Events on Friday, November 13
Friday 11/13 @ American Museum of Natural History
Weave through the butterfly conservatory, spider silks, and diamond displays at the American Museum of Natural History and follow the booming...
Friday 11/13 @ The Bowery Presents
Following an epic, five-night stand at the Mercury Lounge in June, indie-pop punks Art Brut return to New York this week...
Art Battles presents The Thriller
Friday 11/13 @ M1-5
Art Battles continues as opposing teams of two are given three hours to paint while DJ Anton Glamb spins. The artists...
Friday 11/13 @ Aperture Gallery
The Slideluck Potshow is the super crossbreed of a slideshow and a potluck, combining their best assets: photography and cuisine. Bond...
Samurai Cinema Series: “The Hidden Fortress” (1958)
Friday 11/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents this film made by the great Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) to accompany the special exhibition Art of...
Friday 11/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Performing with Missy Dee backed by JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound / The Nationals / Syl Johnson / Renaldo Domino
Friday 11/13 @ Terminal 5
Playing with Seabird / Danyew. The David Crowder Band is a 6 piece Christian electronic rock and worship band from...
Friday 11/13 @ Asia Society and Museum
Faces of Tsai Ming-Liang Film Series 1992, 106 min., 35mm
In Mandarin with English subtitles The director’s first feature film,...
Strange Design - Recreating Phish Shows In Their Entirety
Friday 11/13 @ The Mercury Lounge
Late Show Strange Design - Recreating Phish Shows In Their Entirety - 10:30pm Early Show Lenka - 8:30 Colin Smith (of...
Alela Diane & Marissa Nadler w/ Orba Squara
Friday 11/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Alela Diane
Marissa Nadler
Orba Squara
7pm doors | 7:30pm...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi , DJ Herbert Holler and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 11/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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The Cribs with The Von Bondies
Friday 11/13 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Yorkshire, England's the Cribs feature three brothers: vocalists/guitarist Ryan Jarman, bassist/vocalist Gary, and drummer Ross. The trio began playing together at...
Friday 11/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 11.13.09
Happy Hour Party
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Lucius: CD Release with special guest Doug Wamble
Friday 11/13 @ Joe's Pub
Lucius' highly anticipated debut album "Songs From the Bromley House" showcases a cast of exemplary musicians fronted...
Friday 11/13 @ Joe's Pub
The Spring Standards are an energetic force of three-part...
Friday 11/13 @ 92YTribeca
Members of PFFR, creators of Wonder Showzen and Xavier: Renegade Angel, will present a selection of their video work, from music...
Trans-Siberian Orchestra @ Blue Cross Arena (Rochester, NY)
Friday 11/13 @ The Bowery Presents
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Our Lady J: Gospel for the Godless
Friday 11/13 @ Joe's Pub
“Virtuosic! Our Lady J is a big, brassy blond, with an abiding love of gospel.”
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Nicole Atkins and the Black Sea, KaiserCartel
Friday 11/13 @ 92YTribeca
Though she grew up a stone's throw from Asbury Park, the haunting pop-noir sounds of Nicole Atkins' debut album Neptune City,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ Film Forum
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ The Duke Theater
With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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...
The Civilians present You Better Sit Down
Friday 11/13 @ Galapagos Art Space
Documentary theater troupe the Civilians (Gone Missing, Paris Commune, This Beautiful City) have scoured the globe to bring intimate stories to...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ August Wilson Theatre
Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical...
Friday 11/13 @ BAM
For those tired of Cirque du Soleil's overblown act, Cirkus Cirkör might be your European spectacle fix. Joined by live band...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ Classic Stage Company
The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ Deitch Projects
Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos....
Friday 11/13 @ The Cell (338 W 23rd St)
The Hypochondriac is an outstanding update of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid. Conceived by director Matthew AJ Gregory with Shira Gregory, Chris...
Friday 11/13 @ Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
A pitch-black comedy about child murder and totalitarianism might not sound like a perfect weekend outing, but Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman,...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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,...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ Anthology Film Archives
The French have lavished Jerry Lewis with bouquets throughout his career, while our love song for the madcap comedian has been...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ Various locations
Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Friday 11/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The most comprehensive Bauhaus exhibition ever comes to MoMA this fall after its debut in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall,...
One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Friday 11/13 @ EFA Project Space
"Printeresting" is a special word, only bestowed upon the most fascinating pieces of print. Curated by Printeresting.org, the thinking person's online resource...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAM turns its curatorial eye to France for this annual roundup of New York premieres from directors such as Francois Ozon...
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Friday 11/13 @ Center Stage
Christina and Amy are lifelong best friends, but the two couldn’t be more different. Christina comes from a wealthy but emotionally...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
Robert Williams is a legend in the mythology of lowbrow, pop surrealist, hot-rod visual art. Founder of Juxtapoz and darling of...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The Lesser Seductions of History
Friday 11/13 @ The Cherry Pit
August Schulenburg's new play takes place between 1960 and 1969, when public and private worlds noisily collided in outer space, on...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ Angelika Film Center
Collapse recalls Errol Morris' superlative series of interviews, First Person. Here, it's former LAPD officer turned rebel with cause-for-alarm Michael Ruppert,...
Friday 11/13 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
PICTURES REFRAMED - World Premiere at Lincoln Center
Friday 11/13 @ Lincoln Center
GIVEAWAY: ENTER TO WIN TICKETS, DINNER & an EMI CLASSICS: COLLECTOR'S EDITION Art Book w/ DVD & CD Adventurous pianist...
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 11/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the...
Friday 11/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Friday 11/13 @ 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 Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Friday 11/13 @ 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 "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Friday 11/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Now on view at the Met is the marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo. For decades the fragmentary marble figure...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Friday 11/13 @ Lincoln Center
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Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Friday 11/13 @ Performance Space 122
By appointment only: A rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine.
An enclosed space...
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Friday 11/13 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Friday 11/13 @ 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,...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 11/13 @ 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,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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
Friday 11/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Noshes and Nibbles in the West Village and SoHo
Friday 11/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Taste delectable artisan treats, fresh mozzarella, sublime chocolate, Sicilian rice balls and homemade cannoli. End the tour with a glass of...
Friday 11/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Kara Walker offers her interpretation of the painting The Power of Music by William Sidney Mount, on view in the...
Tere O'Connor Dance: Wrought Iron Fog
Friday 11/13 @ New York Live Arts
“An austere testament to the remarkable possibilities of dance.” - The New York Times, on Rammed Earth “I am interested in...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Friday 11/13 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Friday 11/13 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Friday 11/13 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Friday 11/13 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Friday 11/13 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 11/13 @ 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)
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Noshes and Nibbles in the West Village and SoHo
Friday 11/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Taste delectable artisan treats, fresh mozzarella, sublime chocolate, Sicilian rice balls and homemade cannoli. End the tour with a glass of...
Friday 11/13 @ 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....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 11/13 @ 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...
Friday 11/13 @ 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 11/13 @ 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...
