Events on Tuesday, November 15
Tuesday 11/15 @ BookCourt
Who knew that anthropology was an occupational hazard of being an artist, filmmaker, and writer. But this is what Miranda July...
Dennis Cooper's The Marbled Swarm
Tuesday 11/15 @ powerHouse Arena
Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Powerhouse team up for the launch of Dennis Cooper's The Marbled Swarm, at which the author convenes...
A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides
Tuesday 11/15 @ 92YTribeca
In 2008, journalist David Rohde was kidnapped and held captive for seven months in the tribal areas of Pakistan by the...
Headliners! w/ Katie Thompson, Carly Jibson, Kacie Sheik and Celina Carvajal
Tuesday 11/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Headliners! is a concert series consisting of four very distinct female recording artists from New York City. Each artist has their...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Brooklyn Bowl
FT. Micky and the Motorcars Reckless Kelly's roots reach back to Idaho and Oregon, where brothers Willy and Cody Braun paired...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Joe's Pub
Fresh off the release of her debut EP, What Otters Do, Shaina Taub brings her infectious live show to Joe's Pub,...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Joe's Pub
Holcombe Waller celebrates his first album release in six years with an intimate performance on grand piano and guitar. He'll be...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA kicks off the fall season with a blockbuster exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by celebrated abstract expressionist...
Tuesday 11/15 @ 59E59 Theaters
The annual gathering of anglophile theatre at 59 East 59th is a blast — like taking a trip London's West End,...
Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
Tuesday 11/15 @ Broadhurst Theatre
This show makes you wonder if he looks in the mirror each day and realizes he is ruining everything for all...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian Gallery unveils Andreas Gursky's Bangkok, a new series of large-scale works being shown for the first time in New York....
Tuesday 11/15 @ New World Stages
Freud's Last Session is a battle of the brains, with plenty of wit and thought-provoking dialogue. Two brilliant actors, particularly Martin Rayner...
Tuesday 11/15 @ 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,...
Tuesday 11/15 @ IFC Center
Documentary fans, it's time to get schooled as the fall term of the carefully curated Stranger Than Fiction series is now...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)
We hestitated to lend our voices to the chorus of adoration for this show — only because we were afraid of being...
Nitehawk presents The Skin I Live In
Tuesday 11/15 @ Nitehawk Cinema
Antonio Banderas stars as the eminent and obsessive plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Ledgard in The Skin I Live In, a delightfully...
Tuesday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
It's that time of year when MoMA looks into its crystal ball and forecasts the upcoming film awards season. Always a...
International Literary Film Festival
Tuesday 11/15 @ Spectacle Theater
The International Literary Film Festival makes its debut in Williamsburg showing films about literature from around the world. We love a...
Sol Lewitt: Structures 1965 - 2006
Tuesday 11/15 @ City Hall Park
City Hall Park is an unlikely hotbed of great contemporary art. But if you happen to be in lower Manhattan, you...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Blue Note
At 70, jazz piano legend Chick Corea shows no signs of slowing down. Quite the opposite, in fact: he's celebrating his...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Yossi Milo Gallery
Simen Johan presents a new selection of photographs at his seventh exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery. For this show, Johan continues...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Paula Cooper Gallery
Mark di Suvero's brightly colored sculptures of steel beams loomed across the landscape this summer at Governors Island. If you missed...
Michaël Borremans: The Devil's Dress
Tuesday 11/15 @ David Zwirner
Michaël Borremans' figurative paintings evoke the works of centuries past, with a twist. His supine moribund bodies recall Andrea Mantegna's Lamentation...
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Tuesday 11/15 @ 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...
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Tuesday 11/15 @ Beacon Theatre
When Oasis split in 2009, after almost two decades together, it was difficult to take it seriously. After all, this was...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Winter Garden Theatre
Seen by over 45 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 4,000 performances in its tenth smash hit...
Tuesday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Filmmaker Jack Smith was one of the most influential underground filmmakers. With a penchant for burlesque performance, Hollywood orientalism, scathing satire,...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Various locations
Whether due to the will of art historian RoseLee Goldberg or the attention given the naked people at MoMA last year,...
Tuesday 11/15 @ IFC Center
Werner Herzog and his charming German accent are back again with Into the Abyss, a documentary that uses a triple homicide...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Samuel J. Friedman Theater
Oh please, stop with the "so kinky!" reviews. Not by today's standards, it's not. See this show for a brilliant young...
