Events on Wednesday, October 7
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ Philosophy Hall, Columbia University
It's been a whopping 150 years since Charles Darwin penned On the Origin of Species, the groundbreaking treatise on evolution. Though...
Happy Ending Music & Reading Series feat. Stephen Elliott w/ Tanguy Viel and Larkin Grimm
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
From humble beginnings in residence at its namesake bar on the border of Chinatown and the LES to the swankier digs...
InDigest 1207 Reading Series presents J.C. Hallman
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
InDigest 1207 Reading Series Presents: J.C. Hallman Hallman grew up in Southern California. He is the author of The Chess Artist,...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Closely Watched Films, hosted by Elliott Kalan.
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Manic Street Preachers @ Webster Hall
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ The Bowery Presents
Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
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Wednesday 10/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Love in Song: Love, Lust & Sexual Politics from Foster to Springsteen
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
The love song is the bread and butter of popular music, and the greatest songwriters, from Foster to Cole Porter, Dylan...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The Rural Alberta Advantage was born out of singer/songwriter Nils Edenloff's exodus from the province that inspired the band's name and...
Michael Leonhart & The Avramina 7 with special guest Yuka Honda
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
Born into a musical family, Michael Leonhart has developed into one of the most imaginative musicians of...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Marlborough Chelsea
This exhibition follows Will Ryman's popular springtime showing of The Bed at the Saatchi Gallery Project Room in London. Here, the...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
An Evening Without Monty Python
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Big Dance Theater: Comme Toujours Here I Stand
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ The Kitchen
From Robert Maxwell epics to nude acrobatic dance shows, the Kitchen is always working to stretch the boundaries of theatre. We're...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ Film Forum
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
John Jahnke / Hotel Savant: The Archery Contest
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ Performance Space 122
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York "...one of the highlights of the fall season at...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
MoMA Presents: Hilla Medalia’s After the Storm
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Hilla Medalia’s powerful, absorbing After the Storm reveals a New Orleans that most of us have never seen before. The film...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
AsiaStore Special SALE Event: Indian Designer Showcase
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ Asia Society and Museum
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
MoMA Presents: Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Where Is Where?
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Eija-Liisa Ahtila (b. Finland, 1959), an artist celebrated for her often interrelated moving image installation pieces and 35mm films, returns to...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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)
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
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Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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....
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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. ...
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Deadly Art of Survival (1979) & Underground USA (1980)
Wednesday 10/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction...
