Events on Thursday, December 17
Thursday 12/17 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Performing with Kid Koala Few artists make an impact as complete as the one Matisyahu made with his Top 40 hit...
Thursday 12/17 @ The Mercury Lounge
Throughout the course of their 12-year existence, Lake Trout has consistently defied genres within the music industry. The Baltimore five-piece has...
Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, and Daniel Arsham: REPLICA
Thursday 12/17 @ New Museum
REPLICA, a collaborative performance piece by Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, examines memory loss, pattern recognition, and perceptual...
The Sephardic Music Festival featuring Electromorocco & Diwon
Thursday 12/17 @ Joe's Pub
The New York Sephardic Music Festival (NY-SMF) seeks to increase interest in and...
Thursday 12/17 @ BAM
It's Not You, It's You Between the Lines asks how we create the stories we...
Thursday 12/17 @ Joe's Pub
On December 17th, acclaimed writer and performer Mike Errico will return to Joe’s Pub for his...
Harper Blynn (formerly Pete & J)
Thursday 12/17 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with: Pretty Good Dance Moves / Madison Square Gardeners...
Delicious, Homemade Healthy Winter Soups
Thursday 12/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Chef Mike Colameco
Chef Mike Colameco presents monthly cooking demonstrations at the...
Morley Safer with Budd Mishkin
Thursday 12/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
The 12-time Emmy winner discusses his work on 60 MINUTES and his distinguished broadcasting career that spans six decades. Mishkin is...
Jung Foundation At The 92nd Street Y: Jung In Everyday Life
Thursday 12/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Heide M. Kolb
Both Freud and Jung envisioned psychoanalysis as a new...
Flashy and Trashy DJ Jay McElfresh
Thursday 12/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Flashy and...
Comedy Below Canal™ Presents: Mortified
Thursday 12/17 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca proudly presents Mortified, a comic excavation of teen angst artifacts (journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more) as...
Thursday 12/17 @ 92YTribeca
Co-presented by Chicken & Egg Pictures and Working Films with Judith Helfand in person along with other guest speakers.
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Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ Film Forum
Cowboy, Indian, and Horse wreak havoc in this slapstick stop-motion animation film, based on a cult Belgian TV series distributed by...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ Storefront
This unique event gathers the work of 40 political cartoonists from around the world, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Pat Oliphant and Jim...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ Irish Repertory Theatre
The delightful cast of Ernest in Love doesn't let a weak score get in the way of this whimsical story about...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ Wired Store
The annual WIRED Holiday Pop-Up Store is back, this time setting up in the MPD. Be the first to check out...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZE: Doug Elkins & Friends Present FRAULEIN MARIA
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Thursday 12/17 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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....
Thursday 12/17 @ Deitch Projects
Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos....
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ Playwrights Horizons
What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in...
Thursday 12/17 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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:...
Thursday 12/17 @ Insound Design Store Pop-Up
Today through Monday, the folks of online indie catch-all Insound are setting up shop in Williamsburg. There are plenty of great...
Thursday 12/17 @ The Flea Theater
While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,...
Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson, Jr.: Crime or Emergency ***PLUS BONUS EDITIONS
Thursday 12/17 @ Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in her creation: a...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Thursday 12/17 @ 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,...
Thursday 12/17 @ Kraine Theater
In Scrooge & Marley, Israel Horovitz makes Marley (Ken Glickfeld) the onstage guide to Scrooge's (John Gazzale) unforgettable Christmas Eve. Intercutting...
Thursday 12/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ Salon 94 Freemans
The downtown outpost of uptown gallery Salon 94 presents a blissed-out group show of work based on Zen Buddhist rock gardens....
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ Farmani Gallery
As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Thursday 12/17 @ Various
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Thursday 12/17 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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,...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Shakespeare's Globe: Love's Labour's Lost
Thursday 12/17 @ 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,...
Thursday 12/17 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Loser’s Lounge Tribute to The Jackson Five
Thursday 12/17 @ Joe's Pub
The Losers Lounge is back with an all new tribute to THE JACKSON 5 on December 17th,...
Dec 16 - 20 Enter the unknown and unfamiliar with STIFTERS DINGE
Thursday 12/17 @ Lincoln Center
"This is the kind of experience that changes one's life. Go see this performance." - Cinema Solubile Five pianos as in-motion...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Thursday 12/17 @ Lincoln Center
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Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Thursday 12/17 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 12/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Thursday 12/17 @ 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,...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Thursday 12/17 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Thursday 12/17 @ 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,...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 12/17 @ 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: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
Thursday 12/17 @ 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....
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Thursday 12/17 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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 "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Thursday 12/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! In 1975, the Met acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Thursday 12/17 @ 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 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
The Next Director: Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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....
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
Thursday 12/17 @ 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...
