Events on Thursday, December 31
Thursday 12/31 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Detroit Cobras play straight-ahead, good-feeling, soul-infused rock with the mentality and antics of a garage band. Singer Rachel Nagy even...
Thursday 12/31 @ Green & Green Insurance Co
Gemini & Scorpio know that a little bit of prohibition makes indulgence all the sweeter, so they've brought in the goods...
Mister Saturday Night New Year's Eve
Thursday 12/31 @ Market Hotel
Consider this your tip-off: Mister Saturday night is bidding adieu to the decade with the sound pumped up and the sparkling...
Thursday 12/31 @ 92YTribeca
This recently announced event is a decidedly low-key and low-cost alternative to the many raucous celebrations happening around the city. Performers...
Thursday 12/31 @ Jazz Gallery
Emerging jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato has long been seducing jazz cognoscenti with her lush interpretations of contemporary jazz and world music....
Thursday 12/31 @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
Chuck Berry's one of the original pioneers of rock 'n roll. His lightening-fast guitar intro in "Johnny B. Goode" inspired countless...
Thursday 12/31 @ Club Europa
Famous Friends presents a nonstop rager at Europa, the coolest Polish nightclub in Brooklyn. The night starts off right with a...
Thursday 12/31 @ Secret Brooklyn warehouse
The kings of the warehouse party are at it again, this time with a banger to end all bangers — or...
Gallery Talk: Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Thursday 12/31 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join curator Morihiro Ogawa as he visits the special exhibition Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868, on view now through January...
Sparkle New Year's Eve at 92YTribeca
Thursday 12/31 @ 92YTribeca
Night of a thousand sparkles! Variety show featuring music, comedy, visual and conceptual art.
After midnight, stay...
Thursday 12/31 @ Terminal 5
Fatefully ordained, this unlikely combination of musicians is the result of three years of dreaming, planning and divine intervention. Now a...
Thursday 12/31 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Get ready for a hopping New Year’s Eve dance party hosted by Lori Brizzi and some of New York’s hottest dancers...
Thursday 12/31 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Soulive
Lettuce (2 sets!) / Nigel Hall
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A Champagne New Year's Eve—Los Romero, guitar quartet
Thursday 12/31 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
The "royal family of the guitar" kicks off the New Year with an evening of glittering guitar virtuosity and sparkling...
(le) Poisson Rouge New Year's Eve
Thursday 12/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LPR’s high velocity party vibe will...
Thursday 12/31 @ Terminal 5
Fatefully ordained, this unlikely combination of musicians is the result of three years of dreaming, planning and divine intervention. Now a...
Thursday 12/31 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Patti Smith, born in Chicago in 1946, the oldest of four siblings, was raised in South Jersey. From an early age...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/31 @ Joe's Pub
1989: George H.W. Bush had replaced Reagan, Soviet war was waged in Afghanistan, and Sandra Bernhard was wowing Broadway with a...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 12/31 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Village Vanguard
The Bad Plus merge the best of jazz and rock, covering everyone from Nirvana to Serge Gainsbourg. Expect a festive set...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Museum of the Moving Image
With its ballooning list of all-ages favorites — from Toy Story to WALL-E — Pixar has become the byword for animated...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Playwrights Horizons
What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in...
Thursday 12/31 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Various locations
Contrary to popular, drunken belief, not everyone likes to spend New Year's sloshed. The start of a new year (and decade,...
Thursday 12/31 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
For its last hurrah of the year, the Film Society plays best-loved titles from programs gone by, like Latinbeat and First...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A typographic manual and manifesto, Jan Tschichold's 1928 The New Typography heralded a "see" change in how the printed page was...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Film Forum
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...
Thursday 12/31 @ IFC Center
Having bid a fond fare-thee-well to the Tramp four years earlier in Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin took on Hitler and fascism...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Cort Theatre
Arthur Miller's modern tragedy A View from the Bridge could easily veer into melodrama in less skilled hands, but Gregory Mosher's...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Thursday 12/31 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Thursday 12/31 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman and restaurant owner Danny Meyer discuss the painting Chinese Restaurant by John Sloan in...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 12/31 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Thursday 12/31 @ Lincoln Center
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Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Thursday 12/31 @ 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,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Thursday 12/31 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Come in for our end-of-the-year blowout sale where all books, DVDs, CDs, and records are 10% off for all customers and...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Thursday 12/31 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Joe's Pub
"Funny, Moving, Sexy, Hot, Cool and Genuinely on the edge. A powerhouse. You are likely to be...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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. ...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
Thursday 12/31 @ 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....
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Thursday 12/31 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photographer Robert Frank discusses his groundbreaking publication The Americans with Jeff Rosenheim, curator at the Met, and Sarah Greenough, curator at...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Thursday 12/31 @ 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—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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....
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Joe's Pub
"Just the ticket" –Time Out New York "Cruelly funny" -Madonna "We love her" –Vogue Fresh from a sell-out show at The...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
