Events on Friday, October 16
Friday 10/16 @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Cut&Paste presents the ultimate event from its 2009 Digital Design Tournament with its first Global Championship. From an original pool of...
No Age perform The Bear (1989)
Friday 10/16 @ New Museum
Acclaimed Los Angeles duo No Age provide a live abstract score for Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1989 mostly silent masterpiece about a young...
Noshes and Nibbles on St. Mark’s Place
Friday 10/16 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Home to a great variety of cuisines, including Japanese, Israeli, Belgian and Jewish-American, St. Mark’s Place and the East Village are...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, & DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 10/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
11pm doors and show Ladies: Free until midnight, $10 after Fellas: $10 until midnight, $15 after Strictly +21 This is a...
Friday 10/16 @ The Bowery Ballroom
While Asobi Seksu's creative core explored music at an early age (lead vocalist/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate got standing ovations at child prodigy...
Friday 10/16 @ The Bowery Presents
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Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: African Art
Friday 10/16 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of African art! This Friday evening come and take part in this unique opportunity...
Vashti Bunyan Friday Film Screening and Friday Music Performance
Friday 10/16 @ 92YTribeca
Vashti Bunyan has been called "the Godmother of Freak Folk" (NY Press)...
Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before
Friday 10/16 @ 92YTribeca
New York Premiere. Vashti Bunyan in person along with director Kieran Evans.
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Friday 10/16 @ Joe's Pub
MoZuluArt feat. Ambassade String Quartet - an ensemble of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra ...
Contemporary Art Gallery Tours Chelsea Gallery Tours
Friday 10/16 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Thomas Beachdel
Marvel at the world's center for contemporary art, Chelsea, where...
Friday 10/16 @ Joe's Pub
Burlesque stars Anita Cookie and Clams Casino and emcee Neil O'Fortune, the minds behind The Costello Show:...
Friday 10/16 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The Horrors, they are a garage rock band which formed in 2006 in Southend-on-sea, United Kingdom. The band consists of Faris...
Friday 10/16 @ The Bowery Presents
4140 Broadway, New York, NY
Friday 10/16 @ Asia Society and Museum
Enjoy cocktails and mingle in a museum! Meet and rub elbows with fun people, enjoy the free docent-led exhibition tours, then...
Friday 10/16 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the Takashi Miike series. DVD giveaway of Shout! Factory's brand new Audition: Collector’s Edition for a few lucky audience...
The Airborne Toxic Event @ Webster Hall
Friday 10/16 @ The Bowery Presents
Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 353-1600
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The Gaslight Anthem @ Brooklyn Bowl
Friday 10/16 @ The Bowery Presents
Performing with: Murder By Death / Jesse Malin / Broadway Calls
Friday 10/16 @ Joe's Pub
Do you like your southern twang inspired by the grime of the New York City streets? So...
Sunset Rubdown @ Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom
Friday 10/16 @ The Bowery Presents
New York, NY 10001-2418
(212) 279-7740
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/16 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Friday 10/16 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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,...
Friday 10/16 @ BAM Harvey Theater
Since forming at the Yale School of Music a decade back, So Percusssion has been at the forefront of experimentation in...
Friday 10/16 @ Various locations
The New Yorker Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary with a slew of new events alongside old mainstays like Calvin Trillin's immensely...
Friday 10/16 @ The Flea Theater
Happily married, Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile are as reliable as their GM namesake. But why are they and the rest of...
Friday 10/16 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ Exit Art
Last year, Abu Dhabi bought up 90% of the Chrysler Building, an asterisk on any architectural map of New York. It's...
Friday 10/16 @ The Joyce Theater
Renowned Italian company Balletto Teatro di Torino makes its New York debut with works by resident choreographer Matteo Levaggi. Performances are...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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,...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
The Tiger Lillies: Dark and Deviant
Friday 10/16 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Led by Martyn Jacques in menacing facial makeup that's a cross between an evil clown and a commedia dell'arte character, the...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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....
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Friday 10/16 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 10/16 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Friday 10/16 @ 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
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ Sputnik
Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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,...
Friday 10/16 @ 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
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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)
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Friday 10/16 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Friday 10/16 @ Film Forum
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Friday 10/16 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Braid your challah and take it home to bake! PLUS, decorate cookies and color your very own reusable Shababa Bakery tote...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Friday 10/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Friday 10/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Friday 10/16 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 10/16 @ 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
Friday 10/16 @ 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)
Friday 10/16 @ 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
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Admission is free for all visitors during Target Free Friday Nights, sponsored by Target, every Friday evening, 4:00–8:00 p.m. Tickets for...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 10/16 @ 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
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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....
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Jackass: The Movie (2002) and Two Shorts
Friday 10/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
Jackass: The...
Friday 10/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of MoMA's ContemporAsian film series
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In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Friday 10/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Friday 10/16 @ 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
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Friday 10/16 @ 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. ...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Friday 10/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Friday 10/16 @ Lincoln Center
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Friday 10/16 @ Symphony Space
The Thalia Follies troupe kicks off their sixth season of political cabaret with with songs, sketches, and satire covering the Mayoral...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Friday 10/16 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Friday 10/16 @ 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”
Friday 10/16 @ 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
Friday 10/16 @ 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,...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 10/16 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
John Jahnke / Hotel Savant: The Archery Contest
Friday 10/16 @ Performance Space 122
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York "...one of the highlights of the fall season at...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 10/16 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night from 7-10pm, the Rubin Museum is free to everyone. Have a drink with friends in the K2 Lounge,...
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 10/16 @ 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...
