Events on Tuesday, July 27

The Flaming Lips

Music

The Flaming Lips

Tuesday 7/27 @ Terminal 5

It's almost impossible to believe that a band can be around for three decades and still remain as fresh and relevant... 

Flick Film Fest

Film: Shorts

Flick Film Fest

Tuesday 7/27 @ IndieScreen

To celebrate the opening (almost!) of Williamsburg's very own cinema, IndieScreen, Flick Film Fest takes over the space for a night... 

Gallery Talk: Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Special Event

Gallery Talk: Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tuesday 7/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This landmark exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on works by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) in the Met's collection. It features... 

The Song Is You: Jerome Kern, The First Standard-Bearer

Special Event

The Song Is You: Jerome Kern, The First Standard-Bearer

Tuesday 7/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

When it comes to the American Songbook, Jerome Kern is Chapter One and
... 

World Record Appreciation Society

Comedy

World Record Appreciation Society

Tuesday 7/27 @ Joe's Pub

Dubbed "Best Oddball Night" by New York Magazine, the World Record Appreciation Society features an ever-changing lineup... 

Music

The National w/ Beach House @ Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park Bandshell

Tuesday 7/27 @ The Bowery Presents

The National is a band of New Yorkers transplanted from Cincinnati: Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, and Scott... 

Film Screening: The Wiz- Free

Film

Film Screening: The Wiz- Free

Tuesday 7/27 @ Lincoln Center

Free film screening of The Wiz, followed by panel discussion with Nicholas Leichter, Monstah Black, and Robin Staff (DanceNOW [NYC]). Moderated... 

Lucy Wainwright Roche

Music

Lucy Wainwright Roche

Tuesday 7/27 @ Joe's Pub

Lucy Wainwright Roche grew up in Greenwich Village, the daughter of two performing musicians--Loudon Wainwright III and... 

NYC ♥ Nashville Benefit Concert @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Music

NYC ♥ Nashville Benefit Concert @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Tuesday 7/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

The NYC ♥ Nashville Benefit Concert will feature diverse artists coming together to raise funds for and awareness of the relief... 

Music

The Black Keys @ Central Park Summerstage

Tuesday 7/27 @ The Bowery Presents

Music

High On Fire

Tuesday 7/27 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

HIGH ON FIRE -- Matt Pike (guitar, vocals), Des... 

Music

JBM w/ Sondre Lerche / Diamond Doves

Tuesday 7/27 @ The Mercury Lounge

Jesse Marchant, who records under his initials, JBM, was born and raised in his family’s homes in... 

Ongoing Events

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 7/27 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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,... 

<em>SWELL: Art 1950-2010</em>

Art

SWELL

Tuesday 7/27 @ NYEHAUS

From Dennis Hopper to Sandow Birk, Andy Moses, Fred Tomaselli, Bruce Conner, George Herms, Jay Mark Johnson, Timothy Williams, Norton Wisdom,... 

Theatre

Lend Me a Tenor

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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,... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 7/27 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>Winnebago Man</em>

Film: Documentary

Winnebago Man

Tuesday 7/27 @ Landmark Sunshine

Viral video junkies and Found Film Festival fans: here's a documentary for you. Filmmaker Ben Steinhauer found an industrial video back... 

<em>Life During Wartime</em>

Film

Life During Wartime

Tuesday 7/27 @ IFC Center

Sleepless wondering what happened to the Jordan family from the film Happiness? Filmmaker Todd Solondz obviously has been, because he came... 

Opening Night: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra

Music: Classical

Opening Night: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra

Tuesday 7/27 @ Lincoln Center

For fans of classical music, this is it. Alternatively, if you're looking for an introduction to the genre, this is a... 

<em>Dead or Alive</em>

Art

Dead or Alive

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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.... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Tuesday 7/27 @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... 

<em>Behind the Screen</em>

Special Event

Behind the Screen

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Premiere Brazil! 2010

Festival: Film

Premiere Brazil!

