Events on Thursday, November 19
Thursday 11/19 @ BAM
With its ever-changing landscape, living in a city like New York is an experience that requires adaptability. Look no further than...
Thursday 11/19 @ Church of St Paul & St Andrew
A 500-year-old devotional tradition in India, Kirtan involves a call and response of hymns or mantras. Long Island native Krishna Das...
Thursday 11/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Rita Dove will be introduced by Major Jackson. Tom Sleigh will introduce Philip Levine.
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Thursday 11/19 @ 92YTribeca
Co-presented by Chicken & Egg Pictures and Working Films with Judith Helfand in person along with other guest speakers.
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Thursday 11/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Chef Mike Colameco
Chef Mike Colameco presents monthly cooking demonstrations at the...
Watteau and Words: A Reading of French Poetry
Thursday 11/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of the Met and Fiske Kimball Professor in the History of Culture and Museums at...
Flashy and Trashy w/ DJ Jay McElfresh
Thursday 11/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 11.19.09 Flashy and Trashy w/ DJ Jay...
Thursday 11/19 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Laura Veirs and Mimicking Birds. Who is Blind Pilot?
Israel Nebeker (vocals, guitar) and Ryan...
Jewish Comedians: On Woody Allen
Thursday 11/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Jeremy Dauber, moderator
Woody Allen's extraordinary early career as a writer and...
Sung Hwan Kim: One from In the room
Thursday 11/19 @ New Museum
Directed by Sung Hwan Kim
With dogr and Byungjun Kwon The performance at the New Museum is a variation of...
Community Preview & Launch of Target Free Thursdays at David Rubenstein Atrium
Thursday 11/19 @ Lincoln Center
Don’t miss the one-time-only free Community Preview of the new David Rubenstein Atrium on...
Thursday 11/19 @ Joe's Pub
“...there are two new kids on the classical guitar block -- they're from Brazil, and they're armed...
Moving Image Masterpieces: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Thursday 11/19 @ Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum in partnership with Queens Theatre in the Park will present six of the greatest, must-see films...
Thursday 11/19 @ Terminal 5
Slightly Stoopid is joined by Aggrolites and Inspector Cluzo. Illustrating the perfect underground success story (and a testament to the...
Thursday 11/19 @ The Bowery Presents
Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 353-1600
Get directions www.websterhall.com...
Thursday 11/19 @ Joe's Pub
Panjabi MC entered into the music industry in 1993. He began by writing lyrics and rapping at...
Thursday 11/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents these four films by Robert Frank to accompany the special exhibition Looking In: Robert Frank’s "The Americans," on...
Sleigh Bells, Popo, Zuzuka and Death Traitor DJs
Thursday 11/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 11.19.09
Sleigh Bells
Popo
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The Dig / Locksley / Saadi / The Cashmere Blackout
Thursday 11/19 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Dig - 10:30 Locksley - 9:30 Saadi - 8:30 The Cashmere Blackout - 7:30 New York City's The Dig...
Thursday 11/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Elissa Meth
For aficionados who already know the rules and are looking...
Thursday 11/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 11.19.09
REVERB: Metropolis...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/19 @ 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
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Anna Halprin, Anne Collod & guests: parades & changes, replays
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ Classic Stage Company
The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Thursday 11/19 @ Deitch Projects
Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos....
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Thursday 11/19 @ The Duke Theater
With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy...
Thursday 11/19 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Film Forum
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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)
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Anthology Film Archives
The French have lavished Jerry Lewis with bouquets throughout his career, while our love song for the madcap comedian has been...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Fuse Gallery
SVA grad and sought-after illustrator Arik Roper has created unforgettable album art for bands as diverse as High on Fire and...
Thursday 11/19 @ Various locations
Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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....
One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
The Lesser Seductions of History
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ Various
Co-chaired by Derek Lam and Olivia Palermo, Fashion for Action combines designer ready-to-wear and charity into a four-day event. A ticketed...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/19 @ BLT Gallery
With a tagline like "not polluted in gimmicks, just a shot," BLT Gallery's latest exhibition promises to be an antidote to...
Thursday 11/19 @ Center Stage
Christina and Amy are lifelong best friends, but the two couldn’t be more different. Christina comes from a wealthy but emotionally...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/19 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
Postmodern dance legends Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer reunite on a shared bill for the first time since their Judson Church...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Thursday 11/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 11/19 @ 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—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 11/19 @ 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
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 11.18.09
John Wesley...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 11/19 @ 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
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 11/19 @ 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
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Thursday 11/19 @ Lincoln Center
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Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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: Velázquez Rediscovered
Thursday 11/19 @ 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
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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.
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 11/19 @ 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
Thursday 11/19 @ 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
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Thursday 11/19 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Thursday 11/19 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Thursday 11/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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. ...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Thursday 11/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Thursday 11/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 11/19 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 11/19 @ 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”
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Thursday 11/19 @ 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...
