Events on Friday, March 18
Slice Magazine Presents Piethos III
Friday 3/18 @ Legion Bar
For the third installment of the Piethos reading series (and competition), squaring off are Slice magazine, Fiction Circus, WORD Bookstore, Gigantic,...
Work + Play: Lapham’s Quarterly's Spring 2011 “Lines of Work” Launch Party
Friday 3/18 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
The editors of Lapham’s Quarterly launch their latest issue, presenting literary work from the field, and cubicle. “Lines of Work,” as...
Clipping, Copying and Thinking
Friday 3/18 @ Cabinet Magazine Space
Cabinet celebrates the republication of A Little Common Place Book — an eighteenth-century handbook on how to keep and index reading...
Mississippi Mermaid (La sirène du Mississipi)
Friday 3/18 @ BAM
When isolated tobacco farmer Louis meets his mail-order bride Julie (Deneuve), he's unsure this beautiful woman is the same one he...
Friday 3/18 @ Joe's Pub
The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and decadence. You may have...
Mark Kozelek w/ Jennifer O'Connor
Friday 3/18 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Mark Kozelek is a singer/songwriter and frontman of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters. In 2000, he released the solo...
Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica CD Release: The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel
Friday 3/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The first-ever big-band recording recreating Juan Garcia Esquivel's long-lost arrangements, The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel is already earning wide acclaim including...
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Drag! w/ Linda Simpson
Friday 3/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The coast is clear—the St. Patrick’s Day mobs have vanished and it’s time to frolic at the zaniest pop-up party in...
Friday 3/18 @ 92YTribeca
Keith, a thirty-something techno DJ, is going through a crisis. He's been fired from his residency spinning at an upscale tapas...
Friday 3/18 @ The Mercury Lounge
Winter Gloves began as one guy's way of figuring out how to plug himself into life in the big city. It...
Friday 3/18 @ Terminal 5
Since forming in the summer of 2004, Crystal Castles, the Toronto-based duo of Ethan Fawn and Alice Glass have amassed a...
Tully Scope 2011- Songs of Wars I Have Seen: Heiner Goebbels
Friday 3/18 @ Lincoln Center
Gertrude Stein’s memoir Wars I Have Seen is a deeply personal glimpse at life in France under the looming Nazi occupation....
Five Rivers to Five Boroughs Bhangra Party w/ DJ Rekha and Special Guest Shin of DCS
Friday 3/18 @ 92YTribeca
Critically acclaimed DJ Rekha has been driving the South Asian dance music scene in New York for over a decade with...
Bach, Shakespeare, and Elephants
Friday 3/18 @ Symphony Space
This quirky title says it all! David Leisner, Artistic Director of Guitar Plus, is joined by luminous baritone Thomas Meglioranza, and...
Ongoing Events
Marcel Dzama and Michael Riedel
Friday 3/18 @ David Zwirner
We're always excited to know what Marcel Dzama's been up to, so his new exhibit "Behind Every Curtain," at David Zwirner...
Friday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ Issue Project Room
Ever wondered what it would be like to lie comfortably on your bed surrounded by music. Kaffe Matthews gives you the...
Friday 3/18 @ Anna Kustera Gallery
A warehouse worker by day, Karlheinz Weinberger led a double life documenting the unconventional street styles of juvenile delinquents, biker gangs,...
Friday 3/18 @ The Belasco Theatre
Kathy Griffin is simply outrageous, so we can only guess at what she has in store for her latest stand-up show....
Friday 3/18 @ The Art Bazaar
This week's Photo Art Bazaar showcases up-and-coming photographers' work — while they might not have an opportunity to exhibit otherwise. Whether...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Washington, DC
Friday 3/18 @ Various locations in Washington, DC
If you're worried that the District is all about history, sightseeing, and politicians, we'll let you in on a little secret:...
Friday 3/18 @ 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...
Body Language: The Yogis of India and Nepal
Friday 3/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Whether you're an avid yoga practitioner, interested in Indian culture, or Hindu traditions, this amazing exhibit delves deep into the lives...
