Events on Friday, September 4
WARP20 feat. Battles, !!!, Flying Lotus, and Pivot
Friday 9/ 4 @ Terminal 5
This might be the birthday party of 2009. Hugely influential (and enduringly so) electronic-music label Warp Records turns 20 this year....
Friday 9/ 4 @ Governors Island
O bluefin tuna, where art thou? Well, according to this catalytic documentary about the depletion of the oceans' fish supply, the...
Friday 9/ 4 @ New Museum
Warp Films presents a series of free screenings at the New Museum as part of Warp20. For a detailed listing please...
Friday 9/ 4 @ Joe's Pub
“…a massively ambitious rock and roll orchestra”
–The L Magazine
Start your Labor...
Billll$, High Priest, and Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt
Friday 9/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Friday 9/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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The Freedom Party
w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, and DJ Marc Smooth
11pm doors &...
Friday 9/ 4 @ Joe's Pub
"Sharon Van Etten has a soft, strong soprano that trembles with slight vibrato in the long sustained...
Tonight's film: Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
Friday 9/ 4 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Bae Yong-Kyun, 1989 (135 min) Enkyo Roshi introduces this meditative film dealing with Seon Buddhist views on life. Follows the ascetic...
Minne-Apple In The Big Apple Happy Hour
Friday 9/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
A monthly gathering of MN expats; Wolves games and tatertot hotdish as available. ...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Film Forum
American Casino is nothing new under the Wall Street sun: those Captains of Intemperance lent like there was no tomorrow, resulting...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 4 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video...
Friday 9/ 4 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Friday 9/ 4 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum joins forces with the Met to present a well-chosen selection of art objects and manuscripts illuminating the Islamic...
Friday 9/ 4 @ Film Forum
In Carol Reed's brooding noir, all of 1947 Belfast is on the lookout for IRA leader James Mason. With a bullet...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Friday 9/ 4 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
With public-art dandy Claes Oldenburg, Pound's dictum seems especially true: all great art is born of the metropolis. The Whitney's Oldenburg...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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,...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Landmark Sunshine
After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ IFC Center
Over ten years in the making, We Live in Public documents the life of Internet visionary and "Warhol of the Web"...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 4 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This exhibition features the proposals of the five finalists in the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. Each year five finalists are drawn...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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....
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Friday 9/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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,...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Viewers play a vital role in the creation of Measuring the Universe (2007), by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák (b. 1966). Over...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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 Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Friday 9/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Friday 9/ 4 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 9/ 4 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Friday 9/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
