Events on Thursday, October 8
Thursday 10/ 8 @ The Bell House-
For those unable to make the trek to Oktoberfest, the Bell House has the next best thing. This celebratory mashup combines...
Film—Visiones: Latino Art and Culture, Parts 1 and 2
Thursday 10/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the Met and come see Visiones: Latino Art and Culture, Parts 1 and 2, produced by...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The passion, enthusiasm and conviction in Randy Houser’s music...
Michael Haneke in person with a preview of The White Ribbon
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Winner of the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a highlight of the New York Film Festival,...
The Losers Lounge Tribute to David Bowie
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Joe's Pub
The Losers Lounge is back with an all new tribute to DAVID BOWIE on October 8th, 9th...
Flashy and Trashy w/ DJ Jay McElfresh
Thursday 10/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Flashy and...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ The Bowery Presents
Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 353-1600
Get directions www.websterhall.com...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Erin McCarley calls the music on her debut album,...
Moving Image Masterpieces: METROPOLIS
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum in partnership with Queens Theatre in the Park will present six of the greatest, must-see films of all...
Reading and Panel on Coming Out in Teen Fiction
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Authors Lee Bantle, Nick Burd, and Brian Sloan read from their novels and discuss writing gay characters in young adult books.
Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen - The Ache of Possibility
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Joe's Pub
"Jenkins will knock you flat….I've never been so seduced by music completely new to me yet as embraceable as any from...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ The Mercury Lounge
Somewhere beyond nostalgia, beyond the garage, somewhere beyond the...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ LIVE from the NYPL
Over the past few seasons, Met General Manager Peter Gelb has enlisted some of the world's greatest directors to heighten the...
Ongoing Events
Big Dance Theater: Comme Toujours Here I Stand
Thursday 10/ 8 @ The Kitchen
From Robert Maxwell epics to nude acrobatic dance shows, the Kitchen is always working to stretch the boundaries of theatre. We're...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Marlborough Chelsea
This exhibition follows Will Ryman's popular springtime showing of The Bed at the Saatchi Gallery Project Room in London. Here, the...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
An Evening Without Monty Python
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ The Flea Theater
Happily married, Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile are as reliable as their GM namesake. But why are they and the rest of...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Reviving a play from 2001 may seem hasty, but Lucy Thurber's Killers and Other Family thrives in 2009. This one-act thriller...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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....
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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,...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Exit Art
Last year, Abu Dhabi bought up 90% of the Chrysler Building, an asterisk on any architectural map of New York. It's...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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,...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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,...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years
Thursday 10/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Just before the release of Where the Wild Things Are on October 16, Spike Jonze gets his first retrospective, and with...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Film Forum
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ The Living Theatre
A misunderstood girl like Lizzie Borden deserves nothing less than her own rock musical, and Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Ursula Eagly/Ori Flomin/Mina Nishimura: Fields of Ida/Toronto/Timmy's idea
Thursday 10/ 8 @ New York Live Arts
Ursula Eagly builds strange yet recognizable worlds. Her newest solo, Fields of Ida, is set on a bare stage, where movements...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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....
John Jahnke / Hotel Savant: The Archery Contest
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Performance Space 122
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York "...one of the highlights of the fall season at...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Thursday 10/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
MoMA Presents: Hilla Medalia’s After the Storm
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Asia Society and Museum
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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 Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Thursday 10/ 8 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 10/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Thursday 10/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
In Cahoots: Maurice Sendak and Spike Jonze
Thursday 10/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
The Thursday,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Men in Orbit (1979) & G Man (1978) & She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978)
Thursday 10/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction...
