Events on Friday, August 6
Friday 8/ 6 @ Webster Hall
Eclectic Method take the mash-up to crazy new heights. These VJs combine old-school hip-hop and pop with, well, pretty much everything...
Friday 8/ 6 @ Broadway East
Wieden + Kennedy kick off their First Friday series this week with A Party We Throw at B.East. If you don't...
Friday 8/ 6 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
With a sound that ranges from slow doom metal to noise rock, Japan's Boris are nothing if not unpredictable. Regardless of...
Shinedown @ CMAC (Canandiagua, NY)
Friday 8/ 6 @ The Bowery Presents
After touring for 23 months and playing more than 400 shows, you'd think the four members...
Friday 8/ 6 @ Lincoln Center
Formed with the late Klaus Dinger after their stint in
Kraftwerk, Krautrock pioneer Michael Rother’s influential
1970s art band...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 92YTribeca
Presented by Factory 25.
Set against the volatile and dangerous world of...
Crooked Disco featuring DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 8/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, AKA the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, the weekly party at its new home: the...
Friday 8/ 6 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with: Intronaut / Dysrhythmia Cynics at their root are essentially truth seekers who challenged the myth of social conventions by...
Natalia Clavier (of Thievery Corporation)
Friday 8/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
Natalia Clavier is a dynamic singer and composer of sublime Latin electronica. Born and raised in Buenos...
The Freedom Party with DJ Herbert Holler , DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 8/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Every Friday, DJ Herbert Holler hosts the legendary Freedom Party, an event he started more than six years ago because "music...
Corinne Bailey Rae @ The Beach at Governors Island
Friday 8/ 6 @ The Bowery Presents
In 2006 Corinne Bailey Rae released her self-titled debut album, a record she had recorded on a shoestring budget while still...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Village 7
Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) is hoping her latest film, The Kids Are All Right, proves she's ready for...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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:...
Friday 8/ 6 @ The Duke Theater
Entirely earnest, See Rock City is a far cry from pushing any musical-theatre boundaries, but the show creates its fair share...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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 Private Collection of Henry Darger
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ Cinema Village
It's tempting to look for the dark humor in any movie about an illicit gay romance between European skinheads, and indeed,...
Friday 8/ 6 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Landmark Sunshine
Viral video junkies and Found Film Festival fans: here's a documentary for you. Filmmaker Ben Steinhauer found an industrial video back...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ IFC Center
Sleepless wondering what happened to the Jordan family from the film Happiness? Filmmaker Todd Solondz obviously has been, because he came...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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....
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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,...
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Friday 8/ 6 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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,...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato at Mostly Mozart Festival
Friday 8/ 6 @ Lincoln Center
Mark Morris returns to the Mostly Mozart Festival to present one of his definitive works, a dance filled with theatricality and...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Karina Zilberman and Marty Maskowitz
Squish, roll and braid your own challah...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Out of Doors- Free: Asphalt Orchestra
Friday 8/ 6 @ Lincoln Center
An iconoclastic 12-piece marching band conceived
by Bang on a Can, the Asphalt Orchestra performs
ambitious processional music from...
Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Friday 8/ 6 @ 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....
