Events on Friday, April 2
The Bronx w/ Violent Soho, Mariachi El Bronx, and Dead Country
Friday 4/ 2 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
LA punks the Bronx are shreddingly awesome, but we're even more stoked to see their side project, Mariachi El Bronx, a...
Gallery Talk: The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Friday 4/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition includes 38 alabaster statuettes of mourners, carved between 1443 and 1456, which decorated the extravagant and innovative tomb of...
We All Owe: An Evening of Music, Art and Film Presented by Helado Negro and Friends
Friday 4/ 2 @ 92YTribeca
Roberto Lange aka Helado Negro and Julianna Barwick, along with visual artists Jonathan Dueck and Kristi Sword take over 92YTribeca with...
Friday 4/ 2 @ The Mercury Lounge
"Megafaun has a thing for extremes: In August 2005, the trio and four of its best friends left the wintry climes...
The Temper Trap w/ The Kissaway Trail @ Webster Hall
Friday 4/ 2 @ The Bowery Presents
The Temper Trap\'s story begins with Dougy. Born in Indonesia and immersed in an artistic and musical family, with some rich...
Friday 4/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
A monthly gathering of MN expats, this Minnesota Monthly happy hour is one of the friendliest nights in NYC. Come for...
BAMcafé Live: Gary Lucas and Bruno Galindo
Friday 4/ 2 @ BAM
Part of BAMcafé Live Bar opens at 8pm
Called “the thinking man’s guitar hero” (The New Yorker), Grammy-nominated...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 92YTribeca
"Effortlessly provokes thoughts on inequality, satisfaction and oblivion."
—LA Weekly
What does it mean to own a...
Friday 4/ 2 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with: Automatic Loveletter Matthew Good’s fifteen year career has been marked by everything from multi-platinum album sales to an uncomfortable...
Friday 4/ 2 @ Asia Society and Museum
Part of the "China's Past, Present, Future on Film" series
An impoverished country couple buys a crippled young girl and...
Fellini's La strada, screening tonight
Friday 4/ 2 @ Rubin Museum of Art
1954, Italy, Federico Fellini, 108 minutes "I don't know. If I knew I'd be the Almighty, who knows all. When you...
Friday 4/ 2 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Oakley Hall / Citay with Mia Riddle, Prince Ruperts Drops Springing from 60's west coast legends like the Byrds, the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Various locations
Twenty years ago, this venerable series included Days of Being Wild in its round up of new films by...
Friday 4/ 2 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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,...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ The Fifth Floor Theater (111 Second Avenue)
Renewal is the running theme in this SADC showcase. A true original, Alwin Nikolais was a decentralist who combined dance with...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Friday 4/ 2 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 2 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 4/ 2 @ (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 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Friday 4/ 2 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ Film Forum
"Free Tibet" may be a t-shirt catchphrase to some, but herein it's fleshed out as a lively sea of perspectives on...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War
Friday 4/ 2 @ The Brick Theater
Experimental theater collective the Mad Ones concoct an engrossing alternative universe with Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of The Robot...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Friday 4/ 2 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Friday 4/ 2 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ BAM
Actor, playwright, novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker: Bill Gunn was a boundless artist. His premature death in 1989 denied audiences of...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ Symphony Space
Founded in 1998 by Artistic Director and choreographer Chris Elam, Misnomer Dance Theater creates contemporary dances about human relationships. Elam approaches...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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....
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Friday 4/ 2 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
Faye Driscoll: There is so much mad in me
Friday 4/ 2 @ New York Live Arts
"Faye Driscoll is a startling original talent." - The New York Times “I devise multi-dimensional dance dramas that blur the lines...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Friday 4/ 2 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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,...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
