Events on Thursday, May 27
Dumplings: The Ubiquitous Dough
Thursday 5/27 @ Tenement Museum
From wontons to pierogis, the dumpling is a beloved eat in many cuisines. Wai Hon Chu, the chef behind the cred-securing...
Duck Down "It's OK to Wear White Again" Party
Thursday 5/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
It's OK to Wear White Again! Duck Down Music, celebrating its 15 year Anniversary, is ushering in Summer with an exciting...
Newt Gingrich in Conversation with Jeff Greenfield
Thursday 5/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Hear from the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives about the challenges facing America today. Newt Gingrich was the...
Afghanistan's Imperative, with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah
Thursday 5/27 @ Asia Society and Museum
"Confronting the Critical Challenges of Reform, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation" Featuring Dr. Abdullah Abdullah; Candidate of the 2009 Afghan Presidential Election and Former Afghan...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ The Mercury Lounge
Sounds like a couple of redbreasts were perched in a tree and given a stick one day, one began tapping and...
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Thursday 5/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents these two films to accompany the special exhibition American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view now through...
Sara Gruen, Lee Child, Edmund Morris: Sneak Preview by Bestselling Authors of their Fall Books
Thursday 5/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Due in September from Sara Gruen, whose Water for Elephants was a #1 best seller and a reading group favorite, Ape...
Goodreads.com Literary Pub Crawl with Colson Whitehead, Emily St. John Mandel and Amy King
Thursday 5/27 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Channel John Cheever and Dorothy Parker with a night of fun in SoHo, Nolita and the East Village. Start at Housing...
Thursday 5/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Oja is a producer, DJ, educator and activist whose life work is to create, connect & be part of the global...
Dylan Fest 2010: A Night To Get Drunk And Celebrate The Songs Of Bob Dylan!
Thursday 5/27 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Happy 69th Birthday Bob! Featuring The Cabin Down Below Band and tons of Special Guests! With Special Guests: Fab Moretti and...
Joe Edley: Scrabble Master Class
Thursday 5/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
A Scrabble enthusiast's delight! Spend a unique evening of strategy and reasoning with three-time National Scrabble Champion Joe Edley. All levels...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 -...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ Deitch Projects
What else is there to add to the volume of words dedicated to the art, commerce, and character of iconic American...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ Various locations
BookExpo America, the country's annual book and publishing tradeshow, has chosen NYC as its home for the next several years, and...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ The Irondale Center
Sarah Ruhl — who is up for a Tony Award for her latest play, In the Next Room, (or the vibrator...
Thursday 5/27 @ 303 Gallery
303 Gallery says: For this show, Graham approaches a full synthesis of his itinerant interests in art and music. The exhibition...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Thursday 5/27 @ 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....
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 5/27 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Thursday 5/27 @ The Red Room
There are many ways to end an argument, and a group of roommates creates an unusual one giving them both the...
Thursday 5/27 @ City Center Studios
Here's an opportunity to discover a true artistic rebel, during a weekend celebrating freedom. Isadora Duncan discarded fancy costumes (though hers...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
Neon legwarmers, Vespa scooters, and rising from the dead. These are all things that come to mind at the utterance of...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
It seems like the city's been a flurry of artwork, all dealing with process. Whether we're viewing the installation of an...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
The Glass House is an apt metaphor for a brilliant man who created...
Thursday 5/27 @ Cherry Lane Theatre
The premise of Oliver Parker is morbid — Jasper is an aged, down-and-out alcoholic. His caretaker is Oliver Parker — a...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 Wind Journeys (Los Viajes del Viento)
Thursday 5/27 @ 92YTribeca
For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo travelled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary...
Thursday 5/27 @ Asia Society and Museum
A staged concert to benefit Asia Society
A small-time Chinese fortune hunter dreams of making it big as...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Thursday 5/27 @ 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
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Thursday 5/27 @ 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—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 5/27 @ 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
Thursday 5/27 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Thursday 5/27 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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
Thursday 5/27 @ 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
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 5/27 @ 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 5/27 @ 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...
Eiko & Koma Retrospective Project I: Regeneration
Thursday 5/27 @ Asia Society and Museum
Danspace Project, in association with Asia Society, presents:
City/Dans:
Eiko & Koma
Retrospective Project I:...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
soloNOVA Arts Festival - EXTENDED thru June 6
Thursday 5/27 @ Performance Space 122
The soloNOVA Arts Festival has been EXTENDED!!
terraNOVA collective and Performance Space 122 present 4 breakthrough performers from this year's...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 5/27 @ 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
Thursday 5/27 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Thursday 5/27 @ 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...
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From The Diaphragm
Thursday 5/27 @ Performance Space 122
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From The Diaphragm, a performance piece that dissects the hey day of 1970s American daytime television chat...
