Events on Tuesday, September 14
Tuesday 9/14 @ Union Pool
Longtime best kept secret of the Chicago-Detroit corridor, NOMO the avant-Afrobeaters descend from the Rust Belt on Union Pool with a...
Illustrated Three-Line Novels Book Launch
Tuesday 9/14 @ Belcourt
In 1906, French anarchist and art critic Félix Fénéon translated half a year's worth of news stories into condensed three-line "nouvelles"...
Tuesday 9/14 @ BookCourt
You may not know that author Tom McCarthy serves as General Secretary in the International Necronautical Society, which through live events,...
Galeet Dardashti "The Naming" CD Release Show @ (le) poisson rouge
Tuesday 9/14 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
As the granddaughter of Yona Dardashti, the most renowned singer of Persian classical music in Iran in his day, and daughter...
Tuesday 9/14 @ Joe's Pub
Sanda Weigl's life is larger than the gypsy lore reflected in her songs. As outspoken politically as she is uncompromising musically,...
Tuesday 9/14 @ Joe's Pub
A 2010 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee and 23-time Blues Music Award Winner, Charlie Musselwhite will release his new album The...
LPR and 4AD Present: 4AD celebrates Blonde Redhead's 'Penny Sparkle'
Tuesday 9/14 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LPR and 4AD Present: 4AD celebrates Blonde Redhead’s ‘Penny Sparkle’ 9.14.10 FREE 7:00 PM | 21+ This event will...
Tuesday 9/14 @ The Mercury Lounge
9/14/2010 & 9/15/2010 All the best bands create their own universe. Few, however, create one as strange and bewitching as the...
Jim Jones Revue @ (le) poisson rouge
Tuesday 9/14 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
"Since forming The Revue in 2007, Jim Jones - the jet-fuelled ex-Thee Hypnotics vocal powerhouse - has led his band through...
Tuesday 9/14 @ Terminal 5
"Throughout the drama, drugs and great successes of his career, Slash has always been loyal to himself. He never stepped down...
An Evening with Amy Ryan and Preview Screening Jack Goes Boating
Tuesday 9/14 @ Museum of the Moving Image
At Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue: Amy Ryan’s Oscar-nominated performance as a drug-addicted mother in Gone Baby Gone established her as...
Tuesday 9/14 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Also performing: Sherlocks Daughter Prior to the release of the group's eponymous third album, Tim Burgess sang on the Chemical Brothers'...
Tony Blair in Conversation with Katie Couric
Tuesday 9/14 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Tony Blair has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation's...
Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames
Tuesday 9/14 @ The Bowery Ballroom
"Laura Veirs’ seventh album July Flame, which Colin Meloy calls “the best album of 2010,” explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched...
Tuesday 9/14 @ The Mercury Lounge
9/14/2010 & 9/15/2010 All the best bands create their own universe. Few, however, create one as strange and bewitching as the...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ The Brick Theater
For four weeks the Brick is hosting clowns. Some wear big red noses and others appear normal. For example, Theatre Group...
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ French Institute Alliance Francaise
"Crossing the Line" lives up to its name with these two site-specific presentations — though attendees won't know the exact details...
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 9/14 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery
Luhring Augustine is pleased to present Heroes of Birth, an exhibition of new work by Pipilotti Rist. This is Rist's third...
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ IFC Center
Actor Romain Duris displays his charming versatility in Heartbreaker, a clever romantic-comedy from first-time French feature-filmmaker Pascal Chaumeil. Duris is Alex...
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ Quad Cinema
A refreshing and creative take on the 9/11 story, Clear Blue Tuesday follows 11 musicians and actors — all virtual unknowns,...
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 9/14 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Art and terrorism make a gruesome twosome in this contemporary noir drama of intrigue and roadkill. A modern-day undercover agent with...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Tuesday 9/14 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Tuesday 9/14 @ Various locations
If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red...
Tuesday 9/14 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ Ars Nova Theater
Sometimes, all we need out of theatre is an old-fashioned boy-meets-girl story. The good news is, Now Circa Then is just...
Tuesday 9/14 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Tuesday 9/14 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Tuesday 9/14 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/14 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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...
Free Reading Installation of Hetero
Tuesday 9/14 @ Performance Space 122
In Hetero by Arthur Nauzyciel, an all-male cast struggles with concepts of gender in modern society. Humorous and cynical, Hetero is...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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 9/14 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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....
Tuesday 9/14 @ Asia Society and Museum
Experience the world of internationally renowned Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Through drawings, paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations, this landmark exhibition links...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Tuesday 9/14 @ 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...
