Events on Wednesday, July 1
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ The Bowery Ballroom
While it's hard to predict the next buzz band, it would be a smart bet to place your money on the...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Stuyvesant Town Oval
Normally a safe place to picnic, the Stuy Town Oval braces for Jay Reatard's garage-punk assault. Although the Memphian's upcoming album...
InDigest 1207 Reading Series presents Geoff Herbach
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 07.01.09
InDigest 1207 Reading Series presents
Geoff Herbach
6:30pm doors | 7pm reading
FREE
Strictly...
Celebrity Art Party featuring DJ Ray Velasquez
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 07.01.09
Celebrity Art Party featuring DJ Ray Velasquez
10pm
FREE
Strictly 21+
This is a...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 07.01.09
Leona Naess
Jesse Harris
6:30pm doors | 7pm show
$13 advance | $15 day of...
Trevor Exter, Steve Waitt, and The New York Howl
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 07.01.09
Trevor Exter
Steve Waitt
The New York Howl
10pm doors | 10:3pm show
...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Winkleman Gallery
The hyper-technical world of future studies, nanotech, artificial intelligence, neurosystems, and the digital evolution all find accessible, even playful, expression in...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Galerie Zurcher
"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing...
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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 7/ 1 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Brighton Rock and 10 Rillington Place
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Film Forum
Best known for directing the Oscar-winning Gandhi, Sir Richard Attenborough has a resume of playing epic characters with unpeaceful tendencies. Film...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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 7/ 1 @ Various locations
Think you know Shakespeare? Seen it all, have you? Not quite like this, you haven't. Nylon Fusion Collective's new production of...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAMcinemaFEST replaces the popular Sundance at BAM season with a slightly smaller but still impressive lineup of New York premieres including...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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....
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
New York Asian Film Festival 2009
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ IFC Center
For whatever reason, Asian cinema has become synonymous with violence, sex, and cyborgs, and the New York Asian Film Festival does...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Atlantic Stage Two
Like The Europeans, this second play of PTP's New York season is another portrait of a woman in distress. Èmile Zola's...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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 7/ 1 @ 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,...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This exhibition features the proposals of the five finalists in the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. Each year five finalists are drawn...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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....
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A major exhibition devoted to James Ensor, one of the most influential artists of the Belgian avant-garde and a percursor to...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Ancient Afghanistan—at the crossroads of major trade routes and the focus of invasions...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Viewers play a vital role in the creation of Measuring the Universe (2007), by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák (b. 1966). Over...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
Not just for history buffs, the Asian Journeys exhibition explores the socio-political context for the American collecting of Asian Art in...
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s unparalleled collection of American art includes some 45 sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Wednesday 7/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
Sight Unseen showcases rarely seen video works from Afghanistan and Iran. The exhibition features Afghan artist Rahraw Omarzad and Iranian artist...
