Events on Friday, December 11

The Fiery Furnaces
 

Music

The Fiery Furnaces  

Friday 12/11 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Eleanor was constantly ridiculed in the crudest and least interesting manner by her brother Matthew. He, for his part, had
... 

Music

Chris Cubeta & The Liars Club / Emily Easterly / Misty Boyce / Caitlin Krisko & The Broadcast  

Friday 12/11 @ The Mercury Lounge

Chris Cubeta & The Liars Club - 11:30 Emily Easterly - 10:30 Misty Boyce - 9:30 Caitlin Krisko & The Broadcast... 

Blow Up in the USA

Music: DJ

Blow Up

Friday 12/11 @ 200 Orchard

Tonight, the club where "Britpop was born" is settling into the Lower East Side, making friends of London and New York's... 

100% Folk

Party

100% Folk

Friday 12/11 @ American Folk Art Museum

Tonight, the atrium at the American Folk Art Museum should be packed tight for the Young Patrons' inaugural fête. Besides no-limit... 

NewDraft Screenplay Reading

Theatre

NewDraft Screenplay Reading

Friday 12/11 @ 92YTribeca

Co-Presented by NewFest.

NewFest, the New York LGBT Film Festival is pleased... 

BOOmCha!! @ (le) poisson rouge

Music: Global

BOOmCha!! @ (le) poisson rouge

Friday 12/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Friday 12.22.09
BOOmCha!! @ (Le)
... 

Music

Arctic Monkeys

Friday 12/11 @ Terminal 5

Performing with Screaming Females   You could never accuse Arctic Monkeys of making anything easy for themselves. Their debut album 'Whatever... 

Roman Polanski's Repulsion at the Rubin

Film

Roman Polanski's Repulsion at the Rubin

Friday 12/11 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Doug Wright introduces this first of Polanski's English language films which chronicles a woman's slide into mental torment due to sexual... 

Music

Rooney @ Webster Hall

Friday 12/11 @ The Bowery Presents

Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 353-1600
Get directions www.websterhall.com
... 

The Freedom Party

Music: DJ

The Freedom Party

Friday 12/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Friday 12.11.09 The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi,... 

House of Satisfaction

Film

House of Satisfaction

Friday 12/11 @ 92YTribeca

Co-presented by Argot Pictures. Director/actor Jesse Hartman in person for post-screening Q&A.

... 

Music: Experimental

Trans-Siberian Orchestra @ Nassau Coliseum

Friday 12/11 @ The Bowery Presents

Nassau Coliseum

http://nassaucoliseum.com 
1255 Hempstead Turnpike
Long Island, NY 11553
 
(516)
... 

Music: Electronic

The Phenomenal Handclap Band

Friday 12/11 @ The Bowery Ballroom

The Phenomenal Handclap Band is a tight-knit aggregation of musicians and artists from Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. At the center of... 

The Writer's Studio Reading Series

Special Event

The Writer's Studio Reading Series

Friday 12/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Friday 12.11.09
The Writer's Studio
... 

Lady Rizo: Unescorted

Performing Arts

Lady Rizo: Unescorted

Friday 12/11 @ Joe's Pub

"Caburlesque artist Lady Rizo has, thankfully, upped the ante...
throwing in enough hyperfemininity to blow
... 

Ute Lemper: Last Tango in Berlin

Dance

Ute Lemper: Last Tango in Berlin

Friday 12/11 @ Joe's Pub

"More than a teacher and cultural ambassador representing Continental cultural history, she is a confrontational entertainer and... 

Ongoing Events

HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZE: Doug Elkins & Friends Present FRAULEIN MARIA

Dance

HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZE: Doug Elkins & Friends Present FRAULEIN MARIA

Friday 12/11 @ New York Live Arts

“Mr. Elkins’s ceaselessly brilliant and often hilarious take on The Sound of Music is a fount of unending movement ideas and... 

<em>A Little Night Music</em>

Theatre

A Little Night Music

Friday 12/11 @ Walter Kerr Theatre

Stephen Sondheim's melancholic farce receives a stirring revival due to Trevor Nunn's expertly delicate touch. Nunn elicits several nuanced performances from... 

Margaret de Lange: <em>Daughters</em>

Art: Photography

Margaret de Lange

Friday 12/11 @ Foley Gallery

Black-and-white photographs practically bleed nostalgia, and Margaret de Lange's gorgeous chromogenic prints are no exception. Her series Daughters was shot between... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 12/11 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

The Next Director: So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray

Film

So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray

Friday 12/11 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

BK's finest small-scale directors are the married focus of this seven-film series. Whether you term their portraits naturalistic or neo-realist, the... 

Theatre

The Age of Iron

Friday 12/11 @ Classic Stage Company

The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas... 

Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson, Jr.: Crime or Emergency ***PLUS BONUS EDITIONS

Performing Arts

Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson, Jr.: Crime or Emergency ***PLUS BONUS EDITIONS

Friday 12/11 @ Performance Space 122

Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in her creation:  a... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Friday 12/11 @ New World Stages

After a long and successful run on Broadway, Avenue Q makes a smooth transition to its new home at New World... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>The Missing Person</em>

Film

The Missing Person

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Tim Burton

Art

Tim Burton

Friday 12/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also... 

Banana Bag & Bodice: <em>A Very Sandwich Christmas</em>

Theatre

A Very Sandwich Christmas

Friday 12/11 @ Abrons Arts Center

Original in every sense, downtown theater troupe Banana Bag & Bodice's freewheeling cabaret scrutinizes mankind's carnivorous habits through Christmas food traditions.... 

<em>WIRED</em> Magazine's Holiday Pop-Up Store

Fashion/Style: Shopping

WIRED Pop-Up Store

Friday 12/11 @ Wired Store

The annual WIRED Holiday Pop-Up Store is back, this time setting up in the MPD. Be the first to check out... 

Tennessee Williams on Film

Festival: Film

Tennessee Williams on Film

Friday 12/11 @ IFC Center

For two weekends, this mini-retrospective highlights a few of the legendary Southern dramatist's most memorable cinematic moments, such as Elizabeth Taylor's... 

<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 12/11 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

<em>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Friday 12/11 @ IFC Center

Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to... 

Red Hot Holiday Stomp feat. Wycliffe Gordon

Music

Red Hot Holiday Stomp

Friday 12/11 @ Jazz at Lincoln Center

Prolific trombonist Wycliffe Gordon hosts this unique evening of holiday cheer inspired equally by New Orleans' famously joyous celebrations and Wynton... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Open Tables

Workshop/Class

Open Tables

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Friday 12/11 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)

After last season's successful run on Off-Broadway, Fela! takes its rightful place on the Great White Way. Choreographer Bill T. Jones'... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Friday 12/11 @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... 

Company XIV presents <em>The Apple Trilogy</em>: <em>Snow White</em>

Dance

Snow White

Friday 12/11 @ 303 Bond Street

Snow White is the last and tastiest slice of Company XIV's Apple Trilogy (Le Serpent Rouge and The Judgment of Paris... 

<em>Loaded</em>

Theatre

Loaded

Friday 12/11 @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row

Patrick (Kevin Spirtas) and Jude (Scott Kerns) are in the getting-to-know-you-better stage of their relationship after meeting through the Internet and... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Kristin Baker: <em>Splitting Twilight</em>

Art

Kristin Baker

Friday 12/11 @ Deitch Projects

Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos.... 

Beyond the Absurd: Ronald Tavel & Andy Warhol

Film

Beyond the Absurd

Friday 12/11 @ Anthology Film Archives

Tavel doesn't ring quite like Edie or Nico or Paul America, but one could say that the multitalented playwright gave Warhol... 

Thomas Chambers: <em>American Marine and Landscape Painter</em>

Art

Thomas Chambers

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>The Christmas Revels: A Celebration of the Winter Solstice</em>

Music: Global

The Christmas Revels

Friday 12/11 @ Peter Jay Sharpe Theater, Symphony Space

For 30 years, the New York Revels has celebrated the Winter Solstice, highlighting a specific culutre and its custsoms. As an... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Friday 12/11 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>Before Tomorrow</em>

Film

Before Tomorrow

Friday 12/11 @ Film Forum

Closing out the Fast Runner trilogy on an elegiac note, Before Tomorrow offers a periscope to Inuit life in 1840, when... 

<em>Candide</em> at 250: Scandal and Success

Special Event

Candide at 250

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>A Streetcar Named Desire</em>

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire

Friday 12/11 @ BAM Harvey Theater

Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is an American classic, but Australia’s Sydney Theatre Company — under the direction of the... 

Madcap Manhattan Festival

Festival: Film

Madcap Manhattan

Friday 12/11 @ Film Forum

Glamour, bon mots, and mythos define this tribute to our city's comedic heritage. There are "aha"s throughout Harold Lloyd's Speedy and... 

Acconci Studio Installation at Bronx Museum of the Arts

Art

Vito Acconci at Bronx Museum

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</em>

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Friday 12/11 @ Angelika Film Center

For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las... 

<em>Brief Encounter</em>

Theatre

Brief Encounter

Friday 12/11 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

Emma Rice's inventive adaptation of Noel Coward's Still Life and its 1945 David Lean film charms before the curtain even rises:... 

Dance and Process: Ren&eacute;e Archibald, Neal Beasley, and Steven Reker &nbsp;
&nbsp;

Dance

Dance and Process: Renée Archibald, Neal Beasley, and Steven Reker    

Friday 12/11 @ The Kitchen

[if... 

