Events on Tuesday, September 15
Tuesday 9/15 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Los Angeles noise-pop trio Autolux merge tuneful melodies with lo-fi experimentation to create an ethereal wall of sound. Eugene Goreshter's airy...
The Thing Quarterly w/ Jonathan Lethem
Tuesday 9/15 @ Printed Matter, Inc.
Similar in spirit to Phyllis Johnson's Aspen — a multimedia magazine from the '60s with a table of contents that ranged...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
A parent or responsible adult must accompany the child in the water at all times. Children have a positive first experience...
Jeffrey Ross and Eddy Friedfeld: We Only Roast the Ones We Love
Tuesday 9/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join "Roastmaster General" Jeffrey Ross and comedy historian Eddy Friedfeld as they discuss the history and art form of the roast—the...
Tuesday 9/15 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Owl City is an electronica/pop project of Adam Young....
Bright Star preview with Jane Campion in person
Tuesday 9/15 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Part of the Variety New York Screening Series
Location: Sunshine Cinema, 134 Houston Street, Manhattan*
A romantic...
Tuesday 9/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
San Francisco’s Deerhoof mixes sugary melodies and an experimental spirit into sweetly challenging and utterly distinctive music.
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Conversation with the Author: H.M. Naqvi and Akhil Sharma
Tuesday 9/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
Rollicking, bittersweet, and sharply observed, Home Boy is at once an immigrant’s tale, a mystery, love story, and a New York...
Controversy and Conversion with Rabbi David Kalb
Tuesday 9/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Conversion is one of the most controversial issues in the Jewish community today. Delve into the different movements of Judaism to...
Ongoing Events
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Tuesday 9/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
The phrase "Hanging Fire" is the translation of an idiom referring to a delayed decision or judgment. This show asks viewers...
Tuesday 9/15 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ Marlborough Chelsea
This exhibition follows Will Ryman's popular springtime showing of The Bed at the Saatchi Gallery Project Room in London. Here, the...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ Angelika Film Center
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/15 @ IFC Center
After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 9/15 @ Tilton Gallery
The German artist's second solo exhibition at the Tilton Gallery features paintings of female figures on central display. Lucas' evident confidence...
Tuesday 9/15 @ Various locations
FIAF's yearly, interdisciplinary festival Crossing the Line presents a three-week slate of exciting new works by artists from New York and...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ York Theatre Company (619 Lexington Ave, 212.935.5824)
Blind Lemon Blues shines brightest when the writers let classics by Blind Lemon, Led Belly, and others take center stage. Three...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Tuesday 9/15 @ Linda Gross Theater
Hard-hitting playwright David Mamet adopts a lighter touch with School and Keep Your Pantheon, the two one-acts that make up this...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ Various locations
For nine glorious days, craft brewers from across the country take over the city, showcasing their creations in over 80 bars....
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ Various locations
With more 200 shows in 17 days, even the most hardcore theatergoer can only see a fraction of Fringe NYC's offerings....
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 9/15 @ Woodward Gallery
We've been missing the Keith Haring tribute mural over on Houston, and there's no better way to refresh our love for graffiti...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ 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 9/15 @ Film Forum
In Carol Reed's brooding noir, all of 1947 Belfast is on the lookout for IRA leader James Mason. With a bullet...
Rendez-vous with Juliette Binoche
Tuesday 9/15 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
French actress Juliette Binoche has built an impressively diverse resumé over the past two decades. But while she tackles traditional leading-lady...
Tuesday 9/15 @ Film Forum
American Casino is nothing new under the Wall Street sun: those Captains of Intemperance lent like there was no tomorrow, resulting...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Tuesday 9/15 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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...
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People: Last Meadow
Tuesday 9/15 @ New York Live Arts
Last Meadow is a dream-like visit into an America in a state of collapse. Inspired by James Dean’s classic films –...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Tuesday 9/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Did you know that the musical heritage of China is one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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,...
Dump the Bump: Pilates for New Moms and Babies
Tuesday 9/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Moms regain core strength and flexibility while playing with your baby (pre-crawlers only). Hold baby as you tone your abs, arms...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Utilize the latest training techniques to challenge your body in new ways. This fast-paced, small-group format class uses intense circuits of...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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...
92Y Dribblers 3-5 Yrs / Beginner Basketball Lessons 5-12 Yrs
Tuesday 9/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
92Y Dribblers / 3-5 yrs
A fun-filled program designed to introduce basketball to your young athlete. Emphasis is placed on...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Tiny Tumblers is now specially priced to introduce your child to tumbling. Learn age-appropriate, skill-oriented progressions that provide a positive movement...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 9/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage to Manhattan from...
Tuesday 9/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
A parent or responsible adult must accompany the child in the water at all times. Children have a positive first experience...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Tuesday 9/15 @ 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...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 9/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s Director Thomas P. Campbell narrates this audio tour of the exhibition Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid, with commentary from exhibition...
