Events on Friday, March 26
The Rise and Fall of Nina Simone: Montreux, 1976
Friday 3/26 @ 92YTribeca
The High Priestess of Soul was an otherworldly talent, capable of both astral highs and ah-that-Simone lows. This documentary gets up...
Gallery Talk—The Drawings of Bronzino
Friday 3/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition The Drawings of Bronzino, on view through April 18, includes nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to,...
Friday 3/26 @ 92YTribeca
A Teen Witch sing-along? Top that! As a tribute to the recently departed Zelda Rubinstein (Poltergeist) we present this fantasy-comedy of...
Julia Greenberg Sings Dory Previn, David Driver Sings Scott Walker
Friday 3/26 @ 92YTribeca
These two artists, Julia Greenberg and David Driver, each respectively known - Greenberg as an NYC-based songwriter, performer and theatre composer...
Friday 3/26 @ Asia Society and Museum
As a part of the "China's Past Present, Future on Film" series, this film takes place along a sleepy Hunan riverside;...
Crooked Discos with DJ Morsy and DJ Kestar
Friday 3/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its new...
Friday 3/26 @ The Bowery Ballroom
A celebrated, international touring act for over four years, Perpetual Groove has built a reputation on intense, emotional music that fans...
Mike Geffner: The Inspired Word-Night of Stars
Friday 3/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Please join us for what promises to be an amazing night of passionate words. Continuing our twice-a-month series, we're excited to...
Friday 3/26 @ The Bowery Presents
Performing with Toro Y Moi, The Ruby Suns combine psychedelic indie pop with world music influences, drawing inspiration from the travels...
Luis Bonilla Quintet at the RMA
Friday 3/26 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Luis Bonilla, trombone; Ivan Renta, saxophone; Bruce Barth, piano; Andy McKee, bass; Henry Cole, drums. The California raised, Costa Rican trombonist,...
Friday 3/26 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
A large portion of the people involved in the “creative” side of the music business spend their entire career dedicated to...
The New Standards and The Sharp Things
Friday 3/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The New Standards are John Munson (of Trip Shakespear and multi-platinum Semisonic) on bass, Chan Poling (founder of the seminal 80's...
The Review Panel with David Cohen
Friday 3/26 @ National Academy Museum
Join moderator David Cohen for his monthly series “The Review Panel,” a forum where he and three distinguished critics gather at...
Friday 3/26 @ Rubin Museum of Art
A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven) playing at the Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum tonight! No, no,...
SPOON @ Radio City Music Hall!
Friday 3/26 @ The Bowery Presents
Performing with Deerhunter / The Strange Boys Hailing from Austin, TX, Spoon originated in 1994 as a collaboration between Britt Daniel...
A Proposition by Rodney McMillian: 13 unrelated ideas
Friday 3/26 @ New Museum
Rodney McMillian presents 13 unrelated ideas:
How does performance function in each of the vignettes presented (Bobby Womack, Jada Fire,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Various locations
Twenty years ago, this venerable series included Days of Being Wild in its round up of new films by...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ Landmark Sunshine
This is the second Neil Young film by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense). It captures...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Friday 3/26 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Friday 3/26 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Film Forum
Forget Iran: Abbas Kiarostami is simply one of the world's superlative auteurs. And Close-Up, which the Tehran-born filmmaker made in between...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Sonja Frisell's opulent staging of Aida is the perfect anecdote for those growing weary of the Met's minimalist new productions. Giuseppe...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Angelika Film Center
Between grief and nothing, widower and father-of-two Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) chooses grief — a perfectly Gothic response in Irish dramatist...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Muslim Voices: The Female Perspective
Friday 3/26 @ BAM
This sequel to last year’s Muslim Voices series explores the female perspective in the Muslim world. Films include the astonishing documentary...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 3/26 @ 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,...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ 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....
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Friday 3/26 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Friday 3/26 @ 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,...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Harkness Dance Festival: Molissa Fenley and Friends
Friday 3/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join Molissa Fenley and a sparkling array of her colleagues for performances featuring works by Paz Tanjuaquio, Nora Chipaumire and Penny...
Friday 3/26 @ 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
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 3/26 @ 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,...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Weekly sing-a-long featuring Lloyd Miller of the Deedle Deedle Dees
Friday 3/26 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Click on "Classes & Sing-a-longs" at http://www.thedeedledeedledees.com for more info.
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Friday 3/26 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
