Events on Friday, January 15
Friday 1/15 @ The Bell House-
The Bell House kicks off its bi-weekly late-night variety show with a trio of talented acts. The self-proclaimed World Famous Pontani...
Friday 1/15 @ Monkey Town
Forget the too-few days left on Monkey Town's lease; in fact, forget the whole mess for un momento and get ready...
Friday 1/15 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Gang Gang Dance, despite their pop-sounding name, avoid traditional song structure in favor of expansive soundscapes that merge live instrumental solos,...
Jonathan Demme and Neil Young Trunk Show
Friday 1/15 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
With his Marley doc sure to set theaters ablaze in less than a month, Jonathan Demme drops by the Walter Reade...
David Hidalgo & Louie Perez of Los Lobos: An Evening of Storytelling & Songs
Friday 1/15 @ Lincoln Center
David Hidalgo and Louie Perez of Los Lobos present a night of provocative, engaging songs. With influences that range from blues...
Friday 1/15 @ 92YTribeca
Pelle wants a change from his change of scenery. Another day, another place, another postcard, another girl.... But is Veronica really...
Mike Geffner: The Inspired Word-Night of Stars
Friday 1/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Friday 1/15 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Jeffrey is just your regular suburban gent until he finds a severed ear in an overgrown backlot. Thereafter he descends into...
Brian Fallon (From The Gaslight Anthem)
Friday 1/15 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Dave Hause...
Friday 1/15 @ The Mercury Lounge
Joe Pernice began his recording career in the mid-90’s with the Scud Mountain Boys, in Northampton, Massachusetts. They released two records...
Friday 1/15 @ Joe's Pub
”If George Jones had Lester Flatt and Bill Monroe in mind when he sang ’Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes?’ he might...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 1/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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The Freedom Party
w/ DJ Cosi, DJ...
Kristina Train with special guest Sophie Madeleine
Friday 1/15 @ Joe's Pub
Kristina Train's powerful voice is leaving audiences amazed. Often compared to the likes of Allison Krauss, Dusty Springfield, and Bonnie Raitt,...
Friday 1/15 @ 92YTribeca
Add a dose of Janis infused blues with a touch of Stevie Wonder grooves whipped to Billy Joel rock pop perfection...
Zikrayat w/ Salma Marjieh and Faisal Zedan
Friday 1/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Zikrayat
w/...
Friday 1/15 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the Guy Maddin series.
Have you ever wanted to relive...
Anna Dagmar, Adam Levy, Emilie Cardinaux
Friday 1/15 @ 92YTribeca
A special in-the-round performance by three of NYC's finest songwriters.
Just when...
Friday 1/15 @ Joe's Pub
Alice Smith is, on the evidence of her solo debut, 'For Lovers, Dreamers & Me' (BBE Records), the most promising female...
Kristina Train with special guest Sophie Madeleine
Friday 1/15 @ Joe's Pub
Kristina Train's powerful voice is leaving audiences amazed. Often compared to the likes of Allison Krauss, Dusty Springfield, and Bonnie Raitt,...
Julian Casablancas - 2nd Show Added!
Friday 1/15 @ Terminal 5
Lead singer of The Strokes has come out with a solo album and is currently touring in support of the already...
THIS FRIDAY Rosanne Cash + Loudon Wainwright III
Friday 1/15 @ Rubin Museum of Art
This is Rosanne Cash's 10th concert at the Rubin Museum--her first being just four days after the museum opened. Her previous...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/15 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ Atlantic Stage Two
The intricate wit of downtown darling David Greenspan has time and again charmed theatergoers who demand a strong dose of smarts...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ The Flea Theater
A winner at both the 2009 Dublin and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Little Gem comes to the Flea courtesy of the Carol...
Friday 1/15 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Friday 1/15 @ Farmani Gallery
As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of...
Friday 1/15 @ Various locations
For the sixth year, Under the Radar producer Mark Russell rounds up a frenetic 12 days of emerging works, fanning out...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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 1/15 @ 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,...
Friday 1/15 @ Teatro Circulo (64 E 4th St, 212.505.1808)
Like a McDonald's hamburger, Clay McLeod Chapman's Teaser Cow is made up of countless parts whose origins are hard to trace....
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Friday 1/15 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Friday 1/15 @ Playwrights Horizons
What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ Film Forum
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...
Friday 1/15 @ Village Vanguard
Fred Hersch has an unusually light touch. His hands glide across the keys with precision, crafting original pieces that are well-constructed...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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 1/15 @ 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,...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Friday 1/15 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
Friday 1/15 @ 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 1/15 @ 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:...
Friday 1/15 @ 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....
Friday 1/15 @ 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:...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Hampson, Adams, and Schubert's Unfinished Symphony
Friday 1/15 @ Avery Fisher Hall
As witnessed during the televised New Year's Eve concert, new NYP Music Director Alan Gilbert and the orchestra's first Artist-in-Residence Thomas...
Friday 1/15 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Friday 1/15 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
TEMPORARY DISTORTION: Americana Kamikaze
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ The Public Theater
The Public Theatre's ambitious and acclaimed Under the Radar Festival brings performance and theater artists from around the world to Astor...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Friday 1/15 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Friday 1/15 @ 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,...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion
Friday 1/15 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist of all trades, whose prolific work often results in sculptural assemblages, installations, and conceptually based series,...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Friday 1/15 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
LISA D'AMOUR & KATIE PEARL with EMILY JOHNSON: Terrible Things
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
THE NATIONAL THEATER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: CHAUTAUQUA!
Friday 1/15 @ 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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Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Friday 1/15 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ New York Live Arts
Nia Love punctuates her 100-hour creative residency, as a part of Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series, with two work-in-progress showings of...
RAYMOND SCANNELL & TOM CREED: Mimic
Friday 1/15 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 "A compelling constellation... vertiginous, playful and poignant" - Irish Theatre Magazine
Best Male Performer,...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 1/15 @ 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
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Friday 1/15 @ 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,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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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GISELE VIENNE/JONATHAN CAPDEVILLE/DENNIS COOPER: Jerk
Friday 1/15 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival Jerk might be unbearable for some. But...
Friday 1/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Admission is free for all visitors during Target Free Friday Nights, sponsored by Target, every Friday evening, 4:00–8:00 p.m. Tickets for...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Friday 1/15 @ 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—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 1/15 @ 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,...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Friday 1/15 @ 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,...
Friday 1/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
Expierence Lincoln Center: $20 Tickets for 20 Days
Friday 1/15 @ Lincoln Center
$20 Tickets for 20 Days
Now through January 26 Only!
Celebrate the opening of day-of discount tickets at the Zucker...
Friday 1/15 @ Performance Space 122
tickets are going fast - book now and get in on the action... 14 companies. 12 days. Breathtaking performance. "How much...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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. ...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Friday 1/15 @ 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....
EDGAR OLIVER: East 10th Street; Self Portrait with Empty House
Friday 1/15 @ Performance Space 122
"I could have sat there listening to Edgar Oliver all night." - Culturebot Presented as part of COIL 2010 with Brian...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Friday 1/15 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
