Events on Thursday, January 7
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Terminal 5
Levon Helm brings his midnight ramble down to our parts for a rousing evening of the southern-tinged music he made famous...
Samurai Cinema: “The Age of the Shoguns (1600–1868)”(1989)
Thursday 1/ 7 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents this film to accompany the special exhibition Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868, on view...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
Joey Pero is considered by many to be one of the pre-eminent trumpet talents of our time. His skill with classical...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
"Francisco's Guitar playing is tossed with challenging and tasteful blend of beautiful harmony and melody lines. What a great player." -Lionel...
InDigest 1207 Reading Series Andrew Porter , Robyn Sarah and Rachel Zucker
Thursday 1/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Word of Mouth: Online Media and The Future of Food Writing
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
We launch our new “Word of Mouth” foodie lit series with a star-studded conversation about culinary writing for the web. Featuring...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Head on down to Comedy Below Canal™ and spend the night with the best performers in town, including Colin Quinn (SNL,...
Last Man Standing , Mad Juana and Matt Keating
Thursday 1/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Thursday 1/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Director Robert Greene in person for post-screening Q&A.
Owning the Weather goes...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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:...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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....
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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,...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Joyce Soho
Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos return to the intimate space of the Joyce Soho to present an hour-long piece that addresses...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Farmani Gallery
As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Medicine Show Theatre
Famous Elizabethan dramatists include Shakespeare, Marlowe... and John Fletcher? Aye! Fletcher and Shakespeare were both playwrights for the King's Men and...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Playwrights Horizons
What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Various locations
For the sixth year, Under the Radar producer Mark Russell rounds up a frenetic 12 days of emerging works, fanning out...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ The Flea Theater
A winner at both the 2009 Dublin and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Little Gem comes to the Flea courtesy of the Carol...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Coffin Joe, Brazil's Horror Superstar
Thursday 1/ 7 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Before making pornochanchada to ride out the '80s — otherwise soft-core sex-comedies with titles like 24 Hours of Explicit Sex —...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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,...
ROTOZAZA & ANT HAMPTON: GuruGuru
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival Jerk might be unbearable for some. But...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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)
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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....
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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,...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 Offsite* at the Jewish Community Center "LeeSaar's dances always require unwavering attention" - Jennifer Dunning,...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 BEST CHOREOGRAPHER 2008 - Best of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St.Paul City Pages
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In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
THE NATIONAL THEATER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: CHAUTAUQUA!
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival
Offsite* at The Public Theater
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Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Performance Space 122
tickets are going fast - book now and get in on the action... 14 companies. 12 days. Breathtaking performance. "How much...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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”
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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)
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Trajal Harrell: Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (S)
Thursday 1/ 7 @ New Museum
EDGAR OLIVER: East 10th Street; Self Portrait with Empty House
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Performance Space 122
"I could have sat there listening to Edgar Oliver all night." - Culturebot Presented as part of COIL 2010 with Brian...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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,...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Thursday 1/ 7 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
WAXFACTORY: Blind.ness (Love is a Four-Letter Word)
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 Offsite* at Abrons Arts Center
"You'll go wild for this" - John Del Signore,...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
RAYMOND SCANNELL & TOM CREED: Mimic
Thursday 1/ 7 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 "A compelling constellation... vertiginous, playful and poignant" - Irish Theatre Magazine
Best Male Performer,...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 7 @ 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...
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