Events on Thursday, August 6
Thursday 8/ 6 @ The Bowery Ballroom
They've achieved micro-celebrity status this summer with their absurd ode to hanging out at fast food joints, "Combination Pizza Hut and...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Canoe Studios
Benefitting the art community at large, and art education around New York, the 13th Slideluck Potshow is in town, this time...
Purple Rain Sing-a-long w/ Escort
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Prince's legendary album with a cheesy night of feature-film sing-a-long. We're digging out our frilly shirts...
Hip Hop Generation Next: Community Cipher led by Brandon "Peace" Albright/Illstyle & Peace
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Lincoln Center
Hip hop and house dancers of all ages are invited to join a cipher (freestyle dance circle) led by “Peace,” artistic...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
Ma’ayan Castel's voice and music are too big to fit in a box,...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
Spend an evening with New Orleans jazz and blues piano genius Henry Butler as he takes you...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Lincoln Center
From New York City and Chicago to South Korea and Sierra Leone, five crews from three continents reinvent hip hop dancing...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ The Mercury Lounge
International Anglophone band comprising American Nathan Nicholson, Australian Todd...
Eagles of Death Metal @ Webster Hall
Thursday 8/ 6 @ The Bowery Presents
Despite their misleading name, the Eagles of Death Metal...
Flashy and Trashy: DJ Jay McElfresh , Sammy Tunis (the Lisps) and DJ Belukha
Thursday 8/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Get Weird: Charles Gaines/Terry Adkins Collaborative
Thursday 8/ 6 @ New Museum
Get Weird is honored to present an evening of new compositions by acclaimed visual artists and gifted improvisers Charles Gaines and...
Mark Kozelek (of Sun Kil Moon & Red House Painters)
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Mark Kozelek is a singer/songwriter and frontman of Sun...
Now, Now Every Children / Bad Veins
Thursday 8/ 6 @ The Mercury Lounge
Don't let their name fool you, Now, Now Every...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Ohio Theatre
Have your avant garde... and eat it, too. The Bushwick hit Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant comes to Soho for four evenings...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ The Clocktower
Built with a McKim, Mead & White pedigree, and occupied in the '70s by curator Alanna Heiss, who would go on...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Beekman Theatre
With the tagline "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese," Gotta Dance sets its defiant yet humorous tone right from...
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Thursday 8/ 6 @ P.S. 122
A thoroughly original and frequently hilarious new play, the Amoralists' The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side places the audience...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Thursday 8/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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,...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
The Amoralists: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Thursday 8/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
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This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East...
Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Thursday 8/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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....
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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 New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Thursday 8/ 6 @ 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...
