Events on Thursday, September 2
Cinema 16: Ablehearts and Experimental Shorts
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Smack Mellon
Cinema 16 is back with a crazy good first fall lineup featuring a set of experimental short films by legendary filmmakers,...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Greenlight Bookstore
After reading Josh Farrar's Rules To Rock By, we're of the mind that all bildungsroman novels ought to come with a...
Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin: The Land Before You
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
I look for visual metaphors in the landscape. My photographs of dramatic cloud formations, sinuous bodies of water, or sensuous trees...
Behind The Groove w/ DJ DP ONE from Famous Heavy Hitters and more!
Thursday 9/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
BEHIND THE GROOVE “Playin’ the classics that make you move.” w/ DJ’s: DP ONE, KS...
Text of Light featuring Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, Uli Krieger, and Christian Marclay @ LPR
Thursday 9/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Text of Light featuring Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, Uli Krieger, and Christian Marclay
w/ Loud Objects
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Larkin Grimm / Birds Fled from Me (Rachel Fannan of Sleepy Sun)
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm $10 advance / $12 day of show All Ages Support: Diane Cluck...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Late Show Doors 12am $10 advance / $12 night of show All Ages Support: Tanya Morgan...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ The Bowery Presents
Pop is cooler than it has ever been. No revelations there. Marina (And The Diamonds) is living, breathing, belting, vogue-ing proof of...
Zach Williams with The Civil Wars
Thursday 9/ 2 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Zach Williams has been compared to artists like Page France, Asher Lev, or Sufjan Stevens, all of whom he shares a...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ The Mercury Lounge
"Chikita Violenta has been leading the thriving Mexican independent rock scene for several years now. Hailing from Mexico City, they crafted...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Theatre 80
Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock is more discussed than seen. The controversy surrounding the show overshadowed the composer's other work...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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,...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Landmark Sunshine
Animal Kingdom may come from Down Under, but it's certainly no Crocodile Dundee. David Michôd's debut feature is a taut, well-paced...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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....
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ IFC Center
If you're familiar with award-winning German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin's more serious offerings, Soul Kitchen serves as a nice palette cleanser. An...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Thursday 9/ 2 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Abraham Lincoln was gay, George Washington owned slaves, and Thomas Jefferson slept with one — the secret history of our founding...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Thursday 9/ 2 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Quad Cinema
A dramatization of real-life events, this Mexican film's disturbing subject matter will make for a difficult watch. Daniel and Ana are...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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....
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
