Events on Wednesday, December 9
Contemporary Performance and the Multiverse
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Performance Space 122
PS122 hosts this deconstructive evening exploring the multiverse — the idea that there could be many parallel universes each with its...
Slide Orientation Lecture—Velázquez Rediscovered
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This talk by educator Inés Powell celebrates the recently reattributed portrait, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, as an autograph...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
Director Leslie McCleave in person for post-screening Q&A.
Ex-lovers set on an...
Tennessee Williams on Screen and Stage
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Museum of the Moving Image
A Conversation with Ellen Burstyn, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jodie Markell, Elaine Stritch, and Eli Wallach, moderated by Charles Isherwood, theater critic...
Michael Leonhart and The Avramina 7 featuring live drawings by Michael Arthur
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Joe's Pub
Born into a musical family, Michael Leonhart has developed...
Celebrate the Season with Asia Society
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Asia Society and Museum
Bring your friends and family to experience a night of fun and culture this holiday season. Explore the extraordinary breadth of...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Willy Mason Recorded and mixed in a month at The Red Barn in Palenville, NY in January 2007,...
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Movement (R)evolution Africa [a story of an art form in four acts] (2007)
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
This documentary by Joan Frosch and Alla Kovgan contains the stories of fiercely creative African individuals and what they have to...
Director Andre Gregory interprets Carl Jung's Red Book
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
American theater director and actor Andre Gregory will interpret a page from Carl Jung's Red Book during the Red Book Dialogues...
Live From Down Home: Free Americana Music with Last Good Tooth and Jones Street Station
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Last Good Tooth and Jones Street Station play free live Americana. Beer, wine, and snacks will be for sale. Bring instruments,...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Performing with Paul and Storm This is a seated show...
Ongoing Events
Shakespeare's Globe: Love's Labour's Lost
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Classic Stage Company
The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson, Jr.: Crime or Emergency ***PLUS BONUS EDITIONS
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in her creation: a...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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:...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Various locations
Freed from the fetters/influence of studio dollars and cents, the films in this festival display creativity at its purest and most...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BK's finest small-scale directors are the married focus of this seven-film series. Whether you term their portraits naturalistic or neo-realist, the...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Deitch Projects
Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos....
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Farmani Gallery
As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Various
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Wired Store
The annual WIRED Holiday Pop-Up Store is back, this time setting up in the MPD. Be the first to check out...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Film Forum
Closing out the Fast Runner trilogy on an elegiac note, Before Tomorrow offers a periscope to Inuit life in 1840, when...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Walkerspace
Burlesque collective Pinchbottom re-imagines Dickens' classic tale with a bit more spice. This sexy update remains faithful to the original text...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ The Flea Theater
While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ IFC Center
For two weekends, this mini-retrospective highlights a few of the legendary Southern dramatist's most memorable cinematic moments, such as Elizabeth Taylor's...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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....
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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....
Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ BAM
Mortal Engine Created by Chunky Move "Utterly captivating and, that most illusive of theatrical goals, utterly unique." —The Scotsman
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The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Don't Miss the Show Everyone is Talking About, ONE EVENING
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Lincoln Center
GIVEAWAY to WIN 2 TICKETS to Thursday's performance. Back at Lincoln Center after last season's accliamed production of Waves, Katie...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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: Velázquez Rediscovered
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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 Next Director: Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ BAM
This year, BAMcinematek's annual series highlighting up-and-coming filmmakers focuses on American collaborators So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray, who have...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind after work every Wednesday from 5-7pm at the Rubin Museum of Art. Himalayan Happy Hour means 10% off everything on...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
