Events on Friday, May 28
Friday 5/28 @ The Mercury Lounge
This retro West-coast band brings the best of Northern Soul and Motown hooks to the Merc, where frontman Fitz totally makes...
Twin Sister Record Release Party
Friday 5/28 @ Glasslands Gallery
Kick off your Memorial Day Weekend with Twin Sister, Lost Boy and Data Dog. Get there early for open bar with...
Friday 5/28 @ The Mercury Lounge
Youth is wasted on the young. Attack Release plays fury without the folly, resignation without the drama, modern boredom without the...
Tonight: Arlo Guthrie's daughter in concert
Friday 5/28 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Sarah Lee Guthrie was two years old when she made her singing debut as part of a children's chorus on Arlo's...
Friday 5/28 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Junk Science / Das Racist plus Tone Tank & Scott Thorough JUNK SCIENCE is Baje One on the mic and...
Holy Fuck @ (le) poisson rouge
Friday 5/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Holy Fuck w/ Nice Nice
7:00pm doors | 8:00pm show
$14 advance | $16 day of show
18+...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/28 @ BAM
DanceAfrica offers traditional music and dance, such as the Pamodzi Dance Troupe from Zambia, as well as American companies, including Brooklyn's...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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:...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
The Glass House is an apt metaphor for a brilliant man who created...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Friday 5/28 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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,...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ Deitch Projects
What else is there to add to the volume of words dedicated to the art, commerce, and character of iconic American...
Friday 5/28 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Friday 5/28 @ 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,...
Friday 5/28 @ 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....
Friday 5/28 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 5/28 @ 303 Gallery
303 Gallery says: For this show, Graham approaches a full synthesis of his itinerant interests in art and music. The exhibition...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 5/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its new...
Friday 5/28 @ 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 -...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ Various locations
Hopefully you've been riding your bike all month (or year, of course) long, as May is Bike Month in NYC. But...
Friday 5/28 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ The Irondale Center
Sarah Ruhl — who is up for a Tony Award for her latest play, In the Next Room, (or the vibrator...
Friday 5/28 @ 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
Friday 5/28 @ 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....
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 5/28 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
Neon legwarmers, Vespa scooters, and rising from the dead. These are all things that come to mind at the utterance of...
Friday 5/28 @ Sputnik
Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ Various locations
BookExpo America, the country's annual book and publishing tradeshow, has chosen NYC as its home for the next several years, and...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ Cherry Lane Theatre
The premise of Oliver Parker is morbid — Jasper is an aged, down-and-out alcoholic. His caretaker is Oliver Parker — a...
Friday 5/28 @ 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
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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
Friday 5/28 @ 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
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Eiko & Koma Retrospective Project I: Regeneration
Friday 5/28 @ Asia Society and Museum
Danspace Project, in association with Asia Society, presents:
City/Dans:
Eiko & Koma
Retrospective Project I:...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Friday 5/28 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 5/28 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night from 7-10pm, the Rubin Museum is free to everyone. Have a drink with friends in the K2 Lounge,...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 5/28 @ 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
Friday 5/28 @ Performance Space 122
The soloNOVA Arts Festival has been EXTENDED!!
terraNOVA collective and Performance Space 122 present 4 breakthrough performers from this year's...
Friday 5/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Admission is free for all visitors during Target Free Friday Nights, sponsored by Target, every Friday evening, 4:00–8:00 p.m. Tickets for...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 5/28 @ 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
Friday 5/28 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 5/28 @ 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
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ 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....
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Friday 5/28 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Each week a new excerpt from famed playwright Jean Claude van Itallie's poetic adaptation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 5/28 @ 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,...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
The Wind Journeys (Los Viajes del Viento)
Friday 5/28 @ 92YTribeca
For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo travelled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Friday 5/28 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Attn writers! Deadly essay contest
Friday 5/28 @ 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,...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
