Events on Wednesday, April 21
World Record Appreciation Society
Wednesday 4/21 @ Joe's Pub
Marvel as writers, performers, and comedians — some more talented than others — break record after record, by hula-hooping on one...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 92YTribeca
Bring your under-twelve-minute film (on DVD only), get it shown and pad the house with your friends–audience vote determines the winner....
Wednesday 4/21 @ 92YTribeca
Bring your under-twelve-minute film (on DVD only), get it shown and pad the house with your friends–audience vote determines the winner....
Jakob Dylan and Three Legs featuring Neko Case and Kelly Hogan @ Town Hall
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Bowery Presents
The Bowery Presents says: Jakob Dylan will be stopping at Town hall on his nation-wide tour with his band Jakob Dylan...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum of Art launches Fawzia Afzal-Khan’s memoir, Lahore with Love.
In this rich...
AsiaStore Special Sale Event: Carol Cassidy and Woven Silks of Laos
Wednesday 4/21 @ Asia Society and Museum
Personal Appearance by Carol Cassidy 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Carol Cassidy showcases an expansive array of...
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Mary Onettes are a Swedish Indie Rock band formed in the town of Jönköping, in 2000. Inspired by guitar pop...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Terminal 5
If you were 12 in 1979, the Specials were easy peasy lemon squeezy the greatest band on the planet. If you're...
Bringing Spiritual Values to Health Care Reform
Wednesday 4/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Rabbi Elliot Kukla and Rabbi Jonah Pesner
Should spiritual values infuse the...
MATA Festival Lisa Moore and Ensemble Pamplemousse
Wednesday 4/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 04.21.10 MATA Festival
ROCKBAND w/ DJ Jay McElfresh @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 4/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 04.21.10
ROCKBAND with MC and DJ...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 92YTribeca
A free screening with 16mm film print from the collection of the New York Public Library.
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The Thermals @ Brooklyn Bowl - 2nd Show Added!
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Bowery Presents
Brooklyn Bowl 61 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211...
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Bowery Presents
With vocals and guitar from New Order front man Bernard Sumner, Never Cry Another Tear, the debut album from Bad Lieutenant,...
Interactive Seminar—Greek and Roman Art
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of Greek and Roman art! This Friday evening come and take part in this...
Sonos and Peter Bradley Adams @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 4/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 04.21.10
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Bowery Presents
The maturity of Justin Nozuka's music, a soulful blend of R&B and pensive singer/songwriter folk that recalls both Nick Drake and...
Annual State of Anti-Semitism Lecture: The Gathering Storm: Iran, the West and Anti-Semitism
Wednesday 4/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and...
Wednesday 4/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tickets:
$15 General Admision
$10 Students & Seniors
$50 Festival Pass
Visit the MATA Festival...
Gallery Talk: Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Aristocratic Victorian women brought wit and whimsy to their experiments with photocollage in the 1860s and 1870s. Join curator Malcolm Daniel as...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The Whitest Boy Alive started in Berlin, Germany as an electronic dance music project in 2003. It has slowly developed into...
The Apples In Stereo w/ Generationals / Laminated Cat
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Studio-obsessed indie rockers The Apples in stereo are celebrating the start of a new decade with the release of their seventh...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Symphony Space
Frequent New Yorker contributor and humor writer Ian Frazier introduces a varied menu of delicious comic concoctions from his new collection,...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ Wild Project
The game of artistic telephone is on. This year the Synesthesia fortune cookie was opened by a lyricist/songwriter team, who created...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Wednesday 4/21 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ gallery hanahou
This is a somewhat depressing, but powerful show. Artist Matt Campbell has taken dozens of lovable plush toys, thrown them in...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Messy love entanglements unfold and grow exponentially throughout Franco Zeffirelli's bold production of Giuseppe Verdi's enduring classic, La Traviata. It's easy...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Wednesday 4/21 @ Midtown Theater
Leslie Jordan, the 4'11'' 55-year-old character actor best known for his portrayal of Beverley Leslie on Will and Grace, is a...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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....
Wednesday 4/21 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Wednesday 4/21 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
The Young@Heart chorus joyfully proves that age is just a number, breathing new life into classics by Lou Reed, Neil Young,...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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....
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Wednesday 4/21 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Wednesday 4/21 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
