Events on Wednesday, June 9
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In honor of Pride Month here in New York, the Rubin explores LGBT life on the other side of the world...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Belles Heures of Jean de Berry is one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated manuscripts in this country. Because...
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 06.09.10
Rich Medina and Akalepse Present
Props
10pm
$5 before midnight & $10 after.
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Selected Shorts: Audience Favorite Stories
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ Symphony Space
Your chance to hear your favorite story performed by a terrific actor. Throughout the season you'll be able to send in...
Selected Shorts Audience Favorites
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ Symphony Space
Your chance to hear your favorite story performed by a terrific actor. Throughout the season you sent in story suggestions, and...
Women and Finance: Informed, Inspired, Empowered with Suze Orman and others
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Suze Orman, Karen Finerman, Alexandra Lebenthal / Julie Menin, moderator
Join these...
Rachel Greenwald: Successful Single Woman's Dating Guide
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
In a special appearance at 92Y, nationally acclaimed matchmaker and best-selling author Rachel Greenwald brings her considerable experience to bear as...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser in person for post-screening Q&A. Part of our Eat This Film series.
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Junip (José González , Elias Araya & Tobias Winterkorn)
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Junip (José González , Elias Araya & Tobias Winterkorn) plus Mountain Man Junip was formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in the...
School Of Seven Bells - 2 nights
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ The Mercury Lounge
6/9/2010 & 6/10/2010 Like many bands before them, School of Seven Bells were born as the result of a late-night revelation....
Matmos and So Percussion @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 06.09.10
Matmos
and So Percussion
7:00pm doors | 7:30pm show
$16 advance | $18 day...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Today's surgical teams use robotic and image-processing systems to assist them in the planning and execution of surgical procedures. The benefits...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Various locations
It's baaaaaaaack! Internet Week is simply the event of the season for New York techies, Silicon Alley residents, designers, bloggers, and...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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:...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Clic Gallery
Before there was Patrick McMullen there was Ron Galella—celebrity photographer who sometimes donned a football helmet to get the shot. Jackie...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ Astor Center
Enthusiastic and adventurous eaters, rejoice! The first Gourmet Latino Festival brings together the top tier of Latin American chefs and mixologists...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ HERE Arts Center
Paris Syndrome is a genuine disorder experienced primarily by female Japanese tourists where their French culture shock is so great that...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Attn writers! Deadly essay contest
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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,...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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,...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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,...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 6/ 9 @ 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...
