Events on Thursday, November 4
Ben Greenman and Neil Strauss: An Evening of Celebrity, Comedy and Conversation
Thursday 11/ 4 @ powerHouse Arena
Authors Ben Greenman and Neil Strauss invite you to hear tales from the "celebrity dark side," to learn the "secrets of...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Good Units
Last May when Gen Art, an organization which helped launch the careers of Zac Posen, Adrian Grenier, and Ryan McGuiness, closed...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ The Bowery Presents
When two friends decided to throw a bowling party in Louisville, KY in honor of their favorite movie, they had no...
Alan Dershowitz and Bret Stephens: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
The prolific author and outspoken advocate for Israel Alan Dershowitz discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the most controversial issues of the...
Daedelus w/ The Gaslamp Killer: Magical Properties Fall Tour 2010
Thursday 11/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Born Alfred Weisberg-Roberts in Santa Monica, CA, producer / instrumentalist Daedelus wanted to be an inventor from an early age, a sentiment that...
Antonia Fraser In Conversation With Oskar Eustis
Thursday 11/ 4 @ LIVE from the NYPL
In Must You Go?, Lady Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist and Nobel Prize winner,...
The Black Angels, Black Mountain
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
After founding Jerk with a Bomb in the late '90s, Stephen McBean had by the mid-2000s transformed the Vancouver-area band into...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 92YTribeca
Programmed by Miriam Bale. Followed by a panel discussion by Jessica Winter, Scott Foundas, R. Emmet Sweeney, Nick Dawson and Christian...
The Embassy Ensemble Live! This Month's Spotlight On: J. Ivy
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Joe's Pub
"The Embassy Ensemble Presents," is an intimate concert series featuring both new and established musical guests from around the world, backed...
Alan Dershowitz and Bret Stephens: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
The prolific author and outspoken advocate for Israel Alan Dershowitz discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the most controversial issues of the...
Zara Terez and the Barnstormers Collaboration
Thursday 11/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
New York based handbag designer, Zara Terez, is launching her first artist series of handbags by teaming up with three notable...
The Civilians: Let Me Ascertain You: CRIME, USA (Key West, New York City)
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Joe's Pub
This one-night-only performance is dedicated to The Civilians’ investigation into the world of crime in the United States, which began...
SONIDOS: Nevermind the Bollocks with the Talea Ensemble
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Symphony Space
Hard-core punk, heavy metal, dance club tradition, spectralist harmonies, jazz rhythms, and noise are transmogrified for chamber ensemble in works inspired...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Duryea Presbyterian Church
Duryea Presbyterian Church has never been home to any performance except religious pageants. But Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone — both...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Angelika Film Center
Winner of numerous festival awards, including the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at Sundance 2010, Waste Land documents the genesis...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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 11/ 4 @ New Museum
Whether you get your news by paper, smartphone, tablet, or online, the process and control of information gathering and consumption is...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Australian artist Tracey Moffatt first gained critical acclaim for her short film Night Cries at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Since...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ MoMA PS1
For one weekend, Printed Matter, a long-time favorite arts organization, joins forces with MoMA's PS1 to bring you this unique fair....
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Various locations
Fincher isn't a Facebook man, nor is writer Aaron Sorkin, which is probably what makes The Social Network succeed. A tightly...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ The Brick Theater
To celebrate their 20th anniversary, the downtown theatre veterans of Target Margin are running three semi-obscure plays in rep, showcasing their...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ HERE Arts Center
It's the right time of year for The Fortune Teller but Phantom Limb's marionette allegory is spooky fun for any phase...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ DCKT
In her debut solo show, the daughter of Robert Crumb showcases her talent for irreverence and skewed idealism — both inherited...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Issue Project Room
Ever wondered what it would be like to lie comfortably on your bed surrounded by music. Kaffe Matthews gives you the...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
Emory, a young, effeminate gay boy, is growing up on a farm, choreographing elaborate dance routines to Nina Simone, hanging out...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Playwrights Horizons
A Marxist family is not very different from other families; they still bicker, have high expectations for their children, older generations...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Under St. Marks
Set on the dark and expansive Colorado plains, High Plains is a one-man confession telling the story of Jake, a young...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ New World Stages
Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Various Downtown locations
This is it. The glut. The cornucopia. The land of plenty. Lower Manhattan Arts League has brought together an astounding array...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Film Forum
As a composer and lyricist, Stephin Merritt channels the best of the classical American songwriting tradition, merging melodies with sentiments that...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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 11/ 4 @ New Museum
This exhibit, which focuses on art that has emerged in response to the possibilities of the internet, is a nice corollary...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ SculptureCenter
A master at constructing provocative forms with fabric and sticks, Lara Schnitger shows that art can be a straightforward game, best...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Spring
Spring is an exhibition space and store that promotes design and art through curated shows — four shows a year. As...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Landmark Sunshine
Finding internet fame with his viral video "Cunning Stunt" and website Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley, British filmmaker Ben Wheatley has gone...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Joe's Pub
Lifted off the Ground may be Chely Wright’s seventh album, but on a number of levels it feels and sounds like...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Thursday 11/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About 50 pieces of the distinctive "artistic furniture" and related objects produced by the workshop of Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) in Buffalo,...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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....
Images and Words: Autobiography through Photography
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 92YTribeca
This class focuses on using images and words to create a memoir. Using plastic, film and/or digital cameras, students take pictures...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the U.S. premiere of Adam Pendleton’s new large scale video installation. Pendleton’s BAND is a form and...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Performance Space 122
After each Thursday night show, there is a party where you can mingle with other patrons and the artists. Refreshments flow...
Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Italy Observed: Views and Souvenirs, 1706–1899
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Today's Art and How It Got Here: Art History, 1945-Present
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 92YTribeca
By the early 1950s, for the first time in its history, the global contemporary art spotlight shined most brightly on the...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ The Bowery Presents
Also Performing: Pantha Du Prince. Blonde Redhead is an alternative rock or indie rock band. It was formed by Kazu Makino,...
The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Yanira Castro | a canary torsi: Wilderness
Thursday 11/ 4 @ New York Live Arts
Creating illustrious environments, Yanira Castro crafts worlds in unexpected places. Her newest work, Wilderness is a performance and audio installation with...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ New Museum
The New Museum will present the first New York solo exhibition by Haegue Yang (b. Seoul, 1971). One of the leading...
Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met
Thursday 11/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Come and visit this exhibition of two new sculptural installations created specifically for the Met by Katrin Sigurdardottir, an Icelandic artist...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Cosmin Manolescu's Supergabriela
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Performance Space 122
Alternately sexy, confounding, and dark-humored, this 2-part evening of dance explores expressions of love & loss, heightened sensation, and the illusion...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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....
Rugs and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Terminal 5
The Script are an Irish trio whose music boasts the kind of artful twists sure to turn all preconceptions on their...
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Widely renowned as a pioneer of conceptual art, American artist John Baldessari (b. 1931, National City, California) is one of the...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ Public Art Fund
TOTAL RECALL features five new large-scale sculpture commissions by New York-based artists Martin Basher, Zipora Fried, Sam Moyer, Matt Sheridan Smith,...
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 92YTribeca
Examine the art of the short story as you write your own. Look at the snappy beginnings, unique voices, sharp turns...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Thursday 11/ 4 @ 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...