Friday 3/18 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 3/18 @ Kraine Theater
Like Edgar Allen Poe, HP Lovecraft (1890-1937) was not widely read during his lifetime. Still, his "weird fiction" has influenced decades...
Friday 3/18 @ Performance Space 122
Performing arts mainstay PS 122 is an unlikely home for former Daily Show correspondent Tom Shillue's one-man show, Supernormal. A champion...
Friday 3/18 @ IFC Center
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami enlists the beautiful and talented French actress Juliette Binoche for his dialogue-rich drama Certified Copy. Binoche, a...
Friday 3/18 @ Bruar Falls
This Brooklyn sister to Manhattan's Cakeshop, Bruar Falls offers up a homey, relaxed and intimate environment where customers can find a...
Tim Dlugos and Philip Monaghan
Friday 3/18 @ NYU's Fales Library and Special Collections
At Moments Like These He Feels Farthest Away is the culmination of a collaboration between painter Philip Monaghan and poet Tim...
Friday 3/18 @ Various locations in Montauk
Can't shake that post-conference call ennui? Need to convalesce, Beaches-style? If so, try Montauk. Surrounded on three sides by water, Montauk...
Friday 3/18 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Adam Rapp's Hallway Trilogy is an unparalleled and unforgettable experience. Consisting of three separate plays set in the same hallway in...
Friday 3/18 @ Jen Bekman Gallery
Chicago photographer Colleen Plumb's new exhibition is a series of strange and often slightly hyper-real images of animals — everything from...
Friday 3/18 @ Theater for the New City
This ain't your average Brecht. An original score and incredible performances liven up the sometimes overly stylized playwright's work considerably. In...
Friday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ BAM Harvey Theater
British troupe Propeller performs Shakespeare the way it was originally done — in drag by an all-male ensemble. Propeller is a...
Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art
Friday 3/18 @ Japan Society
When New York's Japan Society planned its latest art exhibition, Bye Bye Kitty!!!, its goal was to provide an alternative view...
Friday 3/18 @ HERE Arts Center
Feeder: A Love Story is much funnier, more touching and less creepy, than one might expect from a story about a...
Friday 3/18 @ IFC Center
For Patricio Guzman's latest film, Nostalgia for the Late, the famed political documentarian focuses on Chile's Atacama Desert, a meeting ground...
Friday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ Swiss Institute
A warehouse worker by day, Karlheinz Weinberger led a double life documenting the unconventional street styles of juvenile delinquents, biker gangs,...
Friday 3/18 @ Various locations in Philadelphia
The historic city of Philadelphia has attracted a new, hip crowd with its cheap rents and proximity to New York City....
Friday 3/18 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Self-described pervasive artist Gary Baseman is a prolific renaissance man who's best known for his intriguing, illustration-based fine art. But while...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: North Fork, NY
Friday 3/18 @ Various locations in the North Fork
Underrated and overlooked, the North Fork of Long Island is one of our favorite weekend escapes. Way less hectic than the...
Friday 3/18 @ Barrow Street Theater
To call My Girlfriend's Boyfriend a great date night would be truthful, but simplifying the experience. If you are an avid...
Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera
Friday 3/18 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Norman Rockwell is famed for his cover illustrations of scenes from everyday life for The Saturday Evening Post. And while we're...
Friday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Dust off your thinking cap, it's time again for the Rubin Museum's series devoted to expanding your mind. This year's program...
Friday 3/18 @ Classic Stage Company
Did he or didn't he? Parts of it sound like him... the rest could be King's Player collaborator John Fletcher... Double...
Perforations Festival New York
Friday 3/18 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
It takes a lot of determination — to say nothing of time and money — to import an entire festival from...
Friday 3/18 @ Avery Fisher Hall
Under composer/conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the LA Philharmonic not only gained the most aesthetically and acoustically pleasing concert hall anywhere, its adventurous...
Friday 3/18 @ Zebulon
While we prize Zebulon for its distinctly lush Left Bank atmosphere, and its nightly free performances at 9, another thing that...
