Events on Friday, May 20
Friday 5/20 @ The Bell House
With three-fourths of the band hailing from the Garden State, it's no surprise the breeze and nostalgia of youthful days spent...
Friday 5/20 @ Rodeo Bar
Some bands are a direct representation of their birthplace. The Strokes are the Lower East Side. The Allman Brothers are Georgia....
Friday 5/20 @ 285 Kent Ave
Gigantic, A Magazine of Short Prose and Art, celebrates the release of Issue 3 with — what else — a party....
Other Places: Midwest Psyche Showcase
Friday 5/20 @ Shea Stadium
Vibes Management presents another all night dance party showcase. Other Places, as the name would suggest, promises to take you elsewhere...
Conjunctions:56 Party and Reading
Friday 5/20 @ BookCourt
Conjunctions remains one of the best sources for innovative writing. Lydia Davis, Ben Marcus, Brian Evenson, Rebecca Curtis, and Deb Olin...
AsiaStore's Asian American Designer Showcase: Rita Chung
Friday 5/20 @ Asia Society and Museum
AsiaStore Celebrates Asian Pacific American Month with expanded collections of jewelry, apparel, accessories and home accents by featured Asian American designers,...
Friday 5/20 @ The Mercury Lounge
Da boyz in Satanicide are from Jer-Z and have colectivley kicked more Rock N' Roll ass then Kiss and Zep and...
Friday 5/20 @ 92YTribeca
Part of our Meet The Lady series. Are you weirdly fascinated with the women of the White House? When you see...
Blissfully Thai: I-San Special
Friday 5/20 @ Asia Society and Museum
Dir. Mingmongkol Sonakul. 2002. 110 min. 35mm. English subtitles. On a full-moon night, something unusual takes place on board a...
Lo Faber and Aaron Maxwell of God Street Wine
Friday 5/20 @ Joe's Pub
Lo Faber and Aaron Maxwell had so much fun during the God Street Wine reunion shows in July of 2010 and...
Friday 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alexander McQueen’s inspirations are explored through films, hands-on activities, music, and more. Submissions by the finalists of a fashion design contest...
Friday 5/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party NYC is New York City's longest running weekly Friday night dance party. Recently the winner of Papermag's highly...
The Oyster Princess + Flat Earth Society
Friday 5/20 @ Museum of the Moving Image
The Belgian 15-piece big band Flat Earth Society, known throughout Europe for their raucously playful jazz style, will present the U.S....
Friday 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join us and start the summer with this Tiempo Libre performance and see why they were named “Best Latin Band 2008"...
Friday 5/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Born out of a group of friends bound together by their love of dance/electronic music and its ever-evolving sounds, Pants Dance...
Thirsty Girl & Daniel Nardicio Present: Glamour Ball
Friday 5/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
May 20th kicks off the 1st Annual Glamour Ball, an evening of lips, tits & lashes, hosted By Murray Hill &...
Friday 5/20 @ Japan Society
Japan Society Gallery gets summer started early with its first-ever happy hour sake blast. Revelers indulge in an ice-cold sake bomb,...
Friday 5/20 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Thurston Moore first saw Beck way back in the early 90s when Beck was mowing lawns with an amplified hand-push ill-blade...
Friday 5/20 @ 92YTribeca
A totally original 21st century fusion between thunderous Brazilian maracatu drumming and New Orleans second line rhythms, Appalachian-inspired bluegrass, funk, rock...
Friday 5/20 @ 92YTribeca
Alison Laichter, co-founder and executive director of the Jewish Mediation Center of Brooklyn, joins 92YTribeca's rabbi in residence, Dan Ain, for...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/20 @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
We haven't seen new work by Kara Walker in a while, so we're excited to hear that two galleries, Lehmann Maupin...
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ Madison Square Park
Madison Square Park has brought together an eclectic mix of vendors for a month-long pop-up called Mad. Sq. Eats. Located in...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 5/20 @ Lyceum Theatre
Having played everything from a drag queen to a plumber from a video game to a Shakespearean villiain, John Leguizamo's strong...
Friday 5/20 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
Undervalued during his tenure, American filmmaker Hal Ashby is one of our cinematic heroes. An award-winning editor who came to directing...
Friday 5/20 @ 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: North Fork, NY
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ The Golden Theatre
Twenty six years after its debut at the Public Theater, Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, the first dramatic work to tackle...
Friday 5/20 @ IFC Center
All was not tinsel and tiaras in the land of Laurent. In Pierre Thoretton's documentary L'Amour Fou, Yves Saint Laurent's longtime...
