DON’T MISS!: POP ART Art imitates art this weekend as 66 painters showcase 100 paintings and silkscreen prints inspired by the works of filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers. “I think they’re two of the best directors of this generation,” says “Quentin vs. Coen” curator Ken Harman, who also sees these filmmakers as being connected through their stylized use of gratuitous violence, willingness to attempt all genres of filmmaking, and love of Steve Buscemi. “Considering the parallels, it made sense to pit them against each other,” he reasons. On one wall, three “Pulp Fiction”-inspired Uma Thurman paintings hang. On another, there are several depictions of Jeff Bridges in “True Grit.” “What’s interesting is how a lot of artists attacked the same characters differently,” Harman says. The free pop-up pop art show is hanging through Sunday at Bold Hype Gallery, 547 W. 27th St.; 212-868-2322, boldhype.net. — Brian Niemietz Johannah O’Donnell
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CATCH THEM!: SWEETIE BRICKELL Earthy singer Edie Brickell — who’s basked in international fame since her 1988 hit “What I Am” and later married music icon Paul Simon — sounds a little stressed. “You’re freaking me out, dude,” she responds when asked if she feels pressure on debuting her band, the Gaddabouts, at Carnegie Hall tonight. “I hadn’t even thought about it that way, we’re at rehearsal right now, just having a good time — practicing.” We guess that’s how she got to Carnegie Hall. Brickell calmed when speaking about her Gaddabouts, featuring ace drummer Steve Gadd, bassist Pino Palladino and guitarist Andy Fairweather Low. “These guys are such great musicians” Brickell gushes, noting the difference between this band and her famed jam band the New Bohemians is that the new group creates “individual space” in the music. In that song space she says the music glides from jazzy riffs to progressive pop to country swing, seamlessly. Now that requires practice, no matter where you play. The performance is at 8 (at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall); tickets are $42;carnegiehall.org. — Dan Aquilante Jonathan Mover & Amy-Beth McNeely
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LAST CHANCE!: BIG SHOTS Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand: Sounds like an investment firm. But no, they’re the holy trinity of 20th-century American photographers. Culling through its collection, the Met put 115 of their greatest works on display, including Alfred Stieglitz’s famed portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Steichen’s moody shots of the Flatiron building and Paul Strand’s blind woman. And to think we have the recession to thank. “Sometimes we forget what’s sitting in our own storerooms,” says curator Malcolm Daniel, who calls these works — from the early 1900s into the 1920s — the museum’s “greatest treasures.” The show features 15 of Stieglitz’s 331 photos of O’Keeffe, some of which focus solely on her torso, hands or feet. “His idea was that a single portrait couldn’t convey the complexity of a human being,” Daniel says. Nor could any one single photographer capture the splendors of early New York. Through Sunday; Fifth Avenue at 81st Street; met.org. — Barbara Hoffman The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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SEE THIS!: PROM NIGHT High school bullying is taken to an extreme in “Carrie” (1976), part of a series of Brian De Palma thrillers unreeling at BAMCinematek. Sissy Spacek was nominated for an Oscar for her brilliant portrayal of Carrie, a virginal, telekinetic student whose dream date at the prom turns into a bloody nightmare. Another Oscar nom went to Piper Laurie as Carrie’s lunatic mom, whose sexual repression of her daughter has dire consequences. John Travolta, Amy Irving and Nancy Allen co-star. The film, based on Stephen King’s first novel, unreels Sunday at 2 and 6:50 p.m. Other films in the series, running through April 20, include the Hitchcock-inspired “Obsession” (1976) and “Blow Out” (1981), De Palma’s Travolta-starring homage to Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blowup.” 30 Lafayette Ave., off Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn; bam.org. — V.A. Musetto Everett Collection / Everett Col
