Events on Tuesday, October 13

Music

The Dodos

Tuesday 10/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

With a title like Time To Die, you might think the Dodos’ third disc is their ‘mature album,’ a deadly serious... 

Film Comment Selects presents <em>Pink Floyd: The Wall </em>(1982)

Film

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Get ready for a loud, trippy time. Based on the landmark Floyd album and written by bassist/vocalist Roger Waters, Alan Parker's... 

Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet & Adam Neiman, piano

Music: Classical

Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet & Adam Neiman, piano

Tuesday 10/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Clarinetist, Jose Franch-Ballester, and pianist, Adam Neiman, perform the music of Chopin, Brahms, Poulenc, Kenji Bunch, Arturo Marquez, and Adam Neiman.... 

Comedy

Punch Up Your Life: Free comedy hosted by Jessi Klein and Pete Holmes

Tuesday 10/13 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

A comedy series hosted by Jessi Klein and Pete Holmes. Special guests TBA. Watch our facebook and twitter for updates!

Mike Viola

Music

Mike Viola

Tuesday 10/13 @ Joe's Pub

Mike Viola is best known as singer, songwriter and musical architect of the Candy Butchers, a highly... 

Music

OM

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Bowery Ballroom

OM formed in 2003 when former Sleep members Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius began to play together again. They conceived OM... 

CHINA GREEN Multimedia Festival: The Third Pole

Festival: Film

CHINA GREEN Multimedia Festival: The Third Pole

Tuesday 10/13 @ Asia Society and Museum

Much of China Green’s focus during the past year has looked at the Tibetan Plateau and the way climate change drastically... 

Susie Suh with special guest Big Phony

Music

Susie Suh with special guest Big Phony

Tuesday 10/13 @ Joe's Pub

“…Suh has a deep voice that slips easily into a sultry vibrato, investing the songs with a... 

Built to Spill @ Webster Hall

Music

Built to Spill @ Webster Hall

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Bowery Presents

Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 353-1600
Get directions www.websterhall.com  ... 

Music

Clem Snide

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Mercury Lounge

Clem Snide began in Boston in the early 1990s. It was there Eef Barzelay and good friends Eric Paul and Jason... 

Somi: CD Release Party

Music

Somi: CD Release Party

Tuesday 10/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Somi CD Release Show
10pm doors | 10:30pm show
$20 advance | $22 day of show
18+ or... 

Ongoing Events

Keith Haring: <em>New York</em>

Art

Keith Haring

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 10/13 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

Balletto Teatro di Torino

Dance

Balletto Teatro di Torino

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Joyce Theater

Renowned Italian company Balletto Teatro di Torino makes its New York debut with works by resident choreographer Matteo Levaggi. Performances are... 

<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

<em>Still Life</em>

Theatre

Still Life

Tuesday 10/13 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 10/13 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>Eye of God</em>

Theatre

Eye of God

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row

Tim Blake Nelson's Eye Of God is an intriguing, noirish murder mystery set in a small town outside of Oklahoma City... 

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 10/13 @ The People's Improv Theater

Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... 

Thomas Chambers: <em>American Marine and Landscape Painter</em>

Art

Thomas Chambers

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Maurice Sendak

Art

Maurice Sendak

Tuesday 10/13 @ Animazing Gallery

Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents... 

Theatre

The Night Watcher

Tuesday 10/13 @ 59E59 Theaters

In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,... 

Hungarians in Hollywood

Film

Hungarians in Hollywood

Tuesday 10/13 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Michael "Casablanca" Curtiz, super-producer Alexander Korda, even Béla Legosi — they and other talented compatriots left Hungary in the early-20th century,... 

Festival: Film

Elia Kazan Festival

Tuesday 10/13 @ Film Forum

Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 10/13 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

Omar Mullick: <em>Can't Take It With You</em>

Art: Photography

Omar Mullick

Tuesday 10/13 @ Gallery FCB

Call it Omar Mullick's 21st-century angle on The Americans. For his first solo show, the photographer hyphenates Robert Frank's landmark observance... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Tuesday 10/13 @ Barrow Street Theater

David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... 

