Events on Thursday, August 26
Thursday 8/26 @ Broadway East
Photographer Ryan McGinley throws another fun Thursday night party at B.East. As always, his parties tend to attract the bright young...
Thursday 8/26 @ Brooklyn Historical Society
Sure, one of the reasons we're enamored of Brooklyn is its industrial feel, at least some parts of it. But we...
Haiti Cultural Exchange presents author, playwright, and artist, Franketiénne
Thursday 8/26 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Mr. Etiénne will discuss La miraculeuse féconde créativité du peuple haïtien, or The amazing and prolific creativity of the Haitian People...
Lindsay Mendez and the Marco Paguia Trio
Thursday 8/26 @ Joe's Pub
Lindsay Mendez and Marco Paguia met on the Broadway production of Everyday Rapture in 2010, and while working, discovered a mutual love and passion for jazz,...
Come and Get It! Judy Carmichael Trio- Free
Thursday 8/26 @ Lincoln Center
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Thursday 8/26 @ The Mercury Lounge
Brooklyn's crunk--punk duo Ninjasonik never fails to get the dance floor jumping. Individually, DJ TeenWolf and Rev McFly have been spinning...
The Gay Agenda: Conquers Joe's Pub!
Thursday 8/26 @ Joe's Pub
The Gay Agenda is your semi-favorite-two-man-musical-theatre-post-punk-band. Micah and Nicholas, two harmonizing homos with their ears perked for the latest sounds in the cutting...
Shanghai Expo: An Insider's View
Thursday 8/26 @ Asia Society and Museum
The Shanghai Expo, currently taking place in China, is on track to be the largest World's Fair in history. Over 70...
Happiness Is No Fun Summer Party feat. THE SECRET HISTORY + MY TEENAGE STRIDE
Thursday 8/26 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm $8 advance / $10 day of show All Ages Support: Kristeen Young ...
Ongoing Events
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 8/26 @ Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
Questioning the notion of beauty, German photographer Martin Schoeller takes pictures of female bodybuilders, whose feminine heads seem grafted to muscular...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ Film Forum
Grace Kelly gets strangled in 3-D in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (it was originally a 3-D film). Rock Hudson's...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ Art Since the Summer of '69
The interns of New York's toniest museums and galleries are, surprise, artists in their own right. Come check out what these...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Thursday 8/26 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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...
Thursday 8/26 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Thursday 8/26 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Autolux, a three piece band consisting of Eugene Goreshter, Carla Azar, and Greg Edwards, began playing shows in early 2000 and...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Thursday 8/26 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 8/26 @ 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
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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....
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Thursday 8/26 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Thursday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 8/26 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Thursday 8/26 @ 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....
