Events on Wednesday, September 15
Wednesday 9/15 @ Stephen A Schwarzman Building
Presenting a wide range of maps from the collection of the Hand Drawn Map Association, From Here to There is a...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Gallery Nine5
More than one million people in Haiti remain homeless, after the destruction of January's 7.0-magnitude quake. Tonight, nonprofit im.material hosts a...
PS122's 30th Anniversary Season Launch Party
Wednesday 9/15 @ Performance Space 122
Whoa: turns out you don't have to be Nick Denton's handmaid to score an invite to Gawker's roof-deck; you just have...
Sean Hayes @ (le) poisson rouge
Wednesday 9/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sean Hayes’ worn, soulful music defies easy categorization. Described as loose, dusty, and alive, his songs radiate a free-spirited charm...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 92YTribeca
Pre-screening disucssion with local sheep farmer Eugene Wyatt from Catskill Merino Sheep Farm and Directors Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. Part...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Joe's Pub
Ryko is proud to add singer-songwriter Matt White to its growing family. White, a superb songwriter, vocalist, pianist and guitarist, possesses...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Readings and comedy from the book and website of the same name, plus video clips and Live Old Jews!
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cast for a Film Screening + Discussion of Jack Goes Boating
Wednesday 9/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Jack Goes Boating is an unconventional romantic comedy set in the midst of working-class New York City life. Based on the...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Joe's Pub
The consistently sold out, Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, chosen by New York Magazine and NY Press as the best...
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse
Wednesday 9/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse 9.15.10 $10 10:00 PM | 21+ Rich Medina and DJ Akalepse (the kings...
Marc Ribot - "Silent Movies" CD Release @ (le) poisson rouge
Wednesday 9/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Marc Ribot - “Silent Movies” CD Release
Advance $15 | Day of Show $17
18+
Doors...
Wednesday 9/15 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The Bad Plus first appeared in 2000, and they didn’t go unnoticed for long. Delighting in challenging conventions and causing jaws...
The Greatest 3-Minute Guilt Stories Ever presented by jewcy.com
Wednesday 9/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Greatest 3-Minute Guilt Stories Ever presented by jewcy.com 9.15.10 FREE 7:00 PM | 21+ “All the Guilt in...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 9/15 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Playwright Florencia Lozano revisits her childhood home and the psychological state of her 13-year-old self, in underneathmybed. Escaping Argentina's "Dirty War"...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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....
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Abrons Arts Center
Though an eye disorder is the prevailing malady in Christina Masciotti's engrossing Vision Disturbance, just about every sense endures a distortion....
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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
Wednesday 9/15 @ Various locations
If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red...
Wednesday 9/15 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Film Forum
Grown men crying over pastry, sounds a little absurd but that's what you get in the Kings of Pastry. The latest...
Wednesday 9/15 @ The Cherry Pit
Nothing comes easy in Nick Starr's The Awesome Dance. This moving play for four actors is divided into four scenes, each...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Wednesday 9/15 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
An early giant of new American photography, Friedlander's iconic project of photographing the nation's roads from behind the wheel of a...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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,...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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
Wednesday 9/15 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Quad Cinema
A refreshing and creative take on the 9/11 story, Clear Blue Tuesday follows 11 musicians and actors — all virtual unknowns,...
Wednesday 9/15 @ The Chocolate Factory
At first glance, Selective Memory seems easy enough to grasp. A woman stands plainly on a stage, obscured from the neck...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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,...
Wednesday 9/15 @ The Brick Theater
For four weeks the Brick is hosting clowns. Some wear big red noses and others appear normal. For example, Theatre Group...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Wednesday 9/15 @ Various locations
If you've read Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, then you know what this film is about. If you haven't,...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 3rd Ward
Thanks to the ever-playful folks at 3rd Ward, nudity and inebriation combine to deliver an uncommon cure for the midweek blues....
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 92YTribeca
Mothering provides endless material for writing, while writing brings clarity and wisdom to mothering. Learn to write from the text of...
Wednesday 9/15 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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....
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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....
Wednesday 9/15 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Wednesday 9/15 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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
Wednesday 9/15 @ 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...
