Events on Thursday, August 13
Thursday 8/13 @ Best Buy Theatre
Even if you've never listened to De La Soul directly, there's a good chance that some of your favorite song refrains...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Thursday 8/13 @ Brooklyn Bridge Park
It's been 40 years since the easygoing, hyper-charismatic tandem of Paul Newman and Robert Redford played the lovable outlaws stuck with...
Gallery Talk: Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Thursday 8/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 153 works in the exhibition Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective span the artist's career and illuminate the key subjects and...
Thursday 8/13 @ The Mercury Lounge
Ghost Rock is the new album from the Michigan-based...
John Legend @ Madision Square Garden
Thursday 8/13 @ The Bowery Presents
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Thursday 8/13 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Lights Resolve is a 3-piece alternative rock band from...
Thursday 8/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Midival Punditz
Karsh Kale
11pm doors & show
$18
Strictly 21+
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Thursday 8/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Say hello to Friendly Fires, born of commuter belt...
Bacon's Arena: An Art of Pain and Beauty
Thursday 8/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents the film Bacon's Arena: An Art of Pain and Beauty, directed by Adam Low, 2005 (96 min.) Archival...
Tracy Bonham with special guest Tony Scherr
Thursday 8/13 @ Joe's Pub
Tracy Bonham has continued to make great music and play all over the...
Snehasish Mozumder & Som, Jake Shimabukuro, and The Derek Trucks Band
Thursday 8/13 @ Lincoln Center
CHECK THE WEBSITE LCOutOfDoors.org for Weather Updates. Three exploratory string virtuosos expand the boundaries of their instruments. Classical and jazz...
Thursday 8/13 @ The Bowery Presents
It is a heart-rending drama of tragedy and triumph,...
Thursday 8/13 @ The Mercury Lounge
Fronted by singer/songwriter Joe Sumner -- who is the...
Ongoing Events
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Thursday 8/13 @ The Clocktower
Built with a McKim, Mead & White pedigree, and occupied in the '70s by curator Alanna Heiss, who would go on...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 8/13 @ Village Vanguard
Saxophonist JD Allen plays short, three-to-four minute songs that bring back an economy that's often lacking in contemporary instrumental jazz. The...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ Landmark Sunshine
After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Thursday 8/13 @ Various locations
Lorna's Silence — the Dardenne brothers' latest piece of blue-collar verisimilitude — merits neither the "master" prefix nor the lambasting it's...
Thursday 8/13 @ The Joyce Theater
It has been 25 years since Tulsa Ballet last appeared here, and the company's Joyce debut program reflects Artistic Director Marcello...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
As part of the Bronx Museum's progressive year-long series Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100, designer and Bronx native Vito Acconci...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ Beekman Theatre
With the tagline "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese," Gotta Dance sets its defiant yet humorous tone right from...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Thursday 8/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Thursday 8/13 @ P.S. 122
A thoroughly original and frequently hilarious new play, the Amoralists' The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side places the audience...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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...
The Amoralists: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Thursday 8/13 @ Performance Space 122
EXTENDED - really, really, really extended.
This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris
Thursday 8/13 @ 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
Thursday 8/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Thursday 8/13 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 8/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawad, speaks about the rich culture and history of Afghanistan at...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Thursday 8/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Thursday 8/13 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A Flowering Tree (New York Premiere) A New Opera by John Adams
Thursday 8/13 @ Lincoln Center
John Adams: A Flowering Tree Adams' A Flowering Tree recounts the touching story of a young woman who magically morphs...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Thursday 8/13 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 8/13 @ 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—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Thursday 8/13 @ 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,...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Thursday 8/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
