Events on Friday, July 9
Friday 7/ 9 @ Public Assembly
While we don't really have to be persuaded to spare a few dollars for the relief of still-struggling Haitians, the Bass...
Friday 7/ 9 @ The Old American Can Factory
Two of our favorite companies, Rooftop Films and Kickstarter, join forces for tonight's film festival. All of the film and video...
“Lady Eve” (1941) In the Series Costume Design in Film: Reflecting the Period
Friday 7/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
To accompany the exhibition American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view now through August 15, the Met’s Costume Institute presents...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the Obsessed in the 90s series.
After kicking out her unfaithful fiancé from their shared apartment, Allison Jones...
Friday 7/ 9 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Baltimore's indie heartthrob, Cass McCombs, is a crooner in the purest sense. A singer/songwriter with a slurring and swooping register, McCombs...
Friday 7/ 9 @ Joe's Pub
Johnny Rodgers is an internationally celebrated singer-songwriter, pianist and entertainer. Johnny and the Johnny Rodgers Band dazzle...
Interactive Seminar—European Paintings
Friday 7/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of the European paintings! This Friday evening come and take part in this unique...
The Freedom Party @ (le) poisson rouge
Friday 7/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 7/ 9 @ The Mercury Lounge
Also Performing: Akudama In late 2008, Midnight Spin played a show standing ankle-deep in water inside a flooding Brooklyn venue’s basement....
REAL ESTATE and KURT VILE w/Big Troubles @ (le) poisson rouge
Friday 7/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
“The words after the backslash at their MySpace are “Let’s Rock The Beach,” but Real Estate are more about the lovably...
Crooked Disco feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar @ (le) poisson rouge
Friday 7/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its...
Tony Swing at Midsummer Night Swing
Friday 7/ 9 @ Lincoln Center
Dominican merengue can operate at speeds so superhuman that the grace requisite of its dancers is nothing short of miraculous. It's...
Chelsea Madchen: Ein Deutscher Evening Mit Nico Featuring Tammy Faye Starlite
Friday 7/ 9 @ Joe's Pub
Inspired by the recent/current economic depression, the same sort of fearful political...
Hello Lonesome Screening and Jones Street Station Live Show
Friday 7/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
With an enchanting mixture of laughter and longing, the worlds of six flawed but lovable individuals are woven together as they...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Angelika Film Center
Perfect Storm author and pub owner Sebastian Junger, and photographer Tim Hetherington, deployed to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan for Restrepo,...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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:...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Harlem Stage
House Dance International brings the dancers out of the club and onto the stage, in a celebration of more experimental dance...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ Various locations
Alain Resnais' Wild Grass follows an irrational pair of would-be lovers through a series of unsettling, amusing, and often surreal misadventures....
Friday 7/ 9 @ Walkerspace
Identity struggles are universal. In The Zero Hour, playwright Madeleine George juxtaposes Rebecca, a young woman struggling with her own sexual...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Friday 7/ 9 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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....
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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....
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Friday 7/ 9 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ Lincoln Center
Don’t miss the chance to witness Japanese dancer and choreographer Saburo Teshigawara, returning after rave reviews from his Lincoln Center Festival...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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,...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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!
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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,...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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,...
Partnership for Global Learning Annual Conference (3 Days)
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Friday 7/ 9 @ 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...
