Events on Tuesday, June 9
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 9 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ Sperone Westwater
Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ BAM Harvey Theater
Merciless warlords, political spin, and religious foment render the Shakespearean canon rich terrain for mining contemporary global unrest. Enter Kuwaiti director...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 9 @ 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...
The Heart of a Woman: Harlequin Cover Art 1949-2009
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ Open House Gallery
Romance novels may not be taken seriously as literature, but this exhibition at Openhouse Gallery positions their covers as legitimate artwork....
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 9 @ The Joyce Theater
Jennifer Muller has had her company with its great, to-the-point name for 35 years. The influential choreographer's signature technique is rooted...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 9 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 9 @ 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 6/ 9 @ 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 New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 6/ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
