Events on Tuesday, October 20
Tuesday 10/20 @ Webster Hall
Here We Go Magic, Luke Temple's newest project, make gorgeous, undulating folk rock with Afro-pop influences and ringing melodies. Quickly becoming...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Comedian Dave Hill brings levity to this heavy-hitting indie lineup headlined by alt-folk quintet Fanfarlo. These Brits play lush and moody...
Gensler's Shanghai Tower: Design Development of China's Tallest Tower.
Tuesday 10/20 @ Asia Society and Museum
Explore the sensational growth of Shanghai's skyline over the past three decades.
Jun Xia, Regional Design
Jewish Comedians: On Lenny Bruce
Tuesday 10/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Jeremy Dauber, moderator
Lenny Bruce is often referred to as the single...
Tuesday Night Tête-à-têtes / Ages 40 and up
Tuesday 10/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
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Jim Trotta
If you
Tuesday 10/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Jay Parini, moderator
Gore Vidal is a novelist, essayist, playwright and provocateur...
Broadcast, Atlas Sound, & Selmanaires
Tuesday 10/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Broadcast Atlas Sound Selmanaires $16 advance | $18 day of show | 18+ 7pm doors | 8pm show...
Jukebox The Ghost / Stand / The Black And White Years / Care Bears On Fire
Tuesday 10/20 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Part of CMJ Music Marathon. "DC's Jukebox the Ghost are an extremely entertaining piano-pop trio that writes cleverly optimistic songs....
Tuesday 10/20 @ Symphony Space
New York Times Op-Ed columnist Frank Rich is joined by new NEA chairman Rocco Landesman for a conversation about the state...
Break Free from Corporate America and Be Your Own Boss
Tuesday 10/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Annemarie Segaric
Would you like to work for yourself but wonder how...
Conversations with Culture: “Contemporary Performance and God"
Tuesday 10/20 @ Performance Space 122
TONIGHT - FREE to the public.
Oct 20 7pm 11th Street Bar (between avenues A & B)...
Chris Byars Plays the Music of Gigi Gryce
Tuesday 10/20 @ Joe's Pub
For the last three years, The Chris Byars Quartet has served as cultural ambassadors; the...
Bob Weir & Ratdog @ Grand Ballroom, Manhattan Center
Tuesday 10/20 @ The Bowery Presents
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Ongoing Events
Tuesday 10/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Cedar City Falls: A Mid-West Conflict
Tuesday 10/20 @ Various locations
The writers behind Sex and the City have abandoned NYC for small-town Iowa in their newest project, Cedar City Falls: a...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Tuesday 10/20 @ The Joyce Theater
The always excellent Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet opens its fall season with the New York premiere of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Orbo...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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,...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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,...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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,...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Superfine Gallery and Restaurant
Jo Andres, a filmmaker and choreographer from NYC's '80s experimental art scene, presents a collection of her visual artwork for the...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Exit Art
Last year, Abu Dhabi bought up 90% of the Chrysler Building, an asterisk on any architectural map of New York. It's...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Film Forum
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Tuesday 10/20 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 10/20 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
"Give it a sweet melody" was the aesthetic must for Vestie Davis, a painter who froze mid-century New York in winsome,...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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,...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Tuesday 10/20 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Tuesday 10/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Tuesday 10/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman savors the food shown in two Lilly Martin Spencer paintings in the...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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”
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Punch Up Your Life: Free comedy hosted by Jessi Klein and Pete Holmes
Tuesday 10/20 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A comedy series hosted by Jessi Klein and Pete Holmes. Starring JANEANE GAROFALO, MAX SILVESTRI, & AMBER TOZER.
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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”
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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. ...
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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”
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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 Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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
Tuesday 10/20 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Tuesday 10/20 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
