Events on Thursday, July 16
Thursday 7/16 @ Highline Ballroom
It's been a minute since NYC's Stellastarr* have been around, with their last album, Harmonies for the Haunted, dropping in 2005....
Thursday 7/16 @ Prospect Park Bandshell
San Francisco's Kronos Quartet has garnered a well-deserved reputation as one of the most successful and progressive string quartets in the...
Gallery Talk: A Closer Look: Don Manuel Osorio by Francisco Goya
Thursday 7/16 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Soon after being appointed the painter for Charles III of Spain in 1786, Goya painted this fascinating portrait of the son...
Thursday 7/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Life After Top Chef with Eater.com
Thursday 7/16 @ 92YTribeca
Join Eater and 92YTribeca for a discussion with former Top Chef contestants now working in the kitchens of New York City,...
Thursday 7/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Flashy and Trashy w/ DJ Jay McElfresh
Thursday 7/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Flashy and Trashy
w/ DJ Jay McElfresh
10pm doors &...
David Goldblatt and Richard Flood in Conversation
Thursday 7/16 @ New Museum
Thursday 7/16 @ 92YTribeca
Michael Somerville of the Fine Living Network's series Wingman hosts this week’s installment of Comedy Below Canal™, 92YTribeca’s acclaimed weekly comedy...
The Get Down- Featuring William Bell, Harvey Bobettes, with the Bo-Keys
Thursday 7/16 @ Lincoln Center
This dance party pays homeage to the pioneers of R&B, featuring William Bell, architect of the Stax-Volt sounds; Harvey Scales, funk...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 7/16 @ Galerie Zurcher
"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Indian Lookout Country Club
Camp Bisco Eight is the eighth-annual incarnation of the three-day music and arts festival in upstate Mariaville, New York. Spread over...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Lincoln Center
Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York...
Emanuel Gat Dance: Winter Variations & Silent Ballet
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ The Chocolate Factory
Touted as the conceptual love child of Ed Sullivan and David Lynch, Ferocious Spectacular, Episode One: The Black Death marks the...
Thursday 7/16 @ Winkleman Gallery
The hyper-technical world of future studies, nanotech, artificial intelligence, neurosystems, and the digital evolution all find accessible, even playful, expression in...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 7/16 @ Spoon Theatre
Hiding Behind Comets takes place on a slow night for bartender Troy. His twin sister Honey and girlfriend Erin urge him...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ Jack the Pelican
What grew out of a one-person show in Jack the Pelican's project room earlier this year has dug in its heels...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 7/16 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Thursday 7/16 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This landmark exhibition is devoted to one of the most important painters of...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Thursday 7/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ Lincoln Center
From the matriarch of exploratory French theater comes a truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life’s ultimate question: What...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Thursday 7/16 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ 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
Thursday 7/16 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Thursday 7/16 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American artist Roxy Paine (born in 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Premiere Brazil 2009, the seventh annual collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival,...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Thursday 7/16 @ New York Live Arts
Patrick Corbin’s ensemble presents his critically acclaimed Romantic Conversions and Reach, and premieres Nelly van Bommel’s Adele’s Skirt [Tsaritsa]. CorbinDances will...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 7/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
Thursday 7/16 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This is the first major museum exhibition to focus exclusively on “The Pictures Generation.” Educated in the self-reflexive and critical principles...
