Events on Wednesday, September 8
The "One Story, One Borough" Campaign
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ Multiple venues throughout Brooklyn
At 11 subway stations in Brooklyn, small candy colored issues of One Story, each of which will contain one story by...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ Performance Space 122
We want to tell you the secret of Catfish. Really, we're dying to. But it is oh-so-much better if you see...
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse 9.8.10 $10 10:00 PM | 21+ Rich Medina and DJ Akalepse (the kings...
Kele (of Bloc Party) / Does It Offend You Yeah? @ Webster Hall
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ The Bowery Presents
Rescheduled from August 3rd, all tickets will be honored. ‘As a second generation child of immigrant parents you see traditions that...
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin / Telekinesis
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Also Performing: The Mommyheads. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin has been playing music in Springfield, Missouri since 1999, when Will...
Met Museum Gallery Talk: Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition of works from the Met’s permanent collection, on view through February 13, explores themes of dislocation and displacement in...
Jimmy Edgar (!K7 Records) Official NYC CD Release Party for "XXX" @LPR
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Jimmy Edgar (!K7 Records) - LIVE Official NYC CD Release Party for “XXX” w/ Ca$$ette, MachineDrum , Sepalcure , MeLo-X &...
Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A reading, show, and party to celebrate Matt Dellinger’s Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway. With...
The Beautiful Girls @ Brooklyn Bowl
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ The Bowery Presents
Also Performing: Passafire / Orgone...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ The Chocolate Factory
At first glance, Selective Memory seems easy enough to grasp. A woman stands plainly on a stage, obscured from the neck...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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....
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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,...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
![DanceNOW [NYC]: Festival Twenty Twelve](http://s3.amazonaws.com/fp-dynamic-assets/attachment_image_files/0043/1300/Abraham_Shrieder_promo_112249-0_event_home.jpeg)
DanceNOW [NYC]: Festival Twenty Twelve
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ New York Live Arts
DanceNOW [NYC] challenges and supports the creative process of hundreds of innovative dance makers, encouraging artists to create...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Rosh Hashanah Individual Events
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join Rabbi Jennifer Krause, cantorial soloist Josh Nelson and ba'al tefilah Richard Claman for a warm, dynamic and inspiring observance of...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 9/ 8 @ 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....