Robert Mapplethorpe: 50 Americans
Friday 5/20 @ Sean Kelly Gallery
A citizen from each state in the country picked a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph from an archive of 2,000 for a fascinating...
Friday 5/20 @ 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...
Friday 5/20 @ The Mint Theater
Set on a westward-bound Pullman train, Rachel Crothers' A Little Journey brings together a delightful hodge-podge of characters in a story...
Body Language: The Yogis of India and Nepal
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Friday 5/20 @ Achangel
While we'll never understand folks who want to go hunting with the Nuge, we admit: we booked this fishing trip with...
Friday 5/20 @ Anton Kern Gallery
Nine new paintings by Mark Grotjahn seem to indicate a move away from the butterfly motif that has marked so much...
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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...
Friday 5/20 @ IFC Center
Werner Herzog, the award-winning German filmmaker whose documentaries have taken us to the oil fields of Kuwait, explored Russian mysticism, and...
Friday 5/20 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Washington, DC
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ New York Society for Ethical Culture
Six years into his ongoing BBC Concert Orchestra residency, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood unveils his second orchestral work, "Doghouse," to American...
Friday 5/20 @ Gallery Nine5
British artist of Chinese descent Tim Hon Hung Lee synthesizes his Eastern heritage and Western upbringing with elaborate drawings in Chinese...
Friday 5/20 @ Ace Hotel
Internationally renowned photographer Chase Jarvis (who you might remember from his design for the Lady Gaga Polaroid) is proving the art...
Friday 5/20 @ IFC Center
Eighty-plus years old and still tooling around town by bicycle, renowned New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham is the subject...
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater
Opening with the US premiere of the newly restored classic film Man with a Movie Camera (1929), the Museum of Modern...
Friday 5/20 @ Bruar Falls
This Brooklyn sister to Manhattan's Cakeshop, Bruar Falls offers up a homey, relaxed and intimate environment where customers can find a...
Friday 5/20 @ The Flea Theater
Following up last season's Great Recession, The Flea presents Future Anxiety, another provocative look at the economic crises. Laurie Haines' future...
Laurel Nakadate @ Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
Friday 5/20 @ Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
A provocative photographer and filmmaker, Laurel Nakadate is widely known for her disturbing encounters with older men on film; she taunts...
Friday 5/20 @ The Monkey
Last year, Christopher Borg and Joey Rizzolo of the New York Neo-Futurists bought the contents of two abandoned storage lockers in...
Friday 5/20 @ Various locations
Bask in jangly guitars and fey melodies at this four-day salute to indie pop. Now in its fifth year, the NYC...
Friday 5/20 @ Lehmann Maupin
We haven't seen new work by Kara Walker in a while, so we're excited to hear that two galleries, Lehmann Maupin...
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
Friday 5/20 @ Grand Army Plaza
The first major public art sculpture by contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei makes its debut at Central Park's Pulitzer Fountain. The...
Friday 5/20 @ Brooklyn Museum
Exploring issues of racial and gender identity, Lorna Simpson blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction in her poignant photographic and...
Friday 5/20 @ Allegra LaViola Gallery
The Glass Bandits, a Brooklyn-based theatre troupe with an eye for the daring and raw, return with Wolves in Abasement, a...
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ BAMcafé
A jewel nestled in the BAM complex, BAMcafé is a warm and dazzling watering hole with great live music. What you...
Friday 5/20 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner presents an exhibition of works by Donald Judd chosen from his seminal exhibition in 1989 at the Staatliche Kunsthalle...
Friday 5/20 @ Performance Space 122
If there's one performer that gets us at the mere utterance of hello it's the great aural magician Reggie Watts. For...
Friday 5/20 @ GoodYoga
Every five minutes, a new yoga studio opens in Brooklyn; especially in Greenpoint. From Bikram to Kripalu and Iyengar, all the...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Rhinebeck, NY
Friday 5/20 @ Various locations in Rhinebeck
As the weather gets warmer, Rhinebeck, one of our favorite destinations, comes alive, unfurling all of its colorful offerings: quality antique...
Carson McCullers Talks About Love
Friday 5/20 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Inspired by her teenage discovery of the Southern Gothic author Carson McCullers, musician Suzanne Vega plays the writer in this new...
Crafting Genre: Kathryn Bigelow
Friday 5/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow began her career as a painter and conceptual artist, studying at the San Francisco Art Institute and...
