Events on Thursday, January 21
Thursday 1/21 @ BAMcafé
The Collyer brothers, to jog your memory, amassed a ton of odds and ends inside their Harlem manse back in the...
Thursday 1/21 @ Performance Space 122
If you haven't already seen the ubiquitous ads for Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica serves to explain why a majority...
Dub is a Weapon! w/ Bigga Mention and guest vocalist Rob Symeonn at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 1/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Dub is a...
Thursday 1/21 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with: Spacecamp "I obsess over songwriting to the point where when I listen to music I hear the song rather...
Seeing Jazz With George Wein: Anat Cohen with Howard Alden & Gene Bertoncini
Thursday 1/21 @ Symphony Space
Only at Symphony Space! Jazz impresario George Wein--founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, and New Orleans Jazz and...
Comedy Below Canal™: Some Folks with Wyatt Cenac
Thursday 1/21 @ 92YTribeca
Some Folks is a brand-spanking-new show hosted by Wyatt Cenac of The Daily Show that seamlessly and creatively brings together the...
The Return of Genocidal Anti-Semitism
Thursday 1/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Robert Wistrich
Explore the existential threat to the Jewish people, Israel and...
Monika Jalili w/ special guest Jamshied Sharifi Hassan Hakmoun @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 1/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monika Jalili brings to life the rich history of Iranian culture through its music and poetry, performing traditional Persian folk favorites...
Thursday 1/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Sam Shepard and Patti Smith have been close friends since the early 1970s, when they co-wrote and co-starred in the play...
Flashy & Trashy with DJ Jay McElfresh @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 1/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
FREE, 21+, Gallery event. Come hang out from 10pm-4am with DJ Jay McElfresh playing a wide range of tunes to keep...
Pasta and Homemade Tomato Sauce
Thursday 1/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Chef Mike Colameco
Chef Mike Colameco presents monthly cooking demonstrations at the...
Above The Law: VIPs and Accountability
Thursday 1/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Vincent Bugliosi, Charlotte Dennett and Naomi Wolf
Join an esteemed panel as...
Thursday 1/21 @ 92YTribeca
Co-presented by Chicken & Egg Pictures and Working Films directors Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine in person for post-screening...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Thursday 1/21 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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,...
Thursday 1/21 @ Film Forum
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ Kaufman Center
This unique series pairs modern composers with classic silent films to answer a question that's been floating around in our heads...
Thursday 1/21 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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,...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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:...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Thursday 1/21 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion
Thursday 1/21 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist of all trades, whose prolific work often results in sculptural assemblages, installations, and conceptually based series,...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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....
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Thursday 1/21 @ 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,...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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,...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Thursday 1/21 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Thursday 1/21 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ Atlantic Stage Two
The intricate wit of downtown darling David Greenspan has time and again charmed theatergoers who demand a strong dose of smarts...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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,...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Thursday 1/21 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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”
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner.
$7 at the door.
This event always sells out....
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ Asia Society and Museum
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Thursday 1/21 @ 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,...
Urban Bush Women Present Zollar:Uncensored
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Thursday 1/21 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Thursday 1/21 @ 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,...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Expierence Lincoln Center: $20 Tickets for 20 Days
Thursday 1/21 @ Lincoln Center
$20 Tickets for 20 Days
Now through January 26 Only!
Celebrate the opening of day-of discount tickets at the Zucker...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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. ...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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....
