Events on Tuesday, September 1
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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,...
Gallery Talk: The Period Rooms in the American Wing
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ Terminal 5
Michael Franti is a very big man who has...
17 Hippies and Rob Curto's Forró For All
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ The Mercury Lounge
The band—guitarist/singer Marissa Paternoster, drummer Jarrett Dougherty and bassist...
Circles & Lines (A Night of Young Composers)
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 09.01.09
Circles & Lines (A Night of Young Composers)
9:30pm doors...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ Landmark Sunshine
After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ IFC Center
Over ten years in the making, We Live in Public documents the life of Internet visionary and "Warhol of the Web"...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ IFC Center
Grease 2 may have ruined the rock musical for you, but Spike Lee's film version of Passing Strange should renew your...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ Chelsea Art Museum
Cedar Lake is known for innovative and striking performances that subvert traditional dance tropes and expand the medium. Past shows have...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ Back Forty
Nothing says summer quite like heaping piles of steamed blue crabs, and that's exactly what Back Forty serves up every Tuesday...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 9/ 1 @ 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...
