Events on Friday, July 2
Friday 7/ 2 @ 88 Palace
As New York party promoters go, the Flashing Lights crew isn't interested in keeping things classy. Nope, they much prefer to...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Old American Can Factory
Tonight's Rooftop Films edition focuses on issues of manufacture, industry, and evolution — but not in the ways you might think...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Under St. Marks
Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko — host of the weekly storytelling show Sideshow Goshko at Comix — brings her one-woman show about...
Orchestre Septentrional d'Haiti at Midsummer Night Swing
Friday 7/ 2 @ Lincoln Center
After six decades with a rotating lineup of Haiti's finest musicians, the maverick big band Orchestre Septentrional d'Haiti still...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Scream (from D.C.) plus Lionize, Dykstra Baileys Crossroads, Virginia lays just a few miles outside of DC, but in the...
The Freedom Party @ (le) poisson rouge
Friday 7/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
21+
Doors Open 11:00 pm
Ladies: free before midnight, $10 after
Men: $10 before 2:00am, $15...
Badfish: A Tribute To Sublime @ Brooklyn Bowl
Friday 7/ 2 @ The Bowery Presents
Also Performing: Maui Waui / Urkel & The Winslows
Huntsville / Opsvik & Jennings
Friday 7/ 2 @ Joe's Pub
Norway’s Huntsville delves further into an adventurous crossbreed of rock, drones, country, jazz and electro-acoustic improvisation....
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 7/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday July 2nd, 2010 10pm doors & show
FREE
21+
Gallery Event
Crooked Disco featuring...
Stumblebum Brass Band / Ippazzi
Friday 7/ 2 @ The Mercury Lounge
"The Stumblebum Brass Band's gritty, whiskey-soaked songs like 'Smokin' and Drinkin' rile up guests with Mardi Gras verve." - New York...
Gallery Talk: Tutankhamun's Funeral
Friday 7/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition, on view through September 6, explores ritual objects and embalming materials associated with the burial of the "boy-king" Tutankhamun...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 92YTribeca
An extraordinary visual feast from the director of The Mighty Boosh, featuring the crème-de-la-crème of British comedy talent, including Noel Fielding,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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,...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Angelika Film Center
Perfect Storm author and pub owner Sebastian Junger, and photographer Tim Hetherington, deployed to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan for Restrepo,...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
Questioning the notion of beauty, German photographer Martin Schoeller takes pictures of female bodybuilders, whose feminine heads seem grafted to muscular...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Various locations in Litchfield
Just a two-hour drive from the city, Litchfield, Connecticut is a great escape for stressed-out city dwellers. Home to a stellar...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 303 Gallery
303 Gallery says: For this show, Graham approaches a full synthesis of his itinerant interests in art and music. The exhibition...
Friday 7/ 2 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Joe's Pub
We must admit that Paula Abdul, while no stranger to controversy, has savvy. At least enough to know that throwing a...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
In Harun Farocki's Inextinguishable Fire, a man seated at a table asks, "How can we show you napalm in action?... When...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The MoMA's film collection may not be as old as the Declaration of Independence but it does embody similar principles. Perhaps...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Walkerspace
Identity struggles are universal. In The Zero Hour, playwright Madeleine George juxtaposes Rebecca, a young woman struggling with her own sexual...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Hauser & Wirth New York
The canvases of Jakub Julian Ziolkowski — whose work was last seen in the New Museum's 2009 group exhibition Younger than...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Various locations
Alain Resnais' Wild Grass follows an irrational pair of would-be lovers through a series of unsettling, amusing, and often surreal misadventures....
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Friday 7/ 2 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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,...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Friday 7/ 2 @ Performance Space 122
Is your house getting cluttered with messy gadgets and wires? Wash 'em out with Performance Space 122's first annual gadget wash....
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Friday 7/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography. Drawn almost entirely from the Met’s collection, Between Here and...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 2 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
The Octoroon: An Adaptation of The Octoroon Based on The Octoroon
Friday 7/ 2 @ Performance Space 122
What's black and white and red all over? An American playwright (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins of Neighbors at the Public) tackles nineteenth-century Irish...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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,...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Summer Fiction Sale! 30% off all of July!
Friday 7/ 2 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Whether you’re on the beach or the B-Train, you need some hot summer reads. That’s why all fiction is 30% off...
