Events on Thursday, October 1
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Times Center
In the spirit of being the change we seek, our friends over at All Day Buffet are hosting the third-annual Feast...
Jay Reatard w/ Box Elders , Hunx & His Punx , Nobunny and Useless Eaters
Thursday 10/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Shattered Records Showcase: ...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Mercury Lounge
New Model Army are an English rock band. They are widely known for their unwavering commitment to their original vision of...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Hoge filters rock, soul, folk, blues and country through...
Unleashing the Chinese Consumer
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
Drawing on a year-long research project, experts from the McKinsey Global Institute discuss why Chinese consumers spend so little relative to...
Simon Armitage and Charles Simic
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Prolific English poet, playwright and translator (he also plays in a rock band), Simon Armitage makes his first appearance at the...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Joe's Pub
"They do not use sources of Gypsy music, they are the source itself." –Songlines During the last 20 years the name...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction...
The Great Cupcake Challenge: Taste and Rate Tour
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Taste and rate your way through the best cupcakes the West Village and SoHo have to offer. With scoring sheet in...
Desiree Burch's "52 Man Pickup"
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Joe's Pub
“fast-paced, unrelentingly funny and terribly honest.”
-L Magazine
Time Out NY gives...
Judaism 5770.0: Digital Community and Connection Building
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Motti Seligson and Isaac Luria
Dan Sieradski, moderator
This panel...
Hitchcock: Notorius, Spellbound, The Birds
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Alfred Hitchcock has given filmgoers more nail-biting suspense than any other director. Whether it's one of his early classics like The...
Gotham Early Music Scene 2009, Cantori New York, Flying Forms, Four Nations Ensemble
Thursday 10/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The GEMS Project
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Falu: Special Indian Classical Performance
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Joe's Pub
Falu is setting aside her electric guitar, keyboards and drums for a very...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Queer/Art/Film. Presented by director John Cameron Mitchell.
"Entertaining...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Project Kashmir follows the true story of friends and film directors Pakistani-American Senain Kheshgi and Indian-American Geeta V. Patel as they...
Life Dances On (1980) & Energy and How to Get It (1981)
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents these two films directed by Robert Frank to accompany the special exhibition Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans,”...
Maria Bartiromo: Captains of Industry
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Maria Bartiromo, the anchor of CNBC’s Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo, in conversation with BusinessWeek Editor-in-Chief Steven J. Adler. Bartiromo is...
Moving Image Masterpieces: CITIZEN KANE
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum in partnership with Queens Theatre in the Park will present six of the greatest, must-see films...
SPIN Presents Liner Notes with Salman Rushdie and Dredg
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
SPIN Magazine and Housing Works host an evening of music and literature with a reading by author Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children;...
Ongoing Events
ITP 30th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The IAC Building
NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), a two-year graduate program for the design and study of new media forms in the Tisch...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ American Folk Art Museum
A prolific 19th-century painter who was once considered "America's first modern" for his prepossessing, flat-color land- and seascapes, Thomas Chambers is...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Music Box Theatre
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) comes a lighter, comedic take on Midwestern life. A pot-smoking donut shop owner...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Blank SL8
Marrying a contemporary design aesthetic to old-fashioned wanderlust, the Design-to-Go pop-up boutique by retailer AREAWARE presents an alternative view of the...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Tilton Gallery
The German artist's second solo exhibition at the Tilton Gallery features paintings of female figures on central display. Lucas' evident confidence...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Film Forum
"How'd you like to wake up in the morning and be him?" slurs delusional prizefighter Stacy Keach in this late-career tour...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Living Theatre
A misunderstood girl like Lizzie Borden deserves nothing less than her own rock musical, and Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
As part of the Bronx Museum's progressive year-long series Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100, designer and Bronx native Vito Acconci...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 10/ 1 @ City Hall Park
Peter Coffin, the artist who flew a UFO over the Baltic Sea in summer 2008, takes over City Hall Park with a...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ York Theatre Company (619 Lexington Ave, 212.935.5824)
Blind Lemon Blues shines brightest when the writers let classics by Blind Lemon, Led Belly, and others take center stage. Three...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
While Amsterdam is perhaps the requisite stop on your average high-school or college graduate's "awesome summer abroad," the city once attracted...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Flea Theater
Happily married, Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile are as reliable as their GM namesake. But why are they and the rest of...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Under Minerva Gallery
Under Minerva's latest group show, curated by Vanessa Juriga, invited multimedia artists of all stripes to exhibit work made from found...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ American Airlines Theater
Patrick Marber's (Closer) highly anticipated After Miss Julie transplants August Strindberg's 1888 classic to the eve of the British Labour Party's...