Malevich and the American Legacy
Friday 3/18 @ Gagosian Gallery
With six rare and pivotal masterworks by Russian avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich, this show at the Gagosian's uptown gallery would be...
Friday 3/18 @ Umbrage Gallery
Umbrage Editions, a New York-based organization that produces high-quality visual books, traveling exhibitions and multimedia projects, is back with another exhibit...
Friday 3/18 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
After last year's heart-thumping war docudrama Black Watch, the National Theater of Scotland returns with its latest physical theatre piece, about...
Friday 3/18 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
British artist Ian Francis brings his startlingly powerful contemporary mixed-media works to Joshua Liner. Mixing elements of both painting and drawing,...
Friday 3/18 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Friday 3/18 @ Westside Theatre
Bringing back Abe Burrows' 1965 farce about commitment-shy dentist Julian (Maxwell Caulfield) lying to not-so-dumb blond girlfriend Toni (Jenni Barber) about...
Friday 3/18 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 3/18 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
Notorious for his banned cover art to Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, George Condo is a wild, prolific painter...
Friday 3/18 @ 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...
Friday 3/18 @ The Brick Theater
Iranian theatre dates back to the Silk Road. The Brick honors this tradition with productions incorporating old and new, as Silken...
Laughing Liberally: This Ain't No Tea Party
Friday 3/18 @ Midtown Theater
Laughing Liberally may be preaching to the choir — it's unlikely to be a big draw with the Tea Party crowd...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Friday 3/18 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
Playwright Rajiv Joseph creates an intricate tale placed in Baghdad during our first year at war in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He...
Friday 3/18 @ 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,...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Beacon, NY
Friday 3/18 @ Various locations in Beacon, NY
Home to the famed Dia:Beacon and countless galleries, Beacon is a destination worthy of a visit for its art offerings alone....
Friday 3/18 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Nazi henchman/double agent Wilhelm Canaris (Steven Hauk), British intelligence officer/Communist informant Kim Philby (Chad Hoeppner), and dictator Generalíssimo Franco (Steven Rattazzi)...
Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again
Friday 3/18 @ Sloan Fine Art
Two thousand lucky New York City MetroCards have been upcycled as zoetropes, impressionist cityscapes, shunga-stylized erotica panels, and nail-polished pug portraits...
Friday 3/18 @ 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...
Friday 3/18 @ Brooklyn Museum
Exploring issues of racial and gender identity, Lorna Simpson blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction in her poignant photographic and...
Friday 3/18 @ 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...
Friday 3/18 @ Park Avenue Armory
Founded in 1979, The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), represents more than 120 of the world’s leading galleries in...
Friday 3/18 @ Various locations in Hudson
Fortunately for us, the adorable upstate town of Hudson can be easily reached by train in less than two hours, no...
Friday 3/18 @ 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...
Friday 3/18 @ BAMcafé
A jewel nestled in the BAM complex, BAMcafé is a warm and dazzling watering hole with great live music. What you...
Rugs and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Comprised of works dedicated to the enactment of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, this installation focuses on Tibetan tantric rugs as the seats...
The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A special exhibition featuring 90 exquisite objects created for an elaborate two-acre private retreat built deep within the Forbidden City in...
Hardest Men in Town: Yakuza Chronicles of Sin, Sex & Violence
Friday 3/18 @ Japan Society
Steeped in cryptic ritual and customs, from full-body tattoos to missing digits, the violent, romantic world of yakuza has inspired Japanese...
Vanessa Rubin: Yesterdays - An Evening with Billie Holiday
Friday 3/18 @ Joe's Pub
Songs with stories of her troubled life along with historical moments from the 1930's and 1940's jazz scene, including Bessie Smith,...
Friday 3/18 @ 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....
Our Future Is In The Air: Photographs from the 1910s
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 20th century was truly born during the 1910s. This installation (accompanying Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand) surveys the range of uses to which...
Friday 3/18 @ The Kitchen
Inspired by the parallel ability of both the stand-up comedian and the artist to play the role of cultural observer and...
