Events on Tuesday, July 14

The Harmony of Wine and Cheese

Food/Wine

The Harmony of Wine and Cheese

Tuesday 7/14 @ City Winery

City Winery breaks down the fine art of wine and cheese pairings in tonight's event, teaching by samples (our favorite method).... 

SWEET feat. John Mulaney and Kristen Johnston

Comedy

SWEET

Tuesday 7/14 @ The Slipper Room

We've had comedy crushes on Kristen Johnston ever since 3rd Rock from the Sun (it's a tough combo to beat: the... 

Melba Joyce & Her Big Band

Dance

Melba Joyce & Her Big Band

Tuesday 7/14 @ Lincoln Center

Vocal powerhouse Melba Joyce has shared the limelight with many jazz legends, including Louis Armstrong and Count Basie.  Here she assembles... 

Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals? Errollyn Wallen and Friends w/ special guests

Music

Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals? Errollyn Wallen and Friends w/ special guests

Tuesday 7/14 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals?
Errollyn Wallen and
... 

RCRD LBL Friends & Fans Meet-Up

Music: DJ

RCRD LBL Friends & Fans Meet-Up

Tuesday 7/14 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Tuesday 07.14.09
RCRD LBL Friends & Fans Meet-Up
7pm doors & show
FREE
Strictly... 

Beatiful Small Machines w/ Red Wire Black Wire

Music

Beatiful Small Machines w/ Red Wire Black Wire

Tuesday 7/14 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Tuesday 07.14.09
Beautiful Small Machines
10pm doors | 10:15 show
$8 advance | $10 day of
... 

Ongoing Events

Theatre

God of Carnage

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 7/14 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Wild Feature</em>

Art

Wild Feature

Tuesday 7/14 @ Galerie Zurcher

"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing... 

<em>Iran Inside Out</em>

Art

Iran Inside Out

Tuesday 7/14 @ Chelsea Art Museum

The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence... 

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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,... 

Huang Yong Ping

Art

Huang Yong Ping

Tuesday 7/14 @ Gladstone Gallery

Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation... 

<em>Whatever Works</em>

Film

Whatever Works

Tuesday 7/14 @ Various locations

Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the... 

Pilobolus

Dance

Pilobolus

Tuesday 7/14 @ The Joyce Theater

Pilobolus has come to be synonymous with summer in New York, with the thrilling company staging an extensive, three-week stay at... 

<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

undergroundzero festival

Festival: Performing Arts

undergroundzero festival

Tuesday 7/14 @ P.S. 122

East River Commedia and Collective:Unconscious join forces with Performance Space 122 to host undergroundzero, a massive experimental-theatre festival. Curator Paul Bargetto... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 7/14 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

Shane Hope: <em>Your Mom Is Open Source</em>

Art

Shane Hope

Tuesday 7/14 @ Winkleman Gallery

The hyper-technical world of future studies, nanotech, artificial intelligence, neurosystems, and the digital evolution all find accessible, even playful, expression in... 

Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: <em>A Clearing in the Streets</em>

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

<em>6 works, 6 rooms</em>

Art

6 works, 6 rooms

Tuesday 7/14 @ David Zwirner

David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and... 

Creative Time presents Steve McQueen: <em>Deadpan</em>

Art

Deadpan

Tuesday 7/14 @ 44 1/2

This July, as part of the ongoing 44 1/2 series, Creative Time recontextualizes Steve McQueen's Deadpan, a restaging of a classic... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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.... 

Nylon Fusion Collective presents <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>

Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Invader

Art

Invader

Tuesday 7/14 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

If you've ever wondered what those Space Invaders are doing around the streets of New York, LA, or Paris — or... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 7/14 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

Emanuel Gat Dance: <em>Winter Variations </em>& <em>Silent Ballet</em>

Dance

Emanuel Gat Dance: Winter Variations & Silent Ballet

Tuesday 7/14 @ Rose Theater, Time Warner Center

Israeli contemporary dance is often synonymous with Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva Dance Company, but choreographer Emanuel Gat is breaking that... 

<em>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Sixth-Annual Summer Play Festival

Theatre

Summer Play Festival

Tuesday 7/14 @ The Public Theater

There's not a whole lot you can do in the New York theatre world for $20, but with the 2009 Summer... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Tuesday 7/14 @ Barrow Street Theater

David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... 

Lynn Saville: <em>Night/Shift</em>

Art: Photography

Lynn Saville

Tuesday 7/14 @ Yancey Richardson Gallery

Known for her atmospheric, black-and-white city portraits, photographer Lynn Saville's latest body of color work, Night/Shift, presents a flaneur's view of... 

<em>Humpday</em>

Film

Humpday

Tuesday 7/14 @ Angelika Film Center

Don't let the doltish title dissuade: Humpday is a truly astute comedy of manners. Herein lies the basic setup behind Kelly... 

<em>Sweet Storm</em>

Theatre

Sweet Storm

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Ben Tour: <em>Crash & Burn</em>

Art

Ben Tour

Tuesday 7/14 @ Joshua Liner Gallery

Bay Area artist Ben Tour's hypnotic and surreal mixed-media portraits both engage and obscure the identity of his subjects. Using quivering,... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

<em>N&eacute;gritude</em>

Art

Négritude

Tuesday 7/14 @ Exit Art

An ambitious multimedia exhibition in several parts, Négritude contemplates the inception, evolution, and contemporary international influence of a seminal 20th-century black... 

<em>&nbsp;The Europeans: Struggles to Love</em>

Theatre

The Europeans

Tuesday 7/14 @ Atlantic Stage Two

Howard Barker's The Europeans explores the scarring left in the wake of empire building. The already decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire and Habsburg... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Tuesday 7/14 @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... 

Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

<em>Soul Power</em>

Film: Documentary

Soul Power

Tuesday 7/14 @ Landmark Sunshine

Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in... 

<em>Wondermare</em>

Art

Wondermare

Tuesday 7/14 @ Apex Art

Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is... 

Lincoln Center Festival 2009

Festival: Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Festival

Tuesday 7/14 @ Lincoln Center

Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York... 

Sputnik Chess Knights

Special Event

Sputnik Chess Knights

Tuesday 7/14 @ Sputnik

Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit... 

<em>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Tuesday 7/14 @ The Morgan Library

If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original... 

<em>Alien</em> (1979)

Film

Alien

Tuesday 7/14 @ Film Forum

Alien was that rare moment in Hollywood history when artistry and jump-out-of-your-seat thrills collided to give birth to what is still... 

<em>NAKED!</em>

Art

NAKED!

Tuesday 7/14 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

Out with the pretensions and in with the, ahem, naked truth. The Paul Kasmin Gallery celebrates the naked form through September,... 

<em>Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Raquin</em>

Theatre

Thérèse Raquin

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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 New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Art

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

SummerDANZ: PARADIGM

Dance

SummerDANZ: PARADIGM

Tuesday 7/14 @ New York Live Arts

PARADIGM returns with Dioscuri #2, an intense piece created by Donald Byrd for Michael Blake and Gus Solomons. The program also... 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages

Art

Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Art

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Film

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Tuesday 7/14 @ 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... 

Theatre

Les Éphémères

Tuesday 7/14 @ Lincoln Center

From the matriarch of exploratory French theater comes a truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life’s ultimate question: What...