Music

Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson

Tuesday 8/18 @ Joe's Pub

"Smoke don't rise, fuel don’t burn, sun don’t shine no more Late one night, sorrow come round,... 

Music

Angel Taylor

Tuesday 8/18 @ Joe's Pub

A passionate blend of youthful innocence, soulful essence and a spiritual center, Angel Taylor is every bit... 

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 8/18 @ Paragraph

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

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art

Iran Inside Out

Tuesday 8/18 @ Chelsea Art Museum

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

Film

One-Eyed Auteurs

Tuesday 8/18 @ Anthology Film Archives

Mid-century Hollywood had enough eye-patched directors roaming its lots to form a themed doo-wop group: John Ford, Fritz Lang, Nicholas Ray,... 

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Food/Wine

Summer Crab Boil

Tuesday 8/18 @ Back Forty

Nothing says summer quite like heaping piles of steamed blue crabs, and that's exactly what Back Forty serves up every Tuesday... 

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Film

Lorna's Silence

Tuesday 8/18 @ Various locations

Lorna's Silence — the Dardenne brothers' latest piece of blue-collar verisimilitude — merits neither the "master" prefix nor the lambasting it's... 

Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 8/18 @ The People's Improv Theater

Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... 

Theatre

Is Life Worth Living?

Tuesday 8/18 @ The Mint Theater

Lennox Robinson's 1933 comedy is set in a sleepy Irish resort town where a troupe of third-rate actors has unleashed Russian... 

Film

Humpday

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Lynn Saville

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Film: Documentary

Gotta Dance

Tuesday 8/18 @ Beekman Theatre

With the tagline "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese," Gotta Dance sets its defiant yet humorous tone right from... 

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 8/18 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

Theatre

Our Town

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 8/18 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Art

Design-to-Go

Tuesday 8/18 @ Blank SL8

Marrying a contemporary design aesthetic to old-fashioned wanderlust, the Design-to-Go pop-up boutique by retailer AREAWARE presents an alternative view of the... 

Festival: Performing Arts

NY Fringe Festival

Tuesday 8/18 @ Various downtown theaters

With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,... 

Art

Spencer Finch

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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,... 

Art

Re:Construction

Tuesday 8/18 @ Various locations

Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 

Special Event

Sputnik Chess Knights

Tuesday 8/18 @ Sputnik

Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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

A Clearing in the Streets

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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

NAKED!

Tuesday 8/18 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

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

Film

Flame and Citron

Tuesday 8/18 @ Landmark Sunshine

After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word... 

Art

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

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Performing Arts

Louis Langrée conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Jeffrey Kahane

Tuesday 8/18 @ Lincoln Center

Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Louis Langrée, conductor
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Randall Ellis, oboe
Marc Goldberg, bassoon
... 

Art

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art

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

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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,... 

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Film

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art

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

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Tuesday 8/18 @ Brooklyn Bowl

Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,... 

Art

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

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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... 

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Tuesday 8/18 @ 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...