Events on Wednesday, August 5
US Air Guitar Fung Wah Dark Horse Invitational
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Sugarland
There's still one more chance for the air-guitar elite to make it onto the final spot for the US Air Guitar...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Joe's Pub
Amanda Stern's Happy Ending Music & Reading Series is still as engaging and entertaining as it was when it began over...
Eating in the Danger Zone: India
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Stefan Gates, UK, 2008 (30 min) In this episode from the BBC’s fascinating Cooking in the Danger Zone series, Stefan Gates...
Julian Velard with special guest Rosi Golan
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Joe's Pub
Native New Yorker, London resident, former Kindergarten Gym Teacher and one-time Parisian Street Sweeper, Julian Velard...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 92YTribeca
Screening followed by discussion with director Sophie Barthes and columnist Steve Ramos.
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InDigest 1207 Reading Series John Wray , Marlon James and Ronaldo V. Wilson
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
InDigest 1207 Reading Series Presents: John Wray, Marlon James, & Ronaldo V. Wilson John Wray John Wray is the author of...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Lincoln Center
Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar’s expanded jazz-cum-Arabic music ensemble unveils a hauntingly beautiful avant-blend that infuses ancient Iraqi maqams with a contemporary...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Mercury Lounge
What is it about Portugal The Man that makes...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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,...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Ohio Theatre
Have your avant garde... and eat it, too. The Bushwick hit Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant comes to Soho for four evenings...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Various locations
Lorna's Silence — the Dardenne brothers' latest piece of blue-collar verisimilitude — merits neither the "master" prefix nor the lambasting it's...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
Two southern newlyweds are the only characters present in Sweet Storm, but there is more than enough drama stemming from this...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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,...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Beekman Theatre
With the tagline "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese," Gotta Dance sets its defiant yet humorous tone right from...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Film Forum
At the tail end of Nicholas Ray's 1954 alt-Western Johnny Guitar, a moribund old hand utters a triumphant alas to his...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
While the peripatetic, 20th-century artist may only have been the second most famous Francis Bacon to bless English shores, he was...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Landmark Sunshine
After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Asphalt Orchestra (World Premiere)
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Lincoln Center
An iconoclastic 12-piece marching band conceived by Bang on a Can premieres ambitious processional music from every corner of the music...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Asia Society and Museum
Not just for history buffs, the Asian Journeys exhibition explores the socio-political context for the American collecting of Asian Art in...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This landmark exhibition is devoted to one of the most important painters of...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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,...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Enlighten Up! follows the transformative journey of skeptic Nick Rosen as he is immersed in the world of yoga. Nick travels...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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....
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Nicholas Angelich
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Lincoln Center
"The young man's expressive art, surely, is unparalleled. He moulds phrases, dynamics, colors and accents, weaving them into a seamless, unforced...
