Events on Tuesday, August 18
Kurt Andersen and Regina Spektor
Tuesday 8/18 @ Barnes & Noble
At first pass, singer/songwriter Regina Spektor and penman/radio personality Kurt Andersen may seem strange stage-fellows. But Barnes & Noble's Upstairs at...
Tuesday 8/18 @ Red Hook Ball Fields
If you stuck Jesus and Moses behind a pair of turntables, the result would resemble this event. As far as hip-hop...
Gallery Talk: 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, August 23! Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages celebrates the...
Tuesday 8/18 @ The Bowery Ballroom
This Spring sees the release of the first Breeders...
Nat Geo Music Residency with DJ Afro (Los Amigos Invisibles) and Mat Geo
Tuesday 8/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Nat Geo Music Residency is a free gallery party that features modern music from around...
Word for Word Poetry Reading in Bryant Park
Tuesday 8/18 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Housing Works co-sponsors a poetry reading at the Bryant Park Reading Room. Featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Ada Limon, and Robert Polito.
Harvesting Legacies from the Land with Author David Mas Masumoto
Tuesday 8/18 @ 92YTribeca
David Mas Masumoto (moderator)
Ron Binaghi Jr., Ron Binaghi Sr., Fred Wilklow and Cheryl Rogowski (panel)
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Tuesday 8/18 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Back by popular demand, the second Staycation is here! We had great success two weeks ago with the first show and...
A Little Night Music: Borromeo String Quartet
Tuesday 8/18 @ Lincoln Center
"Exemplary technical standard and probing, illuminating musicianship." —The Boston Globe on Borromeo String Quartet Borromeo String Quartet
Michael Collins,...
Tuesday 8/18 @ The Mercury Lounge
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Tuesday 8/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Diane Birch
w/ Hard Drugs
Doors 6:30 | show 7:30 | Diane Birch 8:30
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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,...
Tuesday 8/18 @ Joe's Pub
A passionate blend of youthful innocence, soulful essence and a spiritual center, Angel Taylor is every bit...
Ongoing Events
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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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...
“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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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