinks and poetry. More »

reading

Are You Ready For Life?
92nd Street Y

Group therapy for today's fit, happy baby-boomers who are scheduled for the next stage of life. More »

Ongoing

art

Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction

More than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by one of the most famous female painters of the twentieth century, as well as selected examples from Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographic portrait series of an often naked O’Keeffe. Through 1/17, Whitney Museum

art

Auste

A magical elixir of a show of the almost totally overlooked punk diva drawer-painter. Through 10/10, Mitchell Algus

Ticket Alert

Hamlet

Broadhurst Theater, 10/06; $25-$116.50

After Miss Julie

American Airlines Theatre, 10/22; $66.50-$116.50

Metallica

MSG, 11/15; $54-$74

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