Events on Friday, September 3
Friday 9/ 3 @ IndieScreen
Dinner-and-a-movie place in Williamsburg? Just what we've been waiting for. IndieScreen, or IS Cinema is a pleasingly unassuming theater on Kent...
Friday 9/ 3 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
We can't help but be intrigued by this film, in which Polanski as a vampire killer becomes enamored with the character...
The Wooden Birds wtih Dan Mangan
Friday 9/ 3 @ The Mercury Lounge
Andrew Kenny is a native Texan who after nearly six years in Brooklyn has returned to beautiful Austin. He's best known...
Tonight: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Friday 9/ 3 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Author and screenwriter Georgia Clark introduces this 1978 remake of the horror classic, starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, and...
Friday 9/ 3 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm $13 advance / $15 day of show All Ages Support: Midnight Masses, O'Brother...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/ 3 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Friday 9/ 3 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Friday 9/ 3 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Coney Island Rockabilly Festival 2010
Friday 9/ 3 @ Coney Island Museum
The 2010 Cockabilly Roadshow has been making its way up and down the East Coast all summer providing burlesque, rock music...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 3 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 9/ 3 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night from 7-10pm, the Rubin Museum is free to everyone. Have a drink with friends in the K2 Lounge,...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Friday 9/ 3 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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....
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
