Events on Tuesday, January 12
Tuesday 1/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This free-form ballet by Jen DeNike takes its inspiration from last-century eminence George Balanchine and its name from that favorite phenomenon...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Broadway East
Tonight, veg-friendly Broadway East teams up with Sixpoint Craft Ales (one of our favorite local breweries) for a four-course dinner and...
Tuesday 1/12 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
Holy Tolstoy: Mission to Moscow, a dandy, FDR-approved piece of 1943 propaganda from Michael Curtiz, relates how "We the Open-Minded" and...
Gail Collins with Nora Ephron: Women Come of Age
Tuesday 1/12 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
In 1960, American women needed their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins...
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Mercury Lounge
"One wants to build a seedy yet expensive wine lounge somewhere in East Village just to be able to play this...
Tuesday 1/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 01.12.10
Hilary Hahn's Bach...
The Hotrats (Feat. Gaz Coombes & Danny Goffey from Supergrass)
Tuesday 1/12 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 1/12 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 1/12 @ 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 1/12 @ American Museum of Natural History
Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites...
Tuesday 1/12 @ BAM
On May 30 of last year, Brooklyn-based artist Penelope Umbrico keyed "sunset" into Flickr's search engine and received 5,537,594 matches. The...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Cort Theatre
Arthur Miller's modern tragedy A View from the Bridge could easily veer into melodrama in less skilled hands, but Gregory Mosher's...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Salon 94 Freemans
The downtown outpost of uptown gallery Salon 94 presents a blissed-out group show of work based on Zen Buddhist rock gardens....
Tuesday 1/12 @ Film Forum
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (born in 1977) has created two new bodies of work that address the nature of the...
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Red Room
A clever mix of a 1940's radio detective show with modern humor, Tanya O'Debra's Radio Star is an entertaining, vulgar, and...
Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion
Tuesday 1/12 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist of all trades, whose prolific work often results in sculptural assemblages, installations, and conceptually based series,...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But...
Tuesday 1/12 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Tuesday 1/12 @ 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 1/12 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
Robert Williams is a legend in the mythology of lowbrow, pop surrealist, hot-rod visual art. Founder of Juxtapoz and darling of...
Tuesday 1/12 @ 303 Bond Street
Snow White is the last and tastiest slice of Company XIV's Apple Trilogy (Le Serpent Rouge and The Judgment of Paris...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Foley Gallery
Black-and-white photographs practically bleed nostalgia, and Margaret de Lange's gorgeous chromogenic prints are no exception. Her series Daughters was shot between...
Tuesday 1/12 @ August Wilson Theatre
Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Ms. Celebrity Apprentice 2009 is workshopping her latest standup act — a part of Joan Rivers' job description that gratefully does...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Tuesday 1/12 @ New York Public Library
On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Walter Kerr Theatre
Stephen Sondheim's melancholic farce receives a stirring revival due to Trevor Nunn's expertly delicate touch. Nunn elicits several nuanced performances from...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Tuesday 1/12 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Tuesday 1/12 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Village Vanguard
Fred Hersch has an unusually light touch. His hands glide across the keys with precision, crafting original pieces that are well-constructed...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Joyce Soho
Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos return to the intimate space of the Joyce Soho to present an hour-long piece that addresses...
Tuesday 1/12 @ American Folk Art Museum
A prolific 19th-century painter who was once considered "America's first modern" for his prepossessing, flat-color land- and seascapes, Thomas Chambers is...
Tuesday 1/12 @ 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 1/12 @ 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...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Tuesday 1/12 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
Tuesday 1/12 @ 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 1/12 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Emma Rice's inventive adaptation of Noel Coward's Still Life and its 1945 David Lean film charms before the curtain even rises:...
Tuesday 1/12 @ American Airlines Theater
Nicholas Martin's madcap revival of Present Laughter scores some big laughs, even if the subtlety of Noel Coward's original wit becomes...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Medicine Show Theatre
Famous Elizabethan dramatists include Shakespeare, Marlowe... and John Fletcher? Aye! Fletcher and Shakespeare were both playwrights for the King's Men and...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Film Forum
Herding sheep is no easy business. With the furry creatures running every which way across Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth mountains and horses that...
Tuesday 1/12 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
"Give it a sweet melody" was the aesthetic must for Vestie Davis, a painter who froze mid-century New York in winsome,...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Playwrights Horizons
What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 1/12 @ City Hall Park
Peter Coffin, the artist who flew a UFO over the Baltic Sea in summer 2008, takes over City Hall Park with a...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Film Forum
Ahead of Akira Kurosawa's centenary on March 23, Film Forum more or less runs through the auteur's consummate filmography (on queue:...
