Events on Wednesday, July 7
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Littlefield
We've been following singer/songwriter Holly Miranda for a while — mostly because she has some incredibly ardent local fans who won't...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
We wouldn't miss indie lit darlings Shane Jones (Light Boxes), Amelia Gray (AM/PM), and blockbuster Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)...
JC Hopkins Biggish Band with special guests at Midsummer Night Swing
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
Special guests include Joey Arias, Justin Bond, and Lea DeLaria “Hopkins writes swinging material tailor made for a vacuum-tube radio, and...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
Rachel Platten is a New York City singer-songwriter who’s about to change everything. With a rapidly growing...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Rich Medina and DJ Akalepse (the kings of “I never heard ANYONE play this record out ! “) are taking...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Closely Watched Films, hosted by Elliott Kalan. A shocking story of lust, jealousy and trains! Not available...
Greg Laswell / Cary Brothers / Harper Blynn
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
“Greg Laswell is already a critic's darling, and with the right marketing his second album will give him a proper shove...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Terminal 5
"You're only as good as your worst song," says OneRepublic's front man and chief songwriter Ryan Tedder. Not that he knows...
El Guincho w/ Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Born Pablo Díaz-Reixa in the Canary Islands, the Spanish-owned archipelago off the coast of Northwestern Africa, El Guincho found indie blog...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Gordon Gano was the voice & pen at the center of the Violent Femmes' stark & seething musical storm. He can't...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ Various locations
Alain Resnais' Wild Grass follows an irrational pair of would-be lovers through a series of unsettling, amusing, and often surreal misadventures....
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
Questioning the notion of beauty, German photographer Martin Schoeller takes pictures of female bodybuilders, whose feminine heads seem grafted to muscular...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ Angelika Film Center
Perfect Storm author and pub owner Sebastian Junger, and photographer Tim Hetherington, deployed to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan for Restrepo,...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ Walkerspace
Identity struggles are universal. In The Zero Hour, playwright Madeleine George juxtaposes Rebecca, a young woman struggling with her own sexual...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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....
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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!
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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....
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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 7/ 7 @ 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—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday 7/ 7 @ 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...
