Events on Thursday, July 9

River Rocks presents Matt & Kim w/ Flosstradamus and Team Robespierre

Music

Matt & Kim

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Hudson River Park, Pier 54

It's hard to keep a grin off your face as you watch Matt & Kim tap into their seemingly bottomless wellsprings... 

HOT! Festival and New Museum Presents: Armen Ra and Bora Yoon

Music

HOT! Festival and New Museum Presents: Armen Ra and Bora Yoon

Thursday 7/ 9 @ New Museum

HOT! Festival and New Museum Presents bring you an evening of music from the outer limits. World-famous thereminist Armen
... 

The Woody Herman Orchestra directed by Frank Tiberi

Dance

The Woody Herman Orchestra directed by Frank Tiberi

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Lincoln Center

Reedman Frank Tiberi leads the Woody Herman Orchestra, whose members performed under the esteemed bandleader himself. Mixing classic arrangements with new... 

Comedy Below Canal™ hosted by Liam McEneaney with Jen Biederman, Matt Goldich, Louis Katz, Ben Bailey and more

Comedy

Comedy Below Canal™ hosted by Liam McEneaney with Jen Biederman, Matt Goldich, Louis Katz, Ben Bailey and more

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 92YTribeca

Head on down to Comedy Below Canal™ and find out why Time Out New York named us the best new comedy... 

Chris Garneau CD Release Show with The Lisps & Scary Mansion

Music

Chris Garneau CD Release Show with The Lisps & Scary Mansion

Thursday 7/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Wednesday 07.09.09
Chris Garneau CD Release Show
The Lisps
Scary
... 

Flashy and Trashy w/ DJ Jay McElfresh

Music: DJ

Flashy and Trashy w/ DJ Jay McElfresh

Thursday 7/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

CD Release After-Party! Thursday 07.09.09
Flashy and Trashy
w/ DJ Jay... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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.... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Paragraph

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

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Gregory de la Haba: <em>Equus Maximus</em>

Art

Gregory de la Haba

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Lincoln Center Festival 2009

Festival: Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Festival

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Lincoln Center

Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York... 

Invader

Art

Invader

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

If you've ever wondered what those Space Invaders are doing around the streets of New York, LA, or Paris — or... 

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

Art

6 works, 6 rooms

Thursday 7/ 9 @ David Zwirner

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

<em>The Amish Project</em>

Theatre

The Amish Project

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>N&eacute;gritude</em>

Art

Négritude

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Exit Art

An ambitious multimedia exhibition in several parts, Négritude contemplates the inception, evolution, and contemporary international influence of a seminal 20th-century black... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Wondermare</em>

Art

Wondermare

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Apex Art

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

Sixth-Annual Summer Play Festival

Theatre

Summer Play Festival

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Raquin</em>

Theatre

Thérèse Raquin

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Art

Klaus Moje

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Lynn Saville

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Hiding Behind Comets</em>

Theatre

Hiding Behind Comets

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Spoon Theatre

Hiding Behind Comets takes place on a slow night for bartender Troy. His twin sister Honey and girlfriend Erin urge him... 

Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Wild Feature</em>

Art

Wild Feature

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Galerie Zurcher

"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing... 

Theatre

Stunning

Thursday 7/ 9 @ The Duke Theater

David Adjmi's off-Broadway debut is a striking, and yes, stunning black satire of the insular Syrian-Jewish community in Midwood, Brooklyn. Teenage... 

The Putting Lot

Sports

The Putting Lot

Thursday 7/ 9 @ The Putting Lot

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

Huang Yong Ping

Art

Huang Yong Ping

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Studio 54

Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by... 

undergroundzero festival

Festival: Performing Arts

undergroundzero festival

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Iran Inside Out</em>

Art

Iran Inside Out

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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>Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam</em>

Art

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Thursday 7/ 9 @ The Morgan Library

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

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>&nbsp;The Europeans: Struggles to Love</em>

Theatre

The Europeans

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Shane Hope

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Winkleman Gallery

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

<em>NAKED!</em>

Art

NAKED!

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

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

<em>Sweet Storm</em>

Theatre

Sweet Storm

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Art

Deadpan

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

LAXART Off-Site Initiatives presents Thomas Lawson: <em>New World</em>

Art

Thomas Lawson

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Whatever Works</em>

Film

Whatever Works

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Various locations

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

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

NY Eye & Ear Fest II

Music: Experimental

NY Eye & Ear Fest II

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Various locations

Last year's inaugural NY Eye & Ear Fest was a two-day music festival and record fair that hosted more than 30... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Art

Claes Oldenburg

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

SummerDANZ: Koresh Dance Company

Dance

SummerDANZ: Koresh Dance Company

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Thursday 7/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on... 

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

Art

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

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Theatre

undergroundzero festival: WaxFactory & Eric Dean Scott

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

WaxFactory & Eric Dean Scott - Tales from Bordertown Let's get lost. Downtown performer Eric Dean Scott follows a trail of... 

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

Art

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

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Art

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Film

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Projects 90: Song Dong

Art

Projects 90: Song Dong

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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
... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Theatre

Les Éphémères

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Lincoln Center

From the matriarch of exploratory French theater comes a truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life’s ultimate question: What... 

Young Architects Program 2009

Special Event

Young Architects Program 2009

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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 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

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

James Ensor

Special Event

James Ensor

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thursday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Shen Wei Dance Arts

Dance

Shen Wei Dance Arts

Thursday 7/ 9 @ Lincoln Center

New York Premiere Re- I: Tibet
Re- II: Angkor Wat
Re- III: New Silk Road Choreography Shen Wei Sponsored...