Events on Friday, September 17
Romemu Yom Kippur/Kol Nidre Service
Friday 9/17 @ Romenu
Experience Yom Kippur eve (known as Kol Nidre) in a decidedly new, holistic way, with Romemu. Be ready for a spiritual...
Moon Duo w/ Crystal Stilts & Messages
Friday 9/17 @ Knitting Factory
One site we turn to frequently for things literary, musical and, well, Brooklyn is Vol.1 Brooklyn, which we're happy is hosting...
The Obama Syndrome: What Has Really Changed?
Friday 9/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
Is the Obama administration taking us in the wrong direction? Joel Whitney, Editor in Chief of Guernica Magazine, goes head-to-head with...
Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide from America
Friday 9/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
Join us for the New York launch of Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide from America featuring Simon Tay, Chairman, Singapore...
Friday 9/17 @ Joe's Pub
Black Bottom Revue draws from Tamar-kali’s debut full length album ‘Black Bottom’ as a musical center piece with support Burlesque and...
Drop-in Drawing Session at the Met Museum—Drawing the Fragmentary
Friday 9/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Draw inspiration from original works of art! Join talented art instructors in the galleries for informal sketching fun. This event is...
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 9/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar w/ a special DJ set by Adam Bozzetto and a special live "air"...
Vampire Weekend @ Radio City Music Hall - 3rd Show Added!
Friday 9/17 @ The Bowery Presents
In the fall of 2005, Ezra Koenig was wondering about the origins of preppiness. What was khaki and where had it...
Urban Sun and The Life and Times Of @ LPR
Friday 9/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Urban Sun and The Life and Times Of
Advance $8 | Day of Show $10
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Debo Band with special guests Fendika
Friday 9/17 @ Joe's Pub
Debo Band is an exhilarating eleven-piece Ethio-groove collective created as a means of exploring the unique sounds that once filled dance...
Tariq Ali - The Obama Syndrome
Friday 9/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
What has really changed since Bush left the White House? Very little, argues Tariq Ali in The Obama Syndrome. The hopes...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 9/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler , DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth 9.17.10 Ladies FREE until 12AM, $10 after...
Friday 9/17 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Also performing: Macklemore / Outasight Blue Scholars have released one full-length album (Self-Titled, 2004) and an 8-song EP (The Long March,...
Friday 9/17 @ Rubin Museum of Art
A propaganda film for the ages! Soviet leaders commissioned this 1925 classic to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the uprising aboard...
Friday 9/17 @ Terminal 5
9/17/2010 & 9/18/2010 Of Montreal is many things. of Montreal is one of the stalwarts of the Athens, Georgia pop scene....
Friday 9/17 @ Joe's Pub
Like their pseudo-sister role models, the Davis Sisters, the Sweetback Sisters sing country songs in close, surrogate-sister harmony and matching dresses....
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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,...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Friday 9/17 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Friday 9/17 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Friday 9/17 @ 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....
Friday 9/17 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Friday 9/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Kidd Yellin Gallery
Here in New York, you probably enjoy some form of public art on a daily basis — you just may not...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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,...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Film Forum
Grown men crying over pastry, sounds a little absurd but that's what you get in the Kings of Pastry. The latest...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Friday 9/17 @ Various locations
If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Friday 9/17 @ 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"...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Friday 9/17 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Friday 9/17 @ The Chocolate Factory
At first glance, Selective Memory seems easy enough to grasp. A woman stands plainly on a stage, obscured from the neck...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Quad Cinema
A refreshing and creative take on the 9/11 story, Clear Blue Tuesday follows 11 musicians and actors — all virtual unknowns,...
Friday 9/17 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Arguably the greatest artist in the history of glass sculpture, Dale Chihuly has helped turn the craft of blowing glass into...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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,...
Friday 9/17 @ The Brick Theater
For four weeks the Brick is hosting clowns. Some wear big red noses and others appear normal. For example, Theatre Group...
Friday 9/17 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Various locations
For those of you who love comedy but can't seem to keep up with, or feel overwhelmed by, all of the...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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....
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
The Sullivan Project presents Graham & Frost
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ The Kitchen
San Francisco-based artist Pamela Z presents her latest solo performance for voice, electronics, and interactive video that considers “baggage” in all...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Raimund Hoghe with Faustin Linyekula: Sans-titre
Friday 9/17 @ New York Live Arts
Co-presented with the French Institue Alliance Française's...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil
Friday 9/17 @ New Museum
In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of...
Friday 9/17 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Friday 9/17 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Friday 9/17 @ 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
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Friday 9/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join Rabbi Jennifer Krause, cantorial soloist Josh Nelson and ba'al tefilah Richard Claman for a warm, dynamic and inspiring observance of...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
