Events on Wednesday, March 10
Warper Party's 4 Year Anniversary Blowout
Wednesday 3/10 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
OK, this just looks ridiculously fun. Even if you aren't an insane electronic-music fan, there are enough interactive elements at this...
MEN (feat. JD Samson of Le Tigre)
Wednesday 3/10 @ The Mercury Lounge
MEN is the art collective originally founded by two members of the band Le Tigre. Now it functions as a combination...
An Evening with Bernhard Schlink
Wednesday 3/10 @ Symphony Space
Beginning with detective novels, Bernhard Schlink has made a literary career exploring the runaround with unearthing the truth, culminating in his...
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Wednesday 3/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Since his self-titled debut album in 2008, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson has been churning out albums and touring across the country,...
Channel 101: NY Monthly Screening
Wednesday 3/10 @ 92YTribeca
At Channel 101, the destiny of TV entertainment is in your hands! During this monthly screening, new five-minute shows from the...
The Pacific (HBO) - Members Only
Wednesday 3/10 @ Asia Society and Museum
Members-only premiere screening of the first part of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. The Pacific tracks the intertwined real-life stories of...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Yu Chen, MD, PhD
Dr. Yu Chen recaps Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's...
Wednesday 3/10 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Known as Los Angeles' "Ambassador of Boogie Funk," Dãm-Funk represents the citizens of the Funkmosphere. Headquartered in the Leimert Park section...
Richard Holmes in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
Wednesday 3/10 @ LIVE from the NYPL
The next conversation in Paul Holdengräber's series is will Richard Holmes, the author of The Age of Wonder. In The Age...
April Smith & the Great Picture Show
Wednesday 3/10 @ The Mercury Lounge
April Smith & The Great Picture Show will self-release Songs For A Sinking Ship on February 23, 2010. Smith and her...
Love, Hate and the Israel Debate
Wednesday 3/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Daniel Sokatch, Shifra Bronznick, Wayne Firestone and Margie Klein
Join a provocative...
How to Really Make It in Voiceovers
Wednesday 3/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Rob Sciglimpaglia
With such talents as James Earl Jones and Linda Hunt...
The Moth StorySLAM! Theme: Rules
Wednesday 3/10 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner.
Karl Rove on Courage and Controversy
Wednesday 3/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Gloria Borger interviews. A booksigning will follow the event.
The former White...
Rósa Gudmundsdóttir & the UltraTight w/ Vanessa Anderson
Wednesday 3/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Rósa is a product of extremes and contrasts… fiery and icey landscapes, eastern and western cultures, classical and pop musical influences,...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Wednesday 3/10 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 3/10 @ Various locations
Back in their respective days, Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959) and The Lover (1984) caused quite a scandal for author Marguerite Duras, who may or may...
Wednesday 3/10 @ Metropolitan Opera House
It's easy to see why Giacomo Puccini's popular opera has endured the test of time and become a staple of practically...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Wednesday 3/10 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Wednesday 3/10 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Wednesday 3/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Belles Heures (1405-1408/9) of Jean de Berry is one of the most...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
The full title of Susanna Centlivre's Restoration comedy is The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret! Director Rebecca Patterson's adaptation shortens...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ The Flea Theater
Henri Murger's 1849 novel Scenes De La Boheme is a bountiful source for inspiration. Among the better-known adaptations are the Lillian...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Wednesday 3/10 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Wednesday 3/10 @ Film Forum
With Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz to his name, the debonair, ever-versatile Victor Fleming should be more heralded....
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/10 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
North Atlantic is experimental theater ensemble The Wooster Group’s decidedly downtown answer to the ever-lush musical South Pacific: think of a...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/10 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Legendary British drag rabble-rouser Bette Bourne has 70 years worth of biographical finery to parade about the stage and the skilled...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ Guggenheim Museum
It's been eight-plus decades since the six arresting paintings in this exhibition have been shown together. Their emphatic use of color...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin's annual festival for the inquisitive brings together artists, scientists, and even a Tibetan lama to explore the ways of...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/10 @ IFC Center
The Triplets of Belleville producers team up to bring this fantastical tale to the big screen. Tomm Moore's adventurous hand-drawn feature...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Wednesday 3/10 @ New York City Center
Bill Cain's fascinating new play gives us a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of Shakespeare and his acting company, the King's...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Fierce and Fabulous: Anne Bancroft
Wednesday 3/10 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center sings here's to you Anne Bancroft with this best-of look at her lauded career. Otherwise confused for Mrs. Robinson,...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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."...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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 3/10 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Wednesday 3/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
South African artist William Kentridge paints stark images of apartheid, colonialism, and totalitarianism. Through a wash of pastel and charcoal, he...
Wednesday 3/10 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Wednesday 3/10 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
Wednesday 3/10 @ Film Forum
Leni may be more famed, but this well-made documentary reminds that Veit Harlan was equally instrumental to the Nazi's achtung propaganda....
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Wednesday 3/10 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 3/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Ian Wardropper discusses the Met’s recent acquisition of its first work by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783), the Austrian sculptor best...
Wednesday 3/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Come see photographer Tom Wool's awe-inspiring black and white images of life in the Rongbuk Valley. Wool's sensitive images capture the...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Wednesday 3/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach talks to composer Bruce Adolphe about how he translated the art and ideas of Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572)—whose...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Wednesday 3/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Your ticket to two-for-one admission to the Rubin Museum and six other NYC museum gems. Print it, cut it, and keep...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Wednesday 3/10 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 3/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In this fascinating exhibition, the Tibetan Buddhist belief that death provides an important opportunity for spiritual enlightenment is explored. Upon the...
Wednesday 3/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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....
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Wednesday 3/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 1860s and 1870s, long before collage techniques were being used by avant–garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Wednesday 3/10 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Wednesday 3/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon provides an opportunity for the unprecedented loan of the alabaster mourner figures...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Wednesday 3/10 @ Asia Society and Museum
Presented for the first time to U.S. audiences, this remarkable exhibition brings together more than one hundred extraordinary objects from ten...
iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport
Wednesday 3/10 @ Performance Space 122
Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March...
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 3/10 @ 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...
