Events on Friday, December 18

Music

Weston / The Measure / Blue Roses / Marcus Foster

Friday 12/18 @ The Mercury Lounge

Weston - 11:30 Blue Roses - 10:30 Early Show Weston - 8:00 The Measure / Special Birthday Guest DJ Tommy Rockstar... 

The Juan Maclean  

Music

The Juan Maclean  

Friday 12/18 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Performing with Golden Filter / The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! Prior to becoming one of the most significant acts on the... 

Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: Asian Art

Art

Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: Asian Art

Friday 12/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of Asian art! This Friday evening come and take part in this unique opportunity... 

The Neverending Story

Film

The Neverending Story

Friday 12/18 @ 92YTribeca

Part of the series Dark Neverending Adventures: Fantasy Films of the 1980s.

... 

Music

Donna The Buffalo

Friday 12/18 @ The Bowery Ballroom

17-year career.
100,000 records sold.
100 gigs a year.
15,000 attendees at the 2004 Grassroots... 

Happy Hour Party DJ Rachael (Underrated)

Music: DJ

Happy Hour Party DJ Rachael (Underrated)

Friday 12/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

 Friday 12.18.09
... 

In a Lonely Place screening

Film

In a Lonely Place screening

Friday 12/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art

In this classic 1950 flick, Humphrey Bogart plays hard-living screenwriter Dixon Steele. His talent for creating stories may be his undoing... 

Jazz All Stars on Friday

Music

Jazz All Stars on Friday

Friday 12/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem's annual Big Band Ellington concert is not to be missed. Fifteen musicians take to the... 

Music

Marcus Foster / Blue Roses

Friday 12/18 @ The Mercury Lounge

Marcus Foster - 11:30 Blue Roses - 10:30   Marcus Foster is a London born musician and studies sculpture at the... 

Music

The Honey Brothers @ Brooklyn Bowl

Friday 12/18 @ The Bowery Presents

The Honey Brothers’ “seriously good rock and roll” (Paper Magazine) “manages to reference the country-tinged sensitivity of the Silver Jews, the... 

Bardo Pond w/ White Out with Thurston Moore

Music: Experimental

Bardo Pond w/ White Out with Thurston Moore

Friday 12/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Friday 12.18.09
Bardo Pond
w/ White Out with Thurston Moore
... 

BASSic Instinct

Music: DJ

BASSic Instinct

Friday 12/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Friday 12.18.09 spanNight Flight Presents The New Wave Theatre / Peter Ivers Party!

Music

Night Flight Presents The New Wave Theatre / Peter Ivers Party!

Friday 12/18 @ 92YTribeca

Join us in the Mainstage for an evening of outré retro '80s ephemera that includes.....
... 

Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, and Daniel Arsham: REPLICA

Dance

Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, and Daniel Arsham: REPLICA

Friday 12/18 @ New Museum

REPLICA, a collaborative performance piece by Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, examines memory loss, pattern recognition, and perceptual... 

The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler and DJ Marc Smooth

Music: DJ

The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler and DJ Marc Smooth

Friday 12/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Friday 12.18.09
The Freedom Party
w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, and DJ Marc Smooth
... 

Music

Fanfarlo @ Webster Hall

Friday 12/18 @ The Bowery Presents

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

Ongoing Events

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
 

Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Friday 12/18 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Fashion/Style: Shopping

WIRED Pop-Up Store

Friday 12/18 @ Wired Store

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

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 12/18 @ Paragraph

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

<em> Circle Mirror Transformation</em>

Theatre

Circle Mirror Transformation

Friday 12/18 @ Playwrights Horizons

What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in... 

<em>A Little Night Music</em>

Theatre

A Little Night Music

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

In the Next Room

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

The Insound Design Store: A Pop-Up Music Gift Gallery

Fashion/Style: Shopping

The Insound Design Store

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

<em>Loaded</em>

Theatre

Loaded

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Dance

Snow White

Friday 12/18 @ 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> So Help Me God! </em>

Theatre

So Help Me God!

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Beyond the Absurd: Ronald Tavel & Andy Warhol

Film

Beyond the Absurd

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Kristin Baker

Friday 12/18 @ Deitch Projects

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

<em>Cartoons in Conflict</em>

Art

Cartoons in Conflict

Friday 12/18 @ Storefront

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

HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZE: Doug Elkins & Friends Present FRAULEIN MARIA

Dance

HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZE: Doug Elkins & Friends Present FRAULEIN MARIA

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Friday 12/18 @ IFC Center

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

Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Romeo and Juliet

Performing Arts

Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Romeo and Juliet

Friday 12/18 @ The Kitchen

[if... 

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Friday 12/18 @ 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'... 

Acconci Studio Installation at Bronx Museum of the Arts

Art

Vito Acconci at Bronx Museum

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Friday 12/18 @ New World Stages

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

<em>His Girl Friday</em>

Film

His Girl Friday

Friday 12/18 @ BAM

His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks' supreme screwball comedy, is not unlike a neo-impressionist's version of conversation: the more colorful the bits,... 

<em>The Missing Person</em>

Film

The Missing Person

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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 12/18 @ 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>She Like Girls</em>

Theatre

She Like Girls

Friday 12/18 @ 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>My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?</em>

Film

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity</em>

Art

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Friday 12/18 @ 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>One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project</em>

Art

One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</em>

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Art

Thomas Chambers

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Madcap Manhattan Festival

Festival: Film

Madcap Manhattan

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Candide at 250

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Art

Robert Williams

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Rock Garden</em>

Art

Rock Garden

Friday 12/18 @ 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.... 

