Events on Tuesday, July 21
Tuesday 7/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Post-rock granddaddies Tortoise are back with a new record, Beacons of Ancestorship, that finds the restlessly experimental group in a feverish...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Arlene's Grocery
Local band Red Directors unleash their debut record tonight, offering fun, top-down cruisin' music. It's a meta-rock n' roll album, with...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Maysles Cinema
Let it bleed, indeed. Albert and David Maysles' expansive Rolling Stones doc Gimme Shelter — titled after the brooding lead track...
Tuesday 7/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join educator Amy Silva as she visits the exhibition African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of...
Catherine Russell and Cat & the Hounds Swing Band
Tuesday 7/21 @ Lincoln Center
Whether she's shimmying through a barrelhouse stomper, kicking up her heels honky-tonk style, or dragging her weary heart through a torchy...
Nat Geo Music Residency w/ Jovannotti & Beco
Tuesday 7/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Nat Geo Music Residency is a free gallery party that features modern music from around the globe. Featuring DJ sets from...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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 7/21 @ Galerie Zurcher
"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Lincoln Center
Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
Tuesday 7/21 @ IFC Center
We've all been there: walking innocently down the street, only to be taken aback by a little poster tacked to a...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 92nd St Y
Acclaimed post-Bop pianist Bill Charlap returns for his fifth year as artistic director of this popular festival encapsulating all things jazz....
Tuesday 7/21 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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 7/21 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Winkleman Gallery
The hyper-technical world of future studies, nanotech, artificial intelligence, neurosystems, and the digital evolution all find accessible, even playful, expression in...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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 7/21 @ 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,...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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 7/21 @ 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 7/21 @ 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,...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 7/21 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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 7/21 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
"For connoisseurs of live improvisation, it's hard to beat Jazz in July."
—All About Jazz, NY
Join us for a two-week...
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Tuesday 7/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The collections of African and Oceanic art in the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva,...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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 7/21 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Tuesday 7/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
