Events on Thursday, September 23
Thursday 9/23 @ Convent of St. Cecilia
Have you ever celebrated the Autumnal Equinox? You have? Okay fine. But how often can you say you've celebrated the Autumnal...
Thursday 9/23 @ The Wellmont Theatre
Because all the LCD shows in NYC are super sold-out, we're recommending a little road-trip to the dirty Jerz to catch...
Thursday 9/23 @ Wix Lounge
It's a tough world out there for students and interns. But we're hoping to make it a little easier with tonight's...
Thursday 9/23 @ IFC Center
Spike Jonze is a factory of cool. Everything he does instantly enters cult status. I'm Here, the short film he produced...
Thalia Kids' Book Club: Zombies vs. Unicorns
Thursday 9/23 @ Symphony Space
An all-star line-up of children's book authors debate the question which is better: zombies or unicorns? The editors of the new...
Thursday 9/23 @ Joe's Pub
Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole recently burst onto the world scene from the heart of Cajun and zydeco culture, Lafayette, LA....
The Moth StorySLAM! Theme: Backfired
Thursday 9/23 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. The Moth believes that everyone has a story. The Moth created StorySLAM to...
Thursday 9/23 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Ra Ra Riot is a Syracuse six-piece that formed wayyyy back in January of 2006. This is one poppy band, especially...
Thursday 9/23 @ The Mercury Lounge
"I don't think I realised the radio had more than one station til I was 11 or 12," Basia Bulat says....
Thursday 9/23 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Also performing: Amusement Parks On Fire / Augustines (ex Pela) Following their 2 triumphant NYC debuts at Mercury Lounge earlier in...
Notations in the Flicker: Brion Gysin’s Text and Image Now
Thursday 9/23 @ New Museum
The New Museum hosts two consecutive lectures on topics related to the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine.” Emphasizing interdisciplinary, they link...
Thursday 9/23 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
9/23 & 9/24/2010 Ra Ra Riot is a Syracuse six-piece that formed wayyyy back in January of 2006. This is one...
Irrational Reactions: The Animated Worlds of John R. Dilworth
Thursday 9/23 @ 92YTribeca
Academy Award nominated director and creator of Cartoon Network's evergreen TV series, Courage the Cowardly Dog will present many of his...
The HiFi Cartel Presents sub:culture
Thursday 9/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Headlining this electrifying new event is London-based Hyperdub artist Ikonika, whose music combines melodic synth patterns, driving drums, melancholic sub-bass and...
Stanton Moore Trio featuring Anders Osborne
Thursday 9/23 @ The Bowery Presents
Born and raised in New Orleans, Stanton Moore is a dedicated drummer and performer especially connected to the city, its culture...
Rhonda Vincent and The Rage: Taken CD Release
Thursday 9/23 @ Joe's Pub
The "Queen of Bluegrass" Rhonda Vincent and her men of the "Rage" will be debuting their new album at Joes Pub...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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,...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Avery Fisher Hall
Alan Gilbert begins his second season with two works reflecting his joyfully edgy programming that has galvanized both orchestra and audience....
Thursday 9/23 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
After an acclaimed run off-Broadway, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Arguably the greatest artist in the history of glass sculpture, Dale Chihuly has helped turn the craft of blowing glass into...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
Recently widowed, Grethe is simultaneously helping her gay son and his partner adjust to their newly adopted foster daughter and reconnecting...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Thursday 9/23 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Various Downtown locations
This is it. The glut. The cornucopia. The land of plenty. Lower Manhattan Arts League has brought together an astounding array...
Thursday 9/23 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
La Mama Presents: Ritter, Dene, Voss
Thursday 9/23 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) was one of the most controversial literary figures of post-war Austria. He had a penchant...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Thursday 9/23 @ Kidd Yellin Gallery
Here in New York, you probably enjoy some form of public art on a daily basis — you just may not...
Thursday 9/23 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 9/23 @ 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...
Faye Driscoll: There is so much mad in me
Thursday 9/23 @ New York Live Arts
After a week of sold out shows this past spring, Faye Driscoll's There...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Thursday 9/23 @ 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...
Cooking Up the Plot: Writing about Food
Thursday 9/23 @ 92YTribeca
Food writing has never been more popular. Cooking and eating in writing reveal a lot about characters and their personalities, domestic...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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...
Thursday 9/23 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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....
The Sullivan Project presents Graham & Frost
Thursday 9/23 @ 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...
Today's Art and How It Got Here: Art History, 1945-Present
Thursday 9/23 @ 92YTribeca
By the early 1950s, for the first time in its history, the global contemporary art spotlight shined most brightly on the...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 9/23 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Thursday 9/23 @ 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...
Drawing and Watercolor on the High Line
Thursday 9/23 @ 92YTribeca
New to New York City or die-hard urban native? Put away your digital camera and pick up a sketchbook or set...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Harlem Stage
BLOOD DAZZLER, based on Patricia Smith’s award-winning book and created by Paloma and Patricia McGregor, reexamines Hurricane Katrina's origin and impact...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Thursday 9/23 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Yasmeen Godder: Singular Sensation
Thursday 9/23 @ The Kitchen
Renowned Israeli-American choreographer Yasmeen Godder presents the New York premiere of a new dance exploring the emotional landscape of a generation...
Developing an Illustrated Children's Book
Thursday 9/23 @ 92YTribeca
Learn how to begin, develop, polish and pitch a successful children's book from an industry insider. Get hands on experience while...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Thursday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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...
Thursday 9/23 @ 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...
What's So Funny About New York? Great NYC Humor and Humorists
Thursday 9/23 @ 92YTribeca
Explore New York humor through a variety of media from standup comedy, television, film and literature to personal experience narratives. We...