Friday 5/20 @ Boo-Hooray
The founding publisher of both the Dead Language Press in Paris and the Bardo Matrix/Dreamweapon Press with artist/filmmaker Ira Cohen, Angus...
NYPL Centennial Weekend Festival
Friday 5/20 @ Various New York locations
If you've ever secretly dreamed of spending a night at the museum, the New York Public Library is giving you your...
Friday 5/20 @ 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...
Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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...
Laughing Liberally: This Ain't No Tea Party
Friday 5/20 @ Midtown Theater
Laughing Liberally may be preaching to the choir — it's unlikely to be a big draw with the Tea Party crowd...
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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...
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Friday 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Costume Institute presents a show of the incredible work of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Exhibiting work from his...
Friday 5/20 @ Zebulon
While we prize Zebulon for its distinctly lush Left Bank atmosphere, and its nightly free performances at 9, another thing that...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Beacon, NY
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ Eyebeam
The Blip Festival is the shindig of the year for chip-music fans. Christened "folk music for the digital age" by the...
Friday 5/20 @ Park Avenue Armory
The Japanese-born, Paris-based Ryoji Ikeda submerges the Armory with an outpouring of digital data and binary code. The work transcends the...
The Billy Nayer Show with Alex Drewchin and Teeadora
Friday 5/20 @ Cameo Gallery
The Billy Nayer Show features Cory Mcabee (the mastermind behind award winning films Stingray Sam & the American Astronaut). You can...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Friday 5/20 @ 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...
Stephen Burks: Are You A Hybrid?
Friday 5/20 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Works by the industrial designer Stephen Burks and 20 other mostly contemporary designers and artists are showcased in this exhibition that...
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective
Friday 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This first retrospective of the drawings by Richard Serra (b. 1939) traces the crucial role that drawing has played in the...
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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...
Foreclosed. Between Crisis and Possibility
Friday 5/20 @ The Kitchen
Taking the term foreclosure as a point of departure, this group exhibition examines processes of exclusion by which certain narratives and...
Friday 5/20 @ 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...
Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century
Friday 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
During the Romantic era, the open window appeared either as the sole subject or the main feature in many pictures of...
Friday 5/20 @ Museum of Arts and Design
This multi-platform retrospective celebrates David Bowie as a singular talent who has continued to be a constant innovator in performance-based practices....
Friday 5/20 @ (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 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924)—considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation, and a key figure in...
Friday 5/20 @ New York Live Arts
Maggie Bennett punctuates her 100-hour creative residency as a part of Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series with two work-in-process showings of...
Friday 5/20 @ 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,...
Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe
Friday 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
By 1750, almost 2,500 professional artists and amateurs were working in pastel in Paris alone. Portraits in pastel were commissioned by...
Patterns of Life: The Art of Tibetan Carpets
Friday 5/20 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Immerse yourself in the rich textile tradition of the Himalayas with Patterns of Life, an exhibition of gorgeous Tibetan carpets. The...
Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
Friday 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A special loan exhibition focusing on the dynamic art of buncheong ceramics is now on view. Featuring more than 60 masterpieces...
Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Siddis in India
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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...
Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York
Friday 5/20 @ 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...
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Friday 5/20 @ 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...
After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection
Friday 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Recent tumult at home and abroad has prompted soul-searching in some quarters, and many people have a sense that America’s founding...
A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic Jewelry
Friday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ Joe's Pub
Cole Escola, acclaimed for his inspired musical performances in Joe’s Pub’s recurring smash Our Hit Parade and Casserole Live, the live...
Night Vision: Photography After Dark
Friday 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition features photography of the 20th century inspired by the pleasure, danger, and allure of the night. For more than...
Friday 5/20 @ 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....
Friday 5/20 @ 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...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Friday 5/20 @ 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...
The Andean Tunic (400 B.C.E. – 1800 C.E.)
Friday 5/20 @ 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,...
The Washington Haggadah: Medieval Jewish Art in Context
Friday 5/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Washington Haggadah—one of the most important illustrated Hebrew manuscripts preserved in an American public collection and an unprecedented loan from...
Friday 5/20 @ 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....
Jésus Rafael Soto: 1955 to 2004
Friday 5/20 @ Haunch of Venison
Together with the Estate of Jésus Rafael Soto, Haunch of Venison is pleased to present a major survey exhibition of the...
Dean Moss and Sungmyung Chun: Nameless forest
Friday 5/20 @ The Kitchen
Choreographer and video artist Dean Moss’s latest project is part rite-of-passage, part meditation on the evolving processes of contemporary performance. Developed in...
