Events on Friday, March 12
William Kentridge in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
Friday 3/12 @ LIVE from the NYPL
With either an exhibit or a performance at two of the most classically prominent art museums in Manhattan, it does...
Friday 3/12 @ Joe's Pub
This Brooklyn-based band combines Latin beats with a tinge of jazz and rootsy folk. Singers Allyssa Lamb and Emily Hurst formed...
The Magnetic Fields @ Town Hall - 3rd and final night!
Friday 3/12 @ The Bowery Presents
Known for his distinctive baritone voice, Stephin Merritt created The Magnetic Fields as his principle creative outlet. Between his songwriting abilities...
Foreign Born w/ Free Energy and CLOVERS(formerly Other Girls)
Friday 3/12 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Tragedy : All Metal Tribute To The Bee Gees
Friday 3/12 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Tragedy is the No. 1 Heavy Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees in the Tri-State Area, New England, the United Kingdom,...
Get Weird: Maher Shalal Hash Baz + dogr
Friday 3/12 @ New Museum
The Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet
Friday 3/12 @ BAM
Part of BAMcafé Live
Paquito D'Rivera: Reflections of a Man Facing South
Friday 3/12 @ Symphony Space
A magical night of classical and jazz interpretations of Spanish, South American, Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Caribbean music as legendary jazz clarinetist D'Rivera...
Friday 3/12 @ Symphony Space
Featuring pianists Michael Boriskin, Tanya Bannister, Rorianne Schrade, Soyeon Lee, and Judith Gordon; mezzo-soprano Krista River; tenor Robert Swensen; soprano Sarah...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 3/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
DJ Cosi gets down not just...
Friday 3/12 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Foreign Born plus Free Energy, CLOVERS (formerly known as Other Girls) One can't help but imagine this was the mood...
Shababa Family Shabbat Dinners with Karina
Friday 3/12 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Enjoy an intergenerational family Shabbat dinner experience in a meaningful and welcoming environment. Free for children younger than two.
Alim and Fargana Qasimov: Spiritual Music from the World of Islam
Friday 3/12 @ Asia Society and Museum
Alim Qasimov, Azerbaijan's best-known and most beloved singer, and his daughter Fargana Qasimov bring a charged charisma and transcendent vocal quality...
Romeo and Juliet : tonight at the Rubin
Friday 3/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, screening tonight at the Rubin Museum. Come early for drinks and appetizers at...
Friday 3/12 @ Asia Society and Museum
Add a dash of culture to your networking. On the second Friday of each month, join fellow Asian and Asian American...
Friday 3/12 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The Bitters Woods is an acid/strange/psych folk rock band based out of Brooklyn, New York. Members include Jeremy Earl, Jarvis Taveniere,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Eastern District
Eastern District's group show East Williamsburg addresses that nasty "g word" ("gentrification") with new works by prominent street artists BANK$Y (neé...
Friday 3/12 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ Various locations
Kick off your celebration of St. Patrick's Day a weekend early with this fest devoted to the arts of the fighting...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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,...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Film Forum
With Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz to his name, the debonair, ever-versatile Victor Fleming should be more heralded....
Friday 3/12 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Radiohole: Whatever, Heaven Allows
Friday 3/12 @ Performance Space 122
A limited number of $1.22 tickets are available
Friday 3/12 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Friday 3/12 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ St. Luke’s Theatre (308 West 46th Street)
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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Friday 3/12 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010
Friday 3/12 @ Various
This popular fest has a reputation of bringing the best of French cinema to our urban backyards. This year's many highlights...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Friday 3/12 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Friday 3/12 @ The Greene Space (160 Varick, 646.829.4400)
Mike Daisey is known for his Spalding Grey-style tour de force monologues that recall personal experiences in a social and historical...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Harkness Dance Festival: Doug Varone Presents
Friday 3/12 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Immensely talented choreographer Doug Varone shines the spotlight on three of his former dancers who have made a great impact on...
Friday 3/12 @ 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."...
That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!
Friday 3/12 @ BAM
The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up...
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Anthology Film Archives
The film leg of our city's all-out, month-long tribute to Marguerite Duras salutes her radical directorial career. While that means sorry...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Friday 3/12 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Landmark Sunshine
The pains of being pure at heart are many in Bradley Rust Gray's The Exploding Girl, a moody, osmotic character study that...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Friday 3/12 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
Friday 3/12 @ 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....
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Each week a new excerpt from famed playwright Jean Claude van Itallie's poetic adaptation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night, beginning at 6:00 p.m., the Rubin Museum of Art’s colonnade transforms into the K2 Lounge, complete with a...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Friday 3/12 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Friday 3/12 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Weekly sing-a-long featuring Lloyd Miller of the Deedle Deedle Dees
Friday 3/12 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Click on "Classes & Sing-a-longs" at http://www.thedeedledeedledees.com for more info.
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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....
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 3/12 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night from 7-10pm, the Rubin Museum is free to everyone. Have a drink with friends in the K2 Lounge,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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.
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Friday 3/12 @ 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
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Braid your challah and take it home to bake! PLUS, decorate cookies and color your very own reusable Shababa Bakery tote...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport
Friday 3/12 @ Performance Space 122
Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
