Events on Wednesday, June 23
Wednesday 6/23 @ BookCourt
"The '80s ended for me a long time ago," said Bret Easton Ellis in a recent interview with T Magazine. "But...
Teen zine and artist book festival
Wednesday 6/23 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Teen Zine and Artist Book Festival is a celebration of writing, art, independent media, and self-publishing for all NYC teens...
Tortoise and Aethereal Bace @ Le Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 6/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 06.23.10
Tortoise and Aethereal Base
presented by Carefusion Jazz Festival New York
8:00pm doors | 9:00pm...
Broadway Impact's Summer Series at Joe's Pub
Wednesday 6/23 @ Joe's Pub
Celebrate NYC Pride week with Broadway Impact as we kick off our summer concert series to support equality. Cast members from...
Wednesday 6/23 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Also Performing: Julian Lage Group “Antifogmatic” is a bit of bygone slang that mandolinist Chris Thile and his bandmates stumbled across,...
Wednesday 6/23 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Off With Their Heads plus Dear Landlord Detournement Dirt Bike Annie Fresh off vigorous performances at SXSW, rabble-rousing punk rock...
Wednesday 6/23 @ Symphony Space
CareFusion Jazz Festival New York The Sidney Bechet Society, dedicated to preserving the legacy of saxophone great Sidney Bechet, presents a...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 92YTribeca
Part of Cinema Tropical's Music+Film / Janeiro In New York Summer Series.
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Wednesday 6/23 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Rosa Rodriguez
Dress to impress by enhancing your skin tone with the...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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....
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 6/23 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
Neon legwarmers, Vespa scooters, and rising from the dead. These are all things that come to mind at the utterance of...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ Various locations
From Gramercy Park to Central Park, this city is a maze of public and private spaces. For a few weeks, New...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ Walkerspace
Identity struggles are universal. In The Zero Hour, playwright Madeleine George juxtaposes Rebecca, a young woman struggling with her own sexual...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ 303 Gallery
303 Gallery says: For this show, Graham approaches a full synthesis of his itinerant interests in art and music. The exhibition...
Wednesday 6/23 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ Gallery Nine5
Through collage and digital alteration of fashion and weekly magazines, artist Sali Taylor explores the intrinsic paradox in the roles women...
Wednesday 6/23 @ Clic Gallery
Before there was Patrick McMullen there was Ron Galella—celebrity photographer who sometimes donned a football helmet to get the shot. Jackie...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ Ohio Theatre
By the end of summer, the Ohio Theatre will pass into history and become prime downtown retail space. Before that happens,...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 6/23 @ Various locations
New Yorkers think they have it pretty gourmet at the movies already, with indie houses offering cappuccinos and cupcakes to go...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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....
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Wednesday 6/23 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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,...
Please Help Support PS122's 30th Anniversary Season!
Wednesday 6/23 @ Performance Space 122
MAKE A SPLASH. Help us reach 50K by midnight TONIGHT!
We are entering a critical and momentous year at Performance...
Wednesday 6/23 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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,...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Wednesday 6/23 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Wednesday 6/23 @ Asia Society and Museum
Shop AsiaStore’s sale event and enjoy special savings on designer samples, select accessories, jewelry, textiles, home accents, books, and CDs. Asia Society...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Tere O'Connor Dance: Wrought Iron Fog
Wednesday 6/23 @ New York Live Arts
Dance Theater Workshop, in association with Tere O’Connor Dance, presents a return engagement of O’Connor’s Wrought Iron Fog. In a move...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/23 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Attn writers! Deadly essay contest
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 6/23 @ 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 6/23 @ BAM
Presented for the first time in its complete French version, Jules Dassin's (Rififi, Night and the City) steamy, powerful potboiler unites...
