Events on Tuesday, May 26
Tuesday 5/26 @ Radio City Music Hall
Radio City's superb speaker series closes out its run this season with a powerhouse lineup. Night-talk superstar Charlie Rose hosts two...
Tuesday 5/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The contemporary art world is out in full force tonight for MoMA's annual Party in the Garden, which also benefits the...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 5/26 @ Artists Space
Flowers that manage to exist in cement-road crevices: a timeless analogy for nature's resiliency in the face of man, and also,...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Felissimo Design House
Bring home a taste (or a tasteful element) of Japan from Felissimo Design House's Japan Brand Pop-Up store. If MUJI just...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Center for Book Arts
A motley collection of works by 30 artists makes up the \'flō\: art, text, new media exhibition, which examines the use...
Tuesday 5/26 @ 3rd Ward
Are you the Wizard? If you've held on to your vintage console — and your chops — then head over to...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Tuesday 5/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
While the peripatetic, 20th-century artist may only have been the second most famous Francis Bacon to bless English shores, he was...
Tuesday 5/26 @ International Center of Photography
For photographer Richard Avedon, the decisive moment came as a flash of mischief. Picture: two lovely femmes, their coated backs shielding...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Beacon Theatre
The greatest band that never was is on the road again. Director Rob Reiner's 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap was...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Tuesday 5/26 @ International Center of Photography
By August 1944, France had been liberated from the clutch of the Vichy regime, but war had left its proud-as-a-peacock couture...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
Tuesday 5/26 @ The Palace Theatre
Argentine opera singer Josephine Scaglione's magnetically angelic presence contrasts beautifully with the unforgiving world around her in Arthur Laurents' gritty revival...
Tuesday 5/26 @ 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...
Yesterday's Loner: Steve McQueen
Tuesday 5/26 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Steve McQueen is probably the only man on the planet who could have made a turtleneck and blazer look badass. It's...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Goff + Rosenthal Gallery
Iraqi-born American painter Ahmed Alsoudani builds tumultuous compositions about violence, war, and human suffering, juxtaposing human and bestial figures whose violent...
Tuesday 5/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Metro Pictures
In Robert Longo's Surrendering the Absolutes, his signature large-scale charcoal drawings explore the atmospheric effects of light, and the ways in...
Tuesday 5/26 @ 59E59 Theaters
Morris Panych's dark comedy The Dishwashers is reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett work, complete with existential philosophizing and dialogue that prompts...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
Jessica Stockholder gets wild with layered compositions of paint blobs, handmade paper, laser-cut textiles (some furry, some shiny), and other collaged...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre
400-year-old King Berenger (Geoffrey Rush) doesn't know he has only 90 minutes left to live at the beginning of Ionesco's rarely...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Tuesday 5/26 @ Chelsea Market
Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of...
Tuesday 5/26 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
Tuesday 5/26 @ 59E59 Theaters
True to its title, Brian Dykstra's A Play on Words is an English major's idea of non-stop fun. A Play on...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Sperone Westwater
Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Tuesday 5/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Pictures Generation pulls the curtain on the young laboratory of the New York art scene in the '70s and '80s....
Tuesday 5/26 @ New York Theatre Workshop
Delroy Lindo returns to the New York stage as Tice Hogan, a black communist recruiter in depression-era Alabama whose values are...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Circle in the Square Theatre
Norman's plan for a "dirty weekend" with his sister-in-law Annie turns into a couple days of chaos with the whole family...
The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success)
Tuesday 5/26 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
In her latest work, composer/singer/theatre artist Cynthia Hopkins explores when failure is actually success — and vice versa — voyaging from...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Anna Kustera Gallery
The toast of London's contemporary art world, Stuart Semple brings a warped progression on Pop Art to New York. Everlasting, Nothing...
Tuesday 5/26 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 5/26 @ James Cohan Gallery
With his passing in 2006, Nam June Paik left a legacy as one of the ancestors of early video art. Paik's...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
A playground altercation between two preteen boys escalates to full-on war when their parents get involved in French playwright Yasmina Reza's...
Tuesday 5/26 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 5/26 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Tuesday 5/26 @ Asia Society and Museum
Check out the premiere U.S. museum showing of Yang Fudong's Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest. The five-part cinematic masterpiece depicts...
