Events on Tuesday, April 6
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Highline Ballroom
We love Sam Lipsyte and his latest, The Ask (so much that we went on a walking tour of Astoria with...
Jules Feiffer Backing Into Forward: A Memoir
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Strand Bookstore
Strand Bookstore says: The award-winning cartoonist, playwright and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as...
The Quiet in the Land: Art, Spirituality, and Everyday Life—Luang Prabang, Laos
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Asia Society and Museum
Writers, curators, and artists Carol Becker, Ann Hamilton, and France Morin reflect on the 4-year innovative project The Quiet in the...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Ian McEwan's new novel, Solar, will be published in March of 2010. The author of Atonement, Saturday, Enduring Love and On...
Punch Up Your Life: Comedy hosted by Pete Holmes and friends
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Comedy hosted by Pete Holmes with guests TBA. $3 admission.
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Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Best Coast plus The Bitters, The Babies Combine the sophisticated chill of a New York City winter with the girlish,...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
CA Conrad is a Philadelphia-based poet. Daniel Nester is a journalist, essayist, poet, editor, and teacher. His new book, How to...
Beats and Breaks w/ Greenways 8
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Style & Leisure Records present, Beats and Breaks, where Greenways8 will be spinning electronic, electro house, trip-hop, hip-hop, breaks,beats, and on...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ The Mercury Lounge
Pete Cafarella (keyboard, vocals) and Nate Smith (drums), both former members of El Guapo, formed Shy Child just after the two...
The Bronx w/ Japanther / Mariachi El Bronx
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The Bronx's swaggering interpretation of hardcore punk found them a quick audience in Los Angeles, where guitarist Joby J. Ford, bassist...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ The Mercury Lounge
By condensing a palate of swirling and innovative guitar voyages and a sweat-soaked baroque punk ethos that loses itself in carpet-crawling...
Anne Frank's Diary: The Beauty that Remains—Screening & Discussion
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
With guests Whoopi Goldberg, Ellie Kendrick, Rebecca Eaton and Francine Prose
Watch...
LIVE from the NYPL presents DAVID REMNICK & Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ LIVE from the NYPL
Reflecting on the President's unique place in history, the veteran congressman and civil-rights leader John Lewis told Remnick, “Barack...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
Los Angeles painter Alex Couwenberg handles paint like a cross between an austere Minimalist and a high-end pastry chef, wielding the...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Exit Art
Like a goodwill ambassador, Mary Mattingly's floating habitat the Waterpod Project spent five months on New York's highly toxic seas, touring...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach discusses the life and work of the painter, draftsman, teacher, and poet Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572) on the...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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."...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ The Duke Theater
Legendary theatere director Peter Brook's Love Is My Sin is an English major's dream come true: an understated staging of Shakespeare's...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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 Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin's annual festival for the inquisitive brings together artists, scientists, and even a Tibetan lama to explore the ways of...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Film Forum
"Free Tibet" may be a t-shirt catchphrase to some, but herein it's fleshed out as a lively sea of perspectives on...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Marielle Heller adapts and stars in this raw and powerful take on Phoebe Gloeckner's autobiographical graphic novel. Diary centers on 15-year-old...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach talks to composer Bruce Adolphe about how he translated the art and ideas of Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572)—whose...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
LOST: The Final Season - A weekly therapy session
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Co-produced by Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are), and featuring the voices of Meryl Streep and Forest Whitaker, Higglety Pigglety...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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 Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This show from the Met’s permanent collection features the 1971 mural-size collage The Block by Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), as well...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
The Surreal World of Etgar Keret
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ BAM
One the most irreverent and hilarious voices to emerge in contemporary Israeli literature, Etgar Keret began writing surreal, incisive short fiction...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition The Drawings of Bronzino, on view through April 18, is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), and includes nearly...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ 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 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Tuesday 4/ 6 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
