Events on Tuesday, June 8
32nd Annual Museum Mile Festival
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
While you wend your way along Fifth Avenue through curb-to-curb crowds on the car-less stretch of asphalt from the Met for...
The Raspberry Brothers: The Karate Kid
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Just in time for Will Smith's kid and Jackie Chan to ruin our childhood memories of "wax on, wax off," the...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Art Directors Club
Posteriors for posterity? Do we want to see a ChatRoulette exhibitionist's butt rendered in Gamblin oil paint? Maybe. While social media...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Word
Before there was Marcel Dzama and Agnes Montgomery creating covers for Beck and Panda Bear, there was Saul Bass and MJ...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Here We Go Magic is a five-piece band made up of members Luke Temple, Kristina Lieberson, Michael Bloch, Jennifer Turner, and...
Pascalito - New CD Release Concert "Neostalgia" @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 06.08.10
Pascalito - New CD release concert “Neostalgia”
10:00pm doors | 10:30pm show
$15
18+ or...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
This Will Destroy You plus Light Pollution, Slow Six This Will Destroy You are an instrumental quartet from the great...
Here We Go Magic w/ War On Drugs
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Here We Go Magic is a five-piece band made up of members Luke Temple, Kristina Lieberson, Michael Bloch, Jennifer Turner, and...
Christopher Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United...
Cameron Carpenter @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 06.08.10
Cameron Carpenter
6:30pm doors | 7:30pm...
Vince Farrell: Ideas for Value Investing
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Claire B. Benenson and Madeline I. Noveck, moderators
Vince Farrell is chief...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
Neon legwarmers, Vespa scooters, and rising from the dead. These are all things that come to mind at the utterance of...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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,...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Clic Gallery
Before there was Patrick McMullen there was Ron Galella—celebrity photographer who sometimes donned a football helmet to get the shot. Jackie...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Matcha Box
Green tea is an ancient tradition, but this Japanese staple gets a thoroughly modern update with Matcha Box, a pop-up store...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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,...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Various locations
From Gramercy Park to Central Park, this city is a maze of public and private spaces. For a few weeks, New...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Various locations
It's baaaaaaaack! Internet Week is simply the event of the season for New York techies, Silicon Alley residents, designers, bloggers, and...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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:...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Ohio Theatre
By the end of summer, the Ohio Theatre will pass into history and become prime downtown retail space. Before that happens,...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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....
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ HERE Arts Center
Paris Syndrome is a genuine disorder experienced primarily by female Japanese tourists where their French culture shock is so great that...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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....
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ IFC Center
It's time: Like doves to Capistrano, lovers of the documentary form should head west each Tuesday to catch the best of...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ BAM
Perfect for those of us who love soccer — but from the sidelines — this film series covers all the "football"...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ Astor Center
Enthusiastic and adventurous eaters, rejoice! The first Gourmet Latino Festival brings together the top tier of Latin American chefs and mixologists...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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,...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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 “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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
Tuesday 6/ 8 @ 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...
