Events on Friday, October 15
Steady Orbits: A Benefit for Triple Canopy
Friday 10/15 @ 177 Livingston
Triple Canopy is an award-winning online magazine with issues unified by thoughtful concepts like "War Money Magic," "Idol Traffic," and "The...
AMPLIFY - An Evening Benefiting HOPE & The Voice Project
Friday 10/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
AMPLIFY - An Evening Benefiting HOPE & The Voice Project The Gallery @ (le) poisson rouge 10.15.10 $20 Doors: 7:00pm |...
Friday 10/15 @ 92YTribeca
An alumnus of the stellar Latin fusion band Yerba Buena and a collaborator with the likes of Eddie Palmieri, Isaac Delgado...
Friday 10/15 @ The Bowery Presents
Atlanta's suddenly hyped Deerhunter (est. 2001) play sprawling psych-garage-rock with an eccentric experimental twist. In other words, they sort of sound...
Friday 10/15 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/15/2010 & 10/16/2010 Los Campesinos! are seven young guns (four guys and three girls) from the U.K. that play unquestionably "fun"...
Friday 10/15 @ 92YTribeca
Victor Argo (Ghost Dog, Taxi Driver, True Romance) is a shoe store manager who attempts to revive a failed career as...
Crooked Disco feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 10/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Gallery at LPR Brooklyn’s own Morsy, founder of the DJ collective Nana Chill, has earned a reputation in the DJ...
Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77
Friday 10/15 @ The Bowery Presents
The Bloody Beetroots are an Italian electronica and dance music duo. The Bloody Beetroots were formed in late 2006 by producer...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 10/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler , DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth 10.15.2010 11:00pm | 21+ Ladies:...
The Losers Lounge: A Night In Xanadu featuring the music of ELO and Olivia Newton John
Friday 10/15 @ Joe's Pub
The Losers Lounge is back with at Joe’s Pub on October 14th, 15th and 16th with all of the incredible songs,...
Friday 10/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
Meet and rub elbows with fun and delightful people, enjoy the free docent-led exhibition tours, then relax and network the night...
Friday 10/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
In conjunction with the exhibition Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool, Asia Society presents its first Cosplay competition. Strut your stuff and celebrate...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/15 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
An early giant of new American photography, Friedlander's iconic project of photographing the nation's roads from behind the wheel of a...
Friday 10/15 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery
Luhring Augustine is pleased to present Heroes of Birth, an exhibition of new work by Pipilotti Rist. This is Rist's third...
Friday 10/15 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Friday 10/15 @ Various Locations Along the BQE
Designed to look like a large-scale guerilla marketing campaign, this project, which began as a critique of the appropriation of art...
Friday 10/15 @ Discovery Times Square Exposition
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Friday 10/15 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
After an acclaimed run off-Broadway, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by...
Friday 10/15 @ Angelika Film Center
Inside Job is probably one of the best bank heist films of our time, but unfortunately for us, it's a documentary;...
Friday 10/15 @ Barrow Street Theater
Milo, a Serbian astrophysicist who escaped the Balkan war by moving to Japan to teach English, is refusing to leave his...
Friday 10/15 @ Madison Square Park
Take the unique and seasonal design, homeware, and jewelry offerings you find at the Union Square Holiday Market, and combine it...
Friday 10/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
While it may immortalize, film doesn't always retain its youthful glow. This festival, produced by MoMA, showcases the efforts of studios,...
Friday 10/15 @ Sputnik
Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about...
Friday 10/15 @ Issue Project Room
Ever wondered what it would be like to lie comfortably on your bed surrounded by music. Kaffe Matthews gives you the...
Friday 10/15 @ The Times Center
All the best brains from NYC and beyond gather at this fun and informative conference once a year to chat ideas...
Friday 10/15 @ The Actors' Temple Theatre
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...
Friday 10/15 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 10/15 @ Clic Gallery
Gather round, b-boys and b-girls, for a very special book release, art show, and party. The Boombox features photos by Lyle...
Friday 10/15 @ Various locations
If you've read Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, then you know what this film is about. If you haven't,...
Friday 10/15 @ 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...
Friday 10/15 @ New Museum
Whether you get your news by paper, smartphone, tablet, or online, the process and control of information gathering and consumption is...
Friday 10/15 @ Landmark Sunshine
Finding internet fame with his viral video "Cunning Stunt" and website Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley, British filmmaker Ben Wheatley has gone...
Friday 10/15 @ The Flea Theater
Replace the '70s references in A.R. Gurney's Office Hours and it could take place today. The questions raised in this passionate...
Friday 10/15 @ 303 Gallery
A mid-career survey designed to support and contextualize Williams' most recent work, Al-Qaeda Is the CIA offers a rollicking, visceral good...
Friday 10/15 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
It seems like the city's been a flurry of artwork, all dealing with process. Whether we're viewing the installation of an...
Post-Punk Auteur: Olivier Assayas
Friday 10/15 @ BAM
If you have an affection for film, BAM's crash course on director Oliver Assayas is strongly recommended. Assayas is a middle...
Friday 10/15 @ 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,...
Friday 10/15 @ 59E59 Theaters
There is no social equalizer like the subway. If you've ever laughed at a Dr. Z ad, shouted about your boyfriend...
Friday 10/15 @ Angelika Film Center
It seems an unusual and challenging choice for an adaptation, but with the help of an arsenal of award-winning documentarians (Spurlock,...
Friday 10/15 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Dead or Alive features completely organic work. That is, all of the art was once alive, as a plant or animal....
Friday 10/15 @ Various locations in Hudson
Fortunately for us, the adorable upstate town of Hudson can be easily reached by train in less than two hours, no...
Friday 10/15 @ Botanica Bar
We love this bar. It's our home away from home, our office away from office. You simply can't find nicer bartenders...
