Events on Wednesday, September 22
Wednesday 9/22 @ Taschen Store NY
Among the most depicted cities in the world, New York has been the epic muse of literally millions of poets, authors,...
Theo Bleckmann - Hello Earth! The music of Kate Bush @ LPR
Wednesday 9/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
w/ Theo Bleckmann (voice, arrangements & live electronic processing), John Hollenbeck (percussion, crotales) , Skuli Sverrisson (bass) , Henry Hey (piano,...
Wednesday 9/22 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
In less than two years the Mercury Award winning Klaxons have gone from a nebulous but strangely spot-on 'concept' combining indie-rock...
Jonathan Lethem: A Farewell to Brooklyn
Wednesday 9/22 @ LIVE from the NYPL
Jonathan Lethem will join Paul Holdengräber for a conversation as he bids farewell to his friends and fans at his last event before leaving...
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse
Wednesday 9/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse 9.22.10 $10 10:00 | 21+ Rich Medina Choice defines the man. Rich Medina has...
Wednesday 9/22 @ The Mercury Lounge
Crocodiles are a two-piece from San Diego, USA formed in 2008 playing lo-fi new wave, featuring former members of The Plot...
Gabby Young w/ special guest Kate Sikora
Wednesday 9/22 @ Joe's Pub
Meet Gabby Young, the most entertaining soul on the circus scene. With a live following most independent singers would chop out...
A Second Chance: A New Musical Theater Work
Wednesday 9/22 @ Joe's Pub
A secon chance explores the first year's emotional struggles faced by a widower and a divorcee who meet in mid-life. As...
Wednesday 9/22 @ The Bowery Presents
Swim is Caribou’s masterpiece, an album that absorbs club culture sounds weaved within subtle pop frameworks, and the record Dan Snaith...
Paris/London/Paramus: The International Race to Invent The Movies
Wednesday 9/22 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
NYU Professor Richard Brown presents an entertaining and irreverent look at the turn-of-the-century race to create the first true motion picture....
Avishai Cohen’s Triveni (CD Release for 'Introducing Triveni')
Wednesday 9/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Avishai Cohen’s Triveni (CD Release for ‘Introducing Triveni’) w/ Nasheet Waits and Matt Penman 9.22.10 $15 Doors 10:00 | show...
Tom Zé: Liberated Astronaut (Tom Zé: Astronauta libertado)
Wednesday 9/22 @ 92YTribeca
Part of Cinema Tropical's Music+Film / Janeiro In New York. "Tom Zé has not always occupied a position of comfort in...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Arguably the greatest artist in the history of glass sculpture, Dale Chihuly has helped turn the craft of blowing glass into...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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,...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Wednesday 9/22 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ BAM Harvey Theater
We're hard-pressed to think of a better opener to BAM's annual Next Wave Festival than local legend Laurie Anderson. Whether playing...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Bennett Media Studio
Ed Bennett presents Robert Adanto's Pearls on the Ocean Floor, a thought-provoking, feature-length documentary examining the lives and works of Iranian...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/22 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Kidd Yellin Gallery
Here in New York, you probably enjoy some form of public art on a daily basis — you just may not...
Wednesday 9/22 @ Various Downtown locations
This is it. The glut. The cornucopia. The land of plenty. Lower Manhattan Arts League has brought together an astounding array...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Wednesday 9/22 @ The Flea Theater
Replace the '70s references in A.R. Gurney's Office Hours and it could take place today. The questions raised in this passionate...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 303 Gallery
A mid-career survey designed to support and contextualize Williams' most recent work, Al-Qaeda Is the CIA offers a rollicking, visceral good...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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...
Faye Driscoll: There is so much mad in me
Wednesday 9/22 @ New York Live Arts
After a week of sold out shows this past spring, Faye Driscoll's There...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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....
Wednesday 9/22 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 92YTribeca
Mothering provides endless material for writing, while writing brings clarity and wisdom to mothering. Learn to write from the text of...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 92YTribeca
Explore the history of modern design, from 19th-century England to the present, with a focus on furniture and accessories. Investigate design...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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...
Get More Out of Your Digital Point-and-Shoot Camera
Wednesday 9/22 @ 92YTribeca
Cover camera operation, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, file management and composition. Use a digital SLR or digital point-and-shoot camera.
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 92YTribeca
The graphic novel is one of the most popular new forms of storytelling. Hone and shape your ideas and image them...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/22 @ 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 9/22 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
