Events on Thursday, March 25
Public Enemy and LL Cool J Live In Europe & Big Fun In The Big Town
Thursday 3/25 @ Maysles Cinema
Maysles Cinema says:
Curated with Andreas Vingaard **Final night of the “Under The Influence Of Ego Trip”...
Thursday 3/25 @ Good Units
This year's Twestival theme is "Recess" and it's a fitting one given the night's educational, do-good focus. Tonight, hundreds of cities...
John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders
Thursday 3/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
John Wesley Harding (né Wesley Stace) has once again assembled a few friends — including comedian Eugene Mirman, writer Sarah Vowell,...
Modern Ruins, Urban Archaeology, and the Post-Industrial Sublime
Thursday 3/25 @ Observatory
Ruins can be eerily picturesque. After all, they are ghostly, outsize reminders of industry and inhabitation by those long gone. Tonight...
Thursday 3/25 @ Symphony Space
Symphony Space says: Screen and Scores is a special collaboration between Bachanalia (Nina Beilina, Music Director / Founder) and Dmitry Trakovsky,...
Thursday 3/25 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Rabbi Joyce Reinitz
Throughout the ages, women have gathered with one another...
Little Dragon w/ VV Brown / Oh No Oh
Thursday 3/25 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Featuring radiant vocalist Yukimi Nagano and her close high school friends Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrick Källgren (bass) and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards),...
Comedy Below Canal™ Presents Match Game Live!
Thursday 3/25 @ 92YTribeca
With Michael Musto (The Village Voice), Jessica Delfino ("I Wanna Be Famous"), Ben Lerman (Logo, HereTV) and many more!
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Lou Dobbs in Conversation with Jeff Greenfield
Thursday 3/25 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join 92Y for an evening of conversation you don't want to miss as Lou Dobbs, leading radio talk show host and...
St. Mannequins & Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Thursday 3/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
This intimate, acoustic show with the St. Mannequins and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is presented by members of NYU's Music Business...
Thursday 3/25 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Second set to follow New album ‘If I had a Hifi’ only available at shows . Nada Surf bring...
The Nine Billion Names of God: Conversation of Stars and Symbols
Thursday 3/25 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Ami Ronnberg, MA
Are the stars fading in a space that seems...
The Enchanted Word (Palavra (En)cantada)
Thursday 3/25 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Cinema Tropical's Music + Film Series – Focus on Brazil “Popular music is a vehicle for...
Thursday 3/25 @ The Mercury Lounge
Kashmir is a Danish rock band formed 1991 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. Originally called Nirvana, the band quickly changed its name to...
Rare Books Seminar for Volunteers and Customers
Thursday 3/25 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Nancy Cooper recently celebrated her tenth anniversary as an employee of the Housing Works Bookstore Café, where she is the resident...
Thursday 3/25 @ The Mercury Lounge
Defying its humble beginnings as the lo-fi solo project of Icelandic singer/multi-instrumentalist Sindri Már Sigfússon, Seabear morphed into a rambling experimental/indie/folk...
Thursday 3/25 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Figurative painter Elizabeth Peyton creates stylized yet intimate portraits of her friends, rock stars and celebrities that speak directly to the...
RISK! DILEMMAS: Really Hard Choices?
Thursday 3/25 @ 92YTribeca
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RISK! is a show where people tell true stories they never thought they’d
Ongoing Events
Thursday 3/25 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ Various locations
Twenty years ago, this venerable series included Days of Being Wild in its round up of new films by...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Thursday 3/25 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Thursday 3/25 @ Landmark Sunshine
This is the second Neil Young film by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense). It captures...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Thursday 3/25 @ 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
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 3/25 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Thursday 3/25 @ 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
Thursday 3/25 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Thursday 3/25 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the...
Thursday 3/25 @ The Duke Theater
Legendary theatere director Peter Brook's Love Is My Sin is an English major's dream come true: an understated staging of Shakespeare's...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Thursday 3/25 @ St. Mark's Church
Postmodern dance legend Deborah Hay was a founding member of the radical Judson Dance Theater, and her 45-year choreographic career has...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!
Thursday 3/25 @ BAM
The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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....
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Thursday 3/25 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 3/25 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Thursday 3/25 @ 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,...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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,...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 3/25 @ 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
Thursday 3/25 @ 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
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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 Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Thursday 3/25 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
AsiaStore SALE Event: Scholars' Rocks
Thursday 3/25 @ 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...
