Events on Wednesday, May 26
Wednesday 5/26 @ 92YTribeca
Half Lotus, Unity, and Heaven Is Waiting. These are not elements within the rituals of some secret society. They are three...
Wednesday 5/26 @ powerHouse Arena
The second-annual BEA Tweetup, coinciding with Book Expo America (happening this week at the Javits Center), is the largest Twitter-ful gathering...
Literary Readings: Salman Rushdie
Wednesday 5/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Salman Rushdie has said that he wrote his new novel, Luka and the Fire of Life, for his young son—and in...
Gorguts / Krallice / Portal / Bloody Panda
Wednesday 5/26 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
This Quebec, Canada-based death metal band, formed by Luc Lemay (vocals), Sylvain Marcoux (guitar), Eric Giguere (bass) and Stephane Provencher (drums),...
Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos.com)
Wednesday 5/26 @ Asia Society and Museum
As the CEO of Zappos.com, Tony Hsieh has achieved phenomenal company growth through revolutionary approaches to marketing, human resources and customer...
Wednesday 5/26 @ The Bowery Ballroom
How 27 year-old Holly Miranda arrived at The Magician’s Private Library is a tale every bit as wild as the record’s...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Rosa Rodriguez
Dress to impress by enhancing your skin tone with the...
Why Documentaries Matter with Rosie O'Donnell and Other Guests
Wednesday 5/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Moderated by Sheila Nevins
Join this stellar panel as they discuss documentary films and what...
Wednesday 5/26 @ The Mercury Lounge
People often find it hard to categorize the music of Trampled by Turtles. Is it bluegrass? Not quite. Is it folk?...
Wednesday 5/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
John and Molly Knefel host a night of some of the best independent comedy in the city, with no cover, no...
Stories by Writers from This American Life with Special Guest Ira Glass
Wednesday 5/26 @ Symphony Space
Two of the most popular public radio series distributed by PRI join forces for an evening of surprising stories by contributors...
Opera in HD: Wagner's Das Rheingold
Wednesday 5/26 @ Symphony Space
Das Rheingold - LIVE from Teatro alla Scala, Milan Performed at: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy, May 26, 2010
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Rich Medina and Akalepse Present Props
Wednesday 5/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Choice defines the man. Rich Medina has made a life based on one choice that has transformed the listening experience of...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Laurie Schapira In myth, Cassandra was blessed by Apollo with the gift of prophecy but then cursed so that no one...
The Physics of Music: A Hands-On Multimedia Exploration of the Known and Unknown
Wednesday 5/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Fernand Brunschwig, PhD and Ben Grow; what is music and why do we respond to it...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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....
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Wednesday 5/26 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Wednesday 5/26 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
Neon legwarmers, Vespa scooters, and rising from the dead. These are all things that come to mind at the utterance of...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Avery Fisher Hall
It's been a long time coming, but these performances of György Ligeti's absurdist operatic masterpiece put the NY Philharmonic firmly -...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Various locations
BookExpo America, the country's annual book and publishing tradeshow, has chosen NYC as its home for the next several years, and...
Wednesday 5/26 @ The Irondale Center
Sarah Ruhl — who is up for a Tony Award for her latest play, In the Next Room, (or the vibrator...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Deitch Projects
What else is there to add to the volume of words dedicated to the art, commerce, and character of iconic American...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 5/26 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
The Glass House is an apt metaphor for a brilliant man who created...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 303 Gallery
303 Gallery says: For this show, Graham approaches a full synthesis of his itinerant interests in art and music. The exhibition...
Wednesday 5/26 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ The Red Room
There are many ways to end an argument, and a group of roommates creates an unusual one giving them both the...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Wednesday 5/26 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
soloNOVA Arts Festival - EXTENDED thru June 6
Wednesday 5/26 @ Performance Space 122
The soloNOVA Arts Festival has been EXTENDED!!
terraNOVA collective and Performance Space 122 present 4 breakthrough performers from this year's...
Wednesday 5/26 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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! Remember That You Will Die
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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,...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 5/26 @ Asia Society and Museum
A staged concert to benefit Asia Society
A small-time Chinese fortune hunter dreams of making it big as...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
Final screening: Journey from Zanskar
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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 5/26 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Attn writers! Deadly essay contest
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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,...
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From The Diaphragm
Wednesday 5/26 @ Performance Space 122
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From The Diaphragm, a performance piece that dissects the hey day of 1970s American daytime television chat...
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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
Wednesday 5/26 @ 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...
