Events on Friday, September 24
Friday 9/24 @ The Living Room
A gritty treasure of urban romanticism, the soulful, stirring record Saint Judas — despite Growden's impressive supporting ensemble and self-accompaniment on...
The Hundred in the Hands w/ Blood Orange & DJ Zach Steinman (Blondes)
Friday 9/24 @ Coco66
Last Friday, the musical monthly, which has brought the likes of Sleigh Bells feat. M.I.A., Delorean, Big Freedia and Oneohtrix Point...
Breakfast Meeting with H.E. Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi
Friday 9/24 @ Asia Society and Museum
Enjoy this lively discussion over breakfast with the Foreign Minister, Pakistan.
Raven O: One Night With You w/ Ben Allison & special guest Paul Walters
Friday 9/24 @ Joe's Pub
Legendary NYC performer Raven O teams up with world renowned musician and composer Ben Allison for an encore performance of the...
Friday 9/24 @ The Bowery Ballroom
A celebrated, international touring act for over four years, Perpetual Groove has built a reputation on intense, emotional music that fans...
Ely Guerra with DJ Petrit Pula
Friday 9/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
This event is part of Celebrate México Now, New York City's first - and only - annual festival of contemporary Mexican...
Fatima Bhutto- Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
Friday 9/24 @ Asia Society and Museum
In 1996, Mir Murtaza Bhutto was murdered by Pakistani police outside the family home in Karachi. His daughter, Fatima, was at...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 9/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler , DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth 9.24.10 FREE Ladies FREE until 12AM, $10...
David Bazan w/ The Mynabirds @ Brooklyn Bowl
Friday 9/24 @ The Bowery Presents
Known for his tenure performing as Pedro the Lion, songwriter David Bazan retired the band moniker in 2006 to continue making...
Jazz Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater Performs a Tribute to Billie Holiday
Friday 9/24 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
To Billie with Love: A Celebration of Lady Day. Dee Dee Bridgewater pays her respects to the iconic jazz figure Billie...
A Taste of Old New York: Tour and Lunch
Friday 9/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Alexandra Leaf Take a unique excursion through lower Manhattan to uncover the early Dutch and English heritage of the island, just...
Friday 9/24 @ Joe's Pub
Mark Olson is a founding member of The Jayhawks, the most acclaimed band to emerge out of the alt-country scene. He...
Friday 9/24 @ The Bowery Presents
The sea shanty tradition of Newfoundland is fused with the spirit and energy of contemporary rock and popular music by Great...
Friday 9/24 @ National Academy Museum
An Evening of Critical Converstaion about Art Lance Esplund, Faye Hirsch, Andrea K. Scott join moderator David Cohen to discuss Adam...
Friday 9/24 @ Terminal 5
Love and death have always been the twin engines of the popular song: the pursuit of love and the mourning of...
Friday 9/24 @ The Bowery Presents
The sea shanty tradition of Newfoundland is fused with the spirit and energy of contemporary rock and popular music by Great...
Friday 9/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Marvel at the world's center for contemporary art, Chelsea, where museums and collectors purchase provocative works. Meet in the lobby of...
Friday 9/24 @ Joe's Pub
If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one’s model, Abigail Washburn has proven...
New Stories From The South with Amy Hempel, Kathy Pories, and Wells Tower
Friday 9/24 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A reading and discussion to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Algonquin’s critically acclaimed anthology New Stories From The South: 2010. Program...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/24 @ MoMA PS1
Last year's first-ever stateside version of France's Le Grand Fooding set NYC chefs against their Parisian counterparts. This time, the competition...
Friday 9/24 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Arguably the greatest artist in the history of glass sculpture, Dale Chihuly has helped turn the craft of blowing glass into...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Friday 9/24 @ Kidd Yellin Gallery
Here in New York, you probably enjoy some form of public art on a daily basis — you just may not...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ Various Downtown locations
This is it. The glut. The cornucopia. The land of plenty. Lower Manhattan Arts League has brought together an astounding array...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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....
La Mama Presents: Ritter, Dene, Voss
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Friday 9/24 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ Various DUMBO locations
Artists open their studios this weekend at the DUMBO Arts Festival (DAF) to remind us that art is alive and well...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Friday 9/24 @ 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"...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ Barrow Street Theater
Milo, a Serbian astrophysicist who escaped the Balkan war by moving to Japan to teach English, is refusing to leave his...
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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,...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Friday 9/24 @ Brooklyn Fireproof
Bushwick seems to have become the de facto land of DIY, fostering experimentalists in science and food, music, and film. These...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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...
Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics
Friday 9/24 @ Judson Memorial Church
Questions about psychedelics are generally met with myths and hysteria as colorful or horrifying as some of the trips themselves. It...
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ Avery Fisher Hall
Alan Gilbert begins his second season with two works reflecting his joyfully edgy programming that has galvanized both orchestra and audience....
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Despite Lincoln Center's construction and recent staff changes at the Film Society, there's one thing that continues to run like clockwork,...
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ 92YTribeca
Create spirited collages while learning about color, composition, texture, shape and more.
The Sullivan Project presents Graham & Frost
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Crooked Disco featuring DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Friday 9/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Brooklyn's own Morsy, founder of the DJ collective Nana Chill, has earned a reputation in the DJ and promoter world for...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Friday 9/24 @ 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
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Faye Driscoll: There is so much mad in me
Friday 9/24 @ New York Live Arts
After a week of sold out shows this past spring, Faye Driscoll's There...
Friday 9/24 @ 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....
New York City Short Film Festival
Friday 9/24 @ 92YTribeca
The 2010 New York City Short Film Festival celebrates the short form by showcasing provocative and entertaining short films from around...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 9/24 @ 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
Friday 9/24 @ 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 9/24 @ 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...
Friday 9/24 @ 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
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Friday 9/24 @ 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
Friday 9/24 @ The Kitchen
Renowned Israeli-American choreographer Yasmeen Godder presents the New York premiere of a new dance exploring the emotional landscape of a generation...
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 9/24 @ 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...
