Events on Friday, June 18
The Ponys w/ Disappears, Woven Bones, and the Forgery Series
Friday 6/18 @ The Mercury Lounge
Beloved Chicago garage rockers the Ponys haven't been idle since their last tour — they've knocked out a new EP, Deathbed...
Annuals / The Most Serene Republic
Friday 6/18 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Annuals The Most Serene Republic What Laura Says Annuals, the North Carolina based 6 piece, have had an incredible ride...
Friday 6/18 @ New Museum
Dutch artist Nicoline van Harskamp will present the US premiere of Expressive Power Series Part 1: Max Bonner on the Phenomenology...
Friday 6/18 @ Joe's Pub
Kimberly Nichole an avant-garde singer, songwriter & mesmerizing performer recently released her debut album "the Yellow Brick Journey". Her acclaimed multi-dimensional...
Friday 6/18 @ Joe's Pub
Legendary cult heroes Elysian Fields have always travelled in...
The Twisted Animation of Patrick Smith
Friday 6/18 @ 92YTribeca
World Premiere of the new short film Masks. Patrick Smith in person for post-screening Q&A.
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Tri-Centric Modeling: Past, Present, and Future @ (le) poisson rouge
Friday 6/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
w/ Anthony Braxton 12+1tet...
Friday 6/18 @ 92YTribeca
A sidebar selection in our Outsider Sports series. Take the thrill of stunts, the excitement of rock'n'roll, fuse them together...
Friday 6/18 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Suckers Seek a Wild and Imaginative Musical Landscape... The experimental side of indie pop has gotten a nice little creative boost...
Robyn Stecher presents the launch of "There's Something About Daniel"
Friday 6/18 @ Joe's Pub
Robyn Stecher launches "There's Something About Daniel" --an evening to Benefit The Lowell School
Guest Artists:
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TamarRaqs Summer Solstice Hafla
Friday 6/18 @ BAM
TamarRaqs Summer Solstice Hafla
Part of BAMcafé Live
Bar opens at 8pm
It wouldn't be the summer...
Friday 6/18 @ Symphony Space
CareFusion Jazz Festival New York The Jazz Gallery's luminary co-founder Roy Hargrove is joined by other veterans of the adventurous non-profit's...
“Enchanted April” (1992) In the Series Costume Design in Film: Reflecting the Period
Friday 6/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
To accompany the exhibition American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view now through August 15, the Met’s Costume Institute presents...
The Freedom Party @ (le) poisson rouge
Friday 6/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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The Freedom Party
w/ DJ Cosi
DJ Herbert Holler
DJ Marc Smooth
DJ Scratch’s...
Friday 6/18 @ The Bowery Presents
Although rooted heavy metal and the punk/hardcore aesthetic, Isis' music relies just as heavily on ambience, atmosphere, and tone as it...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Matcha Box
Green tea is an ancient tradition, but this Japanese staple gets a thoroughly modern update with Matcha Box, a pop-up store...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ Theatre 80
In the past two years, the Amoralists have become one of the most daring, complex, and original downtown theatre companies —...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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,...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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,...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ HERE Arts Center
Paris Syndrome is a genuine disorder experienced primarily by female Japanese tourists where their French culture shock is so great that...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Ohio Theatre
By the end of summer, the Ohio Theatre will pass into history and become prime downtown retail space. Before that happens,...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Botanica Bar
We love this bar. It's our home away from home, our office away from office. You simply can't find nicer bartenders...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 6/18 @ 303 Gallery
303 Gallery says: For this show, Graham approaches a full synthesis of his itinerant interests in art and music. The exhibition...
Friday 6/18 @ Various locations
From Gramercy Park to Central Park, this city is a maze of public and private spaces. For a few weeks, New...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Gallery Nine5
Through collage and digital alteration of fashion and weekly magazines, artist Sali Taylor explores the intrinsic paradox in the roles women...
Friday 6/18 @ Clic Gallery
Before there was Patrick McMullen there was Ron Galella—celebrity photographer who sometimes donned a football helmet to get the shot. Jackie...
Friday 6/18 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern South Asia
Friday 6/18 @ Asia Society and Museum
Featuring William Dalrymple, Paban Das Baul and the Bauls Of Bengal, Shah Jo Raag Fakir, Susheela Raman and Chandu Pannicker Theyyam...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Attn writers! Deadly essay contest
Friday 6/18 @ 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—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 6/18 @ 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,...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ 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....
Please Help Support PS122's 30th Anniversary Season!
Friday 6/18 @ Performance Space 122
MAKE A SPLASH. Help us reach 50K by midnight TONIGHT!
We are entering a critical and momentous year at Performance...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Friday 6/18 @ 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
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Twelfth Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Friday 6/18 @ National Academy Museum
TWELFTH ANNUAL JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION
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FRIDAY, JUNE
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Friday 6/18 @ 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,...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 6/18 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
