Events on Wednesday, January 25
Wednesday 1/25 @ Glasslands Gallery
Indie rock fans, it's time to wake up to Nova Scotia's Wintersleep. Despite producing four solid to exceptional full-lengths and opening...
Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour
Wednesday 1/25 @ Nitehawk Cinema
While Le Tigre aren't currently making music together, the spirit summoned by the collaboration of Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman and JD...
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse
Wednesday 1/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Decades before house music got Westerners all loose-limbed and wiry on the dance floor, Nigeria's polyrhythmic Afrobeat sound was doing the same thing...
Wednesday 1/25 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Cass McCombs is a wandering minstrel. Born and raised in Northern California, the prolific singer/songwriter has worked a number of unusual...
Wednesday 1/25 @ General Assembly
Join us to learn tips and tricks for creating content that spreads. We will discuss the nature of web-video from genres...
Wednesday 1/25 @ The Standard, New York
Simonez & Sebastian have been hosting Mercury Nights for some time now on Wednesday nights at Le Bain. And they both...
New York Magazine and Longreads Present: Behind the Longreads
Wednesday 1/25 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A night with New York magazine and Longreads, featuring Dan P. Lee, Jessica Pressler, Wesley Yang and moderated by New York...
Our Hit Parade starring Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn
Wednesday 1/25 @ Joe's Pub
OUR HIT PARADE is a live top-ten countdown show created by Tony nominee and Obie winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki & Herb),...
Andy Statman: "Old Brooklyn" Album Release Concert
Wednesday 1/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Andy Statman has an easy way with American music that has served him well since he began exploring the...
Wednesday 1/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
“Brother-and-sister team John and Molly Knefel skip the sibling rivalry in favor of joke-telling, making charming videos and populating their monthly...
Wednesday 1/25 @ General Assembly
Want to build a good looking application without becoming a CSS guru or spending days getting your site to look good...
Getting Down to BDness: Big Deals for Small Business
Wednesday 1/25 @ General Assembly
Join us for the first installment of "Getting Down to BDness", an educational series where we explore the practice and craft...
The Telephone Book (with producer Merv Bloch in person!)
Wednesday 1/25 @ 92YTribeca
A super rare 35mm film screening of a forgotten classic from the New York Underground! Sexually frustrated gamine Alice (Sarah Kennedy)...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Cinema Village
Cinema is alive and well in Turkey. In addition to churning out its domestic blockbusters, the Muslim nation has a flourishing...
Wednesday 1/25 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Wednesday 1/25 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Wednesday 1/25 @ Openhouse Gallery
Dodge the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with a play date at Park Here, Nolita's very own indoor park, plush with grass...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Kaufman Center
A celebration of the instrument that virtuoso classical musician Andre Segovia described as "the easiest instