Events on Wednesday, November 18
Wednesday 11/18 @ Hammerstein Ballroom
When it comes to breakdancing, there's the Red Bull BC One championships and then, well, there's everything else. Nowhere else does...
Wednesday 11/18 @ Asia Society and Museum
Featuring: Farzana Shaikh, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London
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I Remember You: A Lyrics & Lyricists Centennial Tribute to Johnny Mercer
Wednesday 11/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Robert Kimball and Deborah Grace Winer, co-artistic directors
Tedd Firth, music director & piano
Charles Osgood, host
Full...
Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin
Wednesday 11/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
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Dr. Warren Allmon,
Cornell University
Our Hit Parade starring Bridgett Everett, Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn
Wednesday 11/18 @ Joe's Pub
Times New Viking / Axemen / HOME / Cave
Wednesday 11/18 @ The Mercury Lounge
Times New Viking -10:30 Axemen - 9:30 HOME - 8:30 Cave -7:30 It's surprising that more people don't know of...
Conversation with the Author: Farzana Shaikh
Wednesday 11/18 @ Asia Society and Museum
Wednesday 11/18 @ Symphony Space
Use code FLAVOR to get tickets for just $15!
This two-part evening starts at 6 pm at...
Maasai: A Warrior's Rite Of Passage (2007)
Wednesday 11/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Brad Minnich
Filmmaker Brad Minnich was granted unprecedented access to a three-day...
Le Bingo! with Murray Hill & Linda Simpson
Wednesday 11/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 11.18.09
Le Bingo!
with Murray Hill & Linda Simpson
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Wednesday 11/18 @ 92YTribeca
Bring your under-twelve-minute film (on DVD only), get it shown and pad the house with your friends–audience vote determines the winner....
Wednesday 11/18 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Join us at the Crosby Street Hotel in Soho for a special evening with animator Henry Selick.
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Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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...
Anna Halprin, Anne Collod & guests: parades & changes, replays
Wednesday 11/18 @ New York Live Arts
Presented in partnership with Performa 09 “The performers are engaging, wanting, being, and embracing an emotion; what they seem to be...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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,...
The Lesser Seductions of History
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAMcinématek's longest running series celebrates its tenth with a slew of new Czech films from both established and emerging filmmakers, including...
Wednesday 11/18 @ Fuse Gallery
SVA grad and sought-after illustrator Arik Roper has created unforgettable album art for bands as diverse as High on Fire and...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ Center Stage
Christina and Amy are lifelong best friends, but the two couldn’t be more different. Christina comes from a wealthy but emotionally...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ Deitch Projects
Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos....
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
This juicy satire of the theatre has all the right ingredients — daft fools, hard-hearted individuals, starry-eyed innocents, and many over-the-top...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ Classic Stage Company
The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
Postmodern dance legends Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer reunite on a shared bill for the first time since their Judson Church...
Wednesday 11/18 @ Film Forum
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Wednesday 11/18 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Wednesday 11/18 @ Anthology Film Archives
The French have lavished Jerry Lewis with bouquets throughout his career, while our love song for the madcap comedian has been...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ The Duke Theater
With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy...
Wednesday 11/18 @ Various locations
Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city...
Wednesday 11/18 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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...
One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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,...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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,...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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,...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Wednesday 11/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 11.18.09
John Wesley...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Wednesday 11/18 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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: Velázquez Rediscovered
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ Joe's Pub
The Mother Hips have flown under the radar as true indie music pioneers...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Rosa Rodriguez
Dress to impress by enhancing your skin tone with the...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Wednesday 11/18 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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 11/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Wednesday 11/18 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
Our Hit Parade starring Bridgett Everett, Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn
Wednesday 11/18 @ Joe's Pub
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Wednesday 11/18 @ 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...
