Events on Friday, December 4

The Big Pink

Music: Electronic

The Big Pink

Friday 12/ 4 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Where electronic music is concerned, the combined effect of sonic layers, FX pedals, and synths yield anything from aggressive swagger to... 

Mew @ Webster Hall

Music

Mew @ Webster Hall

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Bowery Presents

Between chasing down scraps of the possible Mew/Coldplay/A-Ha supergroup and choosing the opening band for the Danish art-rockers' gig in NYC,... 

Music

Motion Potion

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Bowery Presents

Brooklyn Bowl
http://www.brooklynbowl.com
61 Wythe Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 963-3369 MoPo (aka Motion Potion aka Robbie... 

Music

Elvis Perkins In Dearland

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Performing with Bowerbirds   In a traditional New Orleans funeral procession, “the second line” refers to the lively troupe of brass... 

Brendan Benson  w/ Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons

Music

Brendan Benson w/ Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons

Friday 12/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Friday 12.04.09
Brendan Benson 
w/ Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons
... 

Minne-apple in the Big Apple Happy Hour

Party

Minne-apple in the Big Apple Happy Hour

Friday 12/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

 Friday 12.04.09
Minne-Apple in the
... 

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

Party

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

 Friday 12.04.09
THE FREEDOM
... 

Breaking Upwards

Film

Breaking Upwards

Friday 12/ 4 @ 92YTribeca

Director Daryl Wein and co-writer/star Zoe Lister-Jones in person for post-screening Q&A.

... 

Patty Larkin in concert

Music

Patty Larkin in concert

Friday 12/ 4 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Patty Larkin is a rare combination of talents. Over her ten album history she has honed a reputation as a "musician's... 

Neue Galerie Tour

Special Event

Neue Galerie Tour

Friday 12/ 4 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Discover the nuance and expressive power of 19th- and 20th-century German and Austrian art at this exceptional museum, housed in a... 

Rebecca Hart & Sexy Children

Music

Rebecca Hart & Sexy Children

Friday 12/ 4 @ Joe's Pub

"An impressively well-textured voice and a band that packs a potent dose of downtown NYC heat. Kind... 

Raphael Saadiq

Music: Hip-Hop

Raphael Saadiq

Friday 12/ 4 @ Terminal 5

Highly acclaimed producer/songwriter/artist RAPHAEL SAADIQ was born and raised in Oakland, California where he began his lifetime dedication to musicianship at... 

Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: Asian and Greek Art

Special Event

Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: Asian and Greek Art

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

A Killer Burlesque Christmas

Performing Arts

A Killer Burlesque Christmas

Friday 12/ 4 @ Joe's Pub

Casino O'Fortune Cookie Productions presents A KILLER BURLESQUE CHRISTMAS The Tribute to Phil Spector's Christmas Album

Casino O’Fortune... 

McSweeney’s Soiree: Jessica Anthony, Bill Cotter, and James Hannaham

Books: Reading

McSweeney’s Soiree: Jessica Anthony, Bill Cotter, and James Hannaham

Friday 12/ 4 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Join Jessica Anthony (The Convalescent), Bill Cotter (Fever Chart), and James Hannaham (God Says No), all of whom published debut novels... 

Samurai Cinema Series: “Throne of Blood” (1957)

Film

Samurai Cinema Series: “Throne of Blood” (1957)

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents this film made by the great Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) to accompany the special exhibition Art of... 

DJ DEEJAY PRESENTS... "MMP!"

Music: DJ

DJ DEEJAY PRESENTS... "MMP!"

Friday 12/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Friday 12.04.09
DJ DEEJAY PRESENTS... "MMP!"
DJ DEEJAY
10pm
FREE Strictly 21+ This is a General Admission,... 

Music

Hip Hop Karaoke Manhattan Regional Championship

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Mercury Lounge

Ongoing Events

<em>A Streetcar Named Desire</em>

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Friday 12/ 4 @ IFC Center

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

Fountain Art Fair Miami 2009

Art: Happening

Fountain Miami

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 12/ 4 @ Paragraph

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

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

James Whale Series

Film

James Whale Series

Friday 12/ 4 @ Film Forum

Bill Condon's wonderful Gods and Monsters (1998) was a boon to the unofficial James Whale appreciation club (of which we're a... 

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

Dance

Snow White

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Robert Williams

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Tim Burton

Art

Tim Burton

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>WIRED</em> Magazine's Holiday Pop-Up Store

Fashion/Style: Shopping

WIRED Pop-Up Store

Friday 12/ 4 @ Wired Store

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

<em>The Missing Person</em>

Film

The Missing Person

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Behind the Screen</em>

Special Event

Behind the Screen

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>After Miss Julie</em>

Theatre

After Miss Julie

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Before Tomorrow</em>

Film

Before Tomorrow

Friday 12/ 4 @ Film Forum

Closing out the Fast Runner trilogy on an elegiac note, Before Tomorrow offers a periscope to Inuit life in 1840, when... 

Rebecca Campbell

Art

Rebecca Campbell

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>A Little Night Music</em>

Theatre

A Little Night Music

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Liv Ullmann

Film

Liv Ullmann

Friday 12/ 4 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

This month, Liv Ullmann redoes A Streetcar Named Desire with Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois. But before she shines a Norwegian... 

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

Art: Photography

Jim McHugh

Friday 12/ 4 @ Farmani Gallery

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

Art

Dan Flavin

Friday 12/ 4 @ David Zwirner

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

<em> Superior Donuts </em>

Theatre

Superior Donuts

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kristin Baker

Friday 12/ 4 @ Deitch Projects

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

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

Special Event

A Christmas Carol

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Thomas Chambers

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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> So Help Me God! </em>

Theatre

So Help Me God!

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</em>

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Re:Construction

Friday 12/ 4 @ Various locations

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

Acconci Studio Installation at Bronx Museum of the Arts

Art

Vito Acconci at Bronx Museum

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</em>

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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'... 

The Brick presents Fight Fest

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

Fight Fest

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>Collapse</em>

Film: Documentary

Collapse

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

<em>Nightingale</em>

Theatre

Nightingale

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project</em>

Art

One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

KDNY presents <em>Treading Puddles</em>

Dance

KDNY

Friday 12/ 4 @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios

Kathleen Dyer and her all-female modern company, KDNY, celebrate women with Treading Puddles. Three new dances are set to Christina Spinei's... 

<em>She Like Girls</em>

Theatre

She Like Girls

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Friday 12/ 4 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Performing Arts: Opera

Les Contes d'Hoffman

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Candide at 250

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>Vestie Davis' New York</em>

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

8th Annual Next Wave Art Festival at BAM &nbsp; &nbsp;

Festival: Art

BAM Next Wave Art Festival    

Friday 12/ 4 @ BAM

For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some... 

Liz Duffy Adams's <em>Or,</em>

Theatre

Or,

Friday 12/ 4 @ Women's Project

Or, recounts an eventful day in the life of 17th-century secret agent/playwright Aphra Behn (played by the formidable Maggie Siff). Rather... 

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

Theatre

In the Next Room

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Fashion/Style

American Beauty

Friday 12/ 4 @ FIT Museum

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

<em>Loaded</em>

Theatre

Loaded

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Orpheus X</em>

Theatre

Orpheus X

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

The Great Recession

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Flea Theater

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

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
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Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 12/ 4 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Theatre

This

Friday 12/ 4 @ Playwrights Horizons

Melissa James Gibson's latest slice-of-life play focuses on Jane (Julianne Nicholson), a newly widowed and once-promising thritysomething poet who stumbles through... 

<em>Groovaloo Freestyle</em>

Dance

Groovaloo Freestyle

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Jeremy Wade's <em>there is no end to more</em>

Dance

there is no end to more

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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")... 

<em>Race</em>

Theatre

Race

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Brief Encounter</em>

Theatre

Brief Encounter

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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:... 

