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Agenda: New York's culture editors plan the week.

Today: 5/20/11

Saturday: 5/21/11

Sunday: 5/22/11

Monday: 5/23/11

Tuesday: 5/24/11

Wednesday: 5/25/11

Thursday: 5/26/11

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Art

Elliot Erwitt: Personal Best
ICP

A major retrospective for the filmmaker and Magnum photographer, whose work includes portraiture and scenes from everyday life. More »

Classical

Ballet Hispanico

The acclaimed local company dances in excerpts of four works by Cuban choreographers, followed by a discussion with the artists about how their Cuban heritage informed the work (part of the !Si Cuba! festival). More »

Nightlife

"Our Band Could Be Your Life"
Bowery Ballroom

A night of covers marking the tenth birthday of Michael Azerrad's book of the same name, which chronicles the career of thirteen underground bands. More »

Nightlife

Jackie Five-Oh!
Joe's Pub

The comic actress is witty with just the subheading of the show: "A celebration of Jackie Hoffman's first 50th birthday." More »

Reading

Anthony Bourdain
Barnes & Noble

The chef and No Reservations host reads from the sequel to his hit memoir "Kitchen Confidential." More »

Reading

"Edna O’Brien: Saints and Sinners"
Symphony Space

The Irish writer presents stories from her first new collection in ten years. More »

Art

Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center

Screenings of the 1973 cult film by the Chilean director--who was also the composer, set designer, and costume designer--known for his artistic elaborations of the occult. More »

Theater

How and Why I Robbed My First Cheese Store
La MaMa E.T.C.

A homeless playwright tries to turn the tables on a downtown theater's patronizing artistic director and pull off an absurd heist. More »

Kids

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Museum of the Moving Image

Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image kicks off its season of literary adaptations with an advance screening of the new movie based on Megan McDonald's kids' series More »

Art

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Early twentieth-century reproductions of now-famous artworks from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece. More »

Art

The Hugo Boss Prize 2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The German conceptual artist explores more than four decades of his work, from his late-sixties series of artists books to his recent sculptural assemblages of household items. More »

Nightlife

Mr. Coconuts
Union Hall

A new monthly comedy show by the folks behind the website Videogum, with a stellar inaugural lineup including Jenny Slate, Joe Mande, and Larry Murphy. More »

Art

In a New Light: Bellini’s "St. Francis in the Desert"
The Frick Collection

An in-depth analysis of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's technical investigation of one the Frick's most beloved and enigmatic works. More »

Theater

I Plead Guilty

A terrorist and a journalist find common bonds in this drama based on the 2002 siege of a Moscow theater by an Islamist group. More »

Nightlife

Thurston Moore
Music Hall of Williamsburg

The Sonic Youth stalwart's latest solo effort, the brooding Demolished Thoughts , was produced by longtime friend Beck, and is out May 24. More »

Nightlife

Tune-Yards
Music Hall of Williamsburg

With her sophomore album w h o k i l l , recorded in a studio and exhibiting strong vocals over spacious synths and saxophones, the lady otherwise known as Merrill Garbus has transformed that ripple into splash. More »

Theater

Knickerbocker
The Public Theater

Jonathan Marc Sherman's new play centers on a nervous father-to-be coming to terms with his forthcoming life changes as his wife's due date approaches. More »

Reading

Rob Sheffield
BookCourt

The "Rolling Stone" contributor reads from his book "Talking to Girls About Duran Duran." More »

Art

Jim Dine: The Glyptotek Drawings
The Morgan Library and Museum

The painter, sculptor, poet, and draftsman meditates on the ancient world through works inspired by his visit to Munich's Glyptothek, a museum of Greek and Roman sculpture. More »

Classical

"Keys to the Future"
Abrons Arts Center

The wide-reaching annual festival of contemporary solo piano music this year features 27 recent works and three premieres by nineteen different composers, performed by ten enterprising pianists. More »

Art

Nick Zinner

Photographer and Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Zinner turns his camera on his eager audiences. More »

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