Events on Thursday, May 20
Thursday 5/20 @ The Griffin
While not quite an established art form, the book trailer is gaining headway as a discipline to keep an eye on....
Doppelganger w/ Des Roar / Shwa Losben & The Good Times (Record Release)
Thursday 5/20 @ The Mercury Lounge
Doppelganger is a rock & roll duo from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Through the most basic instrumentation, they write...
Thursday 5/20 @ The Bowery Ballroom
"Mike Grubbs could speak for each and every one of us when he pulls at our heartstrings with tales of lost...
The Moth StorySLAM! Theme: Good Intentions
Thursday 5/20 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. $7 at the door. This event always sells out. Limited seating. Please arrive...
Flashy & Trashy @ (le) poisson rouge
Thursday 5/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Free!
10pm-4am
Thursday night from 10pm-4am in the gallery
Thursday 5/20 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Devin The Dude with special guests The Coughee Brothaz Devin Copeland aka Devin the Dude was born in St. Petersburg,...
Jonathan Tisch: Active Citizenship
Thursday 5/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
This evening focuses on how individuals are making a difference in America and the world through active citizenship and are more...
Asian American Designer Event: Rose Ajmera,Textiles
Thursday 5/20 @ Asia Society and Museum
AsiaStore appearance, 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Rose Ajmera is passionate about blending Indian designs with contemporary clothing....
Thursday 5/20 @ The Bowery Presents
ALO is not a band that dwells in the past. They are always moving forward. Always striving to discover new ideas....
Butch Walker & The Black Widows @ Webster Hall
Thursday 5/20 @ The Bowery Presents
After a brief taste of major-label success with his former band Marvelous 3 during the late '90s, Butch Walker traded his...
John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 5/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
w/Janeane Garofolo, Robbie Fulks,...
The Goldberg Lecture: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Thursday 5/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world's attention with Infidel, the acclaimed, eye-opening memoir of her Muslim childhood in Africa and Saudi...
Jonathan Tisch: Active Citizenship
Thursday 5/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
This evening focuses on how individuals are making a difference in America and the world through active citizenship and are more...
The Morning After Girls / Carney
Thursday 5/20 @ The Mercury Lounge
Over the past year and a half, the morning after girls have taken the time to reflect upon their journey so...
Thursday 5/20 @ The Bowery Presents
Over the clatter of piano and strum of an electric guitar that opens his fourth studio album, Josh Ritter leaps into...
The Campaign Work-in-Progress Screening
Thursday 5/20 @ 92YTribeca
Director Christie Herring in person for panel discussion moderated by Judith Helfand. Co-presented by Chicken & Egg Pictures and Working...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/20 @ 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....
Thursday 5/20 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ Deitch Projects
What else is there to add to the volume of words dedicated to the art, commerce, and character of iconic American...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ Cherry Lane Theatre
The premise of Oliver Parker is morbid — Jasper is an aged, down-and-out alcoholic. His caretaker is Oliver Parker — a...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ Various locations
Hopefully you've been riding your bike all month (or year, of course) long, as May is Bike Month in NYC. But...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Thursday 5/20 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
The Talking Band's New Islands Archipelago takes its audience on a cruise aboard the SS Azure — one of 3LD's performing...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Thursday 5/20 @ The Irondale Center
Sarah Ruhl — who is up for a Tony Award for her latest play, In the Next Room, (or the vibrator...
Thursday 5/20 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
Neon legwarmers, Vespa scooters, and rising from the dead. These are all things that come to mind at the utterance of...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Thursday 5/20 @ 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....
Dudamania in New York! LA Philharmonic at Lincoln Center
Thursday 5/20 @ Lincoln Center
The 2009 premiere of John Adams's City Noir by the LA Philharmonic under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel was widely praised....
Thursday 5/20 @ 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:...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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....
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ Access Theater
Flux faced a crisis when denied performing rights to JB. And though it would have been worthwhile seeing this adventurous group...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ Deluxx Fluxx
Street-art and graphics duo Faile team up with fellow collagist Bäst to open Deluxx Fluxx NYC, the New York edition of...
Thursday 5/20 @ St. Mark's Church
In the final play of its Americana Trilogy, the deceptively congenial Debate Society lays out incongruities that, at first glance, look...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 5/20 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
The Glass House is an apt metaphor for a brilliant man who created...
Thursday 5/20 @ The Red Room
There are many ways to end an argument, and a group of roommates creates an unusual one giving them both the...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
AsiaStore Asian American Designer Series
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From The Diaphragm
Thursday 5/20 @ Performance Space 122
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From The Diaphragm, a performance piece that dissects the hey day of 1970s American daytime television chat...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Prehistoric Special Effects: The Art of Charles R. Knight
Thursday 5/20 @ BAM
Brooklyn-born Charles R. Knight's remarkable renderings of prehistoric beasts had a profound impact on early
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ 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
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ Terminal 5
The King of Disco-Punk. The Godfather of the Remix. The Supreme Eminent Archon of Dance. I don't know who any of...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Thursday 5/20 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
