First Aid Kit at Webster Hall
Stockholm-based sister-sister folk duo First Aid Kit kick off their US tour, playing their immaculate Americana-esque alt-country ditties tonight at Webster Hall.
Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St. 8 p.m. $25.15.
Eric Kandel at the NYPL
Noted Nobel Prize-winning neuropsychiatrist Eric Kandel will be discussing the movement in turn-of-the-Century Vienna, wherein artists, scientists and philosophers (from Freud to Klimt) collectively began exploring The Unconscious. He'll be chatting with Paul Hodengraber, on the eve of his new tome, The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, From Vienna 1900 to the Present.
The New York Public Library, Fifth Ave. and 42nd St. 7-9 p.m. $25.
"The Queen and I" Opens at Pocket Utopia
Austin Thomas's vibrant Bushwick gallery, Pocket Utopia, closed about a year ago, but has sprung up anew on the Lower East Side, in collaboration with C.G. Boerner Gallery. Tonight's one-night only exhibit, "The Queen and I," acts as the gallery's "soft opening"; featuring royal photographs by playwright Donald Steele. The space officially opens in late April with "Portraits of Artists: 18th Century French Engravings."
Pocket Utopia, 191 Henry St. 6-8 p.m.