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Botanica Bar

Get Social: Happy Hour

Botanica

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

The Private Collection of Henry Darger

Art

The Private Collection of Henry Darger

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Printed Matter 8 at Giant Robot New York

Art

Printed Matter 8

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

The Complete Clint Eastwood

Film

The Complete Clint Eastwood

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

<em>Dark Night of the Soul</em>

Art: Photography

Dark Night of the Soul

Tuesday 7/27 @ Morrison Hotel Gallery

Though the album was announced in spring 2009, Dark Night of the Soul, a unique collaboration by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and... 

<em>Puppetry of the Penis</em>

Performing Arts: Puppetry

Puppetry of the Penis

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

<em>Inspired</em>

Art

Inspired

Tuesday 7/27 @ Steven Kasher Gallery

Contemporary photographs inspired by iconic ones are the basis of this exhibit, which includes over 30 well-known and emerging international artists.... 

Green Day's <em>American Idiot</em>

Theatre

American Idiot

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Jakub Ziolkowski: <em>Timothy Galoti & the Dead Brains</em>

Art

Jakub Ziolkowski

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

<em>Black Angels Over Tuskegee</em>

Theatre: Drama

Black Angels Over Tuskegee

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

<em>Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent</em>

Art: Photography

Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent

Tuesday 7/27 @ Umbrage Gallery

With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario... 

<em>Million Dollar Quartet</em>

Theatre

Million Dollar Quartet

Tuesday 7/27 @ Nederlander Theater

Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis... 

Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Litchfield, CT

Getaways

Jauntsetter Weekend Escape

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 7/27 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Martin Schoeller: <em>Female Bodybuilders</em>

Art: Photography

Martin Schoeller

Tuesday 7/27 @ Hasted Hunt Kraeutler

Questioning the notion of beauty, German photographer Martin Schoeller takes pictures of female bodybuilders, whose feminine heads seem grafted to muscular... 

<em>Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum 2</em>

Film

Continuum 2

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

<em> Trust </em>

Theatre

Trust

Tuesday 7/27 @ 2econd Stage Theatre

The aptly-named Trust begins in a dominatrix den, where the dorky Harry — played by Zach Braff — recognizes his mistress... 

<em>Clean Slate for the Pessimist</em>: An Exercise in Default Accountability

Art

Clean Slate for the Pessimist

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

<em>Vestie Davis' New York</em>

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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,... 

<em>SURF/SKATE</em>

Art

SURF/SKATE

Tuesday 7/27 @ Clic Gallery

Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last... 

<em>The Kids Are All Right</em>

Film

The Kids Are All Right

Tuesday 7/27 @ Village 7

Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) is hoping her latest film, The Kids Are All Right, proves she's ready for... 

Bard SummerScape 2010

Getaways

SummerScape 2010

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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:... 

<em>Come Fly Away</em>

Theatre

Come Fly Away

Tuesday 7/27 @ Marquis Theater

See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway.... 

<em>Metallika</em>

Art

Metallika

Tuesday 7/27 @ Monya Rowe Gallery

What do 18 of the most intriguing emerging artists and magpies have in common? They are all famously attracted to shiny... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

King Tut Exhibition

Special Event

King Tut Exhibition

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

PTP/NYC's 24th Repertory Season

Theatre

PTP/NYC

Tuesday 7/27 @ Atlantic Stage Two

This festival, presented in association with Middlebury College, is a nice cerebral alternative to sweet summer programming. All three plays are... 

Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas

Special Event

Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950&ndash;1980

Art: Photography

Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View

Special Event

Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

The Absolutely Other

Art

The Absolutely Other

Tuesday 7/27 @ The Kitchen

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Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana

Art

Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Contemporary Tibetan art show

Art

Contemporary Tibetan art show

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bamb&uacute;

Art

Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography

Art: Photography

Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered

Art

Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!

Fashion/Style: Shopping

AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo

Art

An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Summer Fiction Sale! 30% off all of July!

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks

Art

Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die

Art

Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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,... 

Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bamb&uacute;

Special Event

Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos

Special Event

Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950&ndash;1980

Art: Photography

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met

Special Event

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Mariko Mori: Kumano

Special Event

Mariko Mori: Kumano

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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,... 

Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity

Fashion/Style

Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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

Special Event: Fundraisers

Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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.... 

Tours

Art

Tours

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Tutankhamun's Funeral

Art

Tutankhamun's Funeral

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open

Special Event

Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tuesday 7/27 @ 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...