Events on Friday, January 13
Friday 1/13 @ Walter Reade Theatre
The Film Society of Lincoln Center salutes the upcoming 50th edition of the New York Film Festival with a yearlong retrospective...
Friday 1/13 @ 92YTribeca
Easily besting The Muppet Christmas Carol as the greatest contemporary retelling of Dickens' classic (nice try, Swedish Chef), Scrooged casts Bill Murray as Francis Xavier Cross,...
Friday 1/13 @ Glasslands Gallery
17-year old Londoner Archy Marshall, aka King Krule, made his first recorded track at the age of 8. Last year, he...
CHERYL for Dummies @The Gallery at LPR
Friday 1/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
If you've been scared to be initiated into the sparkly, (fake) bloody world of CHERYL up until now, this party is...
Friday 1/13 @ General Assembly
From Gilt, Groupon and Twitter, Ruby On Rails is one of the hottest ways to develop the next big thing. This...
Sex Mob Plays Nino Rota, Ellington & Bond / Honey Ear Trio
Friday 1/13 @ 92YTribeca
Together as a unit since 1995, Sex Mob is a rare band that has created its own sound, a completely unique...
Brothers Past with Beard-O-Bees
Friday 1/13 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Some bands are recognized for their outstanding live show, others for their prowess in the studio. Philadelphia's Brothers Past garners accolades...
Friday 1/13 @ 92YTribeca
A local weirdo ("Weird Al" Yankovic) gains control of local TV station and its new oddball programming becomes an instant hit....
American Songbook: J.D. Souther
Friday 1/13 @ Lincoln Center
Long known for his spectacular songwriting and soaring vocals, J.D. Souther steps into the spotlight to claim his place as one...
The Civilians: Let Me Ascertain You: Occupy Wall Street
Friday 1/13 @ Joe's Pub
The Civilians' artists are downtown talking to the 99% about the current demonstrations, our government, the economy, and the future. Hear...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler , DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 1/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
21+ The Freedom Party NYC is New York City's longest running weekly Friday night dance party. Recently the winner of Papermag's...
Friday 1/13 @ Joe's Pub
The Shrine Big Band is a 15 piece ensemble that performs original compositions in the idioms of jazz and experimental music....
Friday 1/13 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Featuring, Beards-o-Bees Brothers Past bio: Some bands are recognized for their outstanding live show, others for their prowess in...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/13 @ 7Eleven Gallery
Alchemy, the process of turning base metals into gold, is the starting point for the group show Alchemy in the West...
Friday 1/13 @ IFC Center
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Friday 1/13 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
The New York Jewish Film Festival
Friday 1/13 @ The Jewish Museum
Thanks to the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, there is more than enough to nosh on at...
Friday 1/13 @ A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front Street, #228, Brooklyn, NY
As part of its second Currents biennial exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery invited artist and writer Emily Roysdon to curate a show. The...
Nils Karsten: 1969, 1970, 1971
Friday 1/13 @ The Bogart Salon
Walking into The Bogart Salon, you're stopped in your tracks by a haunting video of Sharon Tate standing, sitting, reading. This...
Friday 1/13 @ Clic Gallery
The artist K-NARF might exhibit his "photograffiti" installations in an old cinema, a functioning plant, or an abandoned garage. But he's...
Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner...
Friday 1/13 @ Japan Society
Generation Y, we are a funny thing — not quite the Xes, and certainly not the Millennials. Japanese playwright/director Toshiki Okada (himself...
Friday 1/13 @ 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 1/13 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Friday 1/13 @ Film Forum
Iran's entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar and winner of Berlin's Golden Bear, A Separation is a complex family drama that...
Friday 1/13 @ New York City Center
David Hyde Pierce and Rosie Perez each play themselves, to an extent, in Leigh Silverman's (Chinglish) production of Close Up Space....
