Events on Friday, July 24
Friday 7/24 @ South Street Seaport
In attempting to describe the music of Black Moth Super Rainbow, the same adjectives always come up: "psychedelic" and "experimental." But...
Friday 7/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LPR Presents NYC's #1 Dance Party: The Freedom Party ft: DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth Free dance parties...
Friday 7/24 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Celebrate the launch of The Faster Times, a new type of newspaper for a new type of world. www.TheFasterTimes.com
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cost, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 7/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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The Freedom...
Friday 7/24 @ The Mercury Lounge
Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic began in 1980 as a...
Friday 7/24 @ Lincoln Center
These Colombian cumbia legends are credited with helping to popularize the genre throughout Latin America since their founding in 1960. Re-formed...
Todd P Presents: Crystal Stilts, Little Claw, Fergus & Geronimo, Magic Kids
Friday 7/24 @ 92YTribeca
Todd P is the "best thrower of no-bullsh** far-flung indie rock shows"
—Village Voice
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Bleu with special guest Jim Boggia
Friday 7/24 @ Joe's Pub
How is a perfect pop song born? Paul McCartney channeled melodies in his dreams. Paul Simon hammered...
Syd Kitchen & The South African All-Stars
Friday 7/24 @ Joe's Pub
'FOOL IN A BUBBLE' Album Launch Party!
SYD KITCHEN - Referred to as the 'Afro-Saxon...
Friday 7/24 @ Joe's Pub
Everywhere they go, Freshlyground are a sensation. In South Africa audiences of every race cram in to...
Friday 7/24 @ 92YTribeca
Based in New York, 24-year old singer/songwriter Lindsay Ellyn draws inspiration from the city and the many lives, movements and happenings...
Friday 7/24 @ The Bowery Presents
A Hamilton, Ontario-based electronic pop group, Junior Boys began...
Friday 7/24 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Swayze Days of Summer.
This falls under the...
Friday 7/24 @ 92YTribeca
Cartoons from Hell, a special program of evil short films curated by Animator Patrick Smith, take us to a dark and...
Danica Dora with special guest Pauline Pisano
Friday 7/24 @ Joe's Pub
Danica Dora is quickly emerging as a thrilling new presence on the New York music scene, having...
Ongoing Events
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Friday 7/24 @ Various locations
The Animation Block Party returns to Brooklyn to draw in newcomers and connoisseurs. On Friday, Rooftop Films opens the fest with...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ Spoon Theatre
Hiding Behind Comets takes place on a slow night for bartender Troy. His twin sister Honey and girlfriend Erin urge him...
Friday 7/24 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
Friday 7/24 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Friday 7/24 @ 92YTribeca
Call it happenstance: the role of Danny Zuko, Grease's rebel-with-cause-to-boogie, not only thrust John Travolta onto center stage, but eventually led...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ Winkleman Gallery
The hyper-technical world of future studies, nanotech, artificial intelligence, neurosystems, and the digital evolution all find accessible, even playful, expression in...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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,...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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,...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
Friday 7/24 @ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...
Friday 7/24 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
Friday 7/24 @ Lincoln Center
Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York...
Friday 7/24 @ Monkey Town
For its eighth Monthly Dinner, Monkey Town serves up one of the most chewed-over films in history — Last Year at...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ Film Forum
At the tail end of Nicholas Ray's 1954 alt-Western Johnny Guitar, a moribund old hand utters a triumphant alas to his...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ City Winery
Israeli cult sensations the Puppet Folk Revival close out their month-long residency tonight at City Winery. Haggard lead-puppet Red and his...
Friday 7/24 @ 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....
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Friday 7/24 @ 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....
Friday 7/24 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ Sputnik
Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ Galerie Zurcher
"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Friday 7/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Friday 7/24 @ 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,...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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,...
Friday 7/24 @ New York Live Arts
I LOVE TOMORROW strives to elucidate the circuitous journey of the past in relationship to preconceived notions about the future, careening...
Friday 7/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
JACK FERVER / undergroundzero festival
Friday 7/24 @ Performance Space 122
If you don't see:
I Am Trying To Hear Myself and Vandam Goodbar...
You don't know Jack.
...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 7/24 @ 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—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Friday 7/24 @ 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
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Friday 7/24 @ 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 Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Friday 7/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 7/24 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Friday 7/24 @ 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...
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