Events on Wednesday, July 8
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ Fontana's
We're big fans of the Not For Tourists series. Mostly 'cause we're so proud to be clued-in New Yorkers, ourselves. To...
Happy Ending Music & Reading Series
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ Joe's Pub
Amanda Stern presents her highly successful (for a reason: it's highly entertaining) monthly series tonight, focusing on stories of jealousy and/or...
Say Word: Featuring Michael Muhammad Knight
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 92YTribeca
Michael Muhammad Knight's work has been censored, boycotted, confiscated and threatened with legal action. He is the author of The Taqwacores,...
Chubby Checker (one set at 8:30pm)
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ Lincoln Center
King of The Twist Chubby Checker, changed how a generation danced, inspiring millions to flaunt their moves while "dancing apare to...
The Mahavishnu Project presents The 4th Annual Vishnufest "Return to the Emerald Beyond"
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 07.08.09
The Mahavishnu Project presents
The 4th Annual Vishnufest
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ModernWorks performs The Music of Ge Gan-Ru
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 07.08.09
ModernWorks performs The Music of Ge Gan-Ru
9pm doors | 9:30pm show
$15
18+ or...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ BAM
Promising "movies, music & revolution," BAM's annual Afro-Punk fest features acclaimed docs like the quiet A Man Named Pearl, the stirring...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project occupies a nebulous zone between fact and fiction, billing itself as a "fictional exploration" of the...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
A playground altercation between two preteen boys escalates to full-on war when their parents get involved in French playwright Yasmina Reza's...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Galerie Zurcher
"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Spoon Theatre
Hiding Behind Comets takes place on a slow night for bartender Troy. His twin sister Honey and girlfriend Erin urge him...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Wednesday 7/ 8 @ Lincoln Center
From the matriarch of exploratory French theater comes a truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life’s ultimate question: What...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
SummerDANZ: Koresh Dance Company
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ New York Live Arts
Making their Dance Theater Workshop debut, the company will present Roni Koresh’s Theater of Public Secrets, which examines the complexity of...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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....
undergroundzero festival: WaxFactory & Eric Dean Scott
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ Performance Space 122
WaxFactory & Eric Dean Scott - Tales from Bordertown Let's get lost. Downtown performer Eric Dean Scott follows a trail of...
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Wednesday 7/ 8 @ 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...