Tuesday 11/15 @ HERE Arts Center
Whether in Bellini's opera or Balanchine's ballet, Amina the Sleepwalker (La Sonnambula) is a role requiring otherworldly technique — while maintaining...
Claire Fontaine: Working Together
Tuesday 11/15 @ Metro Pictures
The art team Claire Fontaine conceived of themselves as a "ready made artist." As such, they lifted their working name from...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Westside Theatre
This show is based on Ilene Beckerman's simple, sweet book, spruced up by the incomparable Ephron sisters, and then interpreted by...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
Fast-moving and frequently hilarious, Standing on Ceremony is a staged reading of nine ten-minute plays focusing on gay marriage, with proceeds...
Tuesday 11/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/15 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Tuesday 11/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Scopophilia brings Nan Goldin back to New York for her first show in this city since 2007. The exhibition presents over...
Tuesday 11/15 @ IFC Center
Sigur Ros fans — we know there are more than a few of you out there — here's your chance to re-live the...
Tuesday 11/15 @ P.S. 122
Judging from the rapid yearly deterioration of New York's Fringe Festival, it's no wonder it took Silence! The Musical, a 2005...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Ars Nova Theater
During the next four weeks Ars Nova is hosting its own industrious and creative ant colony for ANT Fest 2011. Thirty...
Andy Goldworthy's Garden of Stones
Tuesday 11/15 @ Museum of Jewish Heritage
Established almost 6 years ago, Andy Goldsworthy's living memorial garden was the artist's first permanent commission in New York City. The...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Tuesday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See works from Diego Rivera's first NYC exhibition, which took place at the MoMA back in 1931. Yes, sketches and designs...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Westside Theatre
You would swear that musical instruments are being played, but the only sounds in this show are coming out of the...
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Burning is an irreverantly entertaining look at three unconventional families —interracial, gay, and neo-Nazi — connected by the arts, funerals, sex, drugs,...
Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings
Tuesday 11/15 @ Cheim & Read
Cheim & Read brings together an exhibition of large-scale late works of Joan Mitchell, one of the few female members of...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Various Greenwich Village locations
Expose your taste buds to the flavors of Greenwich Village in this two-hour walking tour. Break your parents' rules and start...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Various Greenwich Village locations
For those desiring an unearthly Halloween thrill this year, try looking in your own backyard (or more likely your alley or...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Jewish Museum
NYC Weights and Measures is filmmaker Jem Cohen's observational portrait of New York City, a document of Cohen's wanderlust as he...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You may remember the Lewis Chessmen from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. These chess pieces, dating from the twelfth century...
Tuesday 11/15 @ The McKittrick Hotel
Don't let the extraordinary experience that is Sleep No More pass you by. Dubbed immersive theatre by its parents, the award-winning...
Tuesday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This year, MoMA's annual New Photography series expands to feature the work of six artists, with the aim of capturing the...
Tuesday 11/15 @ New York Public Library
In celebration of its centennial, the New York Public Library is going into its archives and bringing out some items that...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Cinema Village
Having just walked off with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick's latest film, The Tree of Life, which stars Brad...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Second Stage Theatre
World War I may not strike you as perfect fodder for a musical, but the current crop of plays indicates otherwise:...
Matthew Stone: Optimism as Cultural Rebellion
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Hole
Acclaimed British artist Matthew Stone crosses the pond to present his first major solo show in America, a multimedia discovery of...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Artist Rashaad Newsome became interested in heraldry while visiting the castles of Europe. He has been fascinated ever since with the...
Tuesday 11/15 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Roundabout Underground
A wonderfully inventive script from Andrew Hinderaker is hardly credible but none the less riveting with its dark humor, fascinating, unique...
Tuesday 11/15 @ David Zwirner
In his fifth solo show at David Zwirner gallery, German artist Neo Rauch presents a selection of paintings and sculpture that...
Tuesday 11/15 @ New World Stages
Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and...
Tuesday 11/15 @ BAM
Celebrate ten years of the Next Wave Art fest by ushering in a new group of groundbreaking Brooklyn artists. Curated by...
Tuesday 11/15 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Museum of the Moving Image
If Sesame Street was your primary baby-sitter back when you were a kid, and you considered Kermit and Miss Piggy some...
