Events on Tuesday, April 27
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Tuesday 4/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents six films to accompany the special exhibition Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, on view through...
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone w/ Magical Beautiful
Tuesday 4/27 @ The Mercury Lounge
Owen Ashworth was born on April 22, 1977 in San Francisco, CA. Since 1997, he has written & recorded pop albums...
Jenny Sanford in Conversation with Dr. Gail Saltz
Tuesday 4/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Hear the first lady of South Carolina, Jenny Sanford, talk about her best-selling memoir, Staying True and the private ordeal behind...
Tuesday 4/27 @ Asia Society and Museum
In the chaotic and dangerous days leading up to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, thousands of South Vietnamese...
Tuesday 4/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Having a famous dad can be more of a curse than a blessing. For every Barry Bonds or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,...
Cobra Skulls / Broadway Calls / The Jukebox Romantics
Tuesday 4/27 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
In early 2009, Broadway Calls entered the Blasting Room studio to record with Descendents drummer turned record producer Bill Stevenson. The...
Tuesday 4/27 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Pantera and Damageplan double-kick maestro, drummer Vinnie Paul, singer and lyricist Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett (both from Mudvayne) along...
returning: ICE with Matthias Pintscher
Tuesday 4/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is a uniquely structured chamber music ensemble comprised of thirty dynamic and versatile young performers who...
Tuesday 4/27 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Jamie Lidell hasn’t stopped moving. He’s like a shark. Albeit a stone cold funked-up, sonically obsessed, romantically soulful killer shark. And...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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,...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ Workshop Theater (312 West 36th St)
Fresh, original, and complex, Alan M. Berks' Almost Exactly Like Us is divided into three sections: a tale of American ex-pats...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ powerHouse Arena
The artists in Collective League of Talent (a.k.a. C.L.O.T.), a new group show, explore a multitude of questions and ideas relating...
Tuesday 4/27 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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....
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Tuesday 4/27 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ gallery hanahou
This is a somewhat depressing, but powerful show. Artist Matt Campbell has taken dozens of lovable plush toys, thrown them in...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 4/27 @ Rogue Space Gallery
Children from Haiti's Maranatha School and Orphanage lost pretty much everything to the devastating earthquake four months ago. One hundred days...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Tuesday 4/27 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Tuesday 4/27 @ Wild Project
The game of artistic telephone is on. This year the Synesthesia fortune cookie was opened by a lyricist/songwriter team, who created...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Dead or Alive features completely organic work. That is, all of the art was once alive, as a plant or animal....
Tuesday 4/27 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Tuesday 4/27 @ The Irondale Center
Sarah Ruhl — who is up for a Tony Award for her latest play, In the Next Room, (or the vibrator...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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,...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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,...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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,...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/27 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Tuesday 4/27 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 4/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Anne Strauss talks to Doug and Mike Starn about their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Tuesday 4/27 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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! Remember That You Will Die
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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,...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 4/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Don’t miss this opportunity to see Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop the site-specific installation created for...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/27 @ Terminal 5
Throughout Hole's career, vocalist/guitarist Courtney Love's notorious public image has overshadowed her band's music. In their original incarnation, Hole was one...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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 4/27 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Tuesday 4/27 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 4/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 300 works...
LOST: The Final Season - A weekly therapy session
Tuesday 4/27 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
For season six, Previously on Lost will host weekly gatherings at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn including show screenings, recap performances...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Tuesday 4/27 @ 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...