Big Dance Theater: Comme Toujours Here I Stand
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Kitchen
From Robert Maxwell epics to nude acrobatic dance shows, the Kitchen is always working to stretch the boundaries of theatre. We're...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Museum of Art and Design
In her intricate tapestry, Rhyme and Reason, Tehran-based artist Nazgol Ansarinia arranges a coil of burka-clad figures into an arresting example...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Gagosian Gallery
Arguably Japan's best-known contemporary artist and recipient of a major retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum last summer, Takashi Murakami returns with...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
One glance at the schedule for the second-annual 1st Irish theatre festival makes clear that the dramatic voices of today's Ireland...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Palace Theatre
Argentine opera singer Josephine Scaglione's magnetically angelic presence contrasts beautifully with the unforgiving world around her in Arthur Laurents' gritty revival...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Woodward Gallery
We've been missing the Keith Haring tribute mural over on Houston, and there's no better way to refresh our love for graffiti...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ powerHouse Arena
This cleverly titled one-man show turns mainstream media's perception of hip-hop on its head. Photographer Trevor Traynor notes the double entendre...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Legendary avant-garde filmmaker Alain Resnais opens the NYFF's strongest lineup in years with Wild Grass, which beguiled critics at Cannes. Other...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage
Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Mint Theater
Lennox Robinson's 1933 comedy is set in a sleepy Irish resort town where a troupe of third-rate actors has unleashed Russian...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 44 1/2
Following last July's presentation of Deadpan, Creative Time kicks off the fall with video art by three up-and-coming artists on MTV's...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
The phrase "Hanging Fire" is the translation of an idiom referring to a delayed decision or judgment. This show asks viewers...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Marlborough Chelsea
This exhibition follows Will Ryman's popular springtime showing of The Bed at the Saatchi Gallery Project Room in London. Here, the...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
FIAF's yearly, interdisciplinary festival Crossing the Line presents a three-week slate of exciting new works by artists from New York and...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Reviving a play from 2001 may seem hasty, but Lucy Thurber's Killers and Other Family thrives in 2009. This one-act thriller...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Bracketed by those historic "falls" in nearby Berlin (of the city itself and, later, its Wall), the Polish Poster School's expressionistic,...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Collect Pond Park
The always awesome public-art sponsors at Public Art Fund debut a new downtown work by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith. Their...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
As we anxiously wait for the Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, this exhibition at...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ New York City Center
Fall for Dance this year celebrates the centenary of Ballets Russes, the Paris-based Russians who made ballet artistically relevant. Reconstructions include...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Linda Gross Theater
Hard-hitting playwright David Mamet adopts a lighter touch with School and Keep Your Pantheon, the two one-acts that make up this...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Grey Art Gallery at NYU
Thanks be to the senior Aboriginal Australian painters who gave their blessing for this superlative, uber-rare exhibition spotlighting the early work...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ American Museum of Natural History
What eats fish, fowl, snails, fruit, crawfish, and frogs? Frogs do. The neckless, tailless charmers of class Amphibia count some voracious...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This summer's installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture....
MoMA Presents: Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Where Is Where?
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Eija-Liisa Ahtila (b. Finland, 1959), an artist celebrated for her often interrelated moving image installation pieces and 35mm films, returns to...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The mandala, one of Himalayan Buddhism's most ubiquitous and complex symbols, is the focus of this fascinating exhibition. Mandalas are created...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This is the first exhibition of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s paintings in the United States...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Co-curators Jeffrey Munger and Meredith Chilton discuss the details of a delightful dessert table with culinary historian Ivan Day. This table...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
When Esoteric Buddhism was introduced to Japan from mainland China in the 9th century, it forever changed the visual landscape of...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Walter Liedtke discusses the unique patronage of Johannes Vermeer and its influence on the artistic and psychological aesthetic of The...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Paul Sietsema’s ethereal drawings, sculptures, and films explore combinations of color, space, and movement through subjects spanning a broad geographic and...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American artist Roxy Paine (born in 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection is the Rubin Museum's newest exhibition and latest offering of Himalayan art and culture. ...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage to Manhattan from...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawad, speaks about the rich culture and history of Afghanistan at...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s unparalleled collection of American art includes some 45 sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Did you know that the musical heritage of China is one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s Director Thomas P. Campbell narrates this audio tour of the exhibition Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid, with commentary from exhibition...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Du Paquier ceramic manufactory, founded by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in Vienna...
Trajal Harrell: Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (S)
Thursday 10/ 1 @ New Museum
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
After two years of major construction and renovation, the Met’s Charles Engelhard Court—the spectacular, light-filled pavilion along Central Park—has reopened to...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Performance Exhibition Series
The exhibition will be performed live three...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take a break from city life and visit the Met’s blog dedicated to your neighboring medieval garden! July 1, 2009 marked the first anniversary...
Lucy Guerin Inc: Structure and Sadness
Thursday 10/ 1 @ New York Live Arts
Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin uses the 1970 collapse of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne Australia, where 35 men lost their...