Friday 10/15 @ Spring
Spring is an exhibition space and store that promotes design and art through curated shows — four shows a year. As...
Friday 10/15 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Arguably the greatest artist in the history of glass sculpture, Dale Chihuly has helped turn the craft of blowing glass into...
Friday 10/15 @ 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...
Friday 10/15 @ St. James Theater
Full-throttle punk (or Green Day's poppy spin on the genre) surges through the Great White Way in American Idiot, the Broadway...
Friday 10/15 @ Various locations in Litchfield
Just a two-hour drive from the city, Litchfield, Connecticut is a great escape for stressed-out city dwellers. Home to a stellar...
Friday 10/15 @ Teatro Theatre at the Italian Academy of Columbia University
Cracked Orlando's subtiltle is Dramma per Musica e Fractals, a fancy way of describing the opposing mathematical and emotional principles of...
Friday 10/15 @ Various locations
Fincher isn't a Facebook man, nor is writer Aaron Sorkin, which is probably what makes The Social Network succeed. A tightly...
Friday 10/15 @ SculptureCenter
A master at constructing provocative forms with fabric and sticks, Lara Schnitger shows that art can be a straightforward game, best...
Friday 10/15 @ Village 7
Time for Change isn't just a bunch of hippies sounding off on An Inconvenient Truth. The documentary follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck...
Friday 10/15 @ 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...
Friday 10/15 @ 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,...
Friday 10/15 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 10/15 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Alongside the well-known artists of the Pop art movement like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, worked many lesser-known but no less...
Friday 10/15 @ Various Downtown locations
This is it. The glut. The cornucopia. The land of plenty. Lower Manhattan Arts League has brought together an astounding array...
Friday 10/15 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 10/15 @ 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...
Friday 10/15 @ IFC Center
One man's rehabilitation tactic is another man's treasure in Marwencol, Jeff Malmberg's documentary about unlikely art star Mark Hogancamp. In 2000,...
Friday 10/15 @ 92YTribeca
Create spirited collages while learning about color, composition, texture, shape and more.
Rock Out Blowout Music Sale, all day October 11th through 17th
Friday 10/15 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
30% off all CDs, vinyl, music books, and sheet music.
Italy Observed: Views and Souvenirs, 1706–1899
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 18th century, privileged Europeans embarked on the Grand Tour, traveling principally to sites in Italy, where they visited cherished...
Amanda Loulaki's I Am Saying Goodnight
Friday 10/15 @ Performance Space 122
Every night I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT only to wake up in the morning longing for the smell of coffee and start...
Friday 10/15 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Confused by those 40-armed deities? Let Gateway to Himalayan Art break it down for you. In this new introductory exhibition, you'll...
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In excerpts from a 1988 archival recording, photographer Leon Levinstein talks about his work and the experience of photographing in the...
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Don’t miss this major international loan exhibition! The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, on view at...
Friday 10/15 @ 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...
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
During a trip to the Netherlands in spring 1928, the Barcelona-born Joan Miró (1893–1983) bought postcards from the museums he visited....
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Don’t miss this opportunity to see Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop the site-specific installation created for...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, the Met opened a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will be...
Friday 10/15 @ 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....
Talk about Nothing video contest
Friday 10/15 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum is asking Laurie Anderson, Ken Burns, Sandra Bernhard and Eve Ensler what 'nothing' means to them. Now they...
The Freedom Party w / DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 10/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party’s mission is to give people a legendary NYC party that provides the best dance floor experience playing music...
Rugs and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Comprised of works dedicated to the enactment of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, this installation focuses on Tibetan tantric rugs as the seats...
Rhys Chatham and Angie Eng: Echodes
Friday 10/15 @ The Kitchen
Paris-based musician and composer Rhys Chatham — the beloved first music curator of The Kitchen in the 1970s — has reached...
Friday 10/15 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond marks the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure...
Friday 10/15 @ Harlem Stage
Choreographer Nita Liem invites the audience to be a part of a night Uptown where local and international artists come together...
Friday 10/15 @ Performance Space 122
With its overlapping of Joseph Roth's novel, reality, and contemporary history, HOTEL SAVOY opens up a world between dream and reality...
In Short Order: Best American Short Stories
Friday 10/15 @ 92YTribeca
Explore the genre of short story in this reading and discussion group, and find out why it's special. Read a selection...
Friday 10/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Annalise Roberts and Claudia Pillow, PhD Current research indicates that reducing or eliminating gluten can help reduce inflammation in the body,...
Crooked Disco featuring DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 10/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Brooklyn's own Morsy, founder of the DJ collective Nana Chill, has earned a reputation in the DJ and promoter world for...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shortly after the Met acquired two Viennese silver wine coolers in 2002 from the Sachsen-Teschen Service, the core of the surviving...
Friday 10/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
Experience the world of internationally renowned Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Through drawings, paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations, this landmark exhibition links...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography. Drawn almost entirely from the Met’s collection, Between Here and...
Friday 10/15 @ New Museum
Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Each two-day seminar explores a topic of current investigation in an...
The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
First discovered in 1996 during construction on the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway in Lod, Israel, this large and impressive mosaic floor depicting...
Friday 10/15 @ Terminal 5
Citizen Cope is both a person (Clarence Greenwood) and a band. Born in Memphis, Greenwood is obviously the leader of the...
Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This is the first major exhibition in 45 years devoted to the Burgundian Netherlandish artist Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), bringing together...
Friday 10/15 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 10/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Anne Strauss talks to Doug and Mike Starn about their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Friday 10/15 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Friday 10/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Admission is free for all visitors during Target Free Friday Nights, sponsored by Target, every Friday evening, 4:00–8:00 p.m. Tickets for...
