Events on Friday, May 14
Friday 5/14 @ New Design High School
The official start to our summer is when Rooftop Films announces its outdoor screening schedule. Starting tonight, you can catch underground...
THE THING Quarterly: Starlee Kine, David Lipsky, David Rees, and Arthur Jones Read and Cut Onions
Friday 5/14 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Join Starlee Kine and friends for the release of issue 10 of THE THING Quarterly by Starlee Kine. Starlee’s issue of...
Friday 5/14 @ BAM
Burr Johnson Band
Happy Hour 5:30—8pm:
$3 beer
Gary Louris @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 5/14 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 05.14.10
Gary Louris
7:00pm doors | 7:30pm show
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Karma To Burn / Year Long Disaster
Friday 5/14 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Karma To Burn / Year Long Disaster plus Naam, Hull Following last year’s highly successful reunion tour, Karma to Burn...
Friday 5/14 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Hosted by FUCT...Burlesque, drinking games, shock comedy, hip hop, dancing, dirty rock, disco and all in-between... Crafted by Black Apple "The...
Friday 5/14 @ 92YTribeca
Director Linas Phillips and producer Thomas Woodrow in person for post-screening Q&A.
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Friday 5/14 @ New Museum
Tonight! Silent film with live score
Friday 5/14 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Thomas Rutihauser performs a live cello accompaniment to Der Muede Tod, a masterful, but relatively unknown work from Fritz Lang's silent...
Friday 5/14 @ The Mercury Lounge
Most childhood friendships have a way of dissipating as life progresses. For The King Left, however, these youthful relationships were the...
Friday 5/14 @ Asia Society and Museum
Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy is the compelling story of a young Chinese girl's journey from an orphanage in...
Friday 5/14 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Spend Shabbat with fellow Derekh Torah™ students and alumni. Make new friends with people in other Derekh Torah™ groups and spend...
Ongoing Events
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 5/14 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Friday 5/14 @ 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....
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 5/14 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its new...
Friday 5/14 @ Various locations
The second-annual Creative Week returns for seven days of inspiration across genres. (Seriously: from spoken word, television, and typeset to photography...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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....
Friday 5/14 @ Park Avenue Armory
No Man's Land is art writ large. Very large. Filling the Park Avenue Armory as part of Christian Boltanski's exhibit is:...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Access Theater
Flux faced a crisis when denied performing rights to JB. And though it would have been worthwhile seeing this adventurous group...
Friday 5/14 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
The Glass House is an apt metaphor for a brilliant man who created...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Various locations
Hopefully you've been riding your bike all month (or year, of course) long, as May is Bike Month in NYC. But...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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...
The Manhattan Cocktail Classic
Friday 5/14 @ Various locations
Now that the term "mixologist" has become part of our national lexicon, it's only fitting that NYC puts on an entire...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ P.S. 122
This self-indulgent, techno-savvy society makes the art of first-person narrative look easy. However, the best way of getting your story across...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Florence Gould Hall
A season's worth of Dance on a Shoestring sneak peeks goes public! These Signatures personify the company's commitment to classics deemed...
Friday 5/14 @ 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,...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Deitch Projects
What else is there to add to the volume of words dedicated to the art, commerce, and character of iconic American...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Friday 5/14 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Friday 5/14 @ OBEY Pop Up Store
Shepard Fairey will be the first to tell you — his game-changing visuals are as much about commerce as they are...
Friday 5/14 @ Cherry Lane Theatre
The premise of Oliver Parker is morbid — Jasper is an aged, down-and-out alcoholic. His caretaker is Oliver Parker — a...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Deluxx Fluxx
Street-art and graphics duo Faile team up with fellow collagist Bäst to open Deluxx Fluxx NYC, the New York edition of...
Friday 5/14 @ The Irondale Center
Sarah Ruhl — who is up for a Tony Award for her latest play, In the Next Room, (or the vibrator...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Friday 5/14 @ 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....
Friday 5/14 @ Discovery Times Square Exposition
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Friday 5/14 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view through August 15, is the...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 5/14 @ 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,...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Friday 5/14 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Asia Society and Museum
Explore the art inspired by centuries of Buddhist pilgrimage. Through more than 90 sacred objects, including textiles, sculpture and paintings, this...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Friday 5/14 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition presents 70 extraordinary works by masters of the 16th through 18th centuries, from one of the outstanding collections of...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Perverse Poet: João César Monteiro
Friday 5/14 @ BAM
One of the giants of Portuguese cinema, João César Monteiro’s films reveal a mind that was boundlessly intellectual, uncompromisingly nonconformist, refreshingly...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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....
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ 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
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