<em>America for Sale</em>

Art

America for Sale

Tuesday 10/13 @ Exit Art

Last year, Abu Dhabi bought up 90% of the Chrysler Building, an asterisk on any architectural map of New York. It's... 

<em> Let Me Down Easy </em>

Theatre

Let Me Down Easy

Tuesday 10/13 @ 2econd Stage Theatre

With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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,... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

<em>Hanging Fire</em>: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Art

Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

<em>In Search of Beethoven</em>

Film: Documentary

In Search of Beethoven

Tuesday 10/13 @ Cinema Village

For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig... 

Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet

Theatre

Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

<em>Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya</em>

Art

Icons of the Desert

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... 

Takashi Murakami: <em>Picture of Fate: I Am But a Fisherman Who Angles In the Darkness of His Mind</em>

Art

Takashi Murakami

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
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Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (born in 1977) has created two new bodies of work that address the nature of the... 

<em>Is Life Worth Living? </em>

Theatre

Is Life Worth Living?

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

8th Annual Next Wave Art Festival at BAM &nbsp; &nbsp;

Festival: Art

BAM Next Wave Art Festival    

Tuesday 10/13 @ BAM

For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some... 

<em>The Yes Men Fix the World</em>

Film

The Yes Men Fix the World

Tuesday 10/13 @ Film Forum

A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out... 

<em>After Miss Julie</em>

Theatre

After Miss Julie

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Creative Time presents Bestu&eacute;-Vives, Martha Colburn and Gonzalo Lebrija at 44 1/2

Art

Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Allan Kaprow:<em> Yard</em>

Art

Yard

Tuesday 10/13 @ Hauser & Wirth New York

For its first New York show, art gallery Hauser & Wirth pays tribute to former inhabitant Martha Jackson Gallery with reinventions... 

<em> Superior Donuts </em>

Theatre

Superior Donuts

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

<em>The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture</em>

Art

The Wilde Years

Tuesday 10/13 @ School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts is one of the most respected art schools in the country, but it's usually the fine... 

Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years

Film

Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years

Tuesday 10/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Just before the release of Where the Wild Things Are on October 16, Spike Jonze gets his first retrospective, and with... 

<em>Cedar City Falls: A Mid-West Conflict</em>

Theatre

Cedar City Falls: A Mid-West Conflict

Tuesday 10/13 @ Various locations

The writers behind Sex and the City have abandoned NYC for small-town Iowa in their newest project, Cedar City Falls: a... 

Tokyo Screening

Film: Shorts

Tokyo Screening

Tuesday 10/13 @ Monster Island

From the Land of the Rising Sun comes a new genus of video artists, and Tokyo-based gallery Pepper's Project curates a... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Downtown Alliance presents <em>Re:Construction</em>

Art

Re:Construction

Tuesday 10/13 @ Various locations

Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 

Sputnik Chess Knights

Special Event

Sputnik Chess Knights

Tuesday 10/13 @ Sputnik

Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Art

Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! From the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I,... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Tuesday 10/13 @ Brooklyn Bowl

Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Art

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Tuesday 10/13 @ Asia Society and Museum

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Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Film

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Tuesday 10/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


View the entire film schedule
Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:... 

Heeb 100 Gallery Exhibit

Art

Heeb 100 Gallery Exhibit

Tuesday 10/13 @ 92YTribeca

Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb... 

One Minute More

Art

One Minute More

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Kitchen

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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”

Art

Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Eccentric  Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Art

Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The first comprehensive exhibition of Luo Ping’s paintings ever presented in America, Eccentric... 

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson speaks about Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Art

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Tuesday 10/13 @ Asia Society and Museum

The first solo New York museum exhibition of Japanese artist Yoshihiro Suda features a new work, inspired by pieces from Asia... 

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Art

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Art

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist Eric Fischl takes a fresh look at two John Singer Sargent paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday... 

&ldquo;Medieval Garden Enclosed&rdquo; on the Met Blog.

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Tuesday 10/13 @ 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...