Events on Saturday, January 30
Saturday 1/30 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
It’s easy to fall in love with CZ's dance/break blend, which explains why top producers and DJs like Waajeed and Mad...
Saturday 1/30 @ Secret NYC Location
Rumors and hearsay are flying around the Internet about this year's Idiotarod. At first it appeared that dominating team DangerZone (really,...
Saturday 1/30 @ Chelsea Art Museum
Here's the thing: we're not entirely sure exactly what Smoke is. And that's exactly why we're showing up on Saturday night....
Michael Friedman: Adventures in Reality
Saturday 1/30 @ Lincoln Center
For several years, Michael Friedman has been crafting savvy tunes based on interviews conducted by the downtown docu-theatre troupe the Civilians,...
Damon & Naomi with Kurihara Music Event Only
Saturday 1/30 @ 92YTribeca
Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang's music career started with modest goals but grew to incorporate one of the most influential bands...
Saturday 1/30 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The East Village spaced-out RnB acid house revivalist outfit Cubic Zirconia is just getting started. The three founding members Nick Hook,...
Global Music Double Fundraiser at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 1/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Live performances by:
Hassan Hakmoun...
Saturday 1/30 @ The Bowery Ballroom
In 2001, the founding members of Mission Of Burma – Roger Miller, Clint Conley and Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston replacing...
Saturday 1/30 @ 92YTribeca
This special evening begins with the first-ever theater screening of Naomi films from the Factory 25 DVD release Damon & Naomi:...
(Vinylcentric) -ONE NATION- (Planet ONE) w/ DJ Jay McElfresh
Saturday 1/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 01.30.10
Sounds Like Brooklyn: Rain Machine + Anti-Pop Consortium
Saturday 1/30 @ BAM
RAIN MACHINE + ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM Part of the 2010 Spring Season and Sounds Like...
Red Baraat CD Release Concert w/ Pistolera and Gabriel Teodros
Saturday 1/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 01.30.10
Red Baraat CD...
Earl Greyhound @ Brooklyn Bowl
Saturday 1/30 @ The Bowery Presents
BROOKLYN BOWL 61 WYTHE AVENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11211 (718) 963-3369 http://www.brooklynbowl.com "This band can crush your favorite band...As heavy as Led...
Saturday 1/30 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
The Entrance Band plus Lights Orphan The Entrance Band kicks out a veritable explosion of mind-bending, skyscraping high-volume electric power....
Saturday 1/30 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Step out of the streets and into one of NYC's most beautiful social dance ballrooms for an evening of waltz, tango,...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Saturday 1/30 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Saturday 1/30 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Saturday 1/30 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 1/30 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 1/30 @ Anthology Film Archives
Made in 1977 by the ad hoc Mariposa Film Group, this seminal record of LGBT life in America plaits together 26...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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....
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ Film Forum
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ Atlantic Stage Two
The intricate wit of downtown darling David Greenspan has time and again charmed theatergoers who demand a strong dose of smarts...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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,...
Saturday 1/30 @ International Center of Photography
"If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world."...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Saturday 1/30 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Ethan Hawke revives Sam Shepard's 1985 play about an act of violence that sets off a strange series of events. This...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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,...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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,...
Saturday 1/30 @ St. Luke’s Theatre (308 West 46th Street)
Award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee addreses an overlooked part of history: the first African-American fighter pilots in the...
Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion
Saturday 1/30 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist of all trades, whose prolific work often results in sculptural assemblages, installations, and conceptually based series,...
Saturday 1/30 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Saturday 1/30 @ Various locations
NYC Restaurant Week is back for those whose delicate palates suffer the need to choose frugality over taste. From the fashionably...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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:...
Saturday 1/30 @ Tisch School of the Arts
Each year, hotINK scours the world to put forth powerful new plays, and this year rounds up promising works from Uganda,...
Saturday 1/30 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Saturday 1/30 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ Ars Nova Theater
Ripped straight from the online pages of Craigslist, this evening of theatre and music delves into those brief encounters with amusingly...
Saturday 1/30 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Saturday 1/30 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Saturday 1/30 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Saturday 1/30 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Book editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir. It's appropriate, then, that Karen Finley begins The Jackie Look with a...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Saturday 1/30 @ 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,...
Jon Kinzel: Responsible Ballet And What We Need is a Bench to Put Books On
Saturday 1/30 @ The Kitchen
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Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Saturday 1/30 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 1/30 @ 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: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Saturday 1/30 @ 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: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Saturday 1/30 @ 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
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Step out of the streets and into one of NYC's most beautiful social dance ballrooms for an evening of waltz, tango,...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
Saturday 1/30 @ Asia Society and Museum
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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. ...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday Evenings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 1/30 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Thomas Beachdel
Get a sneak preview of a new exhibition or tour...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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....
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
