Events on Friday, March 19
Friday 3/19 @ Highline Ballroom
Portugal. The Man's recorded output is well-constructed and entertaining, but nothing compares to the combination of bluesy riffs and psychedelic freakouts...
Friday 3/19 @ Peter Jay Sharpe Theater, Symphony Space
Tonight, a bodacious dozen try to become the top pole dancer in the land of the free. Yes, stereotypes abound. But,...
Noshes and Nibbles in the West Village and SoHo
Friday 3/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Taste delectable artisan treats, fresh mozzarella, sublime chocolate, Sicilian rice balls and homemade cannoli. End the tour with a glass of...
Friday 3/19 @ BAM
Friday 3/19 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Expect to see—and hear—a lot more of the Wood Brothers this year, on tour and on Loaded. And count on being...
Stay-At-Homes & Cheap Trick Or Treat @ (le) poisson rouge
Friday 3/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Stay-at-Homes were Born to be Bad—and they’ll rock you all night! The only Runaways cover band, these Queens of Noise...
Interactive Seminar—European and American Period Rooms
Friday 3/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of European and American period rooms! This Friday evening come and take part in...
Friday 3/19 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Oneida plus Sightings, The Library Is On Fire, Spreaders, DJ Dr. Z pHd...
Friday 3/19 @ New Museum
Goldin+Senneby are Swedish artists. They are also characters in Looking for Headless, a detective story involving a murder (by decaptation, of...
Friday 3/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Shababa Bakery: Squish, roll and braid your very own challah and take it home to bake. While braiding and singing with...
Friday 3/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Jodie Foster plays the lead in this cinematic envisioning of Carl Sagan's novel. See it for free with a $7 purchase...
Friday 3/19 @ Terminal 5
Air is two musicians (Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin) who are typically French yet altogether worldly. Many of France’s best musicians...
Friday 3/19 @ National Academy Museum
Take a tour of the current exhibition, The 185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art.
UNCHAINED – Tribute to DLR Era Van Halen
Friday 3/19 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
More Bands Will Appear As Well!
Jolie Holland, Rain Machine (Kyp Malone of TV On The Radio)
Friday 3/19 @ 92YTribeca
"Jolie Holland has been called one of America's finest musical poets. Her words find communion with her music, with roots in...
Swing with some jazz this Friday at the Rubin Museum
Friday 3/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Harlem in the Himalayas--a musical marriage between the Rubin Museum and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem--presents Ambrose Akinmusire & Yaron...
Friday 3/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 3/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 3/19 @ The Mercury Lounge
Performing with The Bulletproof Lincolns In early 1984, well before the explosion of extended instrumental concerts, an improvisational band named INDECISION...
Friday 3/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
Part of the "China's Past, Present, Future on Film" series
Emily Tang's second feature tells the bleak stories...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ Anthology Film Archives
There are few auteurs who compare to Andrei Tarkovsky in terms of pure rapture: the Russian had an angle to transformative...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Friday 3/19 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Friday 3/19 @ 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
Friday 3/19 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Friday 3/19 @ New York City Center
Ángel Corella is celebrating 15 years with American Ballet Theatre and his new Corella Ballet Castilla y León. The forever-adorable danseur...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ Film Forum
Film Forum says: “I’m not any worse than anyone else,” protests Van Heflin’s uniformed cop Webb Garwood (“as gabby and depraved...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Friday 3/19 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Friday 3/19 @ 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
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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,...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ Various locations
This is about as close as we'd like to get to a meth lab, thanks. In honor of Breaking Bad's new...
Friday 3/19 @ BAM
All eyes have been on IFC for its curatorial excellence. This series offers a peek at the international titles that'll fill...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
Architectural Digest Home Design Show
Friday 3/19 @ Pier 94
Whether amping up a home theater or finally committing to that Airstream, anyone aiming for a little spring spruce-up should head...
Friday 3/19 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
Radiohole: Whatever, Heaven Allows
Friday 3/19 @ Performance Space 122
A limited number of $1.22 tickets are available
Friday 3/19 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010
Friday 3/19 @ Various
This popular fest has a reputation of bringing the best of French cinema to our urban backyards. This year's many highlights...
Friday 3/19 @ Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
Los Angeles painter Alex Couwenberg handles paint like a cross between an austere Minimalist and a high-end pastry chef, wielding the...
Friday 3/19 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!
Friday 3/19 @ BAM
The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up...
Friday 3/19 @ 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."...
Friday 3/19 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 3/19 @ Landmark Sunshine
This is the second Neil Young film by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense). It captures...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the...
Friday 3/19 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Friday 3/19 @ Film Forum
Film Forum says: Writer-director Gianni Di Gregorio (co-writer of Gomorrah) also stars in this charming tale of a middle-aged man...
Friday 3/19 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks
Friday 3/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Always unruly, always virtuosic, Yoshiko Chuma together with lighting designer Rie Ono, choreographer Ursula Eagly, and choreographer Jon Kinzel (who last...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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....
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Friday 3/19 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 3/19 @ 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
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks
Friday 3/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Always unruly, always virtuosic, Yoshiko Chuma together with lighting designer Rie Ono, choreographer Ursula Eagly, and choreographer Jon Kinzel (who last...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 3/19 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
AsiaStore SALE Event: Scholars' Rocks
Friday 3/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
AsiaStore presents a newly acquired collection from Kemin Hu. Experience the power of scholars' rocks or "spirit stones"—cherished by the Chinese...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Friday 3/19 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 3/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
See the eerily beautiful and grotesque images from the Tibetan Buddhist and Christian European traditions in the form of paintings, sculptures,...
Weekly sing-a-long featuring Lloyd Miller of the Deedle Deedle Dees
Friday 3/19 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Click on "Classes & Sing-a-longs" at http://www.thedeedledeedledees.com for more info.
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ New York Live Arts
“Every small act seems burned onto the space and onto your retina. A violent emotion is reduced to a single controlled...
Friday 3/19 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Friday 3/19 @ 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 Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
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danceNOW [NYC] presents nicholas leichter dance's The Whiz
Friday 3/19 @ Joe's Pub
Dancenow [NYC] presents Nicholas Leichter dance’s new The Whiz: Emerald City, the Wizard of Oz for the Obama generation, as a...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ Joe's Pub
"The brazen blonde belts out classics and pop tunes atop a piano" -- Women's Wear Daily
"Caburlesque artist Lady Rizo...
iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport
Friday 3/19 @ Performance Space 122
Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
