Events on Tuesday, April 20
Tuesday 4/20 @ Light Industry
Guerrilla doc-TV collective Videofreex gets its due tonight, with a screening of some seminal titles (Women’s Lib Demonstration NYC and Woodstock...
LIVE from the NYPL presents Peter Carey
Tuesday 4/20 @ LIVE from the NYPL
Australian author Peter Carey is one of the only two writers to have won the Booker Prize twice — the other...
Tuesday 4/20 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Riding in on oceanic waves of drone and immense muscular drums, enter the spectral pop duo ZAZA. While associated with their...
Sean Hayes and Scott Matthews @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 4/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
$16 Advanced/ $18 Day...
MATA Festival Calder String Quartet
Tuesday 4/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 04.20.10 MATA Festival
Tuesday 4/20 @ The Bowery Presents
Hi, we're The Thermals. We're a three-piece alternative/indie/punk band. We live in Portland, Oregon. You know, the place all your friends...
Gallery Talk: Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 4/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Come and visit the special exhibition Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered, on view through November 7. The Sachsen-Teschen...
The Specials - 2nd Night Added!
Tuesday 4/20 @ Terminal 5
If you were 12 in 1979, the Specials were easy peasy lemon squeezy the greatest band on the planet. The sort...
Tuesday 4/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tickets:
$15 General Admision
$10 Students & Seniors
$50 Festival Pass
Visit the MATA Festival...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard professor for nearly five decades, is the recipient of the National Medal of Sciences and two...
Tuesday 4/20 @ Symphony Space
Performed at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, RussiaMusic: Ludwig Minkus Choreographer: Alexander Gorsky after Marius Petipa
Conductor: Pavel Bubelnikov Vladimir Ponomarev (Don...
Tuesday 4/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 04.20.10 – Thursday 04.22.2010
Tuesday 4/20 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The Whitest Boy Alive started in Berlin, Germany as an electronic dance music project in 2003. It has slowly developed into...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/20 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Tuesday 4/20 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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 Private Collection of Henry Darger
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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,...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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....
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ gallery hanahou
This is a somewhat depressing, but powerful show. Artist Matt Campbell has taken dozens of lovable plush toys, thrown them in...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/20 @ IFC Center
It's time: Like doves to Capistrano, lovers of the documentary form should head west each Tuesday to catch the best of...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Tuesday 4/20 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Tuesday 4/20 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Tuesday 4/20 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/20 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Tuesday 4/20 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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 4/20 @ 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
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
LOST: The Final Season - A weekly therapy session
Tuesday 4/20 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
For season six, Previously on Lost will host weekly gatherings at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn including show screenings, recap performances...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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.
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/20 @ 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...
