Events on Friday, April 23
Friday 4/23 @ Terminal 5
Terminal 5 says: Hailing from London, Hot Chip have proven to be one of the longest lasting, prolific and talented electropop...
Friday 4/23 @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
DJ Rekha's legendary Basement Bhangra party was rocking long before Dev Patel and Freida Pinto showed us how in Slumdog Millionaire....
Inhabitat's 5th Birthday Party
Friday 4/23 @ Green Spaces NYC (394 Broadway, 5th Fl, 646.783.8616)
Our fave green site is celebrating its fifth bday in appropriately enviro-friendly style. Inhabitat throws a party tonight at NYC's Green...
Pilfers - A Benefit for Haiti, Feat. Tsunami Rising, Karen Gibson Roc, Across the Aisle
Friday 4/23 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Ska-punks the Pilfers emerged from the remnants of a series of noted New York City bands -- frontman Coolie Ranx served...
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe @ Brooklyn Bowl
Friday 4/23 @ The Bowery Presents
A highly energized funk machine, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe has been expanding listeners' minds and making them move to animated grooves...
Mike Geffner: The Inspired Word-Night of Stars
Friday 4/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
We continue our twice-a-month series with another amazing...
Friday 4/23 @ Asia Society and Museum
Dharma is the Sanskrit word for universal law. Essential to Buddhist understanding, dharma is the natural order, a living truth, and...
Friday 4/23 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Catch tonight's CabaretCinema flick: Earth Girls Are Easy: A day-glo musical romp ensues when furry aliens Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, and...
Friday 4/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Comedy! Truth Telling! New York City’s Best Go-Go! Drinking! Dining! Audience Dance Breaks! Have You experienced Penny Arcade? Then you are probably...
Gallery Talk: Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 4/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition celebrates the 35th anniversary of the acquisition of more than 400 works of Japanese art from collector Harry G....
Friday 4/23 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Delphic, a trio of Rick, Matt Cocksedge and James Cook, all in their early twenties, create their music on laptops in...
Friday 4/23 @ The Mercury Lounge
Most singer/songwriters are lonely souls with only a stool, an acoustic guitar and a heart-worn sleeve. Not Jason Collett. Oh sure,...
Friday 4/23 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Guitarist/singer-songwriter Willy Porter performs songs from his latest album, How to Rob a Bank. Jeff Giles of Popdose.com says, "It's another...
Friday 4/23 @ The Mercury Lounge
Martin Dosh was born to an ex-Catholic priest father and an almost-nun mother outside Los Angeles; he and his family moved...
Literary Lunchtime with Anchee Min (Pearl of China)
Friday 4/23 @ Asia Society and Museum
Welcome to the first of a new series of lunch time author programs at Asia Society. Enjoy a reading and discussion...
11th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival: The New Cookers
Friday 4/23 @ BAM
Named after Freddie Hubbard’s seminal 1965 Blue Note album Night of the Cookers, BAMcafé Live favorites The New Cookers keep the...
Friday 4/23 @ 92YTribeca
Julia Nunes' homemade videos of her astonishingly good singing and ukulele playing (she also plays guitar and beatboxes) have been downloaded...
PUNCH! Puppet Slam: Short Films
Friday 4/23 @ 92YTribeca
Drama of Works presents PUNCH, a night of the greatest puppet mayhem around! PUNCH puppet slam - NYC's most consistent puppet slam...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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...
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 4/23 @ (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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Stripped unfolds like a rehearsal, the lights on and the dancers clad in sweatpants. In fact, this "theater" is the studio...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Florence Gould Hall
A season's worth of Dance on a Shoestring sneak peeks goes public! These Signatures personify the company's commitment to classics deemed...
Friday 4/23 @ 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
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ gallery hanahou
This is a somewhat depressing, but powerful show. Artist Matt Campbell has taken dozens of lovable plush toys, thrown them in...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Friday 4/23 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Friday 4/23 @ 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
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Friday 4/23 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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...
Friday 4/23 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Friday 4/23 @ 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,...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Joyce Soho
Unlike other duets, '95's September Sonnet portrays a mature, challenged relationship. Far less serious is A Short Lecture and Demonstration on...
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Wild Project
The game of artistic telephone is on. This year the Synesthesia fortune cookie was opened by a lyricist/songwriter team, who created...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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
Friday 4/23 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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,...
Friday 4/23 @ New York Live Arts
Crammed full of cultural images and references, bobrauschenbergamerica gleefully layers the high-brow (Walt Whitman) with the low-brow (chicken jokes). This theatrical...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Singer/songwriter Adam Green is most known for his stint with the Moldy Peaches, but in the new millennium he also did...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Friday 4/23 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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....
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 4/23 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Friday 4/23 @ 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.
Friday 4/23 @ 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
Friday 4/23 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Friday 4/23 @ Joe's Pub
"The brazen blonde belts out classics and pop tunes atop a piano" -- Women's Wear Daily
"Caburlesque artist Lady Rizo...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
A Proposition by Miwon Kwon: Ends of the Earth (and Back)
Friday 4/23 @ New Museum
Miwon Kwon's proposition Ends of the Earth (and Back) is a work-in-progress report on the exhibition "Ends of the Earth: Land...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Friday 4/23 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/23 @ 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
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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...