Tuesday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Fortissimo, a production and distribution company based in Hong Kong and Amsterdam, has had a strong hand in bringing independent cinema...
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Tuesday 11/15 @ Gagosian Gallery
Junction (2011) and Cycle (2010) are two new sculptures by Richard Serra. Serra has produced large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban,...
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt was designed by artist Faith Ringgold and constructed in collaboration with New York City students aged...
Tuesday 11/15 @ El Museo del Barrio
Times of crisis are also times in which life extends into the streets. The artists in this exhibition have created gestures...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major international loan exhibition challenges conventional perceptions of African art. Bringing together more than 100 masterpieces drawn from collections in...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Malcolm X: A Search for Truth will provide the general public an opportunity to examine materials from the Malcolm X collection....
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than 1,000 works from the distinguished collection of the Met Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings...
Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In India, the Goddess (Devi) is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom. Devi in her myriad forms—benign, maternal, empowering, and...
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design
Tuesday 11/15 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design explores the rich interplay of art and design in all craft media that exploded...
Fiber Futures: Japan's Textile Pioneers
Tuesday 11/15 @ Japan Society
Japan’s extreme textile-making lands in NYC. Coaxed from materials as age-old as hemp and newly developed as microfilaments, more than 35...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Tuesday 11/15 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from Alfred Stieglitz's collection, acquired by the Met...
Northern Manhattan Arts Allicance
Tuesday 11/15 @ El Museo del Barrio
This exhibition focuses more specifically on local graffiti writers and their newer "canvases," focusing on artists of various generations and their...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Public Art Fund
Like the atmospheric transformation of a cloud into rain, some works of art have the potential to change their form and meaning....
Tuesday 11/15 @ El Museo del Barrio
This show features imagery by a number of artists that share an affinity for illustration and the narrative force of images....
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Tuesday 11/15 @ Public Art Fund
Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York's enduring cultural icons, is installed...
194X–9/11: American Architects and the City
Tuesday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This year marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11, an event that ushered in a new era of architectural anticipation and uncertainty,...
Lauren Kelley: Froufrou Conclusions
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Kitchen
Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE Opening Reception: Friday, November 11, 6-8pm Employing a wry wit when commenting on...
Tuesday 11/15 @ National Academy Museum
Each semester the National Academy School presents its Faculty Exhibition which highlights recent work by the members of the faculty. The...
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
For his first solo New York museum exhibition, artist U-Ram Choe (b. 1970, Korea) has created a new work inspired by...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Tuesday 11/15 @ El Museo del Barrio
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 is El Museo del Barrio's sixth and largest biennial, showcasing 75 artists at seven...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition features a selection of early 20th-century reproductions of now-famous works of art from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of...
Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler
Tuesday 11/15 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons and Anish Kapoor are some of the 20th century's...
Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006
Tuesday 11/15 @ Public Art Fund
Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was one of America’s most inventive, prolific, and influential artists. He created significant bodies of work...
"Wonder of the Age": Master Painters of India, 1100–1900
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major loan exhibition is devoted to the connoisseurship of Indian painting, with some 220 works selected according to identifiable hands...
Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness/A Centennial Tribute
Tuesday 11/15 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, drawing on its and collector Russell Goings’s collections, presents a retrospective of Romare...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Tuesday 11/15 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In early Tibetan painted portraits, founding masters of important Buddhist schools were often represented as holy personages. Using artistic conventions developed...
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)
Tuesday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Galvanized by the international student protest movement of the late 1960s, Harun Farocki has developed an experimental documentary style, integrating his...
Tuesday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and subsequent conquest of China by semi-nomadic Manchu tribesmen from northeast of the Great...
More Than Enough w/ Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip
Tuesday 11/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Unofficial Comic-Con After Party After a brief hiatus, resident Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip have returned, blessing the night...
Rabindranath Tagore: the Last Harvest
Tuesday 11/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is beloved around the world as a poet and writer, yet few outside his native India...
Tuesday 11/15 @ El Museo del Barrio
Get in on the game as we challenge you to follow the clues around NYC to satellite venues and events surrounding...
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Tuesday 11/15 @ El Museo del Barrio
This installation in the Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries, drawn from our Permanent Collection, features works with an urban sensibility that deploy...
Tuesday 11/15 @ Haunch of Venison
Castellani e Castellani is a special exhibition of new and seminal work by Enrico Castellani, one of Italy’s most influential artists. The show...
