Events on Thursday, June 17
The Moth StorySLAM! Theme: Fathers
Thursday 6/17 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Get your tix now, because StorySLAMS are immensely popular and almost always sell out. Tonight's timely theme is fathers (awwww), so...
Thursday 6/17 @ The Diamond
We're not really big on matchmaking (outside of Fiddler on the Roof, natch), but WORD has swayed us with this Matchmaking...
Thursday 6/17 @ Joe's Pub
Beth Nielsen Chapman, considered by many to be one of the pre-eminent singer/songwriters of her generation, has...
Justin Currie ( of Del Amitri )
Thursday 6/17 @ Joe's Pub
Thought by many to be a significantly underrated songwriter, Justin Currie’s new album may prove to be his crowning jewel, with...
The London Souls / Wormburner / John Biz & New Morning / Lorraine Leckie
Thursday 6/17 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The London Souls are rock’n'roll, straight up with the slightest twist of soul and a little dash of the blues. They...
Jethro Tull w/ Procol Harum @ CMAC (Canandiagua, NY)
Thursday 6/17 @ The Bowery Presents
Early in 1968, a group of young British musicians, born from the ashes of various failed regional bands gathered together in...
6/17-6/18 The Lee Boys @ Brooklyn Bowl
Thursday 6/17 @ The Bowery Presents
The Lee Boys are one of America’s finest African-American sacred steel ensembles. This family group consists of three brothers, Alvin Lee...
Thursday 6/17 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Jennifer O'Connor plus Amy Bezunartea Big Stuff The phrase “female singer-songwriter” has been tarnished by hordes of over-emoting waifs making...
Thursday 6/17 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
An elusive new project from composer Alan Palomo. Neon Indian delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, Dreampop lullabies, and grinding guitar noise...
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: London Calling – LIVE in Hyde Park
Thursday 6/17 @ Symphony Space
Limited Theatrical Release to benefit
Carmen Consoli and Jose Conde @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 6/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Jump 'n Funk: Tony Allen w/ Janka Nabay @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 6/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Thursday 6/17 @ The Bowery Presents
After a Grammy nomination, and top 10 albums in The New Yorker and Time Magazine, Tift Merritt took hiatus with a...
Thursday 6/17 @ 92YTribeca
New York Premiere. Film subjects John Brzenk and Travis Bagent will be in attendance in addition to the directors and producer....
Ongoing Events
Thursday 6/17 @ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
Off-off Broadway troupe Nylon Fusion returns with a staging of Lope de Vega's rarely produced 17th-century play, Fuente Ovejuna. Ostensibly, the...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ Various Locations Along the BQE
Designed to look like a large-scale guerilla marketing campaign, this project, which began as a critique of the appropriation of art...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Thursday 6/17 @ HERE Arts Center
Paris Syndrome is a genuine disorder experienced primarily by female Japanese tourists where their French culture shock is so great that...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 303 Gallery
303 Gallery says: For this show, Graham approaches a full synthesis of his itinerant interests in art and music. The exhibition...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ IFC Center
Joan Rivers lays her cards on the table in this craftily constructed year-in-the-life documentary. A self-proclaimed actress who has just been...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ Gallery Nine5
Through collage and digital alteration of fashion and weekly magazines, artist Sali Taylor explores the intrinsic paradox in the roles women...
Thursday 6/17 @ Theatre 80
In the past two years, the Amoralists have become one of the most daring, complex, and original downtown theatre companies —...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ Matcha Box
Green tea is an ancient tradition, but this Japanese staple gets a thoroughly modern update with Matcha Box, a pop-up store...
Thursday 6/17 @ BAM
There's a lot of quality, mostly indie cinema included in this year's BAMcinemaFEST, but we're particularly excited for the latest feature...
Thursday 6/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ Clic Gallery
Before there was Patrick McMullen there was Ron Galella—celebrity photographer who sometimes donned a football helmet to get the shot. Jackie...
Thursday 6/17 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Thursday 6/17 @ Susan Inglett Gallery
As long-awaited retrospective surveys of 1970's California-based conceptual art go, Stairway to Heaven is actually quite a lively offering. Despite a...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ Various locations
From Gramercy Park to Central Park, this city is a maze of public and private spaces. For a few weeks, New...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Thursday 6/17 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
The festival that delivers a nice big reality check returns to remind us of the atrocities occurring around the world. This...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ The Actors' Temple Theatre
Award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee addreses an overlooked part of history: the first African-American fighter pilots in the...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ Ohio Theatre
By the end of summer, the Ohio Theatre will pass into history and become prime downtown retail space. Before that happens,...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Please Help Support PS122's 30th Anniversary Season!
Thursday 6/17 @ Performance Space 122
MAKE A SPLASH. Help us reach 50K by midnight TONIGHT!
We are entering a critical and momentous year at Performance...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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,...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Thursday 6/17 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Thursday 6/17 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond marks the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In excerpts from a 1988 archival recording, photographer Leon Levinstein talks about his work and the experience of photographing in the...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
Mariko Mori is an internationally renowned Japanese artist. In her video work, Kumano, she appears as a mysterious spirit, a shaman,...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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....
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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 6/17 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Thursday 6/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Thursday 6/17 @ 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...
