Events on Wednesday, April 7
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
The long-running Japanese space-rock collective's epic jams scale lysergic mountains of noise. Tonight, drenched in red lights, they trip out the...
Tom Shillue's TELL: Worlds Collide
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ Comix
The former Daily Show correspondent's got some hilarious chums, including his erstwhile coworker Aasif Mandvi, and for this edition of Shillue's...
Apartments and Neighbors, with a Special Guest from the Moth
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ Symphony Space
As the phrase goes, there are eight million stories to be told in our close-set metropolis. Tonight's stories — by Carver,...
Options for U.S. Policy in Burma/Myanmar (New York)
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ Asia Society and Museum
Current Realities and Future Possibilities in Burma/Myanmar: Options for U.S. Policy In September 2009, the United States announced a new course...
Noisemakers with Peter Rosenberg Featuring Pete Rock
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Pete Rock revolutionized rap production through groundbreaking studio wizardry. He made remixes matter more than the original songs. He established ad-libs...
Untitled Film Series: Kría Brekkan @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 04.07.10
w/ a live score for Jean Epstein's The Fall
Gallery Talk: Romare Bearden's “The Block”
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Romare Bearden's mural-size collage, The Block (1971), is the focus of this exhibition that also includes a dozen preliminary sketches and...
Midlake - 2 night @ the Bowery Ballroom!
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Midlake stays ahead of its own time by making music that transcends it. The Denton, Texas band's 2006 release The Trials...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Closely Watched Films, hosted by Elliot Kalan with special guest comic book artist Evan Dorkin.
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Arp & Anthony Moore and Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
A concert celebrating the release of the new FRKWYS collaboration for Rvng Intl. Missy Mazzoli: Composers OutFront! with Victoire Presented by American Composers...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ Terminal 5
Opeth exist in a genre of one. The forward-thinking Swedish titans, who seamlessly and fluidly combine metal, classic rock, prog, folk...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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 Private Collection of Henry Darger
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ BAM
St. Petersburg's Maly Drama Theatre adds luster and levity to Chekhov's enthralling work of longing and regret. The production's spare set...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
GenArt Film Festival presented by Acura
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ Various locations
One highlight that separates this fest from others (and puts it ahead of the pack, in our opinion), is that each...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ Eastern District
Eastern District's group show East Williamsburg addresses that nasty "g word" ("gentrification") with new works by prominent street artists BANK$Y (neé...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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 “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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 For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
The Surreal World of Etgar Keret
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ BAM
One the most irreverent and hilarious voices to emerge in contemporary Israeli literature, Etgar Keret began writing surreal, incisive short fiction...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Wednesday 4/ 7 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
