Events on Thursday, September 9
Thursday 9/ 9 @ The Bowery Ballroom
British electromancer Dan Black tastefully samples "Umbrella" and adds boy-band vocals and sweeping strings, while throwing in Kid Cudi on top...
Book Release for Tao Lin's Richard Yates
Thursday 9/ 9 @ BookCourt
Tao Lin's writing has been called "menacing," "profoundly peculiar," (The Guardian) and "purposefully raw" (Time Out New York). Tao Lin himself...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Tribeca Cinemas
Following screenings at overseas festivals, Telluride, and Washington, DC, four Russian filmmakers bring their work to Tribeca. While unconnected, the shorts...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join Karina Zilberman and a guest musician for an engaging, inspiring service for families. Hear traditional and creative music, prayers, songs...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Asia Society and Museum
Fashionable trends on the streets of Tokyo have inspired oohs and aahs in international media. Celebrating New York Fashion Week, this...
Initiation: Max G. Morton, Johanna Constantine, Sebastian Mlynarski, and F. Sean Martin
Thursday 9/ 9 @ New Museum
Initiation is the first in a series of performances seeking a psychonautic state of consciousness, paralleling the efforts of Brion Gysin’s...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents this film directed by Nina Paley to accompany the special exhibition Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana, on...
Thirsty Girl & Melody Sweets Present: Melody Sweets & The Ladies of La Rouge Coquette
Thursday 9/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Exploding from the city that never sleeps comes Rouge Coquette, a sexy sophisticated new show brought to you by the hottest...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ The Bowery Ballroom
With members of Anthrax (Scott Ian, Rob Caggiano), Every Time I Die (Keith Buckley), and Fall Out Boy (Joe Trohman, Andy...
The Inspired Word NYC Poetry/Spoken Word Event
Thursday 9/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Inspired Word NYC Poetry/Spoken Word Event Oveous and Mike Geffner 9.9.10 $10 7:00 PM | 21+ Please join...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ The Chocolate Factory
At first glance, Selective Memory seems easy enough to grasp. A woman stands plainly on a stage, obscured from the neck...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Thursday 9/ 9 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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....
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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,...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Rosh Hashanah Individual Events
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Thursday 9/ 9 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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....
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
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DanceNOW [NYC]: Festival Twenty Twelve
Thursday 9/ 9 @ New York Live Arts
DanceNOW [NYC] challenges and supports the creative process of hundreds of innovative dance makers, encouraging artists to create...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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....
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 9 @ 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...
