Events on Wednesday, May 19
Public Image Limited (PiL) w/ DJ Justin Miller
Wednesday 5/19 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
While continuing to make their rounds across North America, the John Lydon-fronted band stops in the city to perform two shows....
Wednesday 5/19 @ Bar 13
With Matt McCarthy (who recently performed his one-man show at the Upright Citizens Brigade and serves as the regular cable guy...
Asian American Designer Event: Rita Chung, Jewelry
Wednesday 5/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
Rita Chung, a native of Macau,
Josh Ritter @ Town Hall - 2nd Show Added!
Wednesday 5/19 @ The Bowery Presents
Over the clatter of piano and strum of an electric guitar that opens his fourth studio album, Josh Ritter leaps into...
Fyfe Dangerfield (of Guillemots) at Joe's Pub Wed May 19
Wednesday 5/19 @ Joe's Pub
Fyfe Dangerfield of UK band Guillemots, launches his solo career with amazing album Fly Yellow Moon. A collection of songs that...
Wednesday 5/19 @ The Mercury Lounge
Psychedelic rock serves variously as a baseline and a horizon for this Massachusetts band, which absorbs the weirder 1960s pop conventions...
Wednesday 5/19 @ The Mercury Lounge
After four years of discovery The Middle East have arrived! Armed with a debut EP the band are preparing to embark...
Health Insurance for the Urban Poor?
Wednesday 5/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
Naya Jeeevan is a California-based multinational, not-for-profit, social enterprise that is dedicated to rejuvenating the lives of low-income families throughout the...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 92YTribeca
A work-in-progress screening co-presented by DocuClub. Director Judy Lieff in person for discussion with moderator Doug Block.
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Rich Medina and Akalepse Present Props @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 5/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Asian Americans Changing the Landscape
Wednesday 5/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
Asian and Pacific Americans are a key part of a well-documented and profound shift in the US population. Births to women...
Wednesday 5/19 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Spectrum plus Cheval Sombre, The Vacant Lots Spectrum is the most high-profile and straightforward of the projects undertaken by Pete...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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:...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ The Red Room
There are many ways to end an argument, and a group of roommates creates an unusual one giving them both the...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Wednesday 5/19 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ Deitch Projects
What else is there to add to the volume of words dedicated to the art, commerce, and character of iconic American...
Wednesday 5/19 @ Deluxx Fluxx
Street-art and graphics duo Faile team up with fellow collagist Bäst to open Deluxx Fluxx NYC, the New York edition of...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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....
Wednesday 5/19 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
Neon legwarmers, Vespa scooters, and rising from the dead. These are all things that come to mind at the utterance of...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/19 @ Various locations
Hopefully you've been riding your bike all month (or year, of course) long, as May is Bike Month in NYC. But...
Wednesday 5/19 @ The Irondale Center
Sarah Ruhl — who is up for a Tony Award for her latest play, In the Next Room, (or the vibrator...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 5/19 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
The Glass House is an apt metaphor for a brilliant man who created...
Wednesday 5/19 @ Cherry Lane Theatre
The premise of Oliver Parker is morbid — Jasper is an aged, down-and-out alcoholic. His caretaker is Oliver Parker — a...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 Private Collection of Henry Darger
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Wednesday 5/19 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From The Diaphragm
Wednesday 5/19 @ Performance Space 122
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From The Diaphragm, a performance piece that dissects the hey day of 1970s American daytime television chat...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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 5/19 @ 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...
AsiaStore Asian American Designer Series
Wednesday 5/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
AsiaStore celebrates Asian American month with personal appearances by featured Asian American designers who will be on hand to showcase their...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Perverse Poet: João César Monteiro
Wednesday 5/19 @ BAM
One of the giants of Portuguese cinema, João César Monteiro’s films reveal a mind that was boundlessly intellectual, uncompromisingly nonconformist, refreshingly...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
Final screening: Journey from Zanskar
Wednesday 5/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Zanskar, a remote valley in Kashmir, is home to the last remaining original Tibetan Buddhist society. 'Journey from Zanskar,' follows two...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Wednesday 5/19 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Wednesday 5/19 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 5/19 @ 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...
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