Events on Friday, April 9
Friday 4/ 9 @ Warsaw
If the playa of Black Rock City still seems interminably far away, head to the Warsaw tonight for a dose of...
Florence & the Machine w/ Holy Hail
Friday 4/ 9 @ Terminal 5
Londoner Florence Welch and her cast of collaborators channel the gothic pop of fellow UK eccentrics Kate Bush and Annie Lennox....
Interactive Seminar—European Paintings
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of European paintings! This Friday evening come and take part in this unique opportunity...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Collaborations: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor.
Based on...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
“We were at Barnes & Noble today and I was so excited to see Maximum Rock’n’Roll’s still publishing,” says Cymbals Eat...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
Ruth Stoops (Laura Dern), a paint-huffing negligent mother of four becomes the unlikely focus of the abortion debate after a judge...
Friday 4/ 9 @ BAM
Part of BAMcafé Live; Neo-soul singer Queen Aaminah rules over thick caramel beats, fretless bass grooves, and her own languorous voice, which...
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Xiu Xiu has long been known among the music bloggers as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new 14-song album,...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Friday 4/ 9 @ National Academy Museum
Join Former Chief Curator of the Nation Academy Museum, David Dearinger, currently Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at...
Talkingstick: Storytelling Tours
Friday 4/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
See the world through different eyes when you are led through the Rubin Museum's galleries by actors, comedians, and guides who...
Mike Geffner: The Inspired Word-Night of Stars
Friday 4/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Mike Geffner, Writer/Journalist/Columnist. Awarded for outstanding column and feature writing by APSE (Associated Press Sports Editors) 2005, 2006; won New York...
H.G. Wells' "Things To Come" FREE tonight at the Rubin
Friday 4/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Take a break from your busy life to watch an unusual fantasy predicting the outcome of our lives in this century. ...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
King of Jeans. The title of Pissed Jeans’ third album and second for Sub Pop conjures their essence perfectly—-masters of the...
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club w/ Alberta Cross
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Bowery Presents
Somewhere between the five full-length albums and a decade-long road test across the highways of the world, Black Rebel Motorcycle found...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Asia Society and Museum
Part of the "China's Past, Present, Future on Film" series; this documentary tells the story of several women’s brutal ordeal as "comfort...
The US Air Guitar Championships - Brooklyn Regional
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Bowery Presents
We booked the New York regionals at Brooklyn Bowl this year because they promised us backstage nachos and an extra case...
The Ruse / Honor By August / Luna Halo
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Ruse's arena-ready sound distinguishes this band from other popular indie groups. Mixed with intimate and thoughtful melodies, their songs crawl...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ New York Theatre Ballet, The Dance Gallery
Spread throughout its season, these NYTB evenings showcase its current projects and establish closer ties to the audience. The company's exploration...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 4/ 9 @ French Institute Alliance Francaise
It's been nearly two decades since Sami Frey so thoroughly incarnated that Theatre of Cruelty firebrand, Antonin Artaud. Now, he lends...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Brick Theater
Experimental theater collective the Mad Ones concoct an engrossing alternative universe with Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of The Robot...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
GenArt Film Festival presented by Acura
Friday 4/ 9 @ Various locations
One highlight that separates this fest from others (and puts it ahead of the pack, in our opinion), is that each...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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,...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Friday 4/ 9 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 4/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its new...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Metropolitan Opera House
If there's a Shakespeare character who was born to sing, it's got to be Hamlet. Between his father's murder, mother's shacking...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Friday 4/ 9 @ New York Theatre Ballet, The Dance Gallery
NYTB's latest Dance on a Shoestring provides a tantalizing look at three masters. Students of Ballet School NY perform Lotte Goslar's 1984...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios
Ballet Builders raises the profile of dancemakers from across the country by producing their work in Manhattan, thus guaranteeing a wider...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Friday 4/ 9 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Friday 4/ 9 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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....
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Friday 4/ 9 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Friday 4/ 9 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Symphony Space
Founded in 1998 by Artistic Director and choreographer Chris Elam, Misnomer Dance Theater creates contemporary dances about human relationships. Elam approaches...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
