Events on Wednesday, April 28
Sir Michael Caine, Icon: Conversation and Harry Brown
Wednesday 4/28 @ Museum of the Moving Image
If you've seenThe Italian Job (the original, of course), Alfie (dear god, the original! Not with Jude Law!), or Zulu, you...
To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration
Wednesday 4/28 @ Symphony Space
Let's get this out of the way: To Kill a Mockingbird is one of our all-time faves. From mom reading it...
Wednesday 4/28 @ The Bowery Ballroom
VV Brown got her start singing in the gospel choir of her Pentecostal church in Northampton, UK, followed by two years...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Deborah Roth, MA Transitions are a natural part of life's rhythm. Explore common life transitions, both professional (job/career changes, retirement) and...
Wednesday 4/28 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
The duo of emcees One Be Lo and Senim Silla possess a lethal chemistry greater than the sum of its parts....
Deadbeat Darling / Jones Street Station
Wednesday 4/28 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Equal parts mischief and bliss, eloquence and irreverence, Deadbeat Darling is a New York City-based rock band whose music shimmers with...
PEN World Voices Festival: Opening Night
Wednesday 4/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature: A week-long celebration of books and writing from around the globe, featuring 50+ events,...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Renowned happiness expert and best-selling author Dr. Robert Holden shares the secrets to happiness and success. He is the author of...
Wednesday 4/28 @ The Bowery Presents
Glasgow's Frightened Rabbit spent much of 2007 stepping into public view, with widespread U.S. touring and the long-awaited domestic reissue of...
Wednesday 4/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
John and Molly Knefel host a night of some of the best independent comedy in the city, with no cover, no...
Wednesday 4/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Playing "Chamber Music in Any Chamber," the Chiara String Quartet reaches from the concert hall into clubs, bars and galleries, expanding...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
NASA's October 9, 2009 mission to find signs of water on the moon didn't work. What signs were they looking for...
The Rise and Fall of Nina Simone: Montreux, 1976
Wednesday 4/28 @ 92YTribeca
Long before Lady Gaga erased the line between pop music and performance art and decades before Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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,...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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....
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ The Irondale Center
Sarah Ruhl — who is up for a Tony Award for her latest play, In the Next Room, (or the vibrator...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ gallery hanahou
This is a somewhat depressing, but powerful show. Artist Matt Campbell has taken dozens of lovable plush toys, thrown them in...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 4/28 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Wednesday 4/28 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Wednesday 4/28 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Wednesday 4/28 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Wednesday 4/28 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ The Red Room
There are many ways to end an argument, and a group of roommates creates an unusual one giving them both the...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Wednesday 4/28 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Wednesday 4/28 @ Performance Space 122
"What beauty there is in Mr. Farrington's work." - Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times "a MARVELOUS TECHINCAL FEAT"...
Wednesday 4/28 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Wednesday 4/28 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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,...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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
Wednesday 4/28 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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....
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Perverse Poet: João César Monteiro
Wednesday 4/28 @ BAM
One of the giants of Portuguese cinema, João César Monteiro’s films reveal a mind that was boundlessly intellectual, uncompromisingly nonconformist, refreshingly...
