The Cooper-Hewitt Celebrates Rococo Polish up your Cupids and boar's heads! by Leslie Camhi Design is dead, the material world's sacred monster, Philippe Starck, announced to a German magazine a few weeks ago, citing all the "unnecessary" things he had created in the course of his 40-year career. The only objects he still felt attached to, he said, were "maybe a pillow, and a good mattress." . . . read more

Autechre Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 N 6th St. Brooklyn, NY 11211 Brooklyn Phone: 718-486-5400

Autechre have barely moved an inch since their late-‘90s high point, even as all of electronic music has slid right past them—the distortion and glitch on the new Quaristice comes with very little in the way of mood, and feels positively antiquated up against even the least feeling of recent dance music, dubstep. Autechre were once a surprise, and now they're not even surprising themselves. With Massonix and Rob Hall.

	Gypsy St. James Theatre 246 W 44th St. New York, NY 10036 Phone: 212-239-6200
"Mama's talkin' loud/Mama's doin' fine/Mama's gettin' hot/Mama's goin' strong." Who could doubt these words when sung by Patti LuPone? She stars as Mama Rose in this revival of the Styne-Sondheim-Laurents musical about famed striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti provide occasionally clothed support. Book writer Arthur Laurents directs.

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