The Brick presents Fight Fest

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

Fight Fest

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

<em>Orpheus X</em>

Theatre

Orpheus X

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Jim McHugh

Friday 12/18 @ Farmani Gallery

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

Best of Anthology Film Archive

Film

Best of AFA

Friday 12/18 @ Anthology Film Archives

To wrap up the Aughts, Second Avenue institution Anthology Film Archive hand-picks its blue-ribbon screenings from calendars past. Opening this retrospective... 

<em>Ernest in Love</em>

Theatre

Ernest in Love

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Jacques Tati

Film

Jacques Tati

Friday 12/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of the French screenwriter, director, and actor Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff, 1907–1982) features newly... 

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

Fashion/Style

American Beauty

Friday 12/18 @ FIT Museum

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

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

Performing Arts: Opera

Les Contes d'Hoffman

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Tim Burton

Art

Tim Burton

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

<em>A Streetcar Named Desire</em>

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Art

Re:Construction

Friday 12/18 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Behind the Screen</em>

Special Event

Behind the Screen

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Open Tables

Workshop/Class

Open Tables

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Race</em>

Theatre

Race

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Art

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Friday 12/18 @ 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> Superior Donuts </em>

Theatre

Superior Donuts

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

A Christmas Carol

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

A Very Sandwich Christmas

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</em>

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Friday 12/18 @ Various

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

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Matter of Fact

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Groovaloo Freestyle</em>

Dance

Groovaloo Freestyle

Friday 12/18 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Friday 12/18 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Bill Viola

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Stripped:</em> An Intimate Studio Series with Doug Varone

Dance

Stripped

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

The Joffrey Ballet School's <em>The Nutcracker</em>

Dance

The Nutcracker

Friday 12/18 @ Skirball Center NYU

The Nutcracker is a rite of passage. For Joffrey Ballet School students, this year's production is extra special because of the... 

Art

Dan Flavin

Friday 12/18 @ David Zwirner

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

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

Art: Photography

Margaret de Lange

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

<em>Brief Encounter</em>

Theatre

Brief Encounter

Friday 12/18 @ 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:... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

<em>A Town Called Panic</em>

Film: Animation

A Town Called Panic  

Friday 12/18 @ Film Forum

Cowboy, Indian, and Horse wreak havoc in this slapstick stop-motion animation film, based on a cult Belgian TV series distributed by... 

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

Theatre

The Great Recession

Friday 12/18 @ The Flea Theater

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

Barefoot Theatre Company's <em>A Christmas Carol:</em><em> Scrooge & Marley</em>

Theatre

Scrooge & Marley

Friday 12/18 @ Kraine Theater

In Scrooge & Marley, Israel Horovitz makes Marley (Ken Glickfeld) the onstage guide to Scrooge's (John Gazzale) unforgettable Christmas Eve. Intercutting... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Friday 12/18 @ 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>Ricky</em>

Film

Ricky

Friday 12/18 @ IFC Center

Francois Ozon's (Swimming Pool) latest film delves into the world of magic realism as working-class parents on the outskirts of Paris... 

The Good Dance

Dance

The Good Dance

Friday 12/18 @ BAM

The Good Dance Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group and Compagnie 1er Temps
Choreographed by Reggie Wilson and Andréya Ouamba
... 

Shababa Bakery

Food/Wine

Shababa Bakery

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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 12/18 @ Lincoln Center

FREE Exhibition Now - January... 

Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore

Friday 12/18 @ 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

Art

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Friday 12/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Friday 12/18 @ 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,... 

Art

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

Friday 12/18 @ The Kitchen

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

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Friday 12/18 @ 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”

Art: Photography

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection

Art

Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Gabriel Orozco

Art

Gabriel Orozco

Friday 12/18 @ 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

Art

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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,... 

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Art

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Friday 12/18 @ Asia Society and Museum

... 

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 12/18 @ 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... 

Dec 16 - 20 Enter the unknown and unfamiliar with STIFTERS DINGE

Performing Arts

Dec 16 - 20 Enter the unknown and unfamiliar with STIFTERS DINGE

Friday 12/18 @ Lincoln Center

"This is the kind of experience that changes one's life. Go see this performance." - Cinema Solubile Five pianos as in-motion... 

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Friday 12/18 @ 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

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Friday 12/18 @ 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)

Art

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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

Art

Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Friday 12/18 @ 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”

Art

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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

Art

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

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Victorious Ones Now Open

Friday 12/18 @ 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

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The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Friday 12/18 @ Brooklyn Bowl

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

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

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Monet's Water Lilies

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Monet's Water Lilies

Friday 12/18 @ 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

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Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Friday 12/18 @ 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—Eccentric  Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Art

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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

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FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum

Friday 12/18 @ 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,... 

Velázquez Rediscovered

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Velázquez Rediscovered

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Target Free Fridays at MoMA!

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Target Free Fridays at MoMA!

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Friday 12/18 @ 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

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Friday 12/18 @ 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

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Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

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Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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

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Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Bauhaus Lounge

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Bauhaus Lounge

Friday 12/18 @ 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

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

Loser’s Lounge Tribute to The Jackson Five

Music

Loser’s Lounge Tribute to The Jackson Five

Friday 12/18 @ Joe's Pub

The Losers Lounge is back with an all new tribute to THE JACKSON 5 on December 17th,... 

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Art

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Friday 12/18 @ 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: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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 &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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

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

Friday 12/18 @ 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... 

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

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“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Friday 12/18 @ 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: Pulitzer–winning Author Elizabeth Strout on Two Paintings by Winslow Homer / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

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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 12/18 @ 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... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Friday 12/18 @ 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...