Events on Tuesday, August 24
Burning: Mogwai Concert Movie Premiere
Tuesday 8/24 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
On face, it seems almost perverse to film a band as vibrant and epic as Mogwai in stately black and white...
Tuesday 8/24 @ McNally Jackson Booksellers
For their newly released book Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk, five guys with formidable comedy-writing cred (The Daily Show, The Onion,...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Market Hotel Project
If you care about shielding independent rock and independent art from encroaching commercialism, join the Market Hotel Project in creating a...
Tuesday 8/24 @ The Mercury Lounge
I Am Giant is a London based band consisting of New Zealanders Shelton Woolright, Paul Matthews and Brit Ed Martin. Described...
Punch Up Your Life! comedy show hosted by Joe DeRosa and Jared Logan
Tuesday 8/24 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Starring Greg Barris, Leibya Rogers, and more! Beer, wine, and snacks available for sale.
Ted Hearne's "Katrina Ballads" @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 8/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
KATRINA BALLADS is a brand new collection of songs inspired by the tragic events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. This work uses entirely...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Joe's Pub
Thoroughly modern, urban, sexy sounds with a fresh, street...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Joe's Pub
Calexico fans will recognize Marianne Dissard as Madame to Joey Burns’ lovestruck gold digger on Calexico’s hit single, "Ballad of Cable...
Tuesday 8/24 @ The Bowery Ballroom
It’s better if you don’t understand; just listen and have a good time. That’s the response Bruno Mars will give you...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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,...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Players Theatre
Part of the Fringe Festival, Tom Jacobson's new play, The Twentieth-Century Way, is an exploration of a 1914 sting operation by...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Tuesday 8/24 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Tuesday 8/24 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Tuesday 8/24 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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,...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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....
Tuesday 8/24 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
Questioning the notion of beauty, German photographer Martin Schoeller takes pictures of female bodybuilders, whose feminine heads seem grafted to muscular...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Emotional Sloppy Manic Cinema: Films Directed and Selected by Benny and Josh Safdie
Tuesday 8/24 @ BAM
The directors of two films to screen at Cannes and co-founders of the production company Red Bucket Films, Josh and Benny...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Create and submit your own prayer flag in celebration of the International Day of Non-Violence. The completed flags will be strung...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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....
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Scissor Sisters performing with Sammy Jo
Tuesday 8/24 @ Terminal 5
It was 2009, and Jake Shears was in Berlin. Dancing. "There were nights when I'd look out into the crowd and...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/24 @ 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...
