Events on Friday, September 23
Friday 9/23 @ Clipper City Tall Ship
Cheryl, the party that has pledged — since the start — to ruin your life, sets sail. This is a Cheryl...
Friday 9/23 @ K1X Collective Pop-Up Boutique
Party Bavarian style with fashion collective K1X at their exclusive pop-up shop in Soho. German brew meets a hip-hop who's who,...
Friday 9/23 @ Webster Hall
"Once lost and now found" might be the best way to describe the Rapture over the last few years. The band...
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company Post-Show Talk
Friday 9/23 @ New York Live Arts
On September 23rd stay after the performance for a discussion with the artists!
Friday 9/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
At The Gallery Bounce BOUNCE is a monthly house party created by a collective of DJs and producers who are...
Live from the NYPL presents Stacy Schiff in conversation with Amanda Foreman
Friday 9/23 @ LIVE from the NYPL
The distinguished biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Cullman Center Fellow Stacy Schiff discusses her highly acclaimed biography Cleopatra: A Life.
New York City Short Film Festival: Program A
Friday 9/23 @ 92YTribeca
For its seventh annual year, New York City Short Film Festival offers a lineup of 20 films from around the world....
The Freedom Party w/ special guest Steve Arrington, Herbert Holler, DJ Cosi and Marc Smooth.
Friday 9/23 @ (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...
Doveman: The Burgundy Stain Session w/ special guest Chris Thile
Friday 9/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The monthly salon of in-the-round performances that began in January of 2011 continues through June at Le Poisson Rouge. It is...
Friday 9/23 @ Terminal 5
Changing their name from Kyuss to Kyuss Lives, the band announced their reunion in November of last year, without the participation...
Friday 9/23 @ SummerStage
Join jazz luminairies Kenny Werner, James Carter, Tia Fuller and the Gerald Clayton Trio for a night of jazz music celebrating...
Friday 9/23 @ (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...
Ongoing Events
Crafting Genre: Kathryn Bigelow
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Radio City Music Hall
Cirque de Soleil's latest endeavor seamlessly blends acrobatics and rock music. Following the story of Zark, a magician who has lost...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ Gagosian Gallery
Bob Dylan's exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery, The Asia Series, has been in a minor swirl of controversy since it opened...
Friday 9/23 @ Incubator Arts Project
The last thing we needed this September was another pat post-9/11 play, and thankfully Dust isn't that. Developed and produced by...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Washington, DC
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ GoodYoga
Every five minutes, a new yoga studio opens in Brooklyn; especially in Greenpoint. From Bikram to Kripalu and Iyengar, all the...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Various locations
Your smartphone is likely many things to you, but chances are you haven't viewed it as an art gallery. Beck's is...
Friday 9/23 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Shirts & Destroy presents The Exquisite Corpse
Friday 9/23 @ Cotton Candy Machine
To celebrate the opening of its new storefront location in Williamsburg, art and design collective Shirts & Destroy stages a month-long...
Friday 9/23 @ The Hole
Evan Gruzis has two solo shows running simultaneously and in collaboration. Shadow Work and Exotic Beta open at Nicole Klagsbrun Project...
Friday 9/23 @ Governors Island
"That's not a bug! It's a feature!" So goes the unattributed quote from a computer programmer, back in '81, which inspired...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill
Friday 9/23 @ Kraine Theater
Eugene O'Neill's exacting stage directions can be interpreted as marking the beginning of great American drama (that continues to this day),...
Friday 9/23 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 9/23 @ Metro Pictures
Olaf Breuning's latest exhibit, The Art Freaks, is a smart, revealing homage to the some of the 20th-century's most revered artists....
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Beacon, NY
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Walkerspace
How will our current war affect our future generations? How will the war continue to affect those who have been in...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Various locations in DUMBO
This weekend DUMBO flings open its doors and invites hungry art enthusiasts to experience its vibrant cultural community. Upwards of 500...
Friday 9/23 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Touring in support of their sophomore full-length, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, the boys who go by Girls deliver catchy indie-pop tunes...
Friday 9/23 @ Ars Nova Theater
Airport layovers are never this entertaining. Justin Jain, Dave Johnson, Leah Walton, and Bradley K. Wrenn do everything to keep their...
Friday 9/23 @ Hudson Guild Theater
Far ahead of its time when it was written in 1958, Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer remains a dark classic, a...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ MoMA PS1
Responding to the sense that 9/11 is underrepresented in the cultural discourse, MoMA PS1 presents September 11, a group show that...
Friday 9/23 @ 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,...
Mark di Suvero at Governors Island
Friday 9/23 @ Governors Island
The centerpiece of the 2011 season at Governors Island is the presentation of 11 sculptural works by iconic American artist Mark...
Friday 9/23 @ The Seeing Place at ATA's Sargent Theatre
"Have you ever seen a heart? It looks like a fist wrapped in blood" — so says Dr. Larry to obituary writer...
Friday 9/23 @ Achangel
While we'll never understand folks who want to go hunting with the Nuge, we admit: we booked this fishing trip with...
Friday 9/23 @ Gavin Brown's enterprise
This show marks Alex Katz's first exhibition at Gavin Brown's Enterprise and his first solo show at a New York gallery...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Rhinebeck, NY
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ BAM
Celebrate ten years of the Next Wave Art fest by ushering in a new group of groundbreaking Brooklyn artists. Curated by...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ The Lot at The High Line
We're sort of pissed at the High Line right now. We're all for summer fun but their latest addition, an 8,000...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Westside Theatre
You would swear that musical instruments are being played, but the only sounds in this show are coming out of the...
