Events on Tuesday, September 1

Rooftop Films presents <em>Bronx Princess</em> and <em>Nora</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Film: Documentary
Bronx Princess and Nora
@ John Mullaly Park
Rooftop Films goes all-out for its inaugural Bronx screening. The beautifully observed documentaries on queue for tonight are short in length,...  View details »
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3 de la Habana Record Release Party!
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Music: Rock/Pop
3 de la Habana Record Release Party!
@ SOB's
The founding members of 3 de La Habana – an innovative Cuban vocal group composed of two brothers and one wife...  View details »
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Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Music: Soul/R&B
Michael Franti & Spearhead
@ Terminal 5
Michael Franti is a very big man who has...  View details »
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Gallery Talk: The Period Rooms in the American Wing
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art
Gallery Talk: The Period Rooms in the American Wing
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tour the American Wing's newly renovated period rooms, dating from 1680 through 1830. This talk will be given by Nicholas Vincent,...  View details »
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Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Music: Rock/Pop
Screaming Females
@ The Mercury Lounge
The band—guitarist/singer Marissa Paternoster, drummer Jarrett Dougherty and bassist...  View details »
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17 Hippies and Rob Curto's Forró For All
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Music
17 Hippies and Rob Curto's Forró For All
@ (Le) Poisson Rouge
17 Hippies
For the past 12 years Berlin’s very own ‘orchester spezial’, the 17 HIPPIES, have been
... 
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Circles & Lines (A Night of Young Composers)
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Music: Classical
Circles & Lines (A Night of Young Composers)
@ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 09.01.09
Circles & Lines (A Night of Young Composers)
9:30pm doors
... 
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<em>Behind the Screen</em>: Video Game Technology
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
More Flavor: Exhibition
Behind the Screen: Video Game Technology
@ Museum of the Moving Image
Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But...  View details »
Ongoing
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1st Irish Festival
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Performing Arts: Festival
1st Irish Festival
@ Various locations
One glance at the schedule for the second-annual 1st Irish theatre festival makes clear that the dramatic voices of today's Ireland...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Hair</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hair
@ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
2009 US Open
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
More Flavor: Sports
US Open
@ USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center
Barring a colossal upset, count on Roger Federer to be on court come week two — after all, the recent father...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art: Photography
Avedon Fashion 1944–2000
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
More Flavor: Exhibition
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Comic Book Club
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
More Flavor: Discussion
Comic Book Club
@ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...  View details »
Ongoing
Visit the Met blog “Medieval Garden Enclosed” 
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Visit the Met blog “Medieval Garden Enclosed” 
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Music: Jazz/Blues
Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz
@ Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (Broadway at 60th St, 5th fl, 212.258.9595)
Brazilian jazz collective Trio da Paz pack a whole lot of punch. These seasoned musicians have played with everyone from Gato Barbieri to...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art
Icons of the Desert
@ Grey Art Gallery at NYU
Thanks be to the senior Aboriginal Australian painters who gave their blessing for this superlative, uber-rare exhibition spotlighting the early work...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
<em>Passing Strange</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Film
Passing Strange
@ IFC Center
Grease 2 may have ruined the rock musical for you, but Spike Lee's film version of Passing Strange should renew your...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
South Pacific
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Iran Inside Out</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art
Iran Inside Out
@ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>American Casino</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Film: Documentary
American Casino
@ Film Forum
American Casino is nothing new under the Wall Street sun: those Captains of Intemperance lent like there was no tomorrow, resulting...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
<em>NAKED!</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art
NAKED!
@ Paul Kasmin Gallery
Out with the pretensions and in with the, ahem, naked truth. The Paul Kasmin Gallery celebrates the naked form through September,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>The Baader Meinhof Complex</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
West Side Story
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art
Spencer Finch
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Billy Elliot</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Performing Arts: Theatre
Billy Elliot
@ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...  View details »
Ongoing
Sputnik Chess Knights
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
More Flavor: Competition
Sputnik Chess Knights
@ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Cedar Lake at the Chelsea Art Museum
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Performing Arts: Dance
Cedar Lake
@ Chelsea Art Museum
Cedar Lake is known for innovative and striking performances that subvert traditional dance tropes and expand the medium. Past shows have...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
Paragraph
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
@ Paragraph
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing...  View details »
Ongoing
Abraaj Capital Art Prize
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art
Abraaj Capital Art Prize
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Flame and Citron</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Film
Flame and Citron
@ Landmark Sunshine
After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
More Flavor: Exhibition
Frogs: A Chorus of Colors
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
<em>We Live in Public</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Film: Documentary
We Live in Public
@ IFC Center
Over ten years in the making, We Live in Public documents the life of Internet visionary and "Warhol of the Web"...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Is Life Worth Living? </em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
Is Life Worth Living?
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Abbey Braden: <em>Punk Photo</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art: Photography
Punk Photo
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
Slavic Soul Party!
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
@ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...  View details »
Ongoing
Downtown Alliance presents <em>Re:Construction</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art: Architecture/Design
Re:Construction
@ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Our Town</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
Our Town
@ Barrow Street Theater
David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
AREAWARE Design-to-Go Pop-up Shop
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art: Architecture/Design
Design-to-Go
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: <em>A Clearing in the Streets</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art: Architecture/Design
A Clearing in the Streets
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art: Photography
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
@ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...  View details »
Ongoing
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Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Young Architects Program: YAP 10th Anniversary Review
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art
Young Architects Program: YAP 10th Anniversary Review
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
YAP 10th Anniversary Review is a visual chronicle of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art's Young Architects...  View details »
Ongoing
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Sadie Benning: Play Pause
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Sadie Benning: Play Pause
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
Artist Sadie Benning is known for her experimental video narratives, which she started making in the late 1980s. First shown here...  View details »
Ongoing
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The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural
@ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum first opened its doors in October 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda was filled with...  View details »
Ongoing
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Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
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Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Lutz Bacher: <em>MY SECRET LIFE</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art
Lutz Bacher: MY SECRET LIFE
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present MY SECRET LIFE, Lutz Bacher's first museum survey exhibition, which spans several decades...  View details »
Ongoing
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Dan Graham: Beyond
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Dan Graham: Beyond
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
As one of contemporary art's most innovative and influential figures, Dan Graham has been at the forefront of many of the...  View details »
Ongoing
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Carlos Motta: <em>Brief History, (2005-2009)</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art
Carlos Motta: Brief History, (2005-2009)
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 presents Brief History, (2005-2009), the first solo project in a New York museum by Colombian-born, New York-based artist Carlos Motta....  View details »
Ongoing
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Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
The final installment in a three-part series taking a closer look at photography in the Whitney’s collection, this exhibition focuses on...  View details »
Ongoing
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Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Film
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Pride of Parnell Street</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Pride of Parnell Street
@ 59E59 Theaters
The Pride of Parnell Street covers the standard litany of Irish woes—poverty, violence, death of a child, all delivered against the...  View details »
Ongoing
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Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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Leandro Erlich: <em>Swimming Pool</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art: Architecture/Design
Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich....  View details »
Ongoing
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
@ 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...  View details »
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Young Architects Program 2009: <em>Afterparty</em> by MOS
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Art: Architecture/Design
Young Architects Program 2009: Afterparty by MOS
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announce the winner of the 2009 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program: the...  View details »
Ongoing
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
One of the most innovative artists of the postwar period, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) is best known for sculptures and drawings...  View details »
Ongoing
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Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Month_09 Tuesday Day_01
Film
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Month_09 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
@ 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...  View details »
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