Events on Friday, August 7
Bronx River Crossing at the Waterpod
Friday 8/ 7 @ Brooklyn Bridge Park
Floating habitat the Waterpod Project first set sail in June, but it's docking at Brooklyn Bridge Park today for a presentation...
Friday 8/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
"Rachel Platten crafts songs with beautiful, memorable melodies and intelligent, moving lyrics. Then she delivers them with her compelling and powerful...
Friday 8/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
"MMP!"
an all Madonna Michael Jackson Prince dance party! with special guest DJ MISS GUY!
If...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Singer/Songwriter John Gorka brings his folk music to the Rubin Museum's all-acoustic Naked Soul concert series.
Friday 8/ 7 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Joe Pernice began his recording career in the mid-90’s...
A Little Night Music: Nicholas Angelich
Friday 8/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
"A magnetic mix of power and poetry." —The Herald (Glasgow) on Nicholas Angelich
Raul Midón and Meshell Ndegeocello
Friday 8/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
Singer-songwriter Raul Midón is a dazzling troubadour whose dexterous acoustic guitar work matches his soaring vocal prowess. Acclaimed singer, songwriter, and...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Stanley Kubrick, USA, 1980 (143 minutes) Jack Nicholson goes mad in this frightening tale inspired by Stephen King....
Minne-apple in the Big Apple Happy Hour
Friday 8/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
A monthly gathering of MN expats; Wolves games and tatertot hotdish as available.
Friday 8/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party with: DJ Cosi DJ Herbert Holler DJ Marc Smooth Free Dance Party. Ya'll hear that? This is a...
Free Energy / Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Friday 8/ 7 @ The Mercury Lounge
Free Energy is a Philadelphia, PA band which includes...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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,...
Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant
Friday 8/ 7 @ Ohio Theatre
Have your avant garde... and eat it, too. The Bushwick hit Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant comes to Soho for four evenings...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Friday 8/ 7 @ P.S. 122
A thoroughly original and frequently hilarious new play, the Amoralists' The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side places the audience...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Harriman State Park
If your Fridays are packing less variation — but possibly more alcohol — than you'd like, beat the numbers with this...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
Friday 8/ 7 @ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Stefan Vladar and the Mostly Mozart Orchestra
Friday 8/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE -- DON'T MISS IT! "Viennese pianist Stefan Vladar is one of the U.S. concert world's best-kept secrets."...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Asphalt Orchestra (World Premiere)
Friday 8/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
An iconoclastic 12-piece marching band conceived by Bang on a Can premieres ambitious processional music from every corner of the music...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
SOLD OUT Sam Bradley was born in London in 1986 and began...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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 Amoralists: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Friday 8/ 7 @ Performance Space 122
EXTENDED - really, really, really extended.
This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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.
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
