All events on Wednesday March 19
Previous day|Next day- Performing Arts: Dance
- genesis, no!
- Wednesday Mar 19 (7:30pm) @ Dance Theater Workshop More times »
- Giveaway
- As half of the acrobatic burlesque duo the Wau Wau Sisters, Adrienne Truscott dangles from a trapeze while delivering risqué one-liners. But when it comes... View details »
- Reading
- Open City Reading
- Wednesday Mar 19 (6:30pm) @ The Drawing Center
- Free
- Indie lit magazine Open City invites Jonathan Ames to join fellow contributors Vestal McIntyre and Rebecca Wolff for this reading at the Drawing Center. Ames... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut
- Wednesday Mar 19 (7pm) @ Tibet House
- Buddhist monks aren't usually described as "wild" (at least not in our urban dictionary), but director Anna Wilding's intriguing documentary debut stirs up the meditation... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Poison Pen w/ Reef the Lost Cauze
- Wednesday Mar 19 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory Tap Bar
- Giveaway
- Bed-Stuy battle MC Poison Pen hustles harder than most rappers, but the Stronghold founder makes it look easy tonight, spitting tales of ghetto survival into... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Wednesday Mar 19 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Wednesday Mar 19 (2 & 7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
- Free
- While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Wednesday Mar 19 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Wednesday Mar 19 (7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- blog.mode
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere.... View details »
- Art
- New York States of Mind
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
- Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what has made New York... View details »
- Art
- Jaishri Abichandani
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
- Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished curator and a practicing... View details »
- Art
- Unmonumental
- Wednesday Mar 19 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial squad brings together 30... View details »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Wednesday Mar 19 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Wednesday Mar 19 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use... View details »
- Art
- Jan de Cock
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The Belgian artist brings his... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Wednesday Mar 19 (8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
- Art
- Marvin Franklin
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–4pm) @ New York Transit Museum More times »
- Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may not seem like a... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ International Center of Photography More times »
- Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
- Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with rays of light, it... View details »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Wednesday Mar 19 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making modern paintings before the... View details »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Wednesday Mar 19 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Irving Penn
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–5pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
- Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is best known for iconic,... View details »
- Art
- Be Kind Rewind
- Wednesday Mar 19 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
- Free
- In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a video store's entire inventory... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
- Free
- While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the last decade. Johns, now... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Unforeseen
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this kind of material speaks... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The 39 Steps
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan), there are sly references... View details »
- Art
- Luc Tuymans
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
- Free
- Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a media-saturated era, he's tackled... View details »
- Art
- Sterling Ruby
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–6pm) @ The Drawing Center More times »
- Free
- Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project space. In addition to... View details »
- Art
- Matt Leines
- Wednesday Mar 19 (11am–6pm) @ Clementine Gallery More times »
- Free
- Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who studied illustration at RISD,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Wednesday Mar 19 (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ Broadhurst Theatre More times »
- Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The weighty issues on display... View details »
- Art
- The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–6pm) @ Milk Gallery More times »
- Free
- Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that reached out to people... View details »
- Film
- J'entends plus la guitare
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ Cinema Village More times »
- J'entends plus la guitare is Philippe Garrel's tribute to art-rock muse Nico. Though most famous for her recordings with the Velvet Underground, the German-born icon... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Wednesday Mar 19 (2 & 8pm) @ The Belasco Theatre More times »
- The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel Breaker) who flees his... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Paradise Park
- Wednesday Mar 19 (8pm) @ Signature Theatre More times »
- Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the playwright's third and final... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Wednesday Mar 19 (2 & 8pm) @ Studio 54 More times »
- Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon... View details »
- Art
- Cao Fei
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery More times »
- Free
- Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City is a virtual metropolis designed for the online world Second Life, and Lombard-Freid Gallery is exhibiting a scale model... View details »
- Art
- Subodh Gupta
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
- Free
- Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils and clichéd scenes of... View details »
- Art
- Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
- Wednesday Mar 19 (10am–6pm) @ Tina Kim Gallery More times »
- Free
- Works by Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh don't appear often outside of collaborations like these with Ghada Amer. Her nature scenes and wallpaper-like patterns are prim... View details »
- Art
- Asian Contemporary Art Week
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ Various locations More times »
- Asian Contemporary Art Week corrals dozens of artists for countless shows and lectures. At Ch'i, some of China's fresher faces work in the shadow of... View details »
- Music: Global
- Haru Ichiban
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ Drom More times »
- Giveaway
- Not all the music at this festival is light and gentle. Sure, headliner Michiyo Yagi can coax twinkling prettiness from her massive, 17-string koto, but... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Romeo and Juliet
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row More times »
- In this updated, witty interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, familiar tropes clash with contemporary archetypes. The four-actor cast stays true to the bard's words... View details »
- Art
- ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: Ides of March
- Wednesday Mar 19 (6–8pm) @ ABC No Rio More times »
- Free
- ABC No Rio has been a hub for LES radicals and artists for over a quarter of a century, and now it's set for demolition... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Wednesday Mar 19 (2:30 & 7:30pm) @ New York City Center More times »
- Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan Safran Foer. A fictionalized... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Tim Minchin
- Wednesday Mar 19 (8pm) @ New World Stages More times »
- Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his self-deprecating, raunchy humor. Armed... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Wednesday Mar 19 @ Paragraph More times »
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