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition reunites works from the famous series by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), bringing together a majority of the related paintings, oil...
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Friday 3/18 @ 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...
The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
First discovered in 1996 during construction on the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway in Lod, Israel, this large and impressive mosaic floor depicting...
Friday 3/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Every Friday I'm at the legendary Freedom party, an event I started 6.5 years ago because music sucked, parties were boring, and...
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This unique installation is comprised of highly creative re-imaginings of the iconic form of the African mask. Some 20 works of art...
Friday 3/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night the Rubin Museum hosts K2, with DJs spinning global sounds, Himalayan-inspired libations and tapas, film screenings, live music,...
Harlem Views/Diasporan Visions: The New Harlem Renaissance Photographers
Friday 3/18 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Harlem Views/Diasporan Visions: The New Harlem Renaissance Photographers is the inaugural exhibition by the 25 members of New Harlem Renaissance Photographers....
Haremhab, The General Who Became King
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
One of the most fascinating pharaohs of ancient Egypt, Haremhab (reigned ca. 1316–1302 B.C.) was a strong leader in a time...
Friday 3/18 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Boyce Avenue, a Florida-based band popular for its strong acoustic roots and melodic rock sound, consists of the three brothers Alejandro,...
Friday 3/18 @ Public Art Fund
TOTAL RECALL features five new large-scale sculpture commissions by New York-based artists Martin Basher, Zipora Fried, Sam Moyer, Matt Sheridan Smith,...
A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic Jewelry
Friday 3/18 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Organized by the Fondation d'Entreprise Bernardaud and curated by the renowned German-bron goldsmith and jewelry Monika Brugger, this exhibition demonstrates the...
Friday 3/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Annalise Roberts and Claudia Pillow, PhD Current research indicates that reducing or eliminating gluten can help reduce inflammation in the body,...
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This installation features 100 examples of important boxes, caskets, and small chests from the Met’s European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department....
Vicky Shick: Not Entirely Herself
Friday 3/18 @ The Kitchen
A new dance landscape in which three women intersect and try to make sense of the delicate order and imagined narrative of...
Asian Art Collectors Book Review
Friday 3/18 @ Asia Society and Museum
AsiaStore presents a vetted selection of the most recent and pertinent titles for Asian Art collectors. Ceramics, sculpture, textiles, painting, furniture,...
A Renaissance Masterpiece Revealed: Filippino Lippi's Madonna and Child
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition celebrates the restoration of a painting by Filippino Lippi (1457–1504), one of the great artists of 15th-century Florence. Among...
Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Siddis in India
Friday 3/18 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Siddis of Karnataka, India are the descendants of both early African immigrants to South Asia and enslaved Africans brought to...
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition features three giants of photography—Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946), Edward Steichen (American, b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973), and Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976)—whose...
Friday 3/18 @ Joe's Pub
Comedienne and chanteuse Lady Rizo, aka Amelia Zirin-Brown, exploded on the NYC stage 3 years ago. Dubbed a 'cabaret superstar' by...
Friday 3/18 @ 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...
Isca Greenfield-Sanders: The Ocean Between
Friday 3/18 @ Haunch of Venison
Haunch of Venison is pleased to present an exhibition of work by New York-based artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders. Work in the exhibition...
Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This unprecedented exhibition features the guitars and other hand-carved stringed instruments made by John D'Angelico, James D'Aquisto and John Monteleone, three...
East 10th Street: Self Portrait with Empty House
Friday 3/18 @ Performance Space 122
Legendary New York theater icon Edgar Oliver weaves a fantastical and hilarious voyage through the dark and strange rooms of his...
Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-inspired Contemporary Art
Friday 3/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Five contemporary artists -- Sanford Biggers, Theaster Gates, Atta Kim, Wolfgang Laib, and Charmion von Wiegand -- whose works are inspired...
The Andean Tunic (400 B.C.E. – 1800 C.E.)
Friday 3/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Featuring about 30 Andean tunics drawn from the Met Museum's collection, as well as loans from the Textile Museum in Washington,...