Friday 9/23 @ Liacouras Center
Summer might be over, but music-festival season continues to putter along in the Northeast. This weekend sees the return of Philadelphia's...
Friday 9/23 @ Hudson River Park, Pier 49
Living in the city, we are well aware of the effects of noise and air pollution; just walk down Broadway pretty...
Friday 9/23 @ Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex (312 West 36th Street)
Ten years after high-school graduation, Vince, a slacker pot dealer, is hosting a reunion in a Lansing Motel 6 with his...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Gagosian Gallery
Since at least the Sensation exhibit, which caused a stir at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999, Jenny Saville's nudes...
Friday 9/23 @ Abrons Arts Center
Vintage marionettes, anatomically correct puppets, and surreal stage elements are par for the course in a Basil Twist production. Arias with...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ 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,...
Friday 9/23 @ Japan Society
At first, director Satoshi Miyagi's adaptation of Medea is a nod to Taming of the Shrew's play-within-a-play Prologue. While Shakespeare's tavern...
Sol Lewitt: Structures 1965 - 2006
Friday 9/23 @ City Hall Park
City Hall Park is an unlikely hotbed of great contemporary art. But if you happen to be in lower Manhattan, you...
Amuse Bouche: Clown Theatre Festival
Friday 9/23 @ The Brick Theater
An amuse bouche is an hors d'œuvre served on the chef's whim. As a sampling between last year's Clown Theatre Festival...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ Village East Cinema
Winner of the best editing award at SXSW, Where Soldiers Come From is a moving story of a group of small-town...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ The Pace Gallery
For Tight Spot, a new outdoor installation by David Byrne, the artist places a giant inflatable globe literally in a tight...
Andy Goldworthy's Garden of Stones
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ West Park Presbyterian Church
The Tenant begins with a moment New Yorkers can relish: a man pays his respects to an unknown young woman, and...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Gladstone Gallery
"DJED" is Matthew Barney's first New York exhibition of the "Ancient Evenings" project. A multi-part collaboration with Jonathan Bepler, which has...
Friday 9/23 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: North Fork, NY
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Angelika Film Center
The buddy-cop genre gets an update in this deadpan comedy starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle. Gleeson, who you may recall...
Friday 9/23 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ 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 9/23 @ Honey Space
Excellent food is the result of the labor of many. From the purveyors to the prep cook to the chef to...
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
The Artist Revealed: A Panorama of Great Artist Portraits
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ National Academy Museum
Each semester the National Academy School presents its Faculty Exhibition which highlights recent work by the members of the faculty. The...
Friday 9/23 @ Museum of the Moving Image
With a poetic intimacy rare in mainstream cinema, Gus Van Sant’s films offer a sympathetic perspective of society’s outsiders and an...
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company: Body Against Body
Friday 9/23 @ New York Live Arts
Body Against Body returns to Bill T. Jones’s roots in the avant-garde with a program that revives and reconsiders the challenging,...
The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara
Friday 9/23 @ Asia Society and Museum
Explore the magnificent sculptural art of Gandhara, a once primarily Buddhist region that thrived where present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan are located. ...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ 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....
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Dance Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey with Jonathan Bepler: TOOL IS LOOT
Friday 9/23 @ The Kitchen
TOOL IS LOOT is a one-year process of disorientation resulting in a duet. Working apart, in the U.S. and France respectively, Wally...
Flora and Fauna, MAD about Nature
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum
Friday 9/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met Museum holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666), whose...
National Academicians: Then and Now
Friday 9/23 @ National Academy Museum
National Academicians: Then and Now will trace the work of four artists and one architect by pairing diploma presentations – the...
Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006
Friday 9/23 @ Public Art Fund
Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was one of America’s most inventive, prolific, and influential artists. He created significant bodies of work...
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ (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 9/23 @ 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...
Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness/A Centennial Tribute
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ BAM
It was an event: in 1989, Jean-Baptiste Lully’s shimmering opera Atys arrived at BAM. The mastermind was conductor William Christie, and...
Fiber Futures: Japan's Textile Pioneers
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Exhibition Joe Winter: The Stars Below
Friday 9/23 @ The Kitchen
In this new series of sculptures Joe Winter juxtaposes conventions of information display against ways of reimagining and representing extended notions...
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ 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....
Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Days
Friday 9/23 @ 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,...
Stephen Burks: Are You A Hybrid?
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
194X–9/11: American Architects and the City
Friday 9/23 @ 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,...
Parabolas to Post-Modern: Selections of Architecture from the Collection
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Rabindranath Tagore: the Last Harvest
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ 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,...
Friday 9/23 @ 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....
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Exhibition Jennie C. Jones: Absorb / Diffuse
Friday 9/23 @ The Kitchen
Curated by Matthew Lyons Jennie C. Jones re-contextualizes the material output of sound recording in order to explore how we listen and...
Friday 9/23 @ New Museum
This summer, the New Museum will present “Ostalgia,” an exhibition that brings together the work of more than thirty artists from...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Contemporary Selections: Aligning Abstraction
Friday 9/23 @ National Academy Museum
Aligning Abstraction will bring together a selection of recent diploma presentations by newly admitted members. Each year the National Academy receives...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Friday 9/23 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
PS122 Presents: Michel Groisman
Friday 9/23 @ Performance Space 122
By devising wearable apparatuses and sculpting his body to test the endurance and nature of the solitary human form, Groisman's soulful...
Northern Manhattan Arts Allicance
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
Friday 9/23 @ 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...
