Events on Thursday, July 30
Thursday 7/30 @ Hudson River Park Pier 84 (44th St & West Side Highway, New York, NY 10036)
Rumble on the River brings the popular amateur boxing series Friday Night Fights outside for a rare free show this week....
Herbs and Spice and Everything Nice
Thursday 7/30 @ 92YTribeca
What’s the difference between an herb and a spice? How should you buy, store and use them? What about dried herbs...
Thursday 7/30 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Jimmy Heath, tenor saxophone
Phil Woods, alto saxophone
Steve Wilson, alto saxophone
Harry Allen, tenor saxophone
Jimmy...
Thursday 7/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Freak Nasty featuring:
Raye 6
Shareef Ali
Gia
Sabrina Gilbert
Miriam Tabb
...
Thursday 7/30 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Always a sharp student of pop, Jarvis Cocker's solo...
Thursday 7/30 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Veils are a London based indie/...
The New World of New York City Rentals with Curbed.com
Thursday 7/30 @ 92YTribeca
What should you be paying for your place? This is the place to find out. Curbed and 92YTribeca bring you a...
Thursday 7/30 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo project in...
HOT! Festival and New Museum Presents: La John Joseph and Joseph Keckler
Thursday 7/30 @ New Museum
HOT! Festival and New Museum Presents bring you an evening of confession, digression, song, and prance from two Josephs—from both sides...
JAMS w/ Mattie Saffer, Nick Catchdubs, and DJ Lindsey
Thursday 7/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Thursday 7/30 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Queer/Art/Film. Presented by writer Sarah Schulman.
"Along with...
Concert: Heartless Bastards and Butterfly Boucher
Thursday 7/30 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Ongoing Events
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ Littlefield
In the '70s, Parliament-Funkadelic was the funk band. Sure, James Brown and a host of others could compete, but few things...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Thursday 7/30 @ The Clocktower
Built with a McKim, Mead & White pedigree, and occupied in the '70s by curator Alanna Heiss, who would go on...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ New York Live Arts
TAKE Dance Company, a contemporary dance ensemble known for its gentle blend of eastern and western sensibilities led by artistic director...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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....
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Thursday 7/30 @ P.S. 122
A thoroughly original and frequently hilarious new play, the Amoralists' The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side places the audience...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Thursday 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 Amoralists: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Thursday 7/30 @ Performance Space 122
EXTENDED - really, really, really extended.
This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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,...
Catch!, Neal Medlyn, and Brendan Kennedy's "WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!!"
Thursday 7/30 @ Performance Space 122
ADDED LATE SHOW! Kanye West's ground-breaking crossover pop album 808s & Heartbreak gets a hi-fly live performance mash-up. A vast array...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ Joe's Pub
A summer treat that might even beat a trip to Italy. New Yorkers...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 7/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take a break from city life and visit the Met’s blog dedicated to your neighboring medieval garden! July 1, 2009 marked the first anniversary...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
