Events on Wednesday, October 28
Guernica Magazine Celebrates Five Years
Wednesday 10/28 @ powerHouse Arena
The intersection between art and politics can be a tumultuous one, and for the past five years, Guernica has spent time...
Wednesday 10/28 @ Professor Thom's
Bill Simmons' The Book of Basketball just came out, so he's here in New York to sign your copy and talk,...
Wednesday 10/28 @ Paley Center
Rod Sterling's The Twilight Zone allowed American viewers the chance to experience science fiction on television for the first time. His...
Ira Glass in conversation with Etgar Keret: Is Reality Overrated?
Wednesday 10/28 @ LIVE from the NYPL
We're big fans of the New York Public Library series and it' off-the-cuff brilliant director Paul Holdengraber, but we were pretty...
Wednesday 10/28 @ Drom
As noted on Flavorwire, the premise of Electric Literature is "simple but brilliant: pick great writers and broadcast them to the...
Our Hit Parade starring Bridgett Everett, Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn
Wednesday 10/28 @ Joe's Pub
New Africa Live presents: Keziah Jones
Wednesday 10/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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New Africa Live presents
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Thing One / The Little Death / Tab The Band
Wednesday 10/28 @ The Mercury Lounge
Thing-One - 10:30
The Little Death (NYC) - 9:30
Tab the Band - 8:30
Grandchildren - 7:30
Rising out of...
Wednesday 10/28 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The Dear Hunter began its life as one man's idea. Conceived in late 2003 and gestated until the winter of 2004,...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 92YTribeca
A work-in-progress screening co-presented by DocuClub. Director Marilyn Ness in person for discussion with moderator Robert Bahar.
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Revive Da Lie presents the premiere of The Playlist Party
Wednesday 10/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 10.28.09
Revive Da...
Kevin Allison of "The State" presents RISK!
Wednesday 10/28 @ Joe's Pub
Who Was That? Encounters with the Strangest of Strangers
Ophira Eisenberg
Andy...
Cassette From My Ex Book Launch and Mixtape Variety Show
Wednesday 10/28 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Celebrate the launch of Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves with editor Jason Bitner, Blender Magazine’s Joe...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Just in time for Halloween, discover the sweet history of candy and the origins of jelly beans, Charleston Chews, Chuckles, Tootsie...
Charles Bissell (of The Wrens) / They Might Be Giants / Nada Surf (acoustic)
Wednesday 10/28 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
RAISE THE ROOF: A Benefit for the Northside Town Hall Community and Cultural Center The Northside Town Hall Community and...
Wednesday 10/28 @ Symphony Space
Wear your turtleneck and bring your garlic as Emmy Award-winning actor Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) and and Aasif Mandvi (The Daily...
A Hidden Life: The Holocaust and Other Tragedies
Wednesday 10/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Johanna Reiss
Join Johanna Reiss for a discussion about her journey in...
Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard @ Webster Hall
Wednesday 10/28 @ The Bowery Presents
Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 353-1600
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$7 with student ID: Zipcar creater at the Rubin tonight
Wednesday 10/28 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Robin Chase managed to tap into the collective unconscious and create a product we didn't even know we wanted: car sharing....
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/28 @ New York Public Library
On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ Anthology Film Archives
If Hollywood is a machine, its most prolific mechanic has to be Roger Corman. He's worked in more genres and discovered...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ Fuse Gallery
SVA grad and sought-after illustrator Arik Roper has created unforgettable album art for bands as diverse as High on Fire and...
Wednesday 10/28 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Wednesday 10/28 @ The Duke Theater
With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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....
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ James Cohan Gallery
There are few artists whose work has raised their genre's profile as much as Bill Viola's has for video art. From...
Wednesday 10/28 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
1962 New York Film Critics Circle
Wednesday 10/28 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
1962: The Yankees were Champs, Silent Spring raised hell about Earth, and "Bond, James Bond" leapt off the page with Dr....
Wednesday 10/28 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Winner of the 2008 Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Druid Ireland's The New Electric Ballroom is a bleak...
Wednesday 10/28 @ The Lyceum Theatre, 149 West 45th Street
Feminist playwright Sarah Ruhl lets us in on the "medicinal" uses of the first vibrators. Set in the late 19th-century, In...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Wednesday 10/28 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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,...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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...
NY International Independent Film & Video Fest
Wednesday 10/28 @ Village East Cinema
The Triumph of William Henry Harrison suggests that our ninth President faked his own pneumonic death in order to pursue a...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner take a break from recording the latest National album to perform a new multimedia work in collaboration...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ New York Live Arts
“This powerful theatrical and emotionally charged experience is shockingly relevant to our present cultural and historic moment.” - Anne Bogart, Artistic...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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
Wednesday 10/28 @ Lincoln Center
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Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Learn the basic steps of Latin salsa dancing. Singles and couples welcome
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Our Hit Parade starring Bridgett Everett, Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn
Wednesday 10/28 @ Joe's Pub
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In his films and photographs, Artur Zmijewski (Polish, b. 1966) investigates social norms by observing unusual or invented situations. Seeing his...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Wednesday 10/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Wednesday 10/28 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 10/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ Performance Space 122
By appointment only: A rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine.
An enclosed space...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
MoMA Presents: John Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence
Wednesday 10/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Saturday, October 24 screening will be introduced by actress Gena Rowlands.
To...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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 10/28 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/28 @ 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...
