Events on Thursday, June 18
Thursday 6/18 @ Tenement Museum
After years of homelessness on the streets of New York City, the dire daily grind of the author who goes by...
Thursday 6/18 @ Radio City Music Hall
Just as Joanna Newsom hearts the harp, chanteur Andrew Bird vanquishes the violin. Not only does Bird strum the old-school instrument...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 6/18 @ Participant Inc
As part of Los Angeles-based gallery LAXART's LAPD (LA Public Domain) series, subtitled "Artistic and Curatorial Interventions in Experimental Contexts," curator...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Thursday 6/18 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum joins forces with the Met to present a well-chosen selection of art objects and manuscripts illuminating the Islamic...
Thursday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ The Joyce Theater
Rennie Harris' latest work for dynamic dance company Philadanco captures the fractured political and social climate of the company's home city...
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Thursday 6/18 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
For 20 years now, this festival has tirelessly recited those three little words: justice for all. This year's edition features dozens...
Thursday 6/18 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 6/18 @ 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...
Thursday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 6/18 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Thursday 6/18 @ Various locations
The most mouth-watering movie series in the city returns for its third-annual installment. Documentaries — like the shroomy (and Flaming Lips-scored)...
Thursday 6/18 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
Two southern newlyweds are the only characters present in Sweet Storm, but there is more than enough drama stemming from this...
Thursday 6/18 @ 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...
New York Bicycle Film Festival
Thursday 6/18 @ Various locations
NYC is a very bikeable city — just watch out for those car doors. It's also, of course, an extremely creative...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Thursday 6/18 @ 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...
Thursday 6/18 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Thursday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ The Brick Theater
The Brick's Antidepressant Festival doesn't promise more traditional antidepressants (of the self-medicating sort) like tubs of ice cream or scotch, but...
Thursday 6/18 @ 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...
Thursday 6/18 @ Vineyard Theatre
The Brady Bunch meets The Bill Cosby Show in the age of Obama in Anika Larsen's autobiographical new musical Shafrika, the...
Thursday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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...
Thursday 6/18 @ 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...
Thursday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The pop troupers of the British Invasion weren't the 1960s' only across-the-pond transplants. In fact, several famous American studio directors —...
Thursday 6/18 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project occupies a nebulous zone between fact and fiction, billing itself as a "fictional exploration" of the...
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
Thursday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Thursday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAMcinemaFEST replaces the popular Sundance at BAM season with a slightly smaller but still impressive lineup of New York premieres including...
Thursday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Sperone Westwater
Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a...
Thursday 6/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 6/18 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris
Thursday 6/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
View the exhibition Napoleon III and Paris before it closes on Monday, September 7 and explore the changing shape of Paris during...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Thursday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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....
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 6/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Monday, September 7! Do you remember your first painting? Michelangelo’s biographers wrote that his...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Thursday 6/18 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 6/18 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 6/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
When Esoteric Buddhism was introduced to Japan from mainland China in the 9th century, it forever changed the visual landscape of...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 6/18 @ 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...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Thursday 6/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Learn how with strokes of genius, artists in the Middle Ages explored...
