Events on Tuesday, May 25
An Hour (or two) with Daniel Handler
Tuesday 5/25 @ Word
Not sure what to swill while reading Swinburne, Woolf, or Wallace? While discussing The Hour, Bernard Devoto's classic essay on the...
Depreciation Guild / Wild Nothing / Braids
Tuesday 5/25 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
"Packs the midrange full with all sorts of shimmery textures-- the lo-res digital snares land with a static-laden splash, ringing guitars...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
We could talk about the practical detail of how this all worked - the ban on any sounds Booka Shade had...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
On May 25th, 75 years ago, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and Hanya Holm performed at 92Y for the first...
Tuesday 5/25 @ The Mercury Lounge
Boyce Avenue, a Florida-based band popular for its strong acoustic roots and melodic rock sound, consists of the three brothers Alejandro,...
Roky Erickson with Okkervil River and Bird of Youth
Tuesday 5/25 @ The Bowery Presents
Legendary rock n roll pioneer Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson hails from Austin, Texas. He is, in the words of music writer...
Dr. Weissbluth Speaks to Parents of Twins
Tuesday 5/25 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Marc Weissbluth answers questions about twins and sleep. His new book is Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins.
Punch Up Your Life: Comedy hosted by Pete Holmes and Joe DeRosa
Tuesday 5/25 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Special Guests TBA. $3 admission.
Sex and the City 2 preview with Michael Patrick King in person
Tuesday 5/25 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Join Museum of the Moving Image at the Beekman Theater for a special preview screening of Sex and the City 2...
Tuesday 5/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Victoria Bergsman wanted to travel to record in a mysterious, relatively uncharted area avoiding the usual clinical studio experience which she...
Tuesday 5/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The fifth annual "Keys to the Future" event features pianists; Amy Briggs, Marina Lomazov, Lisa Moore, and Tatjana Rankovich. Marina Lomazov...
Greg Laswell w/ Jimmy Gnecco (From Ours)
Tuesday 5/25 @ The Bowery Ballroom
“Greg Laswell is already a critic's darling, and with the right marketing his second album will give him a proper shove...
Fan-Tan w/ The Tryptucs / The Hotcakes / The Flying Change
Tuesday 5/25 @ The Mercury Lounge
Fan-Tan formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It began as a duo project of Ryan Lee (vocals, guitar) and Kuki Kooks...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 5/25 @ IFC Center
It's time: Like doves to Capistrano, lovers of the documentary form should head west each Tuesday to catch the best of...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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:...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Cherry Lane Theatre
The premise of Oliver Parker is morbid — Jasper is an aged, down-and-out alcoholic. His caretaker is Oliver Parker — a...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
Neon legwarmers, Vespa scooters, and rising from the dead. These are all things that come to mind at the utterance of...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Various locations
Hopefully you've been riding your bike all month (or year, of course) long, as May is Bike Month in NYC. But...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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,...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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,...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Deitch Projects
What else is there to add to the volume of words dedicated to the art, commerce, and character of iconic American...
Tuesday 5/25 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
The Glass House is an apt metaphor for a brilliant man who created...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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....
Tuesday 5/25 @ The Irondale Center
Sarah Ruhl — who is up for a Tony Award for her latest play, In the Next Room, (or the vibrator...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Tuesday 5/25 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Deluxx Fluxx
Street-art and graphics duo Faile team up with fellow collagist Bäst to open Deluxx Fluxx NYC, the New York edition of...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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....
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 303 Gallery
303 Gallery says: For this show, Graham approaches a full synthesis of his itinerant interests in art and music. The exhibition...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Various locations
BookExpo America, the country's annual book and publishing tradeshow, has chosen NYC as its home for the next several years, and...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Attn writers! Deadly essay contest
Tuesday 5/25 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Killing the Buddha and Obit Mag have teamed up with the Rubin for this deadly essay contest inspired by the exhibition,...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ Asia Society and Museum
A staged concert to benefit Asia Society
A small-time Chinese fortune hunter dreams of making it big as...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Tuesday 5/25 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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,...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/25 @ 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...
