Events on Wednesday, July 29

Summer BBQ Blowout feat. Sam Mason and Harlem Shakes

Food/Wine

Summer BBQ Blowout feat. Sam Mason

Wednesday 7/29 @ Hope Lounge

The smell of sizzling meat hangs heavy in the air this summer, and even celebrity chefs can't resist its allure. That's... 

Special Event

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter: An Introduction

Wednesday 7/29 @ 92YTribeca

Marci Alboher and Sarah Milstein

Networking on the Web is becoming an... 

HOTEL MOTEL with DJ's JD SAMSON (LE TIGRE, MEN) w/ LAUREN FLAX LUIZA SA (CSS)

Music

HOTEL MOTEL with DJ's JD SAMSON (LE TIGRE, MEN) w/ LAUREN FLAX LUIZA SA (CSS)

Wednesday 7/29 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

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Music

Seasick Steve

Wednesday 7/29 @ The Mercury Lounge

Music

Pete Yorn @ Webster Hall

Wednesday 7/29 @ The Bowery Presents

Music: Electronic

Ebony Bones

Wednesday 7/29 @ The Bowery Ballroom

"EBONY BONES! Going completely against the grain - boundaries... 

Outdoor Cinema at Socrates: LOU REED'S BERLIN

Festival: Film

Outdoor Cinema at Socrates: LOU REED'S BERLIN

Wednesday 7/29 @ Museum of the Moving Image


OUTDOOR CINEMA AT SOCRATES PARK


Outdoor Cinema is the 11th annual festival of international film, music, dance... 

Music: Electronic

Stars Of Track And Field

Wednesday 7/29 @ The Mercury Lounge

Stars of Track and Field traverses sonic territory, from... 

A Little Night Music: Piotr Anderszewski

Performing Arts

A Little Night Music: Piotr Anderszewski

Wednesday 7/29 @ Lincoln Center

"That he can absorb an audience with the intense concentration of his pianism shows a powerful interpretive imagination at work." —Chicago... 

Gotta Dance

Film

Gotta Dance

Wednesday 7/29 @ 92YTribeca

Screening followed by discussion with veteran Broadway producer and director Dori Berinstein and columnist Steve Ramos as well as a performance... 

Noisemakers with Peter Rosenberg Featuring Raekwon

Music

Noisemakers with Peter Rosenberg Featuring Raekwon

Wednesday 7/29 @ 92YTribeca

Hot 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg hosts a night of music and conversation featuring famed hip-hop artist Raekwon, a member of the... 

Boo Boo Cousins

Music

Boo Boo Cousins

Wednesday 7/29 @ 92YTribeca

Boo Boo Cousins is a singer/songwriter and native New Yorker. As a solo performer, bandleader and producer Mr. Cousins has been... 

Love Is a Four-Letter Word: Reading and Miseryfest

Books: Reading

Love Is a Four-Letter Word: Reading and Miseryfest

Wednesday 7/29 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Readings from Love Is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts by Dan Kennedy, Wendy McClure,... 

Lick - 1 Year Anniversary Party w/ Elevator Fight and Zoe Kravitz

Music

Lick - 1 Year Anniversary Party w/ Elevator Fight and Zoe Kravitz

Wednesday 7/29 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Guys and gals can expect something like this: Taste Presents... LICK - 1 Year Anniversary Party Performing Live: ELEVATOR FIGHT with... 

Mostly Mozzart Festival Orchestra with Louis Langrée

Performing Arts

Mostly Mozzart Festival Orchestra with Louis Langrée

Wednesday 7/29 @ Lincoln Center

Opening Night with Louis Langrée conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Leif Ove Andsnes

“Mr. Langrée has achieved
... 

Jay Brannan w/ Drew Brody

Music

Jay Brannan w/ Drew Brody

Wednesday 7/29 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

 
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Ongoing Events

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Wednesday 7/29 @ Paragraph

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

Theatre

West Side Story

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

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

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Wednesday 7/29 @ The Morgan Library

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

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

Art

Ben Tour

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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>NAKED!</em>

Art

NAKED!

Wednesday 7/29 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

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

Nick Ray Festival

Festival: Film

Nick Ray Festival

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

SociaLybrium feat. Bernie Worrell

Music

SociaLybrium

Wednesday 7/29 @ Littlefield

In the '70s, Parliament-Funkadelic was the funk band. Sure, James Brown and a host of others could compete, but few things... 

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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,... 

<em>Humpday</em>

Film

Humpday

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

The Putting Lot

Sports

The Putting Lot

Wednesday 7/29 @ The Putting Lot

To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them... 

Art

Klaus Moje

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

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

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Wednesday 7/29 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>Whatever Works</em>

Film

Whatever Works

Wednesday 7/29 @ Various locations

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

<em>Sweet Storm</em>

Theatre

Sweet Storm

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>Wondermare</em>

Art

Wondermare

Wednesday 7/29 @ Apex Art

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

<em>In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960&ndash;1976</em>

Art

In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>Iran Inside Out</em>

Art

Iran Inside Out

Wednesday 7/29 @ Chelsea Art Museum

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

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

Art

6 works, 6 rooms

Wednesday 7/29 @ David Zwirner

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

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

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Deadpan

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Wednesday 7/29 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam</em>

Art

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

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

Art

Shane Hope

Wednesday 7/29 @ Winkleman Gallery

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

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

Art: Photography

Lynn Saville

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Sixth-Annual Summer Play Festival

Theatre

Summer Play Festival

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>Soul Power</em>

Film: Documentary

Soul Power

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Pilobolus

Dance

Pilobolus

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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,... 

Art

Claes Oldenburg

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Huang Yong Ping

Art

Huang Yong Ping

Wednesday 7/29 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Jazz in July

Music

Jazz in July

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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.... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Art

Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

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

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Wednesday 7/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


View the online checklist
Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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

Art

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

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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: <em>Art & Project Bulletin</em>, 1968–1989

Art

In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989

Wednesday 7/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:... 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Wednesday 7/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:... 

Performance 4: Roman Ondák

Special Event

Performance 4: Roman Ondák

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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 Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion

Art

The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Art

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Projects 90: Song Dong

Art

Projects 90: Song Dong

Wednesday 7/29 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

For his first solo U.S. museum exhibition, Beijing-based artist Song Dong (b. 1966) presents his recent work
... 

Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection

Special Event

Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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

Art

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting

Art

Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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,... 

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Film

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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 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

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Young Architects Program 2009

Special Event

Young Architects Program 2009

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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 Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Art

What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Premiere Brazil! 2009

Festival: Film

Premiere Brazil! 2009

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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,... 

James Ensor

Special Event

James Ensor

Wednesday 7/29 @ 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...