Events on Tuesday, January 26
Tuesday 1/26 @ Highline Ballroom
Of Montreal evoke the glam of Bowie and the vocal range of Freddie Mercury, with electric grooves that fall between the...
“Ancient Chinese Music Instruments” (2008)
Tuesday 1/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents this film to accompany the special exhibition Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China, on view through...
Sound Addiction presents Blues in Space w/ Jerseyband
Tuesday 1/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Tuesday 1/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
John L. Esposito and Mahmoud Mamdani
Addressing issues of Islam, human rights...
Tuesday 1/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Tuesday 1/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Stefanie Bryn Sacks, MS
Discover easy, delicious and cost-saving ways to use...
Tuesday 1/26 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Born in 1962 in Tokyo. Gifted producer & DJ with a superb sense in Mixing and composing his sound who’s been...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Scandal strikes the Protestant church in Verdi's opera about the limits of faith. A popular minister, Stiffelio returns home from a...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Tuesday 1/26 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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:...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Tuesday 1/26 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Although she produced art in many mediums, from painting to photography, Viola Frey's lasting imprint can be found in ceramics. As...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 1/26 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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,...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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....
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Ms. Celebrity Apprentice 2009 is workshopping her latest standup act — a part of Joan Rivers' job description that gratefully does...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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,...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Tuesday 1/26 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Tuesday 1/26 @ Various locations
NYC Restaurant Week is back for those whose delicate palates suffer the need to choose frugality over taste. From the fashionably...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ Asia Society and Museum
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Tuesday 1/26 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Dorktastic discounts and on comic books, sci fi, and vinyl for all you collectors, obsessives, and affectionados. Special never-before-seen stock! ...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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...
Punch Up Your Life: Free comedy hosted by Pete Homes and friends
Tuesday 1/26 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
With special guests TBA!
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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. ...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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,...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Expierence Lincoln Center: $20 Tickets for 20 Days
Tuesday 1/26 @ Lincoln Center
$20 Tickets for 20 Days
Now through January 26 Only!
Celebrate the opening of day-of discount tickets at the Zucker...
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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 1/26 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Tuesday 1/26 @ 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...