Art

Dan Flavin

Friday 12/11 @ David Zwirner

Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles... 

<em> Superior Donuts </em>

Theatre

Superior Donuts

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>Filthy Lucre: A Burlesque Christmas Carol</em>

Theatre

Filthy Lucre

Friday 12/11 @ Walkerspace

Burlesque collective Pinchbottom re-imagines Dickens' classic tale with a bit more spice. This sexy update remains faithful to the original text... 

<em> So Help Me God! </em>

Theatre

So Help Me God!

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project</em>

Art

One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>Behind the Screen</em>

Special Event

Behind the Screen

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?</em>

Film

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

Friday 12/11 @ IFC Center

More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Downtown Alliance presents <em>Re:Construction</em>

Art

Re:Construction

Friday 12/11 @ Various locations

Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 

Zero Film Festival

Festival: Film

Zero Film Festival

Friday 12/11 @ Various locations

Freed from the fetters/influence of studio dollars and cents, the films in this festival display creativity at its purest and most... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Friday 12/11 @ 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,... 

<em>Black Christmas</em> (1974)

Film

Black Christmas

Friday 12/11 @ Landmark Sunshine

Before he clogged Yuletide airtimes with A Christmas Story reruns, director Bob Clark held a different sort of stranglehold on the... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Friday 12/11 @ Barrow Street Theater

David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... 

<em>Race</em>

Theatre

Race

Friday 12/11 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

David Mamet gets his teeth back in this fast-paced and highly entertaining new play. The all-star cast handle Mametese with aplomb... 

The Brick presents Fight Fest

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

Fight Fest

Friday 12/11 @ The Brick Theater

The Brick's three-week Fight Fest celebrates the art and grace of fight choreography and features the premiere of festival curator Tim... 

Jim McHugh: <em>Let's Get Lost</em>

Art: Photography

Jim McHugh

Friday 12/11 @ Farmani Gallery

As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of... 

Robert Williams:<em> Conceptual Realism: In the Service of the Hypothetical </em>

Art

Robert Williams

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>Nightingale</em>

Theatre

Nightingale

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion</em>

Fashion/Style

American Beauty

Friday 12/11 @ FIT Museum

American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy... 

The Flea presents <em>The Great Recession</em>

Theatre

The Great Recession

Friday 12/11 @ The Flea Theater

While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,... 

<em>She Like Girls</em>

Theatre

She Like Girls

Friday 12/11 @ Ohio Theatre

"I don't know what I am, but I know how I feel," declares Kia Clark, an African-American teenager coming to terms... 

<em>Hanging Fire</em>: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Art

Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>Les Contes d'Hoffman</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Les Contes d'Hoffman

Friday 12/11 @ Metropolitan Opera House

Theatrical director Bart Sher (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) re-envisions Jacques Offenbach's popular opera about the crazy imagination of... 

Bill Viola: <em>Bodies of Light</em>

Art

Bill Viola

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>Vestie Davis' New York</em>

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Friday 12/11 @ 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,... 

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Art

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Friday 12/11 @ Rubin Museum of Art

The title of this Rubin exhibition cites the "churning" sea of Hinduism's creation belief and the West's for-science explorations of the... 

<em>Groovaloo Freestyle</em>

Dance

Groovaloo Freestyle

Friday 12/11 @ Union Square Theatre

When reminding audiences to silence phones and not take pictures, Groovaloo's DJ should add, "Don't try this at home!" After all,... 

8th Annual Next Wave Art Festival at BAM &nbsp; &nbsp;

Festival: Art

BAM Next Wave Art Festival    

Friday 12/11 @ BAM

For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some... 

Liz Duffy Adams's <em>Or,</em>

Theatre

Or,

Friday 12/11 @ Women's Project

Or, recounts an eventful day in the life of 17th-century secret agent/playwright Aphra Behn (played by the formidable Maggie Siff). Rather... 

<em> In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) </em>

Theatre

In the Next Room

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Charles Dickens' <em>A Christmas Carol</em>

Special Event

A Christmas Carol

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

<em>Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity</em>

Art

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

Friday 12/11 @ 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,... 

<em>Orpheus X</em>

Theatre

Orpheus X

Friday 12/11 @ The Duke Theater

Writer/composer Rinde Eckert’s Orpheus X refracts the familiar myth through a postmodern, post-feminist lens. The production, directed by Robert Woodruff, is... 

Gerald Dearing and Steve Pyke: <em>Matter of Fact</em>

Art: Photography

Matter of Fact

Friday 12/11 @ BLT Gallery

With a tagline like "not polluted in gimmicks, just a shot," BLT Gallery's latest exhibition promises to be an antidote to... 

<em>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</em>

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Friday 12/11 @ Various

For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las... 

