Events on Friday, August 27
Friday 8/27 @ The Mercury Lounge
Since leaving NYC pop rockers Harlem Shakes, guitarist Todd Goldstein hasn't rested on musical laurels. Instead, he's added some serious heft...
Friday 8/27 @ The Douglass Loft
We love a good, sweaty loft party, and when our buddy DJ Duane Harriott tips us off to one, we know...
Friday 8/27 @ Coco66
Last Friday teams up with music blog Visitation Rites — known for its acumen at "navigating the physical and virtual vicissitudes...
Classic Album Night w/ Cathy Cervenka & others @ LPR
Friday 8/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Cathy Cervenka does CRIMES OF PASSION (Pat Benatar) , The Pretty Babies do PARALLEL LINES (Blondie) and New York’s Finest do...
The Lisps: FUTURITY in Concert
Friday 8/27 @ Joe's Pub
FUTURITY tells the story of Julian Munro, a young Union Soldier in the Civil War who is an aspiring inventor and science...
Friday 8/27 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
RANGDA (Richard Bishop, Ben Chasny & Chris Corsano) Doors 8pm / Show 9pm $13 advance / $15 day of show...
Traveling with Yoshitomo Nara (Screening and Conversation with the Artist)
Friday 8/27 @ Asia Society and Museum
A rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of this critically acclaimed artist and pop culture figure, this documentary follows Yoshitomo Nara and his exhibitions...
Friday 8/27 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Australian quintet Karnivool has been dubbed hard rock, experimental, metal and progressive and compared to everyone from Tool to Incubus. The music...
Freedom Party at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 8/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Every Friday, DJ Herbert Holler hosts the legendary Freedom Party, an event he started more than six years ago because "music...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/27 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Angelika Film Center
Mesrine: Killer Instinct is the first part in a two-part series based on the memoir of notorious French gangster Mesrine. During...
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Friday 8/27 @ 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...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Friday 8/27 @ 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...
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
Friday 8/27 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Friday 8/27 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Friday 8/27 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Quad Cinema
A dramatization of real-life events, this Mexican film's disturbing subject matter will make for a difficult watch. Daniel and Ana are...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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...
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 8/27 @ 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,...
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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
Friday 8/27 @ 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...
Friday 8/27 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Friday 8/27 @ 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...
Friday 8/27 @ 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....
Friday 8/27 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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
Friday 8/27 @ 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...
