Events on Thursday, July 8
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Museum of Sex
The Museum of Sex once again hosts PPNYC's summer fundraiser. While enjoying an open bar for a great cause, check out...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ SVA Theater
Time for Change isn't just a bunch of hippies sounding off on An Inconvenient Truth. The documentary follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ The Bowery Presents
Seattle's Minus the Bear have orbited the music world like a distant meteor, fine-tuning their unique brand of indie rock and...
Kool Bob Love (Bobbito Garcia) / DJ Spinna / Rob Swift / And More
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival '10 and Brooklyn Bodega Presents 'Salute The DJ' - A Tribute to the backbone of Hip-Hop A portion...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Joe's Pub
Typically performing as a solo act, Billy Simons' shows are captivating, acoustic performances featuring beatboxing, guitar tapping,...
Zac Brown Band @ CMAC (Canandiagua, NY)
Thursday 7/ 8 @ The Bowery Presents
Playing upwards of 200 dates a year, more than 3,000 shows in their career and selling more than 30,000 CDs independently,...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Come and join us at the Met’s Young Members Party 2010 on Thursday, July 8, at 7:30 p.m. Cocktails and dancing...
DJ Rekha (of Basement Bhangra) with special guest Red Baraat
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Lincoln Center
“The doyenne of Indian pop in the United States.” – The Boston Globe on DJ Rekha "A raucous, blaring,...
Red Wanting Blue / Amy Lynn & the Gunshow
Thursday 7/ 8 @ The Mercury Lounge
Red Wanting Blue is the hardest working unsigned band in America. With eight studio albums, 10 years of touring and thousands...
Caravan Palace w/ Jose Conde @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 7/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
It all started with a double bass player, a guitarist and a violinist; all highly talented musicians who are really into...
Assembly of Dust @ Brooklyn Bowl - 2 nights!
Thursday 7/ 8 @ The Bowery Presents
7/8/2010 & 7/9/2010
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Outsider Sports. Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo goes behind prison walls to follow convict cowgirls on their...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Joe's Pub
Sophie Hunger’s first studio album "Monday’s Ghost” was released in the spring of 2009, climbing to number one in...
Ongoing Events
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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,...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Angelika Film Center
Perfect Storm author and pub owner Sebastian Junger, and photographer Tim Hetherington, deployed to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan for Restrepo,...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Walkerspace
Identity struggles are universal. In The Zero Hour, playwright Madeleine George juxtaposes Rebecca, a young woman struggling with her own sexual...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
Questioning the notion of beauty, German photographer Martin Schoeller takes pictures of female bodybuilders, whose feminine heads seem grafted to muscular...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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:...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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....
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Various locations
Alain Resnais' Wild Grass follows an irrational pair of would-be lovers through a series of unsettling, amusing, and often surreal misadventures....
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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,...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Harlem Stage
House Dance International brings the dancers out of the club and onto the stage, in a celebration of more experimental dance...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ The Red Room
There are many ways to end an argument, and a group of roommates creates an unusual one giving them both the...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Partnership for Global Learning Annual Conference (3 Days)
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Asia Society and Museum
Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning annual conference connects educators, business leaders, policymakers and resource providers to share best practices, build...
Summer Fiction Sale! 30% off all of July!
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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....
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Thursday 7/ 8 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Thursday 7/ 8 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
