Events on Tuesday, December 15
Tuesday 12/15 @ Performance Space 122
Let your hair down and party with abandon at downtown's definitive holiday bacchanal: the Red & White Party, hosted by Performance...
Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be
Tuesday 12/15 @ Light Industry
Nostalgia is a loaded word. In this study — with a title lifted from the memoirs of French beaut and actress...
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Moth takes over the Met's fancy digs for an evening of American stories, a theme broad enough to encompass anything...
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Brooklyn trio the Antlers go the way of Bon Iver with guitar-led, simplistic melodies and tales of pain. (Their 2009 release...
Films: Robert Frank Films: "Paper Route" (2002)& "True Story" (2004, re-edited 2008)
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents these two films directed by Robert Frank to accompany the special exhibition Looking In: Robert Frank’s "The Americans,"...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 2pm
Maurice Bourgue, oboe
Jaime Laredo, violin
Josef Špaček, violin
Daniel...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Joe's Pub
Joe’s Pub is proud to present actor/comedian Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Le Show) and his wife, critically...
Punch Up Your Life: Free comedy hosted by Jessi Klein and Pete Holmes
Tuesday 12/15 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
With special guests TBA. Watch our facebook and twitter for updates!
Eating for a New You in the New Economy
Tuesday 12/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Heather Bauer, RD, CDN, and Stephanie Middleberg, MS, RD, CDN
Eating healthily...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Storefront
This unique event gathers the work of 40 political cartoonists from around the world, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Pat Oliphant and Jim...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Tuesday 12/15 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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)
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Flea Theater
While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Film Forum
Closing out the Fast Runner trilogy on an elegiac note, Before Tomorrow offers a periscope to Inuit life in 1840, when...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Playwrights Horizons
What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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:...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Tuesday 12/15 @ Various
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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,...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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,...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ Deitch Projects
Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos....
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Tuesday 12/15 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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)
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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)
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Tuesday 12/15 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree
Tuesday 12/15 @ Symphony Space
2006. Pierre-Yves Borgeaud. Senegal/Switzerland/Luxembourg. 108 minutes. Color. This musical follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's epic journey tracing the trail left by...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Beginning in the remote desert community of Papunya in the early 1970s, Australia's...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Tuesday 12/15 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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!
Tuesday 12/15 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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,...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
The Next Director: Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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 Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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,...
Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore
Tuesday 12/15 @ 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...
