Events on Thursday, November 3
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Beats?
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Cameo Gallery
From the creators of Myspace: The Party and Back to Black: A Neosoul Tribute to Amy Winehouse, Do Androids Dream of Electric...
Afro-latin@s Now! Strategies for Visibility and Action Conference
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Don’t miss the Plenary Conference Opening at the Schomburg Center on November 3, 2011 featuring a round-table discussion led by Juan...
DJ Questlove presents: Bowl Train DJ Questlove presents: Bowl Train
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Brooklyn Bowl
American music legend ?uestlove is continuing his Thursday night residency at Brooklyn Bowl, accompanied by throwback Soul Train videos! His vinyl...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
One of the great underrated westerns, Man of the West completes director Anthony Mann's (The Naked Spur, Winchester '73) merging of...
Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence – A 'Chindia' Dialogues
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Asia Society and Museum
One of India’s best known writers, Amitav Ghosh joins China scholar Jonathan Spence to discuss Ghosh’s landmark historical novel River of Smoke, which is set...
Ann Carr’s The Actress: Season Two Premiere
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
Join Ann Carr as she hosts the season two premiere of her warmly received dark comedy "The Actress." Ann will be...
Gelf-Magazine's Varsity Letters @ The Gallery at LPR
Thursday 11/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Gelf Magazine's Varsity Letters @ The Gallery at LPR // 21+
Rock 'n' Soul: A benefit concert for Advocates for Children of New York & The Maple Street School
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Featuring Captain Kirk Douglas (The Roots) & Hundred Watt Heart, DJ Spinna
PLM – The Record Label presents Michal Menert & Gramatik @ LPR
Thursday 11/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Michal Menert: Coming from a musical background of playing guitar, keyboards, and dabbling in a variety of other instruments gives Michal...
White Light Festival: Schola Cantorum de Venezuela
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Lincoln Center
María Guinand’s Caracas choir combines passion and robust skill in a wide range of music not often heard in New York....
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
The Key of Awesome is one of the Internet’s most successful series ever, with more than 100 million hits on YouTube....
Microphonia: Amplify Everything & Anything You Desire
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 3rd Ward
Sound can travel through any medium, and a whole world of sound is waiting to be heard inside solid objects, radio...
CMA Songwriter Series feat. Rodney Atkins, Dave Berg & Marla Cannon-Goodman hosted Bob DiPiero
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Joe's Pub
Joe's Pub and the Country Music Association are proud to announce the continuation of the successful CMA (Country Music Association) Songwriter...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Symphony Space
Compared to Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez, Dar Williams weaves fluid magic with her supple three-octave voice. Join this celebrated performer...
The Glamazons "The Big Girlie Show"
Thursday 11/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Meryl "Lady" Finger presents the pop/burlesque girl group sensation,The Glamazons, in "The Big Girlie Show"! An evening of sassy songstresses, bawdy...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Roundabout Underground
A wonderfully inventive script from Andrew Hinderaker is hardly credible but none the less riveting with its dark humor, fascinating, unique...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Yossi Milo Gallery
Simen Johan presents a new selection of photographs at his seventh exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery. For this show, Johan continues...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Thursday 11/ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Soho Playhouse
Charles Darwin, meet Dr. Dre. Canadian indie hip-hop artist Baba Brinkman raps his way through a humorous exploration of The Origin...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 59E59 Theaters
The annual gathering of anglophile theatre at 59 East 59th is a blast — like taking a trip London's West End,...
Thursday 11/ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Blue Note
At 70, jazz piano legend Chick Corea shows no signs of slowing down. Quite the opposite, in fact: he's celebrating his...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Claire Fontaine: Working Together
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Metro Pictures
The art team Claire Fontaine conceived of themselves as a "ready made artist." As such, they lifted their working name from...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ New York City Center
Zoe Kazan is known for her performances onstage, but she has found time to squeeze in writing plays between acting and...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Village East Cinema
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming! But no need to fear, this one-week invasion is friendly and mostly confined...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Avery Fisher Hall
It's no misprint: The New York Philharmonic is finally programming Philip Glass. His Ensemble and conductor Michael Riesman join the NYP...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Various locations in the Bronx
Many of us (your editor included) don't get up to the Bronx nearly as much as we should — particularly if we...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 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...
Andy Goldworthy's Garden of Stones
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Second Stage Theatre
World War I may not strike you as perfect fodder for a musical, but the current crop of plays indicates otherwise:...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ David Zwirner
For two decades, Lisa Yuskavage has been gracing canvases with her lush, cartoonish, erotic nudes. The new works presented in her...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Ars Nova Theater
During the next four weeks Ars Nova is hosting its own industrious and creative ant colony for ANT Fest 2011. Thirty...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Westside Theatre
This show is based on Ilene Beckerman's simple, sweet book, spruced up by the incomparable Ephron sisters, and then interpreted by...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Thursday 11/ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ MoMA PS1
Responding to the sense that 9/11 is underrepresented in the cultural discourse, MoMA PS1 presents September 11, a group show that...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Artist Rashaad Newsome became interested in heraldry while visiting the castles of Europe. He has been fascinated ever since with the...
