Events on Thursday, October 15
William Parker and the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra
Thursday 10/15 @ Abrons Arts Center
Brooklyn-based label AUM Fidelity hosts a night of experimental jazz headlined by bassist William Parker and his Little Huey Creative Music...
Kate McGarry, Keith Ganz, Clarence Penn The LESS IS MORE TRIO
Thursday 10/15 @ Joe's Pub
“This singer has figured out how to create jazz arrangements of songs by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan,...
Thursday 10/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Listen Up!
w/ El Negro Mozambique (BRZ)
Zakee Kuduro (Ku Ku Bass System)
Kassiano (Nossa)
Guest MC...
Thursday 10/15 @ Terminal 5
The ’59 Sound could only start out one way: with the sound of a record player needle set down on a...
Thursday 10/15 @ The Bowery Presents
Thursday 10/15 @ 92YTribeca
Some Folks is a brand-spanking-new show that seamlessly and creatively brings together the worlds of comedy and music. Featuring the best...
Thursday 10/15 @ 92YTribeca
Co-presented by Chicken & Egg Pictures and Working Films with Judith Helfand in person along with other guest speakers.
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Jacky Teplitzky: Is Now the Time to Buy, Sell or Invest in NYC Real Estate?
Thursday 10/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Jacky Teplitzky, managing director at leading Manhattan real estate firm Prudential Douglas Elliman, separates fact from fiction and gives helpful insight...
Thursday 10/15 @ Joe's Pub
Singer/songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon's 2008 album Behind The Velvet Curtain drew raves for pulling back the screen on...
Thursday 10/15 @ Joe's Pub
"Timeline" has been the flashpoint for producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist Karsh Kale's creative vision of the past, the...
Thursday 10/15 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
When Built To Spill wanted to find out what their music sounded like they locked themselves in Doug Martsch’s garage. Without...
The Airborne Toxic Event @ Webster Hall
Thursday 10/15 @ The Bowery Presents
Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
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Conversation with the Author: Ali Eteraz
Thursday 10/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
Children of Dust is a probing and vital memoir of growing up male, Pakistani and Muslim, as Eteraz...
Thursday 10/15 @ 92YTribeca
Some Folks is a brand-spanking-new show that seamlessly and creatively brings together the worlds of comedy and music. Featuring the best...
The Book of Job with Elie Wiesel
Thursday 10/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Ponder the profound implications of what may be the most literary work in the Hebrew Bible. View modern evil through the...
Thursday 10/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Dead Man's Bones began in 2005, when Zach Shields and Ryan Gosling discovered their mutual obsession with ghosts....
Slide Lecture—Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Thursday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Educator Beatrice Del Favero will discuss Maelstrom (2009), a work of art that immerses viewers in what seems to be a cataclysmic...
Thursday 10/15 @ The Bowery Ballroom
March 2009 marks Soulive’s 10th Anniversary – ten years since Eric Krasno, Alan Evans and his brother Neal Evans got together...
More Murder: Psycho, Rear Window, Dial "M" For Murder
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ Lincoln Center Theater
Broke-ology takes on a host of sticky topics, covering personal dreams vs. family responsibility, chronic poverty, and caring for aging parents....
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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,...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ Film Forum
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ BAM Harvey Theater
Since forming at the Yale School of Music a decade back, So Percusssion has been at the forefront of experimentation in...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ TADA! Theater
Charles Dickens didn't write Penny Penniworth, but Chris Weikel's one-act farce might lead you to believe otherwise. Penny's quest for love...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 10/15 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Thursday 10/15 @ New York City Center
Writer and actress Lynn Redgrave comes from a family that practically lives and breathes onstage, so it's only natural to explore...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ Exit Art
Last year, Abu Dhabi bought up 90% of the Chrysler Building, an asterisk on any architectural map of New York. It's...
Thursday 10/15 @ The Joyce Theater
Renowned Italian company Balletto Teatro di Torino makes its New York debut with works by resident choreographer Matteo Levaggi. Performances are...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Thursday 10/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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. ...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Thursday 10/15 @ 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”
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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....
Jack Ferver: A Movie Star Needs a Movie
Thursday 10/15 @ New Museum
Choreographed and Performed by Jack Ferver
With Liz Santoro
Film and Photography by Jason Akira Somma Breakout choreographer...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Thursday 10/15 @ 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,...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 10/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Thursday 10/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Thursday 10/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of MoMA's ContemporAsian film series
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Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
MoMA Presents: Joan Braderman’s The Heretics
Thursday 10/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Friday, October 9 screening includes a discussion with director Joan Braderman.
The...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Thursday 10/15 @ Lincoln Center
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Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ 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
Thursday 10/15 @ 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 10/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Thursday 10/15 @ Symphony Space
The Thalia Follies troupe kicks off their sixth season of political cabaret with with songs, sketches, and satire covering the Mayoral...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 10/15 @ 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...
John Jahnke / Hotel Savant: The Archery Contest
Thursday 10/15 @ Performance Space 122
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York "...one of the highlights of the fall season at...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Thursday 10/15 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
