Events on Tuesday, October 6
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios
Among Eryc Taylor and company's four new works is the high-flying Ginga, a duet of theatrical Afro-Brazilian capoeira set to Katy...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (Broadway at 60th St, 5th fl, 212.258.9595)
Despite playing with everyone from Chet Baker to Art Blakey, bassist Dennis Irwin couldn't afford health insurance and passed away last...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Based outside of Glasgow, The Twilight Sad formed in late 2003. The band played a couple of gigs at the 13th...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Barnes & Noble
Zinger-slinging journalist, historian, author, and radio personality Sarah Vowell has spent the last several years working on The Wordy Shipmates, a...
Elizabeth and the Catapult/ The Paper Raincoat
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
Take a clear and powerful voice, add a memorable melody and set it to unique, sophisticated harmonies,...
Discussing Dylan: Dance Beneath the Diamond Sky with One Hand Waving Free
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Bob Dylan's career in music, film, literature, and art, has been an incomparable journey for both Dylan himself and his audience....
Modern Beauty: 100 Years of Music for Dance
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Many of the most thrilling works by the greatest composers of the past century were written for the theater of dance....
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Danielle de Niese
Mozart Arias CD Release Concert...
Punch Up Your Life: Free comedy hosted by Jessi Klein and Pete Holmes
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A comedy series hosted by Jessi Klein and Pete Holmes. Special Guests TBA!
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Sufjan Stevens was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in the chilly upper reaches of the Lower Peninsula. A self-taught...
Modern Beauty: 100 Years of Music for Dance
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Many of the most thrilling works by the greatest composers of the past century were written for the theater of dance....
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join those who share a deep love of music in an environment where familiar masterpieces are made fresh and lesser-known artists...
Darlings, Snakes Say Hisss, Boogie Boarder, (the) Tony Castles, DJ MR A*OK
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 10.06.09
Darlings
Snakes Say Hisss
Boogie Boarder
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Tuesday 10/ 6 @ The Mercury Lounge
Oh hey, I'm LIGHTS--a fairly small-sized, Canadian girl who makes intergalactic-electro music. What do I mean by intergalactic? I'm glad you...
Lou Barlow (of Dinosaur Jr. / Sebadoh)
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ The Mercury Lounge
Lou Barlow has been writing and recording songs, sometimes...
Modern Beauty: 100 Years of Music for Dance
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Many of the most thrilling works by the greatest composers of the past century were written for the theater of dance....
“The Enchantress of Florence”: A Conversation With Salman Rushdie
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, The Enchantress of Florence, brings together Florentine Italy and Mughal India, and the cultures that lie between...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
"Absolute perfection."
—Variety
He's worked with Stan Getz, Miles Davis and Bobby McFerrin. He's won 14 Grammys....
Akiko Yano with Will Lee & Chris Parker
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
“Akiko Yano is a world class songwriter with a clear, gentle, wide-ranging voice. She is also an...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Marlborough Chelsea
This exhibition follows Will Ryman's popular springtime showing of The Bed at the Saatchi Gallery Project Room in London. Here, the...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Film Forum
From Marilyn Monroe's airy delivery to the liberal antics of on-the-lam musicians Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
An Evening Without Monty Python
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Town Hall
All-new players enact the classic sketch bits of Monty Python's Flying Circus, under the keen and expert eye of directors Eric...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Legendary avant-garde filmmaker Alain Resnais opens the NYFF's strongest lineup in years with Wild Grass, which beguiled critics at Cannes. Other...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Cedar City Falls: A Mid-West Conflict
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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”
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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)
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
AsiaStore Special SALE Event: Indian Designer Showcase
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ Asia Society and Museum
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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. ...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Tuesday 10/ 6 @ 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...
