Events on Friday, September 18
Friday 9/18 @ The Space on 8th
Finally! Here's a Fashion Week event we can really support. For one, it's in Williamsburg — the old Supreme Trading space,...
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead @ Webster Hall
Friday 9/18 @ The Bowery Presents
These guys rock! These guys do whatever the hell...
Friday 9/18 @ The Mercury Lounge
For those waiting for a concert experience with the...
Friday 9/18 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The Weakerthans recorded their fourth album, Reunion Tour, in...
Anat Fort Trio in concert TONIGHT
Friday 9/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Israeli pianist Anat Fort performs with acoustic bassist Gary Wang and percussionist Roland Schneider in the Rubin Museum's Harlem in the...
Friday 9/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 09.18.09
Senari & Teenwolf Present
9pm
$5
Strictly 21+
This is a General Admission, Gallery...
Read-n-Rock-n-Roll YA Variety Show starring Frank Portman
Friday 9/18 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Come hear Frank Portman, author of widely acclaimed King Dork and singer in the legendary Berkeley punk band Mr. T Experience,...
Friday 9/18 @ Asia Society and Museum
Enjoy an evening of networking and cocktails with the LGBT community at Asia Society's Leo Bar. Held every third Friday of...
Friday 9/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LPR is proud to present Jolie Holland. Holland conveys motion and arrival with her fourth album, The Living and The Dead,...
Aretha Franklin @ Radio City Music Hall
Friday 9/18 @ The Bowery Presents
Aretha Franklin (March 25, 1942) is a Memphis, Tennessee-born...
Friday 9/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Tim Curry is amongst the guests in a gothic mansion that are prone to wielding candlesticks and kitchen knives to keep...
Friday 9/18 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
YURA YURA TEIKOKU was formed in 1989 with vocalist/guitarist...
Friday 9/18 @ New Museum
Members of South Africa’s Generation X speak about the intricacies of post-coloniality. Expect complicated ambiguities as the panelists MC Lee-Ursus Alexander,...
Gallery Talk—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 9/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Afghanistan was home to one of the most complex civilizations of Asia, where multiple artistic influences intermingled. The exhibition Afghanistan:...
Ongoing Events
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Under Minerva Gallery
Under Minerva's latest group show, curated by Vanessa Juriga, invited multimedia artists of all stripes to exhibit work made from found...
Friday 9/18 @ powerHouse Arena
This cleverly titled one-man show turns mainstream media's perception of hip-hop on its head. Photographer Trevor Traynor notes the double entendre...
Friday 9/18 @ Film Forum
"How'd you like to wake up in the morning and be him?" slurs delusional prizefighter Stacy Keach in this late-career tour...
Friday 9/18 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Reviving a play from 2001 may seem hasty, but Lucy Thurber's Killers and Other Family thrives in 2009. This one-act thriller...
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ 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,...
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ IFC Center
Grease 2 may have ruined the rock musical for you, but Spike Lee's film version of Passing Strange should renew your...
Friday 9/18 @ Performance Space 122
Prepare yourself. Avant-Garde-Arama is extreme — at times whimsical, funny, bright, daunting, and intense, but always extreme. Your best bet is...
Friday 9/18 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Friday 9/18 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ Marlborough Chelsea
This exhibition follows Will Ryman's popular springtime showing of The Bed at the Saatchi Gallery Project Room in London. Here, the...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ Anthology Film Archives
Dedicated to celebrating laughably bad videos rescued from garbage bins, garage sales, thrift stores, and warehouses across the country, the Found...
Friday 9/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Friday 9/18 @ IFC Center
After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form...
Friday 9/18 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Rendez-vous with Juliette Binoche
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ The Living Theatre
A misunderstood girl like Lizzie Borden deserves nothing less than her own rock musical, and Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan...
Friday 9/18 @ Governors Island
Four hundred years after Henry Hudson explored our waterways under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company, the Netherlands conquers...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Various locations
For nine glorious days, craft brewers from across the country take over the city, showcasing their creations in over 80 bars....
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ Various locations
Perhaps best known for playing the grumpy landlord on Flight of the Conchords, Eugene Mirman has been charming New York audiences...
Friday 9/18 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Tilton Gallery
The German artist's second solo exhibition at the Tilton Gallery features paintings of female figures on central display. Lucas' evident confidence...
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Angelika Film Center
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man...
Friday 9/18 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ Various locations
With more 200 shows in 17 days, even the most hardcore theatergoer can only see a fraction of Fringe NYC's offerings....
Friday 9/18 @ Music Box Theatre
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) comes a lighter, comedic take on Midwestern life. A pot-smoking donut shop owner...
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ American Airlines Theater
Patrick Marber's (Closer) highly anticipated After Miss Julie transplants August Strindberg's 1888 classic to the eve of the British Labour Party's...
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ Gagosian Gallery
Arguably Japan's best-known contemporary artist and recipient of a major retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum last summer, Takashi Murakami returns with...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 9/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Walter Liedtke discusses the unique patronage of Johannes Vermeer and its influence on the artistic and psychological aesthetic of The...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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,...
Fall Trunk Show ends this Sunday
Friday 9/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Shop at the Rubin Museum showcases the best of the best in Himalayan craftsmanship during its annual Fall Trunk Show....
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 9/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night from 7-10pm, the Rubin Museum is free to everyone. Have a drink with friends in the K2 Lounge,...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Blarvuster + Electric Kulintang (with Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez)
Friday 9/18 @ The Kitchen
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Friday 9/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection is the Rubin Museum's newest exhibition and latest offering of Himalayan art and culture. ...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Friday 9/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Friday 9/18 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Friday 9/18 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Braid your challah and take it home to bake! PLUS, decorate cookies and color your very own reusable Shababa Bakery tote...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 9/18 @ 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
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People: Last Meadow
Friday 9/18 @ 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 –...
