Events on Friday, November 20
Friday 11/20 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
***All tickets for the August 19th show will be honored for the new date.*** The Brooklyn-based alternative rock quartet the Honorary...
Exhibition Overview—Vermeer's Masterpiece "The Milkmaid"
Friday 11/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid, organized to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of New York as "New Amsterdam,"...
Friday 11/20 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Earthless and US Christmas. Baroness plays an eclectic brand of heavy metal, embracing the ferocity and sharp technique...
Friday 11/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Reverb: Metropolis...
Friday 11/20 @ Joe's Pub
Ned Sublette was born in 1951 in Lubbock, Texas. Bilingual in English and Spanish since childhood, he...
Last Chance—Roof Garden Café and Martini Bar open Friday Night
Friday 11/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s Roof Garden Café will close for the season on Sunday at 4:30 p.m.! Stop by the Met's rooftop on Friday...
Erik Deutsch CD Release Show with Special Guest Jefferson Hamer
Friday 11/20 @ 92YTribeca
"Mr. Deutsch is an especially valuable resource....as a solo commentator and much more important, an accompanist."—Nate Chinen, New York Times
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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and Brett Dennen
Friday 11/20 @ Terminal 5
Sean Bones will open for Grace Potter a& Company. Potter and the Nocturnals grew from the roots of rock &...
JEFFERY AND COLE CASSEROLE: LIVE!
Friday 11/20 @ Joe's Pub
Not since Rugrats Live! has a television show burst onto the theatrical stage with such public anticipation. People are going ape...
Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: Japanese Art
Friday 11/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of Japanese art! This Friday evening come and take part in this unique opportunity for...
Friday 11/20 @ Joe's Pub
The doppelgänger of Antony Hegarty, of eerie NY chamber poppers Antony and the Johnsons, has been unearthed...
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / These United States / M-Lab (Record Release!) / The Canon Logic
Friday 11/20 @ The Mercury Lounge
Late Show Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - 11:30 These United States - 10:30 Early Show M-Lab (Record Release!) - 9:00 The...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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...
Anna Halprin, Anne Collod & guests: parades & changes, replays
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ Film Forum
Holiday is Jacques Tati's superfine intro to Monsieur Hulot, the French director's lovable alias and a magnet for pratfalls and faux...
Friday 11/20 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ Center Stage
Christina and Amy are lifelong best friends, but the two couldn’t be more different. Christina comes from a wealthy but emotionally...
Friday 11/20 @ The Flea Theater
While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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...
The Lesser Seductions of History
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ Deitch Projects
Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos....
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Friday 11/20 @ Various
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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,...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ New York Theatre Ballet, The Dance Gallery
Spread throughout its season, these NYTB evenings showcase its current projects and establish closer ties to the audience. The company's exploration...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ Various locations
Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city...
Friday 11/20 @ The Duke Theater
With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy...
One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ Village East Cinema
Constructed by Noah Buschel, this neo-noir stars Michael Shannon as a Chicago P.I. with — surprise, surprise — a don't-ask past...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ Florence Gould Hall
French composer and provocateur Claude Debussy sent tremors through the opera world in 1902 with his scandalous Pelleas et Melisande. Next...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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,...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ The Morgan Library
J.P. Morgan loved to purchase art from every era. This amazing eclecticism is reflected in his museum's rotating exhibition schedule, which...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Friday 11/20 @ Lincoln Center
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Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Friday 11/20 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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,...
Friday 11/20 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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....
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Friday 11/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Friday 11/20 @ 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,...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Friday 11/20 @ 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...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Friday 11/20 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Friday 11/20 @ 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
Friday 11/20 @ 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 11/20 @ 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...
