Events on Tuesday, March 16
Navigating Cosmetic Counters in Pursuit of Perfect Skin
Tuesday 3/16 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Wendy Lewis, Elaine Linker and Neil Sadick, MD, FAAD
Making informed choices...
Peter Evans Quintet featuring Craig Taborn @ LPR
Tuesday 3/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Peter Evans has been a member of the New York musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after...
Tuesday 3/16 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Peculiar Gentlemen plus Low Water, The Gang Violets Through clever lyrics, infectious rhythm, old-school soul and an extraordinary sense of...
Punch Up Your Life: Comedy hosted by Pete Holmes and friends
Tuesday 3/16 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Navigating Cosmetic Counters in Pursuit of Perfect Skin
Tuesday 3/16 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Wendy Lewis, Elaine Linker and Neil Sadick, MD, FAAD
Making informed choices...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Thane Rosenbaum, moderater
Cultural icon Matisyahu, whose blend of Hasidic, reggae and...
Punch Up Your Life: Comedy hosted by Pete Holmes and friends
Tuesday 3/16 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE): "On and Off the Page" 2010 (Le) Poisson Rouge Residency
Tuesday 3/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 3/16 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are musicians on a mission… dedicated to turning pop technicolour, making funk get down with folk and...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Marielle Heller adapts and stars in this raw and powerful take on Phoebe Gloeckner's autobiographical graphic novel. Diary centers on 15-year-old...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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."...
Tuesday 3/16 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Tuesday 3/16 @ Film Forum
With Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz to his name, the debonair, ever-versatile Victor Fleming should be more heralded....
Tuesday 3/16 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Tuesday 3/16 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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,...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Tuesday 3/16 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 3/16 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Tuesday 3/16 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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
Tuesday 3/16 @ Various
This popular fest has a reputation of bringing the best of French cinema to our urban backyards. This year's many highlights...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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,...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Tuesday 3/16 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Tuesday 3/16 @ Exit Art
Like a goodwill ambassador, Mary Mattingly's floating habitat the Waterpod Project spent five months on New York's highly toxic seas, touring...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Tuesday 3/16 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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....
Tuesday 3/16 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!
Tuesday 3/16 @ BAM
The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up...
LOST: The Final Season - A weekly therapy session
Tuesday 3/16 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
For season six, Previously on Lost will host weekly gatherings at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn including show screenings, recap performances...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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 “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Tuesday 3/16 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Getting the Job You Really Want
Tuesday 3/16 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Barry Cohen
Job hunting is the worst job of all. Let career...
iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport
Tuesday 3/16 @ Performance Space 122
Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Tuesday 3/16 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is one of the finest college or university collections in...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Buried near his tomb in around 1327 B.C., remains from the mummification and funeral of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun were...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/16 @ 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...
