Events on Tuesday, July 20
The Extra Man Preview Screening w/ Kevin Kline and Paul Dano
Tuesday 7/20 @ 92YTribeca
A young man who fashions himself a hero from an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. A broke but brilliant playwright and escort...
Neil Nathan: Record and Video Release Party
Tuesday 7/20 @ Highline Ballroom
Neil Nathan might not be a household name, but we're adding a big fat "yet" to the end of that statement....
Tuesday 7/20 @ KGB Bar
Pamela August Russell takes the poetry establishment head-on in her book of deliberately "bad" verse. In truth, only a gifted and...
Gallery Talk: An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Tuesday 7/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join curator Linda Wolk-Simon as she visits the special exhibition An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo,...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
From Gershwin to Berlin, Mancini to Mandel, jazz musicians have always embraced the great songs of the silver screen. Hear "Somewhere...
Jesse Ruben with special guest Chris Ayer
Tuesday 7/20 @ Joe's Pub
The 23-year-old, Philadelphia-bred singer/songwriter Jesse Ruben freely confides that he’s done a bit of “obsessing” over his just-released new album, The Ones That Matter. Not...
Tuesday 7/20 @ The Mercury Lounge
Robert Francis is a singer/songwriter from Los Angeles. His debut full-length, One By One, was released in August 2007 by Aeronaut Records. An...
Beats and Breaks w/ Greenways8 at LPR
Tuesday 7/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Beats and Breaks is the monthly party of Greenways8, spinning old school hip hop, trip-hop, funk, electronic, mashups, and of course...
Grupo Fantasma and Zizek Collective @ (le) poisson rouge
Tuesday 7/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The progressive genius of Grupo Fantasma, now in the 10th year of it's long and intriguing musical journey, comes to...
Preview screening of 'Get Low' and discussion with director Aaron Schneider
Tuesday 7/20 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Join Museum of the Moving at the Loews 34th Street Theater in Midtown for a preview screening of Get Low. The...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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,...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/20 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ Giant Robot New York
Giant Robot's Printed Matter series has established itself as the place to hunt for great original artwork by up-and-coming artists on...
Tuesday 7/20 @ Morrison Hotel Gallery
Though the album was announced in spring 2009, Dark Night of the Soul, a unique collaboration by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and...
Tuesday 7/20 @ Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
Questioning the notion of beauty, German photographer Martin Schoeller takes pictures of female bodybuilders, whose feminine heads seem grafted to muscular...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
While this may not be Brazil's year for football, MoMA is betting on the country's filmmaking with the return of Premiere...
Tuesday 7/20 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ Landmark Sunshine
Viral video junkies and Found Film Festival fans: here's a documentary for you. Filmmaker Ben Steinhauer found an industrial video back...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/20 @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street
Watching two adult naked men contort their private parts into such amazing "installations" as "The Slowly-Emerging Crustacean," "The Sombrero" and "The...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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,...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Tuesday 7/20 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Tuesday 7/20 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
In the movie business, summer is about franchises, which means it's the perfect time to celebrate the king of the recurring...
Tuesday 7/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 7/20 @ Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
The Spiegeltent at Bard's annual SummerScape boasts an interior design that would make any Upper East Side apartment-dweller swoon with jealousy:...
Tuesday 7/20 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/20 @ Performance Space 122
underground zero's festival program covers a great deal of ground. Here are a few highlights. Underground pop art deity Andy Warhol...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ Village 7
Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) is hoping her latest film, The Kids Are All Right, proves she's ready for...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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,...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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,...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Tuesday 7/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, the Met opened a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will be...
Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos
Tuesday 7/20 @ Asia Society and Museum
This exhibition presents the varied approaches of five contemporary artists to the medium of single-channel video. The simplicity of this video...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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 7/20 @ 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!
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Varèse:(R)evolution The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse at Lincoln Center Festival
Tuesday 7/20 @ Lincoln Center
Varèse was a unique character in the progressive classical music scene and embodied the technical advancements that characterized the 20th century....
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas
Tuesday 7/20 @ Asia Society and Museum
The Himalayas are home to some of the world's most magnificent peaks and largest glaciers, which supply crucial seasonal flows to...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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....
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Tuesday 7/20 @ 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...
