Events on Thursday, April 22
Thursday 4/22 @ The Standard, New York
To celebrate Earth Day this year, we've teamed up with the Standard Hotel to offer a zen-like renewal (if only our...
Thursday 4/22 @ The Center for Fiction
NOON Annual is celebrating the launch of issue #9, its tenth issue (the first was "0") with a reading and party....
Thursday 4/22 @ SVA Theater
Known primarily as a photographer and video artist, Shirin Neshat's powerful work has explored the realities of gender-segregation and social injustice...
Climate Change & Food Security - Irreversible Destiny?
Thursday 4/22 @ Asia Society and Museum
Erratic weather patterns caused by climate change are undermining traditional agricultural practices across much of the developing world. At the same...
Thursday 4/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
For the past 20 years, Lisa Yuskavage has been one of the most recognized and controversial painters of her generation. Often...
David J. Kahn: Crossword Puzzle Master
Thursday 4/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
A crossword enthusiast’s delight! Discuss strategy and reasoning with legendary crossword puzzle creator David J. Kahn, whose puzzles appear regularly in...
Thursday 4/22 @ Asia Society and Museum
Asia Society and PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE cordially invite you to a preview screening of the new documentary film My Lai. What...
New Museum Spring Gala After Party
Thursday 4/22 @ New Museum
The Gala After Party is a Brazilian-themed party in anticipation of our upcoming Rivane Neuenschwander exhibition. After Party attendees may sample...
Thursday 4/22 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Quasi was formed in Portland OR in '93 by Sam Coomes & Janet Weiss. Their first album was self released in...
RISK! THE END: When Something, Anything, Is Over
Thursday 4/22 @ 92YTribeca
RISK! is a show where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share, live on stage, featuring some...
Asian Development Outlook 2010
Thursday 4/22 @ Asia Society and Museum
Has developing Asia's rebound from the global economic crisis taken a firm hold? Is the pace of global growth solid enough...
A Conversation with General Petraeus
Thursday 4/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
General Petraeus was the General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General...
Thursday 4/22 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Cinema Tropical's Music + Film Series – Focus on Brazil
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MATA Festival Argento Chamber Ensemble and L'Arsenale
Thursday 4/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 04.22.10 MATA Festival
The xx DJ set and Jamie xx @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 4/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 04.22.10 The xx DJ set and Jamie xx w/ Finger on the Pulse 11:00pm $10 advance |...
Thursday 4/22 @ Terminal 5
Performing with The XX The music making partnership of Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Owen Clarke, Al Doyle and Felix Martin came...
Owen Pallett (formerly Final Fantasy) @ Webster Hall
Thursday 4/22 @ The Bowery Presents
Owen Pallett's live violin-looping project was named Final Fantasy, in tribute to the melodramatic videogame series. Final Fantasy's debut album 'Has...
American Popular Culture of the Great Depression Era - Labor Empowerment
Thursday 4/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Labor Empowerment
How Green Was My Valley, In Dubious Battle, Waiting for Lefty, Pins and Needles...
Thursday 4/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tickets:
$15 General Admision
$10 Students & Seniors
$50 Festival Pass
Visit the MATA Festival...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/22 @ 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
Thursday 4/22 @ 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....
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Thursday 4/22 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Thursday 4/22 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Thursday 4/22 @ Joyce Soho
Unlike other duets, '95's September Sonnet portrays a mature, challenged relationship. Far less serious is A Short Lecture and Demonstration on...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Thursday 4/22 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Thursday 4/22 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Thursday 4/22 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/22 @ gallery hanahou
This is a somewhat depressing, but powerful show. Artist Matt Campbell has taken dozens of lovable plush toys, thrown them in...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ The Red Room
There are many ways to end an argument, and a group of roommates creates an unusual one giving them both the...
Thursday 4/22 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Thursday 4/22 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/22 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ Wild Project
The game of artistic telephone is on. This year the Synesthesia fortune cookie was opened by a lyricist/songwriter team, who created...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ Speyer Hall
Bennyroyce Productions isn't an entertainment conglomerate. It's the calling card of dancer/choreographer/producer dynamo Bennyroyce Royan. Next month Atlanta Ballet is performing...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/22 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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."...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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....
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ George Billis Gallery
If this exhibition was your first introduction to Derek Buckner's paintings, you'd be forgiven for branding him a classicist, even a...
Thursday 4/22 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Thursday 4/22 @ 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,...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Thursday 4/22 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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....
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Thursday 4/22 @ 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
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 4/22 @ 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 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Thursday 4/22 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Thursday 4/22 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
