Events on Thursday, December 3
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Crystal Antlers and Von Haze This London duo use gritty beats, droning guitars, abstract effects and dreamy vocals...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
Brooklyn Bowl
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61 Wythe Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211
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THE EVERYONE ORCHESTRA is...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Joe's Pub
Singer/pianist Vienna Teng and percussionist Alex Wong have crafted a sound that the Associated Press calls “ambitious...
TONIGHT: Marina Abramovic reveals her subconscious
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Performance artist Marina Abramovic sits down on stage at the Rubin Museum with analyst Lee Robbins to interpret a folio from...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Moderated by Budd Mishkin
The Honorable Cory Booker was elected the 36th...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Samurai Cinema: “Japan: The Will of the Shogun” (2003)
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents this film to accompany the special exhibition Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868, on view...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
THE EVERYONE ORCHESTRA is a revolving cast of stellar musicians conducted by founder Matt Butler. EO performances are designed to span...
Jim Cramer: Wall Street Confidential
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Claire B. Benenson and Madeline I. Noveck, moderators
Jim Cramer is the...
Javier Marias in conversation with Paul Holdengräber at LIVE from the NYPL
Thursday 12/ 3 @ LIVE from the NYPL
Admired by Bolaño, Ashbery, Sebald, and Coetzee, Javier Marías is widely considered one of Spain’s greatest living writers. Poison, Shadow, and...
Target Free Thursdays @ David Rubenstein Atrium: Aaron White & Shawn Wyckoff
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Lincoln Center
Aaron White & Shawn Wyckoff
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the Queer/Art/Film series. Presented by writer Hilton Als.
"When I...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Joe's Pub
Singer/pianist Vienna Teng and percussionist Alex Wong have crafted a sound that the Associated Press...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 2505 N Miami Ave
Trade your gloves and scarves for beach towels and paintbrushes this weekend and jet off to Miami, where Fountain's art fair...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Japan Society
For the world premiere of his latest dance piece, Bessie-winner Jeremy Wade hurls us into the thick of Japan's kawaii ("cute")...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Angelika Film Center
Collapse recalls Errol Morris' superlative series of interviews, First Person. Here, it's former LAPD officer turned rebel with cause-for-alarm Michael Ruppert,...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Film Forum
Closing out the Fast Runner trilogy on an elegiac note, Before Tomorrow offers a periscope to Inuit life in 1840, when...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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)
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ The Flea Theater
While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Wired Store
The annual WIRED Holiday Pop-Up Store is back, this time setting up in the MPD. Be the first to check out...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Ameringer McEnery Yohe
LA-based artist Rebecca Campbell's paintings, including several large-scale works applying her eerie sense of space and sensitivity to anatomy and gesture,...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
This month, Liv Ullmann redoes A Streetcar Named Desire with Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois. But before she shines a Norwegian...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Classic Stage Company
The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Farmani Gallery
As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Walkerspace
Burlesque collective Pinchbottom re-imagines Dickens' classic tale with a bit more spice. This sexy update remains faithful to the original text...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Deitch Projects
Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos....
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ American Airlines Theater
Patrick Marber's (Closer) highly anticipated After Miss Julie transplants August Strindberg's 1888 classic to the eve of the British Labour Party's...
One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Film Forum
Holiday is Jacques Tati's superfine intro to Monsieur Hulot, the French director's lovable alias and a magnet for pratfalls and faux...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Lincoln Center
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Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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: Velázquez Rediscovered
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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....
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 12/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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. ...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 Barnard Project: Brian Brooks, Juliana May, Vicky Shick, Kota Yamazaki
Thursday 12/ 3 @ New York Live Arts
"Their love of dance and movement in general became palpable." - The New York Times Created in 2004 The Barnard Project...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Symphony Space
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York, only to learn it isn't...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
