Events on Friday, October 30
Friday 10/30 @ Various DUMBO locations
Artlog.com and Brooklyn Arts Council are trick-or-treating early this year, and in lieu of candy, they're on the hunt for art....
Simian Mobile Disco w/ Phenomenal Handclap Band @ Webster Hall
Friday 10/30 @ The Bowery Presents
SMD's latest release, Temporary Pleasure, finds the eclectic knob-twiddlers getting help from some famous (and talented) friends, including Gruff Rhys and...
Friday 10/30 @ 92YTribeca
Wooden Shjips, Effi Briest and Silver Summit will precede the screening performing songs and interpretations of the original score composed by...
Variety Evening at the New Museum
Friday 10/30 @ New Museum
Berlin-based collective VVORK present a contemporary variety show, composed of daring and experimental translations of original artworks. Variety is inspired by...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi , DJ Herbert Holler and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 10/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Friday 10/30 @ 92YTribeca
Join 92YTribeca and The Third Floor for a very special screening of Robin Hardy’s original 1973 cult horror masterpiece The Wicker...
NYU Show: Pissed Jeans Awesome Color Drunkdriver Sleepies Ex-Wife My Mind
Friday 10/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 10.30.09
NYU Show:
Pissed Jeans
Awesome Color
Drunkdriver
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Senari & Teenwolf Present AAAHHOWWW!
Friday 10/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 10.30.09
Senari & Teenwolf Present
AAAHHOWWW!
10pm
$5 at...
Kindergarten / Urban Sun / Otis / Harper Simon / Amreicans
Friday 10/30 @ The Mercury Lounge
Halloween Party! Kindergarten - 12:00 Urban Sun - 11:00 OTiS - 10:00 Early Show Harper Simon - 8:30 Americans - 7:30...
TONIGHT Sarah Silverman at the Rubin Museum
Friday 10/30 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Sarah Silverman sits down on stage with Jungian analyst Michael Vannoy Adams to interpret a page from Carl Jung's Red Book...
Friday 10/30 @ Joe's Pub
49 Swimming Pools is Co-presented by Maison Francaise of Washington 49 Swimming Pools...
Friday 10/30 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with the Dum Dum Girls. The King Khan & BBQ Show is the most revered band in their scene,...
Friday 10/30 @ Asia Society and Museum
Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: Modern Art
Friday 10/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of Modern art! This Friday evening come and take part in this unique opportunity...
Friday 10/30 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Relive or redeem your grade school humiliations, but with beer! With Jen Dziura and bobbyblue from the Williamsburg Bee. Free popcorn,...
The "Triple S" starring Dan Ahdoot and Jordan Carlos
Friday 10/30 @ Joe's Pub
The "Triple S" is a 2 person comedy variety show featuring Dan Ahdoot (Comedy Central, MTV) and...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/30 @ Ameringer McEnery Yohe
LA-based artist Rebecca Campbell's paintings, including several large-scale works applying her eerie sense of space and sensitivity to anatomy and gesture,...
1962 New York Film Critics Circle
Friday 10/30 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
1962: The Yankees were Champs, Silent Spring raised hell about Earth, and "Bond, James Bond" leapt off the page with Dr....
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ Metropolitan Opera House
The Metropolitan Opera brings back Robert Lepage's cutting-edge take on Hector Berlioz's lush opera, itself based on Goethe's classic cautionary tale...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ BLT Gallery
With a tagline like "not polluted in gimmicks, just a shot," BLT Gallery's latest exhibition promises to be an antidote to...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ The Duke Theater
With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Metropolitan Pavilion
If you feel a chocolate jones coming on, head over to the Metropolitan Pavilion for a bittersweet, semi-sweet, and cream-filled weekend....
Friday 10/30 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
A "Made in Japan" horror film means buckle up. Hausu (House), for one, is a 1977 trip into the realm of...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Friday 10/30 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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,...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Friday 10/30 @ Fuse Gallery
SVA grad and sought-after illustrator Arik Roper has created unforgettable album art for bands as diverse as High on Fire and...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Australian arts company Aphids creates an intense meditation on sisterly bonds in A Quarreling Pair, a program of three miniature-puppet plays....
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Friday 10/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Friday 10/30 @ New York Live Arts
During her residency Joyce is exploring ideas from a recent trip to Japan where she studied Noh dance, music, and chants....
Friday 10/30 @ 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....
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ Performance Space 122
By appointment only: A rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine.
An enclosed space...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 10/30 @ 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
Friday 10/30 @ 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”
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Friday 10/30 @ 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,...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 10/30 @ 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,...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 10/30 @ 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”
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ New York Live Arts
“This powerful theatrical and emotionally charged experience is shockingly relevant to our present cultural and historic moment.” - Anne Bogart, Artistic...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Friday 10/30 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ BAM
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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)
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Friday 10/30 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
MoMA Presents: John Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence
Friday 10/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Saturday, October 24 screening will be introduced by actress Gena Rowlands.
To...
Friday 10/30 @ 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.
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Friday 10/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 10/30 @ 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”
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
