Events on Thursday, August 20
Thursday 8/20 @ Green Spaces
Forward-thinking foodies Suzanne Barr (Sweet Potato Bakery) and Sarah Pace (Rabbit Mafia catering) are the chefs behind this cool supper club...
Thursday 8/20 @ Storefront for Art and Architecture
Four Russian performers — choreographers Alexander Andriyashkin (TSEKH Dance) and Tatyana Luzai (Derevo Physical Theater), and theatre directors Kseniya Petrenko and Aleksei...
Thursday 8/20 @ Happy Ending
Tonight's installment of the long-running monthly erotica reading series features tales of the mile high club alongside a kooky underground art...
Thursday 8/20 @ The Arsenal
While we're not usually for shouting things from the rooftops (as opposed to our rowdy neighbors), we'll happily make an exception...
Thursday 8/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This talk focuses on Oceanic objects in this exhibition, which presents highlights of the Oceanic and African masterpieces on loan from...
Thursday 8/20 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The story of N.A.S.A. (an acronym for North America/South...
Thursday 8/20 @ Lincoln Center
THURSDAY IS SOLD OUT! Don't Miss them in May - Buy Now! www.LCGreatPerformers.org The Virtuosic Emerson String Quartet brings their...
The Bouncing Souls @ Webster Hall
Thursday 8/20 @ The Bowery Presents
The Bouncing Souls have never been in the New...
Flashy and Trashy w/ DJ Jay McElfresh
Thursday 8/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 08.20.09
Flashy and Trashy
w/ DJ Jay McElfresh
10pm doors & show
FREE
Strictly...
Thursday 8/20 @ Lincoln Center
The young drummers of Frederick Douglass Academy’s Harlem Samba, under the direction of Dana Monteiro, bring the sounds of Rio’s exuberant...
Thursday 8/20 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Argentinean singer Juana Molina's United States debut 'Segundo' quietly...
Thursday 8/20 @ The Mercury Lounge
Many artists, musical and otherwise, use their craft to...
Ellis Paul with special guest Adam Ezra
Thursday 8/20 @ Joe's Pub
Ellis Paul is one of the leading voices in American songwriting. He was a principle leader in the wave of singer/songwriters...
Jump 'n' Funk 8 Year Anniversary Party
Thursday 8/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 08.20.09
Jump 'n' Funk 8 Year Anniversary Party
11pm doors & show
$10
Strictly 21+
...
Thursday 8/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Barbez
Pamelia Kurstin
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a First-Come, Fully Seated event. Barbez takes...
Thursday 8/20 @ Joe's Pub
Mike Viola is best known as singer, songwriter and musical architect of the Candy Butchers, a highly regarded pop-rock band from...
Buika Urban Bush Women: Give Your Hands to Struggle and Shelter
Thursday 8/20 @ Lincoln Center
Rising Afro-Spanish star Buika’s rich, romantic rasp hints at her West African lineage while it mainlines flamenco’s Gypsy soul, as she...
Thursday 8/20 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
The Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works!
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. Theme: Traps
$7 at...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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,...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Angelic film icon Natalie Wood made a career playing innocent leading ladies with a bit of a bad-girl flair that endeared...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Thursday 8/20 @ The Clocktower
Built with a McKim, Mead & White pedigree, and occupied in the '70s by curator Alanna Heiss, who would go on...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ Various downtown theaters
With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,...
Thursday 8/20 @ Triskelion Arts
Abby Bender and Andrew Dickerson — the directors at nonprofit dance space Triskelion Arts — curate this expansive, four-day festival in...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Thursday 8/20 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 8/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Mark Morris Dance Group with Yo-Yo Ma
Thursday 8/20 @ Lincoln Center
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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....
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 8/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
The Amoralists: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Thursday 8/20 @ Performance Space 122
EXTENDED - really, really, really extended.
This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Thursday 8/20 @ 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,...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Thursday 8/20 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris
Thursday 8/20 @ 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
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Thursday 8/20 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Thursday 8/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
