Events on Thursday, November 5
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Barnes & Noble
Tonight, the acclaimed writer of the metafictional New York Trilogy reads from his latest offering, Invisible. Auster's 15th novel concerns a...
William Grimes, Ruth Reichl & Dan Barber: Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
Thursday 11/ 5 @ LIVE from the NYPL
Tonight's panel is sure to whet the appetites and stimulate the minds of hungry foodies with detailed accounts of the changing...
Climate Change & Food Security - Irreversible Destiny?
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Asia Society and Museum
Roots Steppers Dubdance with Ras Muffet special appearance by Judah Eskender Tafari
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Joe's Pub
In celebration Of His Majesties King Seleassie I the 1st Coronation Aniversary Good...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Queer/Art/Film. Presented by artist Angela Dufresne.
"Apichatpong Weerasethakul...
Ray LaMontagne Solo @ Beacon Theatre
Thursday 11/ 5 @ The Bowery Presents
Performing with Dave Gutter
Thursday 11/ 5 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with: Jemina Pearl / Toro Y Moi After the breakup of popular experimental lo-fi indie rock band the Unicorns,...
Harkness Dance Center 75th Anniversary Gala
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
The seminal event of this anniversary year is our glorious gala evening, which includes an array of select performances and honorees,...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Queer/Art/Film. Presented by artist Angela Dufresne.
"Apichatpong Weerasethakul...
Albert Maysles joins The Red Book Dialogues
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Jungian analyst Laurie Layton Schapira sits down with legendary cameraman Albert Maysles as part of the Red Book Dialogues series. Inspired...
The New York Comedy Festival Presents: You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up...A Love Story
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 92YTribeca
After thirteen years of marriage, Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn have found out that “We’re just not that into us.” Though...
Amy Milan (of Stars / Broken Social Scene) / Bahamas / Blair
Thursday 11/ 5 @ The Mercury Lounge
Amy Milan (of Stars / Broken Social Scene) - 10:30 Bahamas - 9:30 Blair - 8:30 Amy Millan is a...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Australian arts company Aphids creates an intense meditation on sisterly bonds in A Quarreling Pair, a program of three miniature-puppet plays....
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts is one of the most respected art schools in the country, but it's usually the fine...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Anthology Film Archives
If Hollywood is a machine, its most prolific mechanic has to be Roger Corman. He's worked in more genres and discovered...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Birdland
Birdland celebrates the tenth Django Reinhardt NY Festival with a week of shows that feature legendary gypsy jazz guitarist Tchavolo Schmitt...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ The Flea Theater
Happily married, Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile are as reliable as their GM namesake. But why are they and the rest of...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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....
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Gallery FCB
Call it Omar Mullick's 21st-century angle on The Americans. For his first solo show, the photographer hyphenates Robert Frank's landmark observance...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
1962 New York Film Critics Circle
Thursday 11/ 5 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
1962: The Yankees were Champs, Silent Spring raised hell about Earth, and "Bond, James Bond" leapt off the page with Dr....
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Various locations
The sixth New York Comedy Festival brings pros and rising stars together on ten stages for a week of citywide laughter....
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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. ...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 11/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ New York Live Arts
Purposely placing his showings in the third quarter of his residency, Will Rawls is using the process of performance to continue...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: A Different Take
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Symphony Space
A retrospective of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra since its inception seven years ago, including the world premiere of a new...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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)
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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....
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Lincoln Center
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Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Symphony Space
An exclusive "year in the life" look at one of the leading conductors of our time on the go: rehearsal excerpts and performance...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Performance Space 122
By appointment only: A rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine.
An enclosed space...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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”
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
AsiaStore Sale Event: Kai Yin Lo Jewelry
Thursday 11/ 5 @ Asia Society and Museum
Internationally renowned designer Kai-Yin Lo presents her fall 2009 jewelry collection at AsiaStore. A designer of style and innovation, Kai-Yin Lo...
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Thursday 11/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 11/ 5 @ 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...
