Events on Friday, July 30
Spiritualized @ Radio City Music Hall
Friday 7/30 @ The Bowery Presents
We've only got one word for this show: epic. Spiritualized perform Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space live, in...
Books Through Bars: An Evening of Punk Reminiscences
Friday 7/30 @ Freebird Books
Sit back with beer and chips as Eric Davidson, former frontman of New Bomb Turks, tells outrageous tales of his experiences...
Friday 7/30 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his performance as a Southern Lawyer defending a Black man in the South, in Horace...
Ghost Stepper (feat. Jesse,Luke & Mike G of Lotus)
Friday 7/30 @ The Mercury Lounge
Also Performing: Sonic Spank Ghost Stepper is the side project of Lotus’s Jesse Miller, Luke Miller and Mike Greenfield focusing on...
The Gories with The Revelons / Chicken Snake
Friday 7/30 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Formed in January of 1986 over a six pack of Budweiser and "Scum of the Earth" on the record player. Played...
Breez Evahflowin / Rabbi Darkside
Friday 7/30 @ The Mercury Lounge
Also Performing: Caits Meissner / Eagle Nebula RABBI DARKSIDE is a Buffalo-born Brooklyn-based Hip Hop Artist/Educator and NYC freestyle legend, known...
Friday 7/30 @ Joe's Pub
Singer/Songwriter Marion LoGuidice delivers incantatory lyrics with both with delicacy and power. "Kate Bush but more grounded...
Special acoustic performance by LIGHTS
Friday 7/30 @ Joe's Pub
Twenty-two year-old Toronto singer/songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist LIGHTS has been crafting unique, otherworldly synth-pop since she was 14. LIGHTS’ songs have already garnered over 22 million...
Deathly Essay Contest winners reading
Friday 7/30 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Come here short readings from the winners of the Deathly Essay Contest, brought to you by the Rubin Museum, Killing the...
Friday 7/30 @ The Bowery Presents
THE Cat Empire's message, on stage and in the studio, has always been about breaking down borders: musical, geographic, lingual. But...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 7/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Started by DJ Herbert Holler more than six years ago because, according to him, "music sucked, parties were boring, and people...
Appalachian Voices feat. Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket, Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore
Friday 7/30 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Also playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. SEATTLE, WA – Kentuckians Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket, singer-songwriter Daniel Martin...
Out of Doors--THE WHIZ: Over the Rainbow featuring Nona Hendryx
Friday 7/30 @ Lincoln Center
Nona Hendryx has been a maverick at every stage of
her shape-shifting career, from early days with girl group
...
Out of Doors- Free: Audio Tutu
Friday 7/30 @ Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center becomes the launching pad for a
one-of-a-kind creative transformation, as an unclassifiable
performer explores the campus in...
Crooked Disco feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 7/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Join DJs Morsy and Kestar (AKA the Crooked Disco DJs) for Play Date, their weekly party at its new home,...
Friday 7/30 @ Terminal 5
Seu Jorge comes from the outskirts and hits us directly in the soul...Jorge was once...
Friday 7/30 @ 92YTribeca
No one has transformed a Parisian staircase or a mattress in an otherwise empty room into icons of immediately nostalgic romance...
Get Weird: Lee Ranaldo + Leah Singer and Nick Zinner
Friday 7/30 @ New Museum
Friday 7/30 @ Joe's Pub
A performer of Wikipedian proportions, Storm Large has been singing and slinging inappropriate banter at audiences around the globe for more...
The Seventh Seal screening tonight
Friday 7/30 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Ingmar Bergman stars in this classic about life, death, the existence of God, and a game of chess with the Grim...
Frazey Ford of Be Good Tanyas w/Daniel Wayne @ (le) poisson rouge
Friday 7/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Frazey Ford of Be Good Tanyas w/Daniel Wayne
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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...
The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel
Friday 7/30 @ Surreal Estate
Playwright Bertold Brecht was a ladies' man, but none was more important to him than wife Helene Weigel. This formidable muse/actress/director/manager/activist...
Friday 7/30 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Morrison Hotel Gallery
Though the album was announced in spring 2009, Dark Night of the Soul, a unique collaboration by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and...
Friday 7/30 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Landmark Sunshine
Viral video junkies and Found Film Festival fans: here's a documentary for you. Filmmaker Ben Steinhauer found an industrial video back...
Friday 7/30 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Friday 7/30 @ IFC Center
Sleepless wondering what happened to the Jordan family from the film Happiness? Filmmaker Todd Solondz obviously has been, because he came...
Friday 7/30 @ IFC Center
If you want to be fully prepared come Oscar-pool time, we recommend checking out DocuWeek's smorgasbord of non-fiction fare. Now in...
Friday 7/30 @ American Museum of Natural History
As if city living weren't batty enough, the American Museum of Natural History is taking to Central Park in search of...
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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...
Friday 7/30 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Friday 7/30 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
There are a few more days left to catch 83-year-old British cinematic contrarian Ken Russell in-person at Russellmania, a hit parade...
Friday 7/30 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Cinema Village
Long before Lindsay Lohan was a twinkle in her father's eye, Ron "paparazzi extraordinaire" Galella was figuring out devious ways to shoot...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Friday 7/30 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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...
Friday 7/30 @ Village 7
Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) is hoping her latest film, The Kids Are All Right, proves she's ready for...
Friday 7/30 @ The Duke Theater
Entirely earnest, See Rock City is a far cry from pushing any musical-theatre boundaries, but the show creates its fair share...
Friday 7/30 @ 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:...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Friday 7/30 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Friday 7/30 @ 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,...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 7/30 @ 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
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Summer Fiction Sale! 30% off all of July!
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Friday 7/30 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 7/30 @ 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,...
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Friday 7/30 @ 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....
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Friday 7/30 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Confused by those 40-armed deities? Let Gateway to Himalayan Art break it down for you. In this new introductory exhibition, you'll...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Friday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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....
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Friday 7/30 @ 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
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 7/30 @ 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,...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
Friday 7/30 @ 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...
