Events on Thursday, March 11
Simian Mobile Disco (DJ Set) w/ JDH & Dave P
Thursday 3/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
SMD began as a traveling DJ Duet, and gained fame through their remixes of other artists. Check out their newest album,...
Nightwerks - featuring Ditchdigger, Dj Pos, Clay Nyse, Rajeev Maddela and Brandon Epperson
Thursday 3/11 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
A new monthly event featuring Drum and Bass, Dubstep, Left-Field techno and IDM mashup (Dj, live PA, live musicians and visuals)...
Thursday 3/11 @ The Bowery Ballroom
YACHT is a lot of things. It’s kind of a band, but it’s mostly a genre-and-media-spanning life project founded and led...
Foreign Born / Free Energy / CLOVERS / Linfinity
Thursday 3/11 @ The Mercury Lounge
Foreign Born's sound is a dark, acoustic, psychedelic mixture of influences that range from Roy Orbison and John Lennon to the...
“Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia” (1988)
Thursday 3/11 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents this film directed by Michael Riley to accompany the special exhibition Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia, on view...
Thursday 3/11 @ The Mercury Lounge
After spending the post-collegiate summer of 2003 getting drunk at other people's weddings, Lewis Pesacov and Matt Popieluch decided it was...
Song of the Heart (Manginat Halev): Musical Tribute to Ofra Haza
Thursday 3/11 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join us for a special evening celebrating the life and music of internationally acclaimed Yemenite-Israeli singer, Ofra Haza. This program commemorates...
The Metamorphosis of Prometheus: Dreaming the Myth Onwards
Thursday 3/11 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Beth Darlington, PhD
Examine the classical myth of Prometheus in terms of...
Iran with Kyp Malone, featuring Arbouretum and War of Northern Aggression
Thursday 3/11 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Conceived in San Francisco in 1998, Iran began as the four-track bedroom-recording project of singer and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Aites. Playing most...
Thursday 3/11 @ The Bowery Presents
The Allman Brothers Band will be performing 8 shows in a row at New York City's United Palace!
John Brown’s Body / Toubab Krewe
Thursday 3/11 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
John Brown's Body is in the midst of its tenth year of performing, supporting its latest studio album, Pressure Points (Easy...
Thursday 3/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Hosted by Murray Hill w/ Immodesty Blaize , Dirty...
Thursday 3/11 @ 92YTribeca
A line-up of downtown faves hits the stage this week at Comedy Below Canal™, 92YTribeca’s acclaimed weekly comedy show. Bobby Tisdale...
You're Playing It Wrong: Creative Misuse of Musical Instruments
Thursday 3/11 @ 92YTribeca
Presented by dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity
Historical and contemporary...
Seeing Jazz With George Wein: Randy Weston
Thursday 3/11 @ Symphony Space
Only at Symphony Space! Jazz impresario George Wein (founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, and New Orleans Jazz...
RISK! UNIQUE: I'm Not Like Most People
Thursday 3/11 @ 92YTribeca
RISK! is a show where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share, live on stage, featuring some...
Ian Buruma: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
Thursday 3/11 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
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Is religion a
Thursday 3/11 @ The Bowery Presents
The Magnetic Fields are the music of songwriter- producer-instrumentalist Stephin Merritt, who lives and records in New York City. Adept at...
Thursday 3/11 @ Asia Society and Museum
Part of the "China's Past, Present, Future on Film" series Han Jie's feature debut draws on his own experiences growing up...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 3/11 @ 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
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
Thursday 3/11 @ 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....
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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...
Radiohole: Whatever, Heaven Allows
Thursday 3/11 @ Performance Space 122
A limited number of $1.22 tickets are available
Thursday 3/11 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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."...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ Film Forum
With Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz to his name, the debonair, ever-versatile Victor Fleming should be more heralded....
Thursday 3/11 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Since Peter Gelb took over as general manager four years ago, the Met has been redefining opera with visually charged productions...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Thursday 3/11 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Thursday 3/11 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Thursday 3/11 @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
When three modern-day music buffs hole up in a wintry cabin to seek warmth and wet their whistle, they find themselves...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Thursday 3/11 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010
Thursday 3/11 @ Various
This popular fest has a reputation of bringing the best of French cinema to our urban backyards. This year's many highlights...
That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!
Thursday 3/11 @ BAM
The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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
Thursday 3/11 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Fierce and Fabulous: Anne Bancroft
Thursday 3/11 @ 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,...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Thursday 3/11 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ New York Live Arts
Sahar Javedani is Artistic Director of compani javedani, a contemporary dance theater ensemble devoted to cultivating an empowered, intelligent and socially...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Thursday 3/11 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 3/11 @ 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
Thursday 3/11 @ 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
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 3/11 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 3/11 @ 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
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
A free fortnightly residency in the Knitting Factory Front Bar with vocalist/guitarist/songwriter, Kenny Chambers (Moving Targets, Stone Strangers, American Pulverizer, Dead...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 3/11 @ 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 Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Thursday 3/11 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Thursday 3/11 @ 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
Thursday 3/11 @ Performance Space 122
Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
Thursday 3/11 @ 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...
