Events on Friday, August 21
Friday 8/21 @ Love
It almost didn't happen, but those craving some summertime beats and bass have been rewarded. Irishman Mike Slott returns to Love,...
ambeR Rubarth with special guest Threeds
Friday 8/21 @ Joe's Pub
Take the timelessness of Patsy Cline. Mix in the insatiable curiosity of Socrates....
Friday 8/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Walt Disney, 1951 (75 minutes) Featuring the original mad hatter....
Friday 8/21 @ Lincoln Center
Some of New Yorks’s finest musicians perform supercharged carnival frevo from Recife, Brazil, known for its hyper-driven dancing and pyrotechnic umbrella...
Friday 8/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LPS'S Infamous: The Freedom Party featuring: DJ Cosi DJ Herbert Holler DJ Marc Smooth Spinning classic House, Electro, and Global Hits....
Friday 8/21 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn embarked upon a career the old-fashioned...
The Bouncing Souls @ Webster Hall
Friday 8/21 @ The Bowery Presents
The Bouncing Souls have never been in the New...
Blind Date with DJ Dolores & Siba, and Otto
Friday 8/21 @ Lincoln Center
Northeastern Brazil’s Recife emerged in the mid-’90s as a cultural incubator, giving birth to manguebeat, the most important Brazilian musical movement...
Kiss This: Burlesque Rock City
Friday 8/21 @ Joe's Pub
Casino O’Fortune Cookie Productions present
KISS THIS: Burlesque Rock City
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Marcus Strickland / E.J. Strickland: Double Album Release
Friday 8/21 @ Joe's Pub
“Whether it is cyclonic sessions, lush ballads, or spiritual musings, [In This Day] has a unique personality...
Naked Soul: Al Stewart in concert at the Rubin
Friday 8/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Al Stewart joins the ranks of exceptional singer/songwriters who have played in the Rubin Museum's all-acoustic concert series, Naked Soul. The...
Friday 8/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 08.21.09
Senari & Teenwolf Present
10pm
$5 at the door | $3 with RSVP to: http://www.tinyurl.com/senarilpr
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Friday 8/21 @ The Mercury Lounge
Sometimes you have to put yourself first, no matter...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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,...
Friday 8/21 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 8/21 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
Friday 8/21 @ IFC Center
Grease 2 may have ruined the rock musical for you, but Spike Lee's film version of Passing Strange should renew your...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ Triskelion Arts
Abby Bender and Andrew Dickerson — the directors at nonprofit dance space Triskelion Arts — curate this expansive, four-day festival in...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ Various locations
Lorna's Silence — the Dardenne brothers' latest piece of blue-collar verisimilitude — merits neither the "master" prefix nor the lambasting it's...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
Friday 8/21 @ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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,...
Friday 8/21 @ Littlefield
Up-and-coming Gowanus spot Littlefield hosts this exhibition of New York local Abbey Braden's rock photography. Braden has made a name for...
Friday 8/21 @ Beekman Theatre
With the tagline "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese," Gotta Dance sets its defiant yet humorous tone right from...
Friday 8/21 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ Sputnik
Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ Various downtown theaters
With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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,...
Friday 8/21 @ Landmark Sunshine
After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word...
Friday 8/21 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 8/21 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Mark Morris Dance Group with Yo-Yo Ma
Friday 8/21 @ Lincoln Center
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Friday 8/21 @ 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—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Friday 8/21 @ 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 Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 8/21 @ 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
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Braid your challah and take it home to bake! PLUS, decorate cookies and color your very own reusable Shababa Bakery tote...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Friday 8/21 @ 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
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Friday 8/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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
Friday 8/21 @ Performance Space 122
EXTENDED - really, really, really extended.
This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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....
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 8/21 @ 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
Friday 8/21 @ 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
Friday 8/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Friday 8/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The mandala, one of Himalayan Buddhism's most ubiquitous and complex symbols, is the focus of this fascinating exhibition. Mandalas are created...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
