Events on Thursday, August 27
Thursday 8/27 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
For those who prefer the box office to the letterbox format, this latest Criterion addition screens for a four-to-the-floor night out....
Thursday 8/27 @ Brooklyn Bridge Park
In this preferred fairy tale, Tim Burton — the oddball next door during his Burbank childhood — pictures the suburbs as...
Thursday 8/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
While our impression of an artist is almost always most profoundly affected by their finished works, art lovers have always had...
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series
Thursday 8/27 @ JLA Studios
This monthly series furnishes the soapbox for those with rare experiences to share. Tonight's provocative trio of orators focuses on community...
Gallery Talk: Napoleon III and Paris
Thursday 8/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This talk by Malcolm Daniel, curator of the special exhibition Napoleon III and Paris, will take place in the galleries for...
Thursday 8/27 @ Joe's Pub
Originally presented as “Pseudoacoustic Siren Songs - tales of love and angst” for...
Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Cello Simone Dinnerstein and Zuill Bailey
Thursday 8/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 08.27.09
Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Cello CD Release...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ The Clocktower
Built with a McKim, Mead & White pedigree, and occupied in the '70s by curator Alanna Heiss, who would go on...
Thursday 8/27 @ IFC Center
Grease 2 may have ruined the rock musical for you, but Spike Lee's film version of Passing Strange should renew your...
Thursday 8/27 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ Museum of Art and Design
In her intricate tapestry, Rhyme and Reason, Tehran-based artist Nazgol Ansarinia arranges a coil of burka-clad figures into an arresting example...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Angelika Film Center
Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army...
Thursday 8/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Under Minerva Gallery
Under Minerva's latest group show, curated by Vanessa Juriga, invited multimedia artists of all stripes to exhibit work made from found...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Thursday 8/27 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 8/27 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 8/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Thursday 8/27 @ 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,...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 8/27 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Thursday 8/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Thursday 8/27 @ 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....
Matt Doyle (of Spring Awakening)
Thursday 8/27 @ Joe's Pub
Matt Doyle, who got his start in the smash hit Spring Awakening, makes...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Thursday 8/27 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Thursday 8/27 @ 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...
