Events on Friday, April 16
Friday 4/16 @ Public Assembly
We're already excited for summer in NYC, and Brooklyn in particular, but KnifeFight and Last Bummer Records give us another reason...
Friday 4/16 @ Asia Society and Museum
Friday 4/16 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Peforming with An Horse, Kaki King is currently recording the follow-up to 2008’s Dreaming of Revenge with producer Malcolm Burn at his...
Sonya Kitchell performs tonight
Friday 4/16 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Sonya Kitchell has delivered the goods on her new album This Storm - 12 timeless tunes that...
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Friday 4/16 @ The Bowery Presents
Formed in 1991, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion has always included drummer Russel Simins and guitar ace Judah Bauer. Taking cues...
Unisex Salon (CD Release) w/ Tina Brown with Ferrari Snowday / Killcode
Friday 4/16 @ The Mercury Lounge
Eighties to the point of excess, Unisex Salon is everything you love to love about the "Me Decade": shameless, upbeat and...
Friday 4/16 @ Asia Society and Museum
It's cocktails with chatting and mingling in a museum! Meet and rub elbows with fun people, enjoy the free docent-led exhibition...
Friday 4/16 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Bertolt Brecht's play of public compromise with a cast that includes Tom Conti, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Patrick Magee,...
Fatima Spar and the Freedom Fries - Early Show
Friday 4/16 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
The American Turkish Society and Moon & Stars Project Present: Fatima Spar and the Freedom Fries - performing both an early...
The Lost Library : Gay Fiction Rediscovered
Friday 4/16 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Release party and reading of the Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, join Christopher Bram, Paul Russell and editor Tom Cardamone along...
Kevin Geeks Out April All Stars!
Friday 4/16 @ 92YTribeca
Kevin Geeks Out is the comedy-variety show hosted by writer-comedian Kevin Maher – a monthly confabulation of vintage film clips and...
Let's Talk About Sex: Gender Issues in a Post-Feminist World
Friday 4/16 @ National Academy Museum
Join the National Academy for "Let's Talk About Sex," a panel discussion with artists Ghada Amer, Judith Bernstein, and Julia Randall examining gender...
Fatima Spar and the Freedom Fries - Late Show
Friday 4/16 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Hypernova / Yellow Dogs / The "No One Knows about Persian Cats" Afterparty
Friday 4/16 @ 92YTribeca
Official afterparty for the opening of No One Knows About Persian Cats, which won the Special Jury Prize in the "Un...
The Little Death and Gordon Gano
Friday 4/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Little Death is Laura Dawn (lead vocals), Moby (bass, guitar), Daron Murphy (guitar, bass, and harmonica), and Aaron A. Brooks...
Ongoing Events
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Friday 4/16 @ 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....
Friday 4/16 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Veteran theatrical director Mary Zimmerman mounts a rare new production of Gioachino Rossini's fantastical opera about a sorceress (played by the...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Friday 4/16 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War
Friday 4/16 @ The Brick Theater
Experimental theater collective the Mad Ones concoct an engrossing alternative universe with Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of The Robot...
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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...
Friday 4/16 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
We love Ingmar Bergman as much as the next cinephile, but there really is much more to Swedish cinema. Broaden your...
Friday 4/16 @ gallery hanahou
This is a somewhat depressing, but powerful show. Artist Matt Campbell has taken dozens of lovable plush toys, thrown them in...
Friday 4/16 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 4/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its new...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Friday 4/16 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Friday 4/16 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ MF Gallery
OK this is just all kinds of f*cked up — and we mean that in the absolute best way possible. The...
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Friday 4/16 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Friday 4/16 @ 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,...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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...
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ The Greene Space (160 Varick, 646.829.4400)
Mike Daisey is known for his Spalding Grey-style tour de force monologues that recall personal experiences in a social and historical...
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
In back of a small-town cafe, two thirty-something men ponder their existence — or rather, hang out with nothing to do....
Friday 4/16 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Friday 4/16 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
Tennessee Williams produced some of the greatest American plays of the 20th century, but Obie Award-winning theatre ensemble Target Margin has...
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
The Wooster Group's Booty Call Avant-Garde-Arama!
Friday 4/16 @ Performance Space 122
If rough language, nudity, or the remotely psychedelic/farcical may offend you: don't come to Avant-Garde-Arama. Also: you may not want to...
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Friday 4/16 @ IFC Center
Under normal circumstances, most Americans over 30 wouldn't rush to see the latest independent quasi-documentary feature about a bunch of city...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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...
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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...
Friday 4/16 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 4/16 @ 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 “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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...
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Friday 4/16 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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...
Friday 4/16 @ Symphony Space
Underground tap-dance icon Roxane Butterfly is joined by a stellar cast of tap artists, including French Guiana native and Urban Tap...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Friday 4/16 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Friday 4/16 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Friday 4/16 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/16 @ 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! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 4/16 @ 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,...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Friday 4/16 @ 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 4/16 @ 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....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett: Whispering Pines 10
Friday 4/16 @ The Kitchen
In her celebrated video art serial, Whispering Pines, Shana Moulton tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 4/16 @ 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,...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 4/16 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Friday 4/16 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
