Events on Wednesday, January 6
Happy Ending Music & Reading Series
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
The newest installment of the best (and most often sold-out) reading series in the city is "America Night," featuring three fantastic...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Closely Watched Films, hosted by Elliott Kalan.
Young...
Red Book Dialogue: Stefan Sagmeister
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Rubin Museum of Art
New York-based graphic designer and typographer Stefan Sagmeister joins the likes of Gloria Vanderbilt, Alice Walker, Cornel West, and Sarah Silverman...
Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Travel Channel Presents , Louis Vuitron and The Candombe Rhythm and Daniel Tatita Marquez
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Wednesday 1/ 6 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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....
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
TEMPORARY DISTORTION: Americana Kamikaze
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ The Flea Theater
A winner at both the 2009 Dublin and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Little Gem comes to the Flea courtesy of the Carol...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ The Lyceum Theatre, 149 West 45th Street
Feminist playwright Sarah Ruhl lets us in on the "medicinal" uses of the first vibrators. Set in the late 19th-century, In...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Farmani Gallery
As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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:...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Ms. Celebrity Apprentice 2009 is workshopping her latest standup act — a part of Joan Rivers' job description that gratefully does...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Various locations
For the sixth year, Under the Radar producer Mark Russell rounds up a frenetic 12 days of emerging works, fanning out...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ The Morgan Library
J.P. Morgan loved to purchase art from every era. This amazing eclecticism is reflected in his museum's rotating exhibition schedule, which...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Playwrights Horizons
What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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....
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
RAYMOND SCANNELL & TOM CREED: Mimic
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 "A compelling constellation... vertiginous, playful and poignant" - Irish Theatre Magazine
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Now on view at the Met is the most extraordinary and comprehensive exhibition...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
LISA D'AMOUR & KATIE PEARL with EMILY JOHNSON: Terrible Things
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the presentation before it closes on Wednesday! Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
ROTOZAZA & ANT HAMPTON: GuruGuru
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
You have been told what to do every moment of the day, for years on end. The voice in your headphones...
GISELE VIENNE/JONATHAN CAPDEVILLE/DENNIS COOPER: Jerk
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival Jerk might be unbearable for some. But...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The mandala, one of Himalayan Buddhism's most ubiquitous and complex symbols, is the focus of this fascinating exhibition. Mandalas are created...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Mike Hearn takes us inside the extraordinary world of Luo Ping, discussing the range and brilliance of the artist's vision....
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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,...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 BEST CHOREOGRAPHER 2008 - Best of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St.Paul City Pages
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
MEGAN V. SPRENGER/mvworks: ...within us.
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 "It is both striking and antiseptic. You think of office spaces, study halls, waiting...
EDGAR OLIVER: East 10th Street; Self Portrait with Empty House
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
"I could have sat there listening to Edgar Oliver all night." - Culturebot Presented as part of COIL 2010 with Brian...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
tickets are going fast - book now and get in on the action... 14 companies. 12 days. Breathtaking performance. "How much...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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. ...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The first comprehensive exhibition of Luo Ping’s paintings ever presented in America, Eccentric...
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ 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...
WAXFACTORY: Blind.ness (Love is a Four-Letter Word)
Wednesday 1/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 Offsite* at Abrons Arts Center
Best Male Performer,...
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
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"You'll go wild for this" - John Del Signore,...
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