Events on Friday, November 6
Friday 11/ 6 @ Market Hotel
Ladies' lo-fi night out. The acclaimed all-girls (and aptly named) Vivian Girls headline a night at the intimate DIY venue, the...
Monsters of Folk - Mike Mogis, Conor Oberst, M. Ward, and Jim James @ United Palace
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Bowery Presents
An Evening With Monsters of Folk: Conor Oberst, Jim James, M Ward and Mike Mogis will be a 2 1/2 hour...
TONIGHT! Be on stage at the Rubin Museum of Art
Friday 11/ 6 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Carl Jung's recently unearthed Red Book (currently on view at the Rubin) is the inspiration for this tonight's event that delves...
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In this lecture curators and conservators discuss Vermeer's style and techniques, clarifying how the artist actually made his incredible works of...
Minne-apple in the Big Apple Happy Hour
Friday 11/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
6pm | 21+ | FREE A monthly...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, & DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 11/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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The Freedom Party
w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ...
Richard Shindell with special guest Antje Duvekot
Friday 11/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
With Sara Milonovich on viola An expatriate New Yorker now living in Argentina, Richard Shindell is...
The Ruse / Honor By August / Early Jones Street Station / Red Directors
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Mercury Lounge
Late Show The Ruse - 11:30 Honor By August - 10:30 Early Show Jones Street Station - 9:00 Red Directors -...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Friday 11/ 6 @ Asia Society and Museum
Friday 11/ 6 @ Asia Society and Museum
NYC's hottest happy hour! Asia Circle, the Society's young patrons group, hosts a cocktail evening. Reunite with friends, network with members,...
Cabaret Central: New Songs Now
Friday 11/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
An evening that points the way towards the music theatre of the future, featuring material from the...
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Real Estate. It’s rare to find something as true and beautiful as the band Girls. Listening to their...
The Medici: Artistic Patronage as Political Power
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medici patronage both in and out of Florence during the 15th century revealed uncanny strategies for using art and architecture as...
An Evening with Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop from Travis
Friday 11/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
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John Prine / Patty Griffin @ Citi Performing Arts Center – Wang Theatre (Boston, MA)
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Bowery Presents
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Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: 19th-Century Painting and Photography
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of Modern art! This Friday evening come and take part in this unique opportunity...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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,...
Friday 11/ 6 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
1962 New York Film Critics Circle
Friday 11/ 6 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
1962: The Yankees were Champs, Silent Spring raised hell about Earth, and "Bond, James Bond" leapt off the page with Dr....
Friday 11/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Stripped unfolds like a rehearsal, the lights on and the dancers clad in sweatpants. In fact, this "theater" is the studio...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Friday 11/ 6 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ The Duke Theater
With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Various locations
The sixth New York Comedy Festival brings pros and rising stars together on ten stages for a week of citywide laughter....
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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)
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
The Lesser Seductions of History
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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,...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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....
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Film Forum
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Flea Theater
Happily married, Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile are as reliable as their GM namesake. But why are they and the rest of...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Birdland
Birdland celebrates the tenth Django Reinhardt NY Festival with a week of shows that feature legendary gypsy jazz guitarist Tchavolo Schmitt...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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”
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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,...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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”
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Friday 11/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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!
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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”
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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. ...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Friday 11/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: A Different Take
Friday 11/ 6 @ Symphony Space
A retrospective of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra since its inception seven years ago, including the world premiere of a new...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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)
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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
Friday 11/ 6 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Friday 11/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
By appointment only: A rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine.
An enclosed space...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
