Events on Tuesday, March 30
Flying Lotus w/ Kode9 and Nosaj Thing
Tuesday 3/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
For those who missed Flying Lotus' mind-blowing performance for the Wordless Music series back in 2008, here's your chance at redemption....
Micachu & the Shapes w/ Tanlines
Tuesday 3/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
We dig Micachu, but we're head over heels for Brooklyn duo Tanlines. Since catching their opening set for Phenomenal Handclap Band...
Doug Keith w/ Doug Gillard (of Guided By Voices) / We The Living
Tuesday 3/30 @ The Mercury Lounge
Doug Keith, an exceptional artist and performer, is set to release his new full-length, The Lucky Ones, in March 30, 2010....
Punch Up Your Life: Comedy hosted by Pete Holmes and friends
Tuesday 3/30 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Tuesday 3/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Savage Ballet sounds like, but is no way limited to, the music of Sven Weisemann, Warren Ellis, Portico Quartet, Redhooker, SBTRKT,...
She & Him w/ The Chapin Sisters
Tuesday 3/30 @ The Bowery Ballroom
She & Him made their debut record as a love letter to the musicians who inspired it. Volume One introduces a...
Tuesday 3/30 @ The Bowery Presents
At a recent Jaguar Love show, according to their guitarist, Cody Votolato, two fans were less than impressed with their originality....
Tuesday 3/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Savage Ballet sounds like, but is no way limited to, the music of Sven Weisemann, Warren Ellis, Portico Quartet, Redhooker, SBTRKT,...
Tuesday 3/30 @ The Bowery Presents
Performing with A Place to Bury Strangers; this London duo use gritty beats, droning guitars, abstract effects and dreamy vocals to...
Tuesday 3/30 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Lucero’s sixth studio album and major label debut, 1372 Overton Park, is due October 6 on Universal/Republic Records. Produced by Ted...
Tuesday 3/30 @ Joe's Pub
Julia Haltigan grew up in New York City off the Bowery in the 1980s. As an only child born into a...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 3/30 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 3/30 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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
Tuesday 3/30 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Tuesday 3/30 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Tuesday 3/30 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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
Tuesday 3/30 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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...
A Voluminous Evening of Brevity
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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....
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ Various locations
Twenty years ago, this venerable series included Days of Being Wild in its round up of new films by...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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,...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Tuesday 3/30 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
LOST: The Final Season - A weekly therapy session
Tuesday 3/30 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
For season six, Previously on Lost will host weekly gatherings at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn including show screenings, recap performances...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Muslim Voices: The Female Perspective
Tuesday 3/30 @ BAM
This sequel to last year’s Muslim Voices series explores the female perspective in the Muslim world. Films include the astonishing documentary...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Spring Session Art Studio for Teens: Plants and Animals of the Himalayas In this week-long intensive program we will explore...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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,...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Tuesday 3/30 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Tuesday 3/30 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rick Riordan, author of the best-selling series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, talks with curator Seán Hemingway about what inspired him...
Tuesday 3/30 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Co-produced by Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are), and featuring the voices of Meryl Streep and Forest Whitaker, Higglety Pigglety...
Tuesday 3/30 @ 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 3/30 @ 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...
