Events on Wednesday, October 21
Wednesday 10/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Say what you will about their name, they probably don’t care. The Very Best, a London-based collaboration between Malawian singer Esau...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Fontana's
If there's a better combo than music and nachos, we don't know it. (Ed. note: how about music, nachos, and beer?)...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Gramercy Theatre
Saul Williams walks a fine, marvelous line between poet and punk, setting intricately constructed anti-establishment lyrics to highly syncopated beats and...
An Evening with Bidoun and Semiotexte
Wednesday 10/21 @ Light Industry
Tangier was home to Paul Bowles for 50-plus years, and in Mohamed Ulad's American in Tangier, the polymathic expat looked back...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Taschen Store NY
Walton Ford's paintings of wild animals combine the austere mastery of New England-style naturalism with a dark sexuality and satirical humor....
Out of Context: Symposium at the New Museum
Wednesday 10/21 @ New Museum
The Museum as Hub in Public: Past, Present, Future
This panel will recount the history of the Museum as...
For Feasting with Sfoglia: Bringing Italian Culture to Your Table
Wednesday 10/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Ron Suhanosky and Susan Simon
Nach Waxman, moderator
We're keeping it...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Symphony Space
Ever heard of Global Cooling? Do you know why suicide bombers should buy life insurance? Expect the unexpected as University of...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 92YTribeca
A free screening with a 16mm film print from the archive of the New York Public Library. Director Martin Bell and...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 92YTribeca
Hosted by Dan Nuxoll, Rooftop Films Program Director. Bring your under-twelve-minute film (on DVD only), get it shown and pad the...
Total Recall: One-Night Memory Workshop
Wednesday 10/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Margaret C. Sewell
Do you forget names or lose track of essential...
Julian Marley + The Uprising (feat. Stephen Marley) @ Brooklyn Bowl
Wednesday 10/21 @ The Bowery Presents
Performing with Javaughn and Gully Bank Sound System
Wednesday 10/21 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
CMJ Showcase Atlas Sound / Broadcast / The Selmanaires...
Kevin Allison of "The State" presents RISK!
Wednesday 10/21 @ Joe's Pub
RISK! is a live stage show in New York City AND an audio podcast that can be...
Cantaloupe/New Amsterdam Records CMJ Showcase
Wednesday 10/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Cantaloupe/New Amsterdam Records CMJ Showcase
featuring music of David Lang, Julia Wolfe, NOW Ensemble, & Darcy James...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Joe's Pub
Russian Red is the pseudonym of Lourdes Hernández (Madrid, 1985), an indie and folk singer-songwriter. She has...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Robin Givhan, Isaac Mizrahi
Ashley Olsen, Cindi Leive, moderator
A panel...
TONIGHT! Gloria Vanderbilt at the Rubin Museum
Wednesday 10/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Gloria Vanderbilt will reveal her dreams on stage during The Red Book Dialogues. Inspired by the Rubin Museum's exhibition of Carl...
Midnight Juggernauts / Fanfarlo / The Postelles / TigerCity / Findlay Brown / Freelance Whales
Wednesday 10/21 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Part of CMJ Music Marathon. Midnight Juggernauts released their debut album independently in Australia through their own label Siberia Records...
Ongoing Events
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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,...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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....
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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,...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Exit Art
Last year, Abu Dhabi bought up 90% of the Chrysler Building, an asterisk on any architectural map of New York. It's...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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,...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 10/21 @ The Flea Theater
Happily married, Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile are as reliable as their GM namesake. But why are they and the rest of...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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,...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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.
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind after work every Wednesday from 5-7pm at the Rubin Museum of Art. Himalayan Happy Hour means 10% off everything on...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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”
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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”
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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
Wednesday 10/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Wednesday 10/21 @ Lincoln Center
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In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Wednesday 10/21 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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”
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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,...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Wednesday 10/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Martin Johnson
Taste an assortment of wines from around the world (red,...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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”
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
SPECIAL FLAVORPILL DISCOUNT for the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Wednesday 10/21 @ Lincoln Center
SPECIAL DISCOUNT - SAVE 25% with code FP50 Use code FP50 when purchasing tickets to LSO performances on Friday, Oct 23...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Wednesday 10/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Now on view at the Met is the most extraordinary and comprehensive exhibition...
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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
Wednesday 10/21 @ 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...
