Events on Thursday, August 19
Thursday 8/19 @ Asser Levy Park Amphitheater
This might be the most undersung summer concert series in the city. OK, so there was that Neil Sedaka/Brenda Lee show...
Phosphorescent w/ Sloane Crosley
Thursday 8/19 @ Coco66
The 826 benefit series Show Off Your Sugar continues with its third installment featuring humorous writer Sloane Crosley and Brooklyn-by-way-of-Georgia musician...
Thursday 8/19 @ BookCourt
A Gary Shteyngart reading is somewhat akin to standup comedy. At one reading we saw Shteyngart adopt the role of the...
Thursday 8/19 @ Insound Brooklyn HQ
Insound is our go-to for online music orders; now we get to visit them and pick up some music in real...
Thursday 8/19 @ The Alignment Center
You know how you've always sort of wished you could fly, breathe underwater, sing "Freebird" naked in front of thousands of...
McSweeney's Presents Hilton Als and John Brandon
Thursday 8/19 @ McNally Jackson Booksellers
The New York Times sang John Brandon's praises for Citrus County. For Brandon's last book, Arkansas, D.C. Berman (aka Dave Berman...
Thursday 8/19 @ Public Assembly
The FilmShop is a special club for filmmakers, offering a venue for both constructive criticism and artistic inspiration from their...
Naked Judging: The 2010 Canteen Awards in Photography Exhibit Party
Thursday 8/19 @ powerHouse Arena
Second to putting out a phenomenal literary journal, Canteen Magazine throws a good party. The last event we attended at the...
Thursday 8/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
Join Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah,...
Thursday 8/19 @ Joe's Pub
"Listed on it's Myspace site as a Black Folk Metal Band from Tajikistan, The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger is...
Devendra Banhart and the Grogs
Thursday 8/19 @ Terminal 5
Devendra Banhart (Born 30th May 1981 in Houston, Texas, but brought up in Venezuela) is a folk singer-songwriter whose first few...
The Moth StorySLAM! Theme: Flight
Thursday 8/19 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. $7 at the door. This event always sells out. Limited seating. Please arrive...
Thursday 8/19 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Also playing: Crystal Stilts Following the re-release of Galaxie 500’s three classic albums on Domino and 20-20-20, Dean Wareham will perform...
Ute Lemper: The Bukowski Project
Thursday 8/19 @ Joe's Pub
A journey through the poetry of Charles Bukowski from the books: THE LAST NIGHT OF THE EARTH POEMS, WHAT MATTERS MOST IS HOW...
A Little Night Music: Jeremy Denk at the Mostly Mozart Festival
Thursday 8/19 @ Lincoln Center
LISZT: Dante Sonata BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No.32, Op.111 A Little Night Music: The Mostly Mozart Festival welcomes seasoned performers and some...
Bibi Tanga & The Selenites- Free
Thursday 8/19 @ Lincoln Center
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Thursday 8/19 @ The Mercury Lounge
BRAHMS played their first show in the early hours of January 1st 2010 for a small audience at their practice space...
Thursday 8/19 @ 92YTribeca
Presented by Red Channels. Frederick Wiseman's third documentary feature film, Law & Order, "surveys the wide range of work the police...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ The Clurman at Theater Row
As in his "Ethicist" column, Randy Cohen's The Punishing Blow confronts the unanswerable in a thoughtful, entertaining way. Laurie (director/star Seth...
Thursday 8/19 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 8/19 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ Landmark Sunshine
Animal Kingdom may come from Down Under, but it's certainly no Crocodile Dundee. David Michôd's debut feature is a taut, well-paced...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Thursday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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...
Thursday 8/19 @ The New School for Drama and Theatre
A soldier from a small American town dies in battle and becomes a hero — only to become an even bigger...
Thursday 8/19 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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,...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Thursday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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:...
Thursday 8/19 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Kingsboro Press Presents: Nirvana Live at Reading
Thursday 8/19 @ West Street Gallery
We're B'ing our own B to this exhibit opening. And Nirvana fans should note that we're also coming for the...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Thursday 8/19 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Abraham Lincoln was gay, George Washington owned slaves, and Thomas Jefferson slept with one — the secret history of our founding...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Thursday 8/19 @ reRun Gastropub Theater
Trust Us, This Is All Made Up is mumblecore improv, filmed in a Greenwich Village theater — and tonight screened at...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ The Flea Theater
Anna Fishbeyn begins her one-woman show with a smile that never fades, even when describing chaos. Her lively monologue (with an...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Thursday 8/19 @ Village East Cinema
Former Princess of Persia, Gemma Arterton, comes down off her throne for first-time director J Blakeson's thriller The Disappearance of Alice...
Thursday 8/19 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Thursday 8/19 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Thursday 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ 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 8/19 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Thursday 8/19 @ 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....
Thursday 8/19 @ 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....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil
Thursday 8/19 @ New Museum
In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Emotional Sloppy Manic Cinema: Films Directed and Selected by Benny and Josh Safdie
Thursday 8/19 @ BAM
The directors of two films to screen at Cannes and co-founders of the production company Red Bucket Films, Josh and Benny...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Thursday 8/19 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Thursday 8/19 @ 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...
