Events on Wednesday, January 20
People and Their Letters & The Tyranny of Email
Wednesday 1/20 @ Symphony Space
The letter has been all but replaced by email and texting, to the point where writing seems kind of quaint, reserved...
Gallery Talk—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915
Wednesday 1/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The more than 100 paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 present figural scenes of ordinary people...
Per Tengstrand and Shan-shan Sun @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 1/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Come enjoy and evening of piano music of Beethoven and Kapustin performed by Per Tengstrand & Shan-shan Sun!
6:30pm doors...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 92YTribeca
Bring your under-twelve-minute film (on DVD only), get it shown and pad the house with your friends–audience vote determines the winner....
Wednesday 1/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Today's surgical teams use robotic and image-processing systems to assist them in the planning and execution of surgical procedures. The benefits...
Big Troubles, My Teenage Stride, Sundelles, and Lame Drivers
Wednesday 1/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Big Troubles
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Wednesday 1/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Caterina Borelli
Asmara, the capital of the East African nation of Eritrea,...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join the Vintage Dance Society for a grand late-winter celebration of the Ragtime era, including early 20th century with waltzes, tangos,...
Ongoing Events
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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...
Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Wednesday 1/20 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Wednesday 1/20 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Ms. Celebrity Apprentice 2009 is workshopping her latest standup act — a part of Joan Rivers' job description that gratefully does...
Wednesday 1/20 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Wednesday 1/20 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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....
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Wednesday 1/20 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ American Museum of Natural History
The Hayden Planetarium is utterly transformed for Haydn's cosmic opera Il Mondo Della Luna (The World on the Moon). Put on...
Wednesday 1/20 @ Film Forum
There's a beautiful plasticity to Andrey Khrzhanovsky's A Room and a Half, an ode to the exiled poet Joseph Brodsky and...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ Trinity Gym (110 Greenwich St)
Outdoor Bound takes the action inside for this after-work adventure that starts at the Trinity Boxing Club and concludes with cheap...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 1/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach discusses the life and work of the painter, draftsman, teacher, and poet Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572) on the...
Wednesday 1/20 @ The Bell House-
After her sadistic turn in Lars von Trier's Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg embraces her lighter side this week, performing understated songs from...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Take the Whitney lift to floor five if a) you missed the past 80-or-so years of Biennials or b) your inner...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Urban Bush Women Present Zollar:Uncensored
Wednesday 1/20 @ New York Live Arts
“So juicily do the dancers in Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s company project empowerment, self-esteem, and strength under duress that after every...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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,...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This show from the Met’s permanent collection features the 1971 mural-size collage The Block by Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), as well...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Wednesday 1/20 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ Asia Society and Museum
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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,...
Expierence Lincoln Center: $20 Tickets for 20 Days
Wednesday 1/20 @ Lincoln Center
$20 Tickets for 20 Days
Now through January 26 Only!
Celebrate the opening of day-of discount tickets at the Zucker...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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. ...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 1/20 @ 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 1/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition The Drawings of Bronzino, on view through April 18, is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), and includes nearly...