TEMPORARY DISTORTION: Americana Kamikaze
Tuesday 1/12 @ Performance Space 122
Experimental theatre group Temporary Distortion's Americana Kamikaze deserves the multimedia moniker that so many performances covet. Set in a simple box...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Linda Gross Theater
Sam Shepard's new one-act two-hander flows effortlessly and ends too quickly, humorously highlighting the fleeting nature of life. After being thrown...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Various locations
For the sixth year, Under the Radar producer Mark Russell rounds up a frenetic 12 days of emerging works, fanning out...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Kim Foster Gallery
Although completely abstract, New York artist Augustus Goertz' paintings are not unlike JMW Turner's 18th-century contemplation of the impending clash between...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Tuesday 1/12 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A technical examination and cleaning of one of the Met’s paintings, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, has revealed a...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of an extraordinary portrait recently reattributed to Velázquez,...
LISA D'AMOUR & KATIE PEARL with EMILY JOHNSON: Terrible Things
Tuesday 1/12 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening...
GISELE VIENNE/JONATHAN CAPDEVILLE/DENNIS COOPER: Jerk
Tuesday 1/12 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival Jerk might be unbearable for some. But...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Asia Society and Museum
The first solo New York museum exhibition of Japanese artist Yoshihiro Suda features a new work, inspired by pieces from Asia...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! In 1975, the Met acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works...
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson speaks about Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the...
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman and restaurant owner Danny Meyer discuss the painting Chinese Restaurant by John Sloan in...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Tuesday 1/12 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Tuesday 1/12 @ 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...
THE NATIONAL THEATER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: CHAUTAUQUA!
Tuesday 1/12 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival
Offsite* at The Public Theater
...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 1/12 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of...
Ace Every Interview: Getting the Job You Really Want
Tuesday 1/12 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Barry Cohen Job hunting is the worst job of all. Let career expert Barry Cohen teach you how to control the...
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Kara Walker offers her interpretation of the painting The Power of Music by William Sidney Mount, on view in the...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Taste of RMA tours offer museum visitors an introduction to Himalayan art, exploring process, materials, iconography, religion, and cultural influence along...
Tuesday 1/12 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 BEST CHOREOGRAPHER 2008 - Best of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St.Paul City Pages
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EDGAR OLIVER: East 10th Street; Self Portrait with Empty House
Tuesday 1/12 @ Performance Space 122
"I could have sat there listening to Edgar Oliver all night." - Culturebot Presented as part of COIL 2010 with Brian...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 1/12 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two historians of New York’s Lower East Side—Joyce Mendelsohn and Annie Polland—discuss Cliff Dwellers, George Bellows's 1913 depiction of the neighborhood,...
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Eric Fischl takes a fresh look at two John Singer Sargent paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, on view at the Met through September 6, 2010, is the first...
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Elizabeth Strout, imagines the stories behind Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts and The Gale, two...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 1/12 @ 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...
WAXFACTORY: Blind.ness (Love is a Four-Letter Word)
Tuesday 1/12 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 Offsite* at Abrons Arts Center
"You'll go wild for this" - John Del Signore,...
Tuesday 1/12 @ 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. ...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! From the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I,...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Beginning in the remote desert community of Papunya in the early 1970s, Australia's...
Punch Up Your Life: Free comedy hosted by Pete Homes and friends
Tuesday 1/12 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
With special guests TBA!
Tuesday 1/12 @ Performance Space 122
tickets are going fast - book now and get in on the action... 14 companies. 12 days. Breathtaking performance. "How much...
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman savors the food shown in two Lilly Martin Spencer paintings in the...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Tuesday 1/12 @ New Museum
For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum, Urs Fischer has taken over all three of the New Museum’s...
ROTOZAZA & ANT HAMPTON: GuruGuru
Tuesday 1/12 @ Performance Space 122
You have been told what to do every moment of the day, for years on end. The voice in your headphones...
RAYMOND SCANNELL & TOM CREED: Mimic
Tuesday 1/12 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 "A compelling constellation... vertiginous, playful and poignant" - Irish Theatre Magazine
Best Male Performer,...
Expierence Lincoln Center: $20 Tickets for 20 Days
Tuesday 1/12 @ Lincoln Center
$20 Tickets for 20 Days
Now through January 26 Only!
Celebrate the opening of day-of discount tickets at the Zucker...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 1/12 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Tuesday 1/12 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photographer Robert Frank discusses his groundbreaking publication The Americans with Jeff Rosenheim, curator at the Met, and Sarah Greenough, curator at...