Sol Lewitt: Structures 1965 - 2006
Thursday 11/ 3 @ City Hall Park
City Hall Park is an unlikely hotbed of great contemporary art. But if you happen to be in lower Manhattan, you...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Bank Street Theater
Jon has written a play based on his dysfunctional family and, to add an extra level of verite, has cast his...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ IFC Center
It's party time for documentary fans, as DOC NYC returns with a program sweeter and saltier than the last. Showcasing over...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Westside Theatre
You would swear that musical instruments are being played, but the only sounds in this show are coming out of the...
Matthew Stone: Optimism as Cultural Rebellion
Thursday 11/ 3 @ The Hole
Acclaimed British artist Matthew Stone crosses the pond to present his first major solo show in America, a multimedia discovery of...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Scopophilia brings Nan Goldin back to New York for her first show in this city since 2007. The exhibition presents over...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Brooklyn Museum
The exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties presents the work of 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored...
Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Cheim & Read
Cheim & Read brings together an exhibition of large-scale late works of Joan Mitchell, one of the few female members of...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Various locations
Whether due to the will of art historian RoseLee Goldberg or the attention given the naked people at MoMA last year,...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ BAM
Celebrate ten years of the Next Wave Art fest by ushering in a new group of groundbreaking Brooklyn artists. Curated by...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Panda Bar
LA may have its Z-Boys, but New York City has a thriving skate culture all its own. Skateboarding Works highlights recent photographs...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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....
Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ National Academy Museum
In the first New York retrospective of the artist’s work, Will Barnet at 100 will explore the dialogue between figuration and...
Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Contemporary Selections: Aligning Abstraction
Thursday 11/ 3 @ National Academy Museum
Aligning Abstraction will bring together a selection of recent diploma presentations by newly admitted members. Each year the National Academy receives...
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
Thursday 11/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Talk to Me explores the communication between people and things. All objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Haunch of Venison
Haunch of Venison is delighted to present Boundaries Obscured, a group exhibition that will mark the gallery’s inaugural exhibition in its...
194X–9/11: American Architects and the City
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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,...
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
White Light Festival: Spectral Scriabin
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Lincoln Center
The philosophical Russian composer Alexander Scriabin connected music and color in profound ways, going as far as building a light-projecting “color...
The Artist Revealed: A Panorama of Great Artist Portraits
Thursday 11/ 3 @ National Academy Museum
Highlights from the National Academy’s extensive collection of artist portraits from the early 19th century to today will be on view...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Rabindranath Tagore: the Last Harvest
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 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....
White Light Festival: Duality of Light
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Lincoln Center
One at a time, in the lobby of Alice Tully Hall, visitors enter a long, dark corridor of sound, stepping uncertainly...
Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Flora and Fauna, MAD about Nature
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Insects, birds, flowers, trees. Spring blooms inside MAD with the exhibition of works from our permanent collection. It's a captivating peek...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ National Academy Museum
Each semester the National Academy School presents its Faculty Exhibition which highlights recent work by the members of the faculty. The...
"Wonder of the Age": Master Painters of India, 1100–1900
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
National Academicians: Then and Now
Thursday 11/ 3 @ National Academy Museum
National Academicians: Then and Now will trace the work of four artists and one architect by pairing diploma presentations – the...
Northern Manhattan Arts Allicance
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness/A Centennial Tribute
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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
Thursday 11/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Unofficial Comic-Con After Party After a brief hiatus, resident Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip have returned, blessing the night...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ National Academy Museum
A salon-style installation of approximately 120 paintings from the museum’s collection, An American Collection spans the period 1820-1970 and reflects the...
Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Public Art Fund
Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was one of America’s most inventive, prolific, and influential artists. He created significant bodies of work...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Fiber Futures: Japan's Textile Pioneers
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
White Light Festival: Desdemona
Thursday 11/ 3 @ Lincoln Center
The quiet emotional climax of Shakespeare’s Othello comes late in act four, as Desdemona recalls the heart-rending song her African nurse,...
Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Days
Thursday 11/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa conceived Sum of Days as an environmental and participatory sound installation—a monumental, voluminous construction made of soft,...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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....
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ The Kitchen
A new performance by Maria Hassabi, SHOW, features performers Hristoula Harakas and Hassabi, sound design by composer Alex Waterman, lighting by Joe Levasseur and a set designed by Maria...
Parabolas to Post-Modern: Selections of Architecture from the Collection
Thursday 11/ 3 @ National Academy Museum
Parabolas to Post-Modern: Selections of Architecture from the Collection is a brief survey of post-war architecture by National Academicians (NAs) and...
Thursday 11/ 3 @ 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...
