Events on Friday, August 20
Friday 8/20 @ Zebulon
Last Saturday night, Khaira Arby brought her desert blues dance party from Timbuktu to Williamsburg. We're thrilled that Khaira and her...
Friday 8/20 @ Monster Island
Showpaper, the free, ad-free, bi-weekly community funded paper with the best show listings and coolest cover art is having a benefit....
Friday 8/20 @ Comix
Attention Scrubs fans: your time has come. While we can't promise cameos from Janitor or JD, Ted (aka Sam Lloyd), the...
Friday 8/20 @ Red Bull Space
We weren't formerly aware of charity group Skateistan, but now that we are, we have to say: this might be the...
Friday 8/20 @ Death by Audio
Guitarist and lead vocalist John Pugh left his former band !!! in 2007 to focus on Free Blood with bandmates Madeline...
Friday 8/20 @ Cake Shop
If there are two things we'll never get enough of, it's indie rock and nachos. Praise queso that Nachos NY, Pop...
Open Letters Monthly Reading and Book Launch
Friday 8/20 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
The online literary journal Open Letters Monthly launches its first print anthology with readings by Nathan Schneider, Sam Starkweather, Lianne Habinek,...
Friday 8/20 @ Joe's Pub
The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and decadence. You may have...
Friday 8/20 @ The Mercury Lounge
A Sunshower can be a rare occurrence, but when these opposing forces meet, magic and allure is in the air. This...
Emanuel & the Fear @ (le) poisson rouge
Friday 8/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
It comes with good reason that New York City based orchestral-rock band, Emanuel and the Fear, bestowed the name upon themselves....
Freedom Party at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 8/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Every Friday, DJ Herbert Holler hosts the legendary Freedom Party, an event he started more than six years ago because "music...
Bibi Tanga at Joe's Pub presented w/ New Africa Live!
Friday 8/20 @ Joe's Pub
“Bibi Tanga is the ambassador of Funk à la Francaise, his album Dunya shows why” - WDR Funkhaus Europa New Africa...
Friday 8/20 @ 92YTribeca
Part of our Sing-Along series. Roller skates are optional for our special sing-along screening of Xanadu! With the turn of the decade...
Joan Osborne performs at the Rubin
Friday 8/20 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Grammy-nominee Joan Osborne performs in the Rubin's acoustic series, Naked Soul. Her new album, Little Wild One, is inspired by two of...
JEFFERY AND COLE CASSEROLE: LIVE!
Friday 8/20 @ Joe's Pub
After conquering internet, stage, and television; Jeffery and Cole have finally worked their way to the middle: RADIO. In the style...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ Landmark Sunshine
Is our government lying to us? In Amir Bar-Lev's documentary The Tillman Story, the Tillman family is unfortunately faced with this...
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Friday 8/20 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
Friday 8/20 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Friday 8/20 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Kingsboro Press Presents: Nirvana Live at Reading
Friday 8/20 @ 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...
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 8/20 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
We first saw PigPen at Carnegie Mellon's Playground festival last spring, and were pretty blown away by the troupe's ability to...
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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
Friday 8/20 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Friday 8/20 @ 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...
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Friday 8/20 @ 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...
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Friday 8/20 @ IFC Center
If you're familiar with award-winning German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin's more serious offerings, Soul Kitchen serves as a nice palette cleanser. An...
Friday 8/20 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Friday 8/20 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Friday 8/20 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Friday 8/20 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Friday 8/20 @ 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...
Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil
Friday 8/20 @ New Museum
In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 8/20 @ 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
Friday 8/20 @ 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
Friday 8/20 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 8/20 @ 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,...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 8/20 @ 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...
Final Performance: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Friday 8/20 @ Lincoln Center
The summer ends with an all-Mozart program spotlighting pianist Stephen Hough, a Mozartian of “grace, wit, and style” (Chicago Tribune), as...
Friday 8/20 @ 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
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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
Friday 8/20 @ 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
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Friday 8/20 @ 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
Friday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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
Friday 8/20 @ BAM
The directors of two films to screen at Cannes and co-founders of the production company Red Bucket Films, Josh and Benny...
Friday 8/20 @ 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
Friday 8/20 @ 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...