Theatre

Shakespeare's Globe: Love's Labour's Lost

Friday 12/11 @ Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University

The Brits know how to do it. Shakespeare’s Globe theater company makes a rare trip from London with Love’s Labour’s Lost,... 

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
&nbsp;

Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Theatre

This

Friday 12/11 @ Playwrights Horizons

Melissa James Gibson's latest slice-of-life play focuses on Jane (Julianne Nicholson), a newly widowed and once-promising thritysomething poet who stumbles through... 

<em>Cartoons in Conflict</em>

Art

Cartoons in Conflict

Friday 12/11 @ Storefront

This unique event gathers the work of 40 political cartoonists from around the world, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Pat Oliphant and Jim... 

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Art

Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Don't Miss the Show Everyone is Talking About, ONE EVENING

Theatre

Don't Miss the Show Everyone is Talking About, ONE EVENING

Friday 12/11 @ Lincoln Center

GIVEAWAY to WIN 2 TICKETS to Thursday's performance.   Back at Lincoln Center after last season's accliamed production of Waves, Katie... 

Target Free Fridays at MoMA!

Art

Target Free Fridays at MoMA!

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Art

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

The &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Art

The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Friday 12/11 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Pulitzer–winning Author Elizabeth Strout on Two Paintings by Winslow Homer / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Pulitzer–winning Author Elizabeth Strout on Two Paintings by Winslow Homer / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Friday 12/11 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Elizabeth Strout, imagines the stories behind Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts and The Gale, two... 

Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Art

Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Friday 12/11 @ 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,... 

Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore

Friday 12/11 @ Asia Society and Museum

AsiaStore has scoured the marketplaces of Asia to bring you the perfect gift at the perfect price! Celebrate the season with... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum

Art

FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum

Friday 12/11 @ 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,... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Friday 12/11 @ 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.... 

Issa (formerly Jane Siberry)

Music

Issa (formerly Jane Siberry)

Friday 12/11 @ Joe's Pub

"A superstar of the imagination with a passion for the truth."
-Interview Magazine 
... 

Art

Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture    

Friday 12/11 @ The Kitchen

This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and... 

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Art

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Friday 12/11 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of an extraordinary portrait recently reattributed to Velázquez,... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Art

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Friday 12/11 @ Asia Society and Museum

... 

Jessica Dessner, Denny Renshaw & Deborah Johnson: Art from Sufjan Stevens' Run Rabbit Run and The BQE

Art

Jessica Dessner, Denny Renshaw & Deborah Johnson: Art from Sufjan Stevens' Run Rabbit Run and The BQE

Friday 12/11 @ 92YTribeca

Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

Friday 12/11 @ 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 Next Director: Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim

Film

The Next Director: Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim

Friday 12/11 @ BAM

This year, BAMcinematek's annual series highlighting up-and-coming filmmakers focuses on American collaborators So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray, who have... 

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Art

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Friday 12/11 @ 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

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Art

Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Friday 12/11 @ New Museum

Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Friday 12/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Friday 12/11 @ 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: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)

Friday 12/11 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator Mike Hearn takes us inside the extraordinary world of Luo Ping, discussing the range and brilliance of the artist's vision.... 

Last Chance—Eccentric  Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Art

Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Friday 12/11 @ 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.  ... 

Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Friday 12/11 @ Lincoln Center

FREE Exhibition Now - January... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Friday 12/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


View the online checklist
Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on... 

Dance

Women in Dance at the 92nd Street Y: History in the Making

Friday 12/11 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Join an absolutely illustrious group of dance artists as they celebrate their creative vision, careers and Jewish roots in this not... 

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Art

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

&ldquo;Medieval Garden Enclosed&rdquo; on the Met Blog.

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Artist Kara Walker Discusses "The Power of Music" / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Artist Kara Walker Discusses "The Power of Music" / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Bauhaus Lounge

Art

Bauhaus Lounge

Friday 12/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops... 

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Mortal Engine

Dance

Mortal Engine

Friday 12/11 @ BAM

  Mortal Engine Created by Chunky Move "Utterly captivating and, that most illusive of theatrical goals, utterly unique." —The Scotsman
... 

Ute Lemper: Last Tango Berlin

Music: Global

Ute Lemper: Last Tango Berlin

Friday 12/11 @ Joe's Pub

"More than a teacher and cultural ambassador representing Continental cultural history, she is a confrontational entertainer and... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Friday 12/11 @ Brooklyn Bowl

Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Friday 12/11 @ 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

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Velázquez Rediscovered

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Art

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Art

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Friday 12/11 @ 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—Christmas  Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season

Art

Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season

Friday 12/11 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the presentation before it closes on Wednesday! Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the... 

Shababa Bakery

Food/Wine

Shababa Bakery

Friday 12/11 @ 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... 

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Art

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Friday 12/11 @ 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...