Events on Tuesday, November 17
Andrew D'Angelo's Gay Disco Trio
Tuesday 11/17 @ Drom
Andrew D'Angelo's Gay Disco Trio, as might be surmised from their name, plays exuberant, rollicking jazz music. With D'Angelo on alto...
Tuesday 11/17 @ The Mercury Lounge
Carney is a 4-piece Los Angeles musical phenomenon, who despite their young age (all 4 members are in their early 20's),...
Tuesday 11/17 @ Capitale
For those who love a good story, it's hard to beat the Moth's intimate monthly gatherings at the Players Club. Tonight,...
Tuesday 11/17 @ The Apple Store, Soho
Aussie director John Hillcoat comes ready to discuss his intense adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer winner The Road. The post-apocalyptic story...
Tuesday 11/17 @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
Rising up close to ten years after their initial disbandment in mid-'99, the Jesus Lizard have reunited and are now touring...
Robert Frank Film: "Last Supper" (1992)
Tuesday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents this film directed by Robert Frank to accompany the special exhibition Looking In: Robert Frank’s "The Americans," on...
Tuesday 11/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Calder Quartet w/...
A very special evening with A CAMP
Tuesday 11/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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A very special...
Bethany & Rufus Roots Quartet featuring Yacouba Moumouni and Bonga Jean-Baptiste
Tuesday 11/17 @ Joe's Pub
Drawing from the roots music traditions of America, Niger, and Haiti; Bethany & Rufus (Bethany Yarrow and...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Pies, both sweet and savory, have a fascinating history. find out the stories behind pie-eating contests and the three-foot-high pasta pies...
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Tuesday 11/17 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Fool's Gold and Local Natives. Birthed by Mouth in the year two-thousand and five, young Edward Sharpe had...
Tuesday 11/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
Faces of Tsai Ming-Liang Film Series
In Mandarin with English subtitles Three characters
Tuesday 11/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Nat Geo Music...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the Other Israel Film Festival.
In this Cannes Film Festival...
92Y/JDate® Wine Tasting & Mixer, Ages 30s / 40s
Tuesday 11/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
In a special partnership event with JDate®, mix and socialize over a robust selection of wines! A wine expert will guide...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Craig A. Kasper, AuD
Studies have shown that humans' capacity to hear...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Special Guest Rebecca Miller, with a Preview of her Film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009).
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Tuesday Night Tête-à-têtes / Ages 40 and up
Tuesday 11/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
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Jim Trotta
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Ongoing Events
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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,...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Tuesday 11/17 @ The Duke Theater
With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy...
Tuesday 11/17 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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,...
Tuesday 11/17 @ Film Forum
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ Anthology Film Archives
The French have lavished Jerry Lewis with bouquets throughout his career, while our love song for the madcap comedian has been...
Tuesday 11/17 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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,...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
Tuesday 11/17 @ Deitch Projects
Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos....
Tuesday 11/17 @ Classic Stage Company
The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ American Museum of Natural History
Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites...
Tuesday 11/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 11/17 @ Various locations
Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Tuesday 11/17 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
Postmodern dance legends Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer reunite on a shared bill for the first time since their Judson Church...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ Various locations
The writers behind Sex and the City have abandoned NYC for small-town Iowa in their newest project, Cedar City Falls: a...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 11/17 @ Metropolitan Opera House
The Metropolitan Opera brings back Robert Lepage's cutting-edge take on Hector Berlioz's lush opera, itself based on Goethe's classic cautionary tale...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Tuesday 11/17 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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...
Ace Every Interview: Getting the Job You Really Want
Tuesday 11/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Barry Cohen Job hunting is the worst job of all. Let career expert Barry Cohen teach you how to control the...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A technical examination and cleaning of one of the Met’s paintings, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, has revealed a...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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. ...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ Joe's Pub
The Mother Hips have flown under the radar as true indie music pioneers...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Tuesday 11/17 @ New Museum
For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum, Urs Fischer has taken over all three of the New Museum’s...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Tiny Tumblers is now specially priced to introduce your child to tumbling. Learn age-appropriate, skill-oriented progressions that provide a positive movement...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Tuesday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of an extraordinary portrait recently reattributed to Velázquez,...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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,...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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 Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Utilize the latest training techniques to challenge your body in new ways. This fast-paced, small-group format class uses intense circuits of...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, on view at the Met through September 6, 2010, is the first...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Tuesday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Tuesday 11/17 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/17 @ 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...
