Events on Thursday, May 28
Thursday 5/28 @ The Bowery Ballroom
With competitive air guitar bigger than ever, we look forward to the days when an entire generation has been weaned on...
Thursday 5/28 @ 3rd Ward
In March of 2005, filmmaker Michael Dorian traveled to Italy to capture the prodigious skills, drama, and intrigue of the 14th...
Thursday 5/28 @ Think Coffee
Digital indie press Nobody Rocks isn't just resigned to the advent of paperless literary publishing; according to founder Greg Aden, it's...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
Thursday 5/28 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Thirty-odd years after reintroducing Gustave Caillebotte to American audiences, the Brooklyn Museum offers another marvelous paean to a figure whose posthumous...
Thursday 5/28 @ 59E59 Theaters
Morris Panych's dark comedy The Dishwashers is reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett work, complete with existential philosophizing and dialogue that prompts...
Thursday 5/28 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Jenny Holzer thrives outside the more traditional, brick-and-mortar art world of paint and photography, using LED and light projection as her...
Thursday 5/28 @ Sperone Westwater
Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Thursday 5/28 @ 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....
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
Thursday 5/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For all its fundamental utility, language can also warp into an abstract whatsit — at least in the artful hands of...
Thursday 5/28 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 303 Bond Street
The original "origin" story is another glittery triumph for choreographer/director Austin McCormick and XIV. With the assistance of a demonic Ringmistress...
Thursday 5/28 @ Museum of Art and Design
As a German Down Under, glass-art virtuoso Klaus Moje has single-handedly made Australia a hub for that fine art's evolution. Artist...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 5/28 @ Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
One of the first Broadway plays to openly discuss female homosexuality, Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, from 1934, holds up remarkably...
Thursday 5/28 @ Collect Pond Park
The always awesome public-art sponsors at Public Art Fund debut a new downtown work by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith. Their...
Thursday 5/28 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
With public-art dandy Claes Oldenburg, Pound's dictum seems especially true: all great art is born of the metropolis. The Whitney's Oldenburg...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
Thursday 5/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
From Zane Grey's far-fetched dime novels to homespun images describing a seemingly limitless stretch of adventure, the American West — as...
Thursday 5/28 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success)
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts
A champion of the good old-fashioned methods of observation and draughtsmanship, Gregory Crane populates urban and rural landscapes with spirited sets...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
The Complete Dardenne Brothers
Thursday 5/28 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
It should come as little surprise that hyperrealist Belgian auteurs Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne began with experimental, political, hard-knock documentaries —...
Thursday 5/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Bracketed by those historic "falls" in nearby Berlin (of the city itself and, later, its Wall), the Polish Poster School's expressionistic,...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker
Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Thursday 5/28 @ Chelsea Market
Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 5/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 5/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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....
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Thursday 5/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched...
