Events on Tuesday, September 22
Tuesday 9/22 @ The Mercury Lounge
In late 2007, New Orleanian John Michael Rouchell decided it was time for a change in his life. He set out...
Tuesday 9/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Kailash Kher's meteoric rise from a humble upbringing outside of New Delhi to being appointed a judge for the 2008-09 season...
Tuesday 9/22 @ The Mercury Lounge
"Jonathan and Jacob met each other at summer camp when they were children. they've been best friends ever since (except for...
Jewish Matchmaking in the Era of JDate
Tuesday 9/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Observers of the Jewish dating scene, including Greg Liberman of JDate, journalist Sandee Brawarsky and author and upscale matchmaker Janis Spindel,...
Tuesday 9/22 @ Joe's Pub
“Pacha Massive has an exciting new sound. Listening to the record is an...
Soulsavers (Feat. Mark Lanegan)
Tuesday 9/22 @ The Bowery Ballroom
British downtempo electronica duo with rock, gospel, and country...
Punch Up Your Life: Free Comedy with Aziz Ansari, Jessi Klein, and Pete Homes
Tuesday 9/22 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
PUNCH UP YOUR LIFE IS BACK! Today’s installment of the free comedy series hosted by Jessi Klein and Pete Holmes stars...
Tuesday 9/22 @ Joe's Pub
Greg Laswell is already a critic's darling, and with the right marketing his second album will give...
The Spitzer Lecture: Paul Krugman
Tuesday 9/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discusses how the current economic crisis parallels the Great Depression and explains how we can avoid...
Ongoing Events
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Sputnik
Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ New York City Center
Fall for Dance this year celebrates the centenary of Ballets Russes, the Paris-based Russians who made ballet artistically relevant. Reconstructions include...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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...
Rendez-vous with Juliette Binoche
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ The Russian Samovar
CEC Artslink and Tin House Books mark the publication of Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia with two insider events....
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Various locations
With more 200 shows in 17 days, even the most hardcore theatergoer can only see a fraction of Fringe NYC's offerings....
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ IFC Center
After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 9/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Co-curators Jeffrey Munger and Meredith Chilton discuss the details of a delightful dessert table with culinary historian Ivan Day. This table...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Tuesday 9/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This is the first exhibition of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s paintings in the United States...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Tuesday 9/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Tuesday 9/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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 New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 9/22 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Du Paquier ceramic manufactory, founded by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in Vienna...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 9/22 @ 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...