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Friday 1/13 @ 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 1/13 @ Greene Naftali
Paul Sharits did for film what math rock does for music, but better. Flicker effects, flash frames, multiple projectors, and infinite...
Friday 1/13 @ Cinema Village
We're glad that writer/director Kenneth Lonergan and Fox Searchlight finally let Margaret come out to play theatrically. In the can since...
Friday 1/13 @ RHV Fine Art
Jerry Walden's multi-colored formalist striped compositions bring to mind everything from Frank Stella to optical art. This new series of paintings...
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Friday 1/13 @ The Journal Gallery
Artist Chris Martin curates this all-woman exhibition about which he says: "Some of these artists are old friends. Some of them...
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Friday 1/13 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Friday 1/13 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Friday 1/13 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Crafting bizarre cinematic head-trippers for over 45 years, Jan Svankmajer is an award-winning Czech animator who has inspired several generations of...
Friday 1/13 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Friday 1/13 @ AMC Loews Village 7
We were starting to worry about Gary Oldman. The actor we loved in Sid and Nancy and Prick Up Your Ears...
New Fun Music Time w/ Supernature
Friday 1/13 @ Manhattan Inn
Friday nights are always a good time to check in with the Manhattan Inn for their DJ dance parties. Tonight the...
Friday 1/13 @ 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 1/13 @ The Clocktower
Winds howl, crickets chirp, and coyotes yodel in Canyon Candy, a site-specific installation that expands a wild western-themed 16-minute music video...
Feast Your Eyes: Food Photo Invitational
Friday 1/13 @ powerHouse Arena
The New York Photo Fesival challenged artists to find out what food means to them. They would send in their best...
Friday 1/13 @ Film Forum
Cinema is alive and well in Turkey. In addition to churning out its domestic blockbusters, the Muslim nation has a flourishing...
Friday 1/13 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Friday 1/13 @ Momenta Art
Taking as its starting point ruptures in domestic spaces, Momenta Art presents the group show Broken Homes with work by artists...
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Friday 1/13 @ Brooklyn Museum
The exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties presents the work of 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored...
Friday 1/13 @ Angelika Film Center
Adapted from Lionel Shirver's best-selling novel, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin places us inside the head...
Friday 1/13 @ 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 1/13 @ Mary Boone Gallery 541 West 24th St New York, NY 10001
Sunflower Seeds, the installation by internationally renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei, is on view for the first time in New...
Friday 1/13 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14
Writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman defy the sophomore slump with Juno follow-up Young Adult, an unconventional homecoming dramedy starring...
Friday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
"Yummy" might be the best word to describe Rirkrit Tiravanija's current installation at MoMA. The conceptual artist's Untitled (Free/Still), which can...
Friday 1/13 @ P.S. 122
"And now for something completely different," is the best way to segue into this annual festival organized by renowned contemporary performance...
Svetlana Mircheva: Possible Exhibitions
Friday 1/13 @ NURTUREart Gallery
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Possible Exhibitions, Svetlana Mircheva presents a handful of diminutive dioramas from an...
Friday 1/13 @ Kaufman Center
A celebration of the instrument that virtuoso classical musician Andre Segovia described as "the easiest instrument to play, and the hardest...
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Friday 1/13 @ Blackston Gallery
This group show features five young Brooklyn artists, who all reference simultanéisme, a term coined in the early 20th century by...
Friday 1/13 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14
Seven years have passed since Alexander Payne's Best Director Oscar for Sideways went to Clint Eastwood. And just as he was...
Friday 1/13 @ 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 1/13 @ Landmark Sunshine
Sex addiction in New York City is laid bare in award-winning artist-turned-feature-filmmaker Steve McQueen's Shame. Michael Fassbender, who teamed with McQueen...
Friday 1/13 @ 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 1/13 @ 303 Bond Street
Company XIV doesn't need extra holiday sparkle, because there is always magic at 303 Bond Street. Director/choreographer Austin McCormick has completely...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Friday 1/13 @ Queen Sofia Spanish Institute
Two fashion greats, Oscar de la Renta and Vogue's André Leon Talley, team up to bring you this seminal exhibition on...
