Events on Tuesday, August 31
Klaus vom Bruch's Das Schleyerband
Tuesday 8/31 @ Light Industry
The Baader-Meinhof Group, also known as the Red Army Faction (RAF), was one of the most violent left-wing urban guerilla groups...
Tuesday 8/31 @ Glasslands Gallery
Worth the price of admission alone just to hear Cult of Youth take the sounds of Death in June and run...
Flavorpill Brooklyn Launch Party
Tuesday 8/31 @ Union Hall
Flavorpill has landed (finally!) in Brooklyn, and we're throwing a sweet li'l' party to celebrate. Our own DJ Russ hits the...
The Raspberry Brothers - Comedy over Movies - TERMINATOR
Tuesday 8/31 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
The Raspberry Brothers are a team of comedians who go around sucking the life out of movies and delivering freshly cut...
Tuesday 8/31 @ Joe's Pub
Shows at 7:30pm and 9:30 pm Grammy nominated, Dove Award winning Jennifer Knapp returns from a seven year hiatus with a...
Punch Up Your Life: Comedy hosted by Joe DeRosa and Jared Logan
Tuesday 8/31 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
With Hannibal Buress, Seth Herzog, Susan Prekel, and Vince Averill. $3 admission. Beer, wine, and snacks available for sale....
Jarrod Gorbel (of the Honorary Title)
Tuesday 8/31 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm $15 All Ages Support: Bad Girlfriend, Paul Dempsey (of Something for Kate)...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 8/31 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ Visual Arts Gallery
Some say that Iran hasn't seen protests this size since the 1979 revolution. These green movement protests began as a response...
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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,...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/31 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Tuesday 8/31 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Tuesday 8/31 @ 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....
