Events on Tuesday, August 3
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ The Mercury Lounge
LA's Fol Chen come out of the arroyo leading with beats that crunch, decay, them submerge, diving straight into downright peppy...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ Barnes & Noble
Jennier Vanderbes, who once moved to Oxford, Mississippi, to fully immerse herself in the land of Faulkner, is back with her...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
Chef Russell Moss
Cold soups are perfect for hot summer days. Start...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ The Bowery Ballroom
More than three decades have passed since Los Lobos released their debut album, Just Another Band from East L.A. Since then they’ve repeatedly...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
$12 All Ages Doors Open 6:30 pm |...
Elk City: House of Tongues CD Release
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ Joe's Pub
Elk City re-invent the seductive sophistication of 1970's FM radio pop - but never shy away from...
Gallery Talk: An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join curator Linda Wolk-Simon as she visits the special exhibition An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo,...
Kele (from Bloc Party) @ Webster Hall
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
The album is marked by both its ambition and its sense of the new. It is a fearless work. ‘In culture...
Conversation with Academy Award Nominee Bruce Beresford and preview of Mao's Last Dancer
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Join Museum of the Moving Image at Scandinavia House in Manhattan for an evening of conversation, presented with clips, with Australian...
The Dead Weather @ Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park Bandshell
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
The Dead Weather are a brand new rock outfit consisting of Dean Fertita, Jack Lawrence, Alison Mosshart and Jack White. The...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Morrison Hotel Gallery
Though the album was announced in spring 2009, Dark Night of the Soul, a unique collaboration by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
There are a few more days left to catch 83-year-old British cinematic contrarian Ken Russell in-person at Russellmania, a hit parade...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Village 7
Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) is hoping her latest film, The Kids Are All Right, proves she's ready for...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ American Museum of Natural History
Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Giant Robot New York
Giant Robot's Printed Matter series has established itself as the place to hunt for great original artwork by up-and-coming artists on...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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,...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ Music Box Theatre
A night at the opera turns into a hellishly chaotic evening in Ken Ludwig's door-slamming farce Lend Me a Tenor, receiving a...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ Landmark Sunshine
Viral video junkies and Found Film Festival fans: here's a documentary for you. Filmmaker Ben Steinhauer found an industrial video back...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ IFC Center
Sleepless wondering what happened to the Jordan family from the film Happiness? Filmmaker Todd Solondz obviously has been, because he came...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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:...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ Asia Society and Museum
The Himalayas are home to some of the world's most magnificent peaks and largest glaciers, which supply crucial seasonal flows to...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ Rubin Museum of Art
See the eerily beautiful and grotesque images from the Tibetan Buddhist and Christian European traditions in the form of paintings, sculptures,...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ Asia Society and Museum
Shop AsiaStore’s sale event and enjoy special savings on designer samples, select accessories, jewelry, textiles, home accents, books, and CDs. Asia Society...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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....
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ Asia Society and Museum
This exhibition presents the varied approaches of five contemporary artists to the medium of single-channel video. The simplicity of this video...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 300 works...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view through August 15, is the...
Tuesday 8/ 3 @ 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...
