Events on Wednesday, January 13
Wednesday 1/13 @ The Bowery Ballroom
If the Cure grew up on the beaches of California in the '50s, they might have sounded liked the Drums, a...
Segregated Spaces — On Progress w/ Hasan Elahi
Wednesday 1/13 @ Cabinet Magazine Space
In Hasan Elahi's lauded art, there is a recurring focus on surveillance and its associated boundaries and breaches. His latest project...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Joe's Pub
"the most unlikely classic of the year" -Guardian
"catch this man... before his fame matches the size of...
Wednesday 1/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Celebrating George...
Bill Plympton and Signe Baumane present Animated Short Films
Wednesday 1/13 @ 92YTribeca
We're welcoming the Woodstock Film Festival to present this program curated by animators Bill Plymptom and Signe Baumane, both appearing in...
Wednesday 1/13 @ The Mercury Lounge
Swedish fusion between Jazz and Hip Hop “Django guitar, windy street swing; music for both art directors and your mom” is...
Quartet San Francisco w/ music of Dave Brubeck
Wednesday 1/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Quartet San...
Jeffrey Foucault and Kris Delmhorst
Wednesday 1/13 @ Joe's Pub
Jeffrey Foucault's musical career was seeded at seventeen, when he began playing John Prine tunes on his father's beat up mail-order...
America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story
Wednesday 1/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Bruce Feiler
Travel through history with New York Times best-selling author Bruce...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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:...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Village Vanguard
Fred Hersch has an unusually light touch. His hands glide across the keys with precision, crafting original pieces that are well-constructed...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Film Forum
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ The Flea Theater
A winner at both the 2009 Dublin and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Little Gem comes to the Flea courtesy of the Carol...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Wednesday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The most comprehensive Bauhaus exhibition ever comes to MoMA this fall after its debut in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall,...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Farmani Gallery
As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Wednesday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A typographic manual and manifesto, Jan Tschichold's 1928 The New Typography heralded a "see" change in how the printed page was...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Wednesday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Wednesday 1/13 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion
Wednesday 1/13 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist of all trades, whose prolific work often results in sculptural assemblages, installations, and conceptually based series,...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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....
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
TEMPORARY DISTORTION: Americana Kamikaze
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Metropolitan Opera House
The stakes are high in Puccini's Turandot as a cold-hearted princess (world renowned opera singer Maria Guleghina) subjects her suitors to...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Wednesday 1/13 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 1/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The title of this Rubin exhibition cites the "churning" sea of Hinduism's creation belief and the West's for-science explorations of the...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Atlantic Stage Two
The intricate wit of downtown darling David Greenspan has time and again charmed theatergoers who demand a strong dose of smarts...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Various locations
For the sixth year, Under the Radar producer Mark Russell rounds up a frenetic 12 days of emerging works, fanning out...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ DUMBO Arts Center
The pair collaborates à la a game of Exquisite Corpse, aware of the other's involvement but blind to specific compositional details,...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 65 Spring Street
2009 was the year of the pop-up shop, and the temporary retail boutique trend shows no sign of slowing as the...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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:...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 1/13 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Playwrights Horizons
What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Wednesday 1/13 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Irish Repertory Theatre
The delightful cast of Ernest in Love doesn't let a weak score get in the way of this whimsical story about...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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,...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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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Wednesday 1/13 @ 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....
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
RAYMOND SCANNELL & TOM CREED: Mimic
Wednesday 1/13 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 "A compelling constellation... vertiginous, playful and poignant" - Irish Theatre Magazine
Best Male Performer,...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Expierence Lincoln Center: $20 Tickets for 20 Days
Wednesday 1/13 @ Lincoln Center
$20 Tickets for 20 Days
Now through January 26 Only!
Celebrate the opening of day-of discount tickets at the Zucker...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Performance Space 122
tickets are going fast - book now and get in on the action... 14 companies. 12 days. Breathtaking performance. "How much...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
GISELE VIENNE/JONATHAN CAPDEVILLE/DENNIS COOPER: Jerk
Wednesday 1/13 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival Jerk might be unbearable for some. But...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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,...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Wednesday 1/13 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Wednesday 1/13 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In his films and photographs, Artur Zmijewski (Polish, b. 1966) investigates social norms by observing unusual or invented situations. Seeing his...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
LISA D'AMOUR & KATIE PEARL with EMILY JOHNSON: Terrible Things
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner.
$7 at the door.
This event always sells out....
EDGAR OLIVER: East 10th Street; Self Portrait with Empty House
Wednesday 1/13 @ Performance Space 122
"I could have sat there listening to Edgar Oliver all night." - Culturebot Presented as part of COIL 2010 with Brian...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Wednesday 1/13 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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. ...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 1/13 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Paul Sietsema’s ethereal drawings, sculptures, and films explore combinations of color, space, and movement through subjects spanning a broad geographic and...
THE NATIONAL THEATER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: CHAUTAUQUA!
Wednesday 1/13 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival
Offsite* at The Public Theater
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Wednesday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged...
