Here are some worthwhile events i snatched from the Gothamist:

ART: Tonight a new exhibit gets unveiled at Lesley Heller’s gallery. “Meticulously-rendered, acrylic on wood panel paintings by Nick Ghiz present humorous, off-beat, fictionalized narratives of New York City life. In the viewing room, recent abstract paintings by Mike Childs feature organic shapes and striking color combinations counterbalanced against architectonic, grid-like patterns. In the garden, Tom Doyle’s most recent vertical, monolithic wooden sculpture marks a dramatic departure from his previous lyrical combinations of corresponding forms.” We love Ghiz’s version of NYC (pictured)!

Friday, through May 2nd // Lesley Heller [16 East 77th St] // Free

MUSIC: Bassist, violinist, and spoken word artist Henry Grimes shares the stage tonight with guitarist Marc Ribot. The duo has performed together for the past five years on various projects, but it’s rare they collaborate for an acoustic-only performance. More details here.

Friday // 7 p.m. // Rubin Museum [150 W 17th St] // $20

Ahhh one of my favorite events!

FLOWERS: The New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid Show is in full swing through next month. This year, the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory has been transformed into a Brazilian garden, with gorgeously colored orchids, palm, and other plants native to Brazil among fountains, pools and mosaics. Take a look at the NYBG’s Orchid Blog

Saturday through April 12 // 10 a.m.-6 p.m. // New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx (directions) // Adults $20 (more details)

DANCE: Time to get your dance on. Your sexy dance, that is. “Not familiar with the zouk lambada, often referred to as the sexiest dance in the world? Come to the 92nd Street Y for a Brazilian Carnaval Dance Party-complete with music, samba, drinks, forro (a Brazilian dance and music style from northeastern Brazil), a raffle, gifts and a lesson in the sensuous, exhilarating dance form known as zouk lambada. International dance instructor Willem Engel shows you the steps from 8-9, then you can dance till 2 am.” Carnaval!

Saturday // 8 p.m. // 92nd St Y [1395 Lexington Ave] // $15

MUSIC: They Might Be Giants Play are playing two shows this Saturday, one for the kids, and one for the adults. “At 3pm the band will play a special family show to celebrate their Grammy win for Best Children’s Album, Here Comes the 123s. Every kid gets a free TMBG foam hand! Then at 7pm band will play an 18+ set, treating their adult fans to another trademark ‘Every Album Show,’ where TMBG will play at least one song off every album they’ve ever made.”

Saturday // 3 and 7 p.m. // (le) Poisson Rouge [158 Bleecker St] // $28

ART: Is plastic surgery…art? “Leon Dufourmentel, a pioneer in plastic surgery, said in 1948, ‘If I went to Picasso for my portrait, he would probably make me a monster and I should be pleased because it would be worth a million francs. But if Picasso came to me with a facial injury and I made him into a monster, aha, he might not be so pleased.’ This quote expresses the view of the exhibition that plastic surgery can be a most challenging art form, since a surgeon’s materials are not canvas or clay, but rather the human body.” More details here.

Saturday through May 9th // 6 p.m. // apexart [291 Church St] // Free

FILM: So Yong Kim’s feature Treeless Mountain is being shown as part of the Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s New Directors/New Films series. The Korean language film follows two sisters, ages 6 and 4, whose mother leaves them with an alcoholic aunt while she looks for her husband. Uncared for by the aunt, the girls grow resourceful as they await their mother’s return. The NY Times’ Stephen Holden called it a “neo-realist gem,” while Variety’s Robert Koehler found ‘Kim once again has a distinct way of letting her camera observe her characters with kind thoughtfulness, allowing for a quiet mood to wash over the scenes.”

Sunday // 2 p.m. // MoMA Theater 1 (11 W 53rd St) // $12

THEATER: After establishing himself in the late ’90s as one of downtown theater’s most distinctive voices, playwright Richard Maxwell weathered considerable audience hostility when he married his signature minimalist aesthetic with Henry IV at BAM five years ago. Something about that experience clearly made a mark; his new production, People Without History, concerns the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, at the center of Shakespeare’s play. Ben Brantley at the Times, a longtime Maxwell champion, says he “has fluently translated accounts of distant conflicts into his own transfixing and ultimately very moving form of existential theater.” The show also features an all-star cast of Maxwell veterans and experimental theater lifers, including Jim Fletcher, Pete Simpson, and Tory Vazquez.

Sunday // 8 p.m. // Performing Garage [33 Wooster St] // $20