Events on Thursday, September 16
Thursday 9/16 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
Zach Galifianakis as a patient in a psychiatric ward — and a mentor to a suicidal teen at that; this seems...
The Living Newspaper: Google Rising
Thursday 9/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Living Newspaper: Google Rising 9.16.10 $10 6:30 PM | All Ages The Living Newspaper: Google Rising Two weeks. Three writers....
Those Darlins w/ The Strange Boys / Gentleman Jesse
Thursday 9/16 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Those Darlins are a garage country band from Murfreesboro, TN. The ladies went live in 2006 and attracted immediate attention for...
Leonard Cohen, Songs from the Road
Thursday 9/16 @ 92YTribeca
Join us for a special screening of this collection of live concert performances—a visual and aural experience that is the next...
Behind the Groove DJ DP ONE, DJ KS*360 (KwikStep) Full Circle Souljahs
Thursday 9/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Behind the Groove DJ DP ONE from Famous Heavy Hitters and DJ KS*360 (KwikStep) Full Circle Souljahs 9.16.10 $5 10:00...
Thursday 9/16 @ The Bowery Presents
Seventeen years on from its inception, Cake is still an outsider – defiantly and proudly cutting its own path. Both the...
Designer Marc Newson with Alice Rawsthorn
Thursday 9/16 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
On Time magazine's list of the 100 most important people who shape our lives, Australian-born, European-based Marc Newson is one of...
Thursday 9/16 @ Joe's Pub
"The Secret Sisters echo and promise better days. They are a breath of fresh air." -T Bone Burnett The Secret...
Thursday 9/16 @ Joe's Pub
Of her musical objectives, indie songstress Clare Burson explains, “I’ve always leaned towards poetic simplicity and subtlety in my music—wanting to...
Thursday 9/16 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Luis Resto 9.16.10 $12 Doors 10PM | Show 10:30PM | 18+ Luis Resto • has performed, written & recorded with...
The Doctors' Quick Health Fixes
Thursday 9/16 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
You see them weekdays on TV hosting the Emmy Award-winning talk show The Doctors. On Thursday, September 16, come see them...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ The Brick Theater
For four weeks the Brick is hosting clowns. Some wear big red noses and others appear normal. For example, Theatre Group...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 9/16 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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"...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Arguably the greatest artist in the history of glass sculpture, Dale Chihuly has helped turn the craft of blowing glass into...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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,...
Thursday 9/16 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Thursday 9/16 @ Various locations
If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red...
Thursday 9/16 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Thursday 9/16 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Thursday 9/16 @ The Chocolate Factory
At first glance, Selective Memory seems easy enough to grasp. A woman stands plainly on a stage, obscured from the neck...
Thursday 9/16 @ Film Forum
Grown men crying over pastry, sounds a little absurd but that's what you get in the Kings of Pastry. The latest...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Thursday 9/16 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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....
Thursday 9/16 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 9/16 @ Various locations
For those of you who love comedy but can't seem to keep up with, or feel overwhelmed by, all of the...
Thursday 9/16 @ Tisch School of the Arts
Anyone who has logged hours in an office knows well the high drama that ensues in everyday corporate culture. In Appointment,...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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....
Thursday 9/16 @ Quad Cinema
A refreshing and creative take on the 9/11 story, Clear Blue Tuesday follows 11 musicians and actors — all virtual unknowns,...
Thursday 9/16 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Thursday 9/16 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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,...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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,...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Thursday 9/16 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Thursday 9/16 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Raimund Hoghe with Faustin Linyekula: Sans-titre
Thursday 9/16 @ New York Live Arts
Co-presented with the French Institue Alliance Française's...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Thursday 9/16 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil
Thursday 9/16 @ New Museum
In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of...
Thursday 9/16 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
The Sullivan Project presents Graham & Frost
Thursday 9/16 @ Performance Space 122
Friends, neighbors, countrymen: can they really co-exist? Three men from very different walks of life set about reopening an abandoned restaurant...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
Thursday 9/16 @ 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....
Thursday 9/16 @ The Kitchen
San Francisco-based artist Pamela Z presents her latest solo performance for voice, electronics, and interactive video that considers “baggage” in all...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Thursday 9/16 @ 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...
