Events on Friday, October 9
Friday 10/ 9 @ Terminal 5
The Gossips' latest album, Music for Men has been out digitally for a while, but if you wanted the jewel case,...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Smalls (183 W 10th St, 212.252.5091)
A Hayes Greenfield show offers a truly authentic New York jazz experience. Tonight, the alto saxophonist and his quartet — Neal...
Symposium: Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In this one-day conference that is open to the public, leading international scholars discuss topics related to the exhibition Augustus Saint-Gaudens...
The Sexteto Rodriguez Cuban-Jewish All Stars
Friday 10/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
"Roberto Juan Rodriguez is a bona fide innovator, that rare musician whose creative vision… breathes joy and melancholy with tremendous emotional...
Owen (Mike Kinsella of Joan of Arc / American Football)
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Mercury Lounge
In the past decade, Chicago's Mike Kinsella has played...
The Losers Lounge Tribute to David Bowie
Friday 10/ 9 @ Joe's Pub
The Losers Lounge is back with an all new tribute to DAVID BOWIE on October 8th, 9th...
Friday 10/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 10.09.09
The Freedom Party
w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ...
The Losers Lounge Tribute To David Bowie
Friday 10/ 9 @ Joe's Pub
The Losers Lounge is back with an all new tribute to DAVID BOWIE on October 8th, 9th and 10th. With all...
William Forsythe & Alva Noë at LIVE from the NYPL
Friday 10/ 9 @ LIVE from the NYPL
World-renowned choreographer William Forsythe and cognitive scientist Alva Noë examine consciousness as a kind of dance. Together they will explore Noë’s assertion...
Crooked Disc feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 10/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Crooked Disco
featuring DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
21+
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Friday 10/ 9 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Minneapolis based singer-songwriter Mason Jennings has signed to Brushfire...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and The Moodswing Orchestra
Friday 10/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
The Moodswing Orchestra
7pm doors...
Movies and Martinis Mix: Belle de Jour
Friday 10/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Fantasy and reality blur when a young housewife who revels in masochistic daydreams begins working in a high class brothel in...
Pierced Arrows (members of Dead Moon)
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Mercury Lounge
After the demise of underground legends DEAD MOOD in...
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Jamey Johnson - He could be basking in his songwriting accolades, but Jamey Johnson remains a restlessly creative maverick. Jamey is...
The Accidentals in concert at the Rubin Museum
Friday 10/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Called the "best a cappella group in America" by the New York Post, The Accidentals offer a unique mixed voice octet....
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Monster Island
From the Land of the Rising Sun comes a new genus of video artists, and Tokyo-based gallery Pepper's Project curates a...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
An Evening Without Monty Python
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Film Forum
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Marlborough Chelsea
This exhibition follows Will Ryman's popular springtime showing of The Bed at the Saatchi Gallery Project Room in London. Here, the...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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,...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Flea Theater
Happily married, Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile are as reliable as their GM namesake. But why are they and the rest of...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Big Dance Theater: Comme Toujours Here I Stand
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Kitchen
From Robert Maxwell epics to nude acrobatic dance shows, the Kitchen is always working to stretch the boundaries of theatre. We're...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
AsiaStore Special SALE Event: Indian Designer Showcase
Friday 10/ 9 @ Asia Society and Museum
Spike Jonze: Award-Winning Music Videos and Short Films, Part 1
Friday 10/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
In which...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
John Jahnke / Hotel Savant: The Archery Contest
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Friday 10/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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,...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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: Joan Braderman’s The Heretics
Friday 10/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Friday, October 9 screening includes a discussion with director Joan Braderman.
The...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Ursula Eagly/Ori Flomin/Mina Nishimura: Fields of Ida/Toronto/Timmy's idea
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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 Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
Sure to...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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....
MoMA Presents: Hilla Medalia’s After the Storm
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
