Events on Wednesday, July 22
Chali 2na w/ 88-Keys, Aceyalone, and Izza Kizza
Wednesday 7/22 @ Santos Party House
Tonight's lineup is filled with MCs that have built careers in rap's underground; highly respected within the industry, possessing packs of...
Wednesday 7/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
You could make a good case for calling Alarm Will Sound the coolest ensemble performing today. The 20-member band's repertoire leans...
Wednesday 7/22 @ Union Hall
Puzzle addicts in Park Slope and beyond can indulge in a quick crossword fix at Union Hall — along with live...
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Wednesday 7/22 @ Maysles Cinema
There's sorcery in D.A. Pennebaker's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, a "glitter chrome" record of David Bowie's last concert...
Wednesday 7/22 @ Highline Ballroom
Best known as the leggy, sauced half of hilarious cabaret duo Kiki & Herb — or perhaps (playing himself) as the...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 92YTribeca
While not officially billed as a comedy event, Heeb Storytelling should have a lot of it thanks to the lineup. Almost...
Wednesday 7/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
To accompany the exhibition The Model as Muse, the Costume Institute presents Unzipped, directed by Douglas Keeve, with Isaac Mizrahi, 1995,...
The Lowbrow Reader Variety Hour featuring The Fiery Furnaces, Larkin Grimm, John Mulaney and More
Wednesday 7/22 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
The Manhattan comedy journal The Lowbrow Reader is thrilled to announce the Lowbrow Reader Variety Hour, a celebration of its new...
Eating in the Danger Zone: Recipe Diaries
Wednesday 7/22 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Jacques Menard, Canada, 2005 (47 min) Recipe Diaries chronicles bestselling authors, photographers, and cooks Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid as they...
Wednesday 7/22 @ Lincoln Center
The little big band that helped ignite the '90's swing scene brings its high-octane nitro jive to Midsummer Night Swing, as...
Outdoor Cinema at Socrates: CONTEMPT
Wednesday 7/22 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Socrates Sculpture Park in collaboration with Museum of the Moving Image presents:
OUTDOOR CINEMA 2009
11th...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 7/22 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ Spoon Theatre
Hiding Behind Comets takes place on a slow night for bartender Troy. His twin sister Honey and girlfriend Erin urge him...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Wednesday 7/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
While Amsterdam is perhaps the requisite stop on your average high-school or college graduate's "awesome summer abroad," the city once attracted...
Wednesday 7/22 @ Galerie Zurcher
"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ Winkleman Gallery
The hyper-technical world of future studies, nanotech, artificial intelligence, neurosystems, and the digital evolution all find accessible, even playful, expression in...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 7/22 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Wednesday 7/22 @ Lincoln Center
Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Wednesday 7/22 @ IFC Center
We've all been there: walking innocently down the street, only to be taken aback by a little poster tacked to a...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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....
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ Lincoln Center
Venitian playwright Carlo Goldoni’s 1761 three-part satire of the Italian middle class was given new life more than 50 years ago...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Enlighten Up! follows the transformative journey of skeptic Nick Rosen as he is immersed in the world of yoga. Nick travels...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Wednesday 7/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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....
Wednesday 7/22 @ Lincoln Center
Irreverently mirroring the opaque maneuverings of today’s Russian power brokers, the illustrious Chekhov International Theatre Festival offers audiences an edgy, modern-day...
Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Wednesday 7/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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,...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Wednesday 7/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This intimate installation highlights a group of nine exceptional early modern European paintings that have been promised to MoMA by David...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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 7/22 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/22 @ 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,...