It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later
Friday 1/13 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
During a recent stand-up bit at UCB, Daniel Kitson slipped in that he'd never received a bad review. He was making...
Friday 1/13 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Friday 1/13 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
For over 30 years, Sherrie Levine has been lifting artwork from other artists in a sly attempt to undermine generally accepted...
Friday 1/13 @ Camel Art Space
Curated by Carl Gunhouse, this group show takes as its cue a quote from Garry Winogrand about the failure of photography...
Friday 1/13 @ Museum of the Moving Image
For their inaugural First Look series, the Museum of the Moving Image has culled a group of important and exciting films...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Friday 1/13 @ Openhouse Gallery
Dodge the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with a play date at Park Here, Nolita's very own indoor park, plush with grass...
Friday 1/13 @ The Frick Collection
White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain will feature approximately seventy of Henry Arnhold's promised gift of 131...
Friday 1/13 @ New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher Street)
In an isolated Russian city, four performers are broadcasting a live 1940's-style radio program about a teenage love triangle in Iowa....
Friday 1/13 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The HIDE/SEEK exhibition is known best for the controversy it caused in Washington, DC when it opened in October 2010 at...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Friday 1/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Drawn from works given and bequeathed to the Met Museum during the past decade by Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe,...
Meg Stuart and Francisco Camacho: Blessed
Friday 1/13 @ New York Live Arts
A collaboration between the American, Brussels-based choreographer Meg Stuart and the Portuguese choreographer and dancer Francisco Camacho, Blessed comforts with the sensitive...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Friday 1/13 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Friday 1/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The first exhibition in the three-part Modernist Art from India series, The Body Unbound focuses on representations of the figure and...
Friday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda is internationally known for her photo-collages and assemblages constructed from books and magazines from the 1950s and...
Friday 1/13 @ Asia Society and Museum
Sarah Sze: Infinte line is the first exhibition to focus specifically on her process. It is an exploration of line across...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Friday 1/13 @ 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....
Lisbon’s Hebrew Bible: Medieval Jewish Art in Context
Friday 1/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This is the second in a series of installations that focus, one at a time, on masterworks of Hebrew manuscript illumination...
Friday 1/13 @ (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...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Friday 1/13 @ 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 Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Friday 1/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. The 15th century was certainly the first great...
Friday 1/13 @ El Museo del Barrio
This exhibition features works that explore the vast diversity and complexity of the Caribbean basin, as an accompaniment to El Museo’s...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Friday 1/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For the first time in nearly a century, the Met Museum is displaying a selection from its large collection of electrotypes,...
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art
Friday 1/13 @ National Academy Museum
The exhibition From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art showcases new art projects from National Academy...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Friday 1/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This installation of Renaissance Venetian art from the Met Museum’s collections features 44 paintings and drawings by preeminent artists active in...
Friday 1/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of narrative painting, one that continues even today with the popular contemporary Japanese cartoon (manga)...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Friday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Iveković came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian...
Friday 1/13 @ (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...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Friday 1/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Characters as diverse as Mickey Mouse, the historical Buddha, Tomb Raider Lara Croft, and the Green Lama have something in common:...
Friday 1/13 @ The Kitchen
Reeling from the reality of people living their lives inside of machines,World of Wires is Jay Scheib’s new adaptation of Welt am Draht, filmmaker Rainer Werner...
Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & EIRA: BLESSED
Friday 1/13 @ New York Live Arts
Pre-Show Talk Jan 12 at 6:30pm, Post-Show Talk Jan 13 BLESSED is a solo created by American, Brussels-based choreographer Meg Stuart for...
Friday 1/13 @ 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...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Friday 1/13 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Friday 1/13 @ (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...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Friday 1/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Referred to during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854) remains to this day America's best-known cabinetmaker. This...
