Events on Friday, March 5
Friday 3/ 5 @ 238 Mulberry St (btwn Spring and Prince)
This Friday, Williamsburg party impresario and former Chief Mag editor Andy Smith fills this central downtown space with the potential for...
Naked Girls Reading Science Fiction
Friday 3/ 5 @ Madame X (94 West Houston St, 212.539.0808)
Pinchbottom Burlesque hosts this evening of er... unconventional readings. Aptly named Naked Librarian, mysterious Madame Rosebud, and co-creator Nasty Canasta each...
Muse w/ Silversun Pickups @ Madison Square Garden
Friday 3/ 5 @ The Bowery Presents
Imagine a night at Madison Square Garden not accompanied by rampant male-pattern baldness or the Jonas Brothers. It's nice to see...
Friday 3/ 5 @ NYU Warren Weaver Hall
In an age of Creative Commons, Girl Talk, and hundreds of other DJs, hot-button doc Copyright Criminals examines the rights of...
Friday 3/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Soulive - 10 nights @ Brooklyn Bowl! 10th Anniversary Celebration
Friday 3/ 5 @ The Bowery Presents
March 2009 marks Soulive’s 10th Anniversary – ten years since Eric Krasno, Alan Evans and his brother Neal Evans got together...
Friday 3/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Friday 3/ 5 @ National Academy Museum
Take a tour of the current exhibition, The 185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art.
An evening with Jeanine Tesori at Lincoln Center
Friday 3/ 5 @ Lincoln Center
A surprising line-up of guest artists puts a new spin on the work of Jeanine Tesori, the imaginative composer behind Thoroughly...
Friday 3/ 5 @ The Mercury Lounge
Think modern, indie-inspired sounds, mixed with 60's pop and Beach Boys-ish harmonies. Throw in an energized live performance and you have...
Friday 3/ 5 @ Asia Society and Museum
NYC's hottest happy hour! Asia Circle, the Society's young patrons group, hosts a cocktail evening. Reunite with friends, network with members...
Friday 3/ 5 @ BAM
Friday 3/ 5 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Joe Pug With Justin Townes Earle’s pedigree come mixed blessings. As the son of legendary singer/songwriter Steve Earle, high...
A Fortunate Age Party with Joanna Smith Rakoff, M Shanghai String Band, and the Story Pirates
Friday 3/ 5 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Friday 3/ 5 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Siri Hustvedt + Hans Breiter 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Price: $15.00 Member Price: $13.50 The novelist Siri Hustvedt enagages the...
Friday 3/ 5 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
One part theatrical pop, one part post-punk revival, New York's electro-rock outfit Heloise & the Savior Faire are fronted by charismatic...
Milk and Jade CD release show by Dana Leong
Friday 3/ 5 @ Symphony Space
Cross-over artist Dana Leong (cello/trombone/laptop) is joined by Aviv Cohen (drums), Adam Platt (keyboards) and Core Rhythm (MC/rap vocals) in an...
Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: European Sculpture, Tapestry, Period Rooms, and Furniture
Friday 3/ 5 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of European sculpture, tapestry, period rooms, and furniture! This Friday evening come and take...
Tonight at the RMA! - It Came from Outer Space
Friday 3/ 5 @ Rubin Museum of Art
FREE with $7 bar purchase 1953, Jack Arnold, U.S., 81 minutes Based on an original screen treatment by Ray...
Friday 3/ 5 @ Rubin Museum of Art
February 26, 2010 - April 2, 2010 Every Week @ 8:00 PM Each month, members of The Dharma Players will perform...
Diamonds, Teeth and Yarn: Shara Worden Guest Curator Spotlight
Friday 3/ 5 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is thrilled to have Shara Worden - (aka My Brightest Diamond) as our...
Vinicio Capossela w/ Marc Ribot & Frank London
Friday 3/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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,...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ World Financial Center
Caramoor Jazz Fest producer Jim Luce brings a whopping 200 hours of Chopin to the spacious, palm tree-filled digs of the...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Under St. Marks
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Radiohole: Whatever, Heaven Allows
Friday 3/ 5 @ Performance Space 122
A limited number of $1.22 tickets are available
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Since Peter Gelb took over as general manager four years ago, the Met has been redefining opera with visually charged productions...
Friday 3/ 5 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Yet another bang-up tribute to our metropolis, this time with an Oscar leitmotif. The seventies is thoroughly represented with landmark titles...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Book editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir. It's appropriate, then, that Karen Finley begins The Jackie Look with a...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Disenchanted with what he saw as the limits of visual art, Limón immersed himself in movement, honing his craft under Doris...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Friday 3/ 5 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss
Friday 3/ 5 @ Film Forum
Leni may be more famed, but this well-made documentary reminds that Veit Harlan was equally instrumental to the Nazi's achtung propaganda....
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 5 @ Comix
Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac can keep a straight face with the best of them, even as he spins satiric yarns...
Friday 3/ 5 @ Anthology Film Archives
The tale of Bluebeard — the most notorious interpreter of that sacred, 'til-death-do-apart phrase — has long been a favorite for...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Various locations
Back in their respective days, Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959) and The Lover (1984) caused quite a scandal for author Marguerite Duras, who may or may...
Friday 3/ 5 @ Under St. Marks
Alex Bond's reading of selections from her fictionalized memoir, Late Nights with the Boys, is as funny as it is surprising....
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Linda Gross Theater
Sam Shepard's new one-act two-hander flows effortlessly and ends too quickly, humorously highlighting the fleeting nature of life. After being thrown...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAM screens a handful of international releases on the heels of their world premieres at the venerable Rotterdam Festival. Don't miss...
Friday 3/ 5 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 3/ 5 @ Theater for the New City
Veteran playwright and actor Charles Busch aims his flamboyant and acerbic wit at the cinematic depiction of convent life in this...
Friday 3/ 5 @ Film Forum
With Gone With the Wind and Wizard of Oz to his name, the debonair, ever-versatile Victor Fleming should be more heralded....
Friday 3/ 5 @ American Folk Art Museum
A prolific 19th-century painter who was once considered "America's first modern" for his prepossessing, flat-color land- and seascapes, Thomas Chambers is...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Friday 3/ 5 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
The full title of Susanna Centlivre's Restoration comedy is The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret! Director Rebecca Patterson's adaptation shortens...
Friday 3/ 5 @ BAM
On May 30 of last year, Brooklyn-based artist Penelope Umbrico keyed "sunset" into Flickr's search engine and received 5,537,594 matches. The...
Friday 3/ 5 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ IFC Center
The Triplets of Belleville producers team up to bring this fantastical tale to the big screen. Tomm Moore's adventurous hand-drawn feature...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Friday 3/ 5 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Tom Murrin: The Talking Show (The Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic)
Friday 3/ 5 @ Performance Space 122
Fairy godfather of downtown performance Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life - and...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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....
iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport
Friday 3/ 5 @ Performance Space 122
Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March...
koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO: Blocks of Continuality/Body, image, and Algorithm
Friday 3/ 5 @ New York Live Arts
”Koosil-ja doesn't demonstrate artificial feats, she shows dance as a search that is alive, as a repetition of the 'never same'…”...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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,...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Friday 3/ 5 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Since José Limón's first performance at 92Y in 1936, the Limon tradition at 92Y has remained strong. Join us as we...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
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