Events on Wednesday, April 14
Wednesday 4/14 @ The New School
The Public Art Fund's Talks series is a fantastic way to get up-close and personal with renowned artists — most of...
The Low Anthem w/ Timber Timbre
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Listen to Timber Timbre and you might peg the band for natives of Louisiana swampland, True Blood territory; the sound is...
YBNY.COM Launch Party feat. The London Souls
Wednesday 4/14 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
YBNY.COM Launch Party featuring The London Souls plus Radar Fiction, Simon Boyar, Future Shuttle Praised by former Idolator editor-in-chief Maura...
Rereading Middlemarch with Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, and Margot Livesey
Wednesday 4/14 @ Symphony Space
Novelists Egan (The Keep), Hustvedt (The Sorrows of an American), and Livesey (The House on Fortune Street)--the trio that entertainingly and...
Maya Beiser (cello) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 4/14 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 04.14.10
Maya Beiser, cello
6:30pm doors | 7:30pm show
$20 All Ages ...
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Bowery Presents
After their huge success of the No #1 “Evacuate the dancefloor“ last year CASCADA now deliver the literally “hottest“ record of...
Hugo Perez: Portrait of the Cuban-American Artist as a Young New York Filmmaker
Wednesday 4/14 @ 92YTribeca
A Program of Shorts by and Conversation with Filmmaker Hugo Perez. Co-presented by the Woodstock Film Festival and the Hudson Valley...
Suphala and Friends @ (le) poisson rouge
Wednesday 4/14 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
10:00pm doors | 10:30pm show
$12 advance | $15 day of show
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
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Wednesday 4/14 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 8pm
Dave Brubeck Quartet
"The reigning elder statesman of jazz."
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Tonight: Are We Wired for Worship?
Wednesday 4/14 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Neurobiologist John Kubie sits down with Lionel Tiger, author of Men in Groups and God's Brain, to unveil the relationship between...
Monotonix w/ Th’ Legendary Shack*Shakers / Old Time Relijun @ Brooklyn Bowl
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Bowery Presents
Monotonix are singer Ami Shalev, guitarist Yonatan Gat and drummer Haggai Fershtman. They hail from Tel Aviv, a city not necessarily...
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War Is [Funny as] Hell: Stories from a Year in the Israeli Army
Wednesday 4/14 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Joel Chasnoff and Anthony Swofford / A. J. Jacobs, moderator
War is...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Wednesday 4/14 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash (534 W 26th St)
Perhaps best known in New York City for the incomparably upbeat grotesquerie of the over-sized kitty litter pan at the last...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Wednesday 4/14 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA says: Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography....
Wednesday 4/14 @ gallery hanahou
This is a somewhat depressing, but powerful show. Artist Matt Campbell has taken dozens of lovable plush toys, thrown them in...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Wednesday 4/14 @ American Folk Art Museum
Henry Darger is famous for being an outsider artist par excellence, but, with each passing year, the custodian's life in the...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Wednesday 4/14 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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."...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Music Box Theatre
A night at the opera turns into a hellishly chaotic evening in Ken Ludwig's door-slamming farce Lend Me a Tenor, receiving a...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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....
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Wednesday 4/14 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Episodes from the great Indian epic the Ramayana are among the themes most favored for Indian miniature painting. This classic of...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shortly after the Met acquired two Viennese silver wine coolers in 2002 from the Sachsen-Teschen Service, the core of the surviving...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Wednesday 4/14 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Wednesday 4/14 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