Open Tables

Workshop/Class

Open Tables

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Age of Iron

Friday 12/ 4 @ Classic Stage Company

The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas... 

<em>Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity</em>

Art

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

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/ 4 @ 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>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Friday 12/ 4 @ New World Stages

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

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

Art: Photography

Matter of Fact

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>Filthy Lucre: A Burlesque Christmas Carol</em>

Theatre

Filthy Lucre

Friday 12/ 4 @ Walkerspace

Burlesque collective Pinchbottom re-imagines Dickens' classic tale with a bit more spice. This sexy update remains faithful to the original text... 

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

Theatre

A Very Sandwich Christmas

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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>Big River Man</em>

Film: Documentary

Big River Man

Friday 12/ 4 @ IFC Center

John Maringouin's documentary charts Solvenian endurance swimmer Martin Strel's journey to swim the (until now) unconquerable Amazon river. He's already wet... 

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

Art

Bill Viola

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Velázquez Rediscovered

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A technical examination and cleaning of one of the Met’s paintings, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, has revealed a... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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/ 4 @ 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... 

Starting this Friday! Holidays in the Himalayas Shopping Event

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Starting this Friday! Holidays in the Himalayas Shopping Event

Friday 12/ 4 @ Rubin Museum of Art

The Shop at the Rubin Museum of Art celebrates its 5th annual Holidays in the Himalayas shopping event from December 4-7.... 

Jessica Dessner, Denny Renshaw & Deborah Johnson: Art from Sufjan Stevens' Run Rabbit Run and The BQE

Art

Jessica Dessner, Denny Renshaw & Deborah Johnson: Art from Sufjan Stevens' Run Rabbit Run and The BQE

Friday 12/ 4 @ 92YTribeca

Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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.... 

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

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Art

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

The &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Did you know that the musical heritage of China is one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Pulitzer–winning Author Elizabeth Strout on Two Paintings by Winslow Homer / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

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/ 4 @ 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... 

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Art

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Friday 12/ 4 @ Asia Society and Museum

... 

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/ 4 @ 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... 

Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica

Music: Electronic

Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica

Friday 12/ 4 @ BAM

Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica Conceived and Composed by DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid/Paul D. Miller  "Arguably no one is more responsible for propogating... 

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/ 4 @ Lincoln Center

FREE Exhibition Now - January... 

FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum

Art

FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

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

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Alicia Hall Moran / Gordon Voidwell

Music

Alicia Hall Moran / Gordon Voidwell

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Kitchen

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Art

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Art

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

Food/Wine

Noshes and Nibbles in the West Village and SoHo

Friday 12/ 4 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Taste delectable artisan treats, fresh mozzarella, sublime chocolate, Sicilian rice balls and homemade cannoli. End the tour with a glass of... 

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

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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.  ... 

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

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

The Barnard Project: Brian Brooks, Juliana May, Vicky Shick, Kota Yamazaki

Dance

The Barnard Project: Brian Brooks, Juliana May, Vicky Shick, Kota Yamazaki

Friday 12/ 4 @ New York Live Arts

"Their love of dance and movement in general became palpable." - The New York Times Created in 2004 The Barnard Project... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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: 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/ 4 @ 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... 

Target Free Fridays at MoMA!

Art

Target Free Fridays at MoMA!

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Bauhaus Lounge

Art

Bauhaus Lounge

Friday 12/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops... 

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Art

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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)

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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.... 

Noshes and Nibbles in the West Village and SoHo

Special Event

Noshes and Nibbles in the West Village and SoHo

Friday 12/ 4 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Taste delectable artisan treats, fresh mozzarella, sublime chocolate, Sicilian rice balls and homemade cannoli. End the tour with a glass of... 

Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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/ 4 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Art

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ The Kitchen

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

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

Art

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Shababa Bakery

Food/Wine

Shababa Bakery

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

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

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Art

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Friday 12/ 4 @ 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...