Events on Wednesday, March 24
A Literary Mixtape: Stories Inspired by Music with special guest LAURIE ANDERSON
Wednesday 3/24 @ Symphony Space
Symphony Space's legion literary series now trains its expert ear on the inherent musicality of the written word. A Literary Mixtape...
The Silhouette World of Béatrice Coron
Wednesday 3/24 @ French Institute Alliance Francaise
FIAF says: Meet acclaimed French artist Béatrice Coron, who will talk about the silhouette worlds she invents, cutting them into existence...
Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia with Art21
Wednesday 3/24 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca and Art21 present a trivia event inspired by contemporary art and the culture of our time. In the spirit of...
Cinema Soiree: Benefit for Outdoor Cinema 2010
Wednesday 3/24 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Join our friends from Socrates Scultpure Park at Fontana's Bar for a rockin' party to benefit the 2010 season of Outdoor...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Irish/English duo VNV Nation have persistently leaped from strength to strength over the last few years, emerging as a powerhouse in...
Michael Sackler-Berner w/ Owen Beverly / Mayaeni
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Mercury Lounge
Michael Sackler-Berner is a songwriter, performing musician and recording artist. He is currently living in New York City collaborating with other...
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Bowery Presents
Groove Armada's newest effort, Black Light, includes more traditional and darker song structures than some of their ready-for-the-ravers previous work. The...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Legendary cult heroes Elysian Fields have always travelled in mysterious waters. Led by the enigmatic New York co-composers Jennifer Charles (vocals)...
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Mercury Lounge
Oh No Ono is an experimental pop quintet from the tiny Danish town of Aalborg. Their music, intricate and otherworldly, defies...
LIVE from the NYPL presents A Tribute to GEORGE CARLIN hosted by WHOOPI GOLDBERG
Wednesday 3/24 @ LIVE from the NYPL
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
George Carlin is remembered for his unique and quintessentially New York voice, his...
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Box Elders Your parents and teachers and sandwich-shop supervisors look at you and think, “What happened to the kid?...
Iannis Xenakis Documentaries - Part I and II
Wednesday 3/24 @ 92YTribeca
Four documentaries about avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis, in collaboration with The Drawing Center, for their exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary,...
Ongoing Events
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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."...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Wednesday 3/24 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Various locations
Twenty years ago, this venerable series included Days of Being Wild in its round up of new films by...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ Metropolitan Opera House
If there's a Shakespeare character who was born to sing, it's got to be Hamlet. Between his father's murder, mother's shacking...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Wednesday 3/24 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ Landmark Sunshine
This is the second Neil Young film by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense). It captures...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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...
A Voluminous Evening of Brevity
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Red Room
It's too bad that Dysfunctional's enjoyable Voluminous Evening is so brief. The one-acters by F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Butler Yeats, Edna St....
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Wednesday 3/24 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ St. James Theater
Full-throttle punk (or Green Day's poppy spin on the genre) surges through the Great White Way in American Idiot, the Broadway...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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...
That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!
Wednesday 3/24 @ BAM
The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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,...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Asia Society and Museum
Asia Week New York is the city's largest and most diverse series of cultural events focusing on Asian art from India,...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Wednesday 3/24 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Wednesday 3/24 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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...
AsiaStore SALE Event: Scholars' Rocks
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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....
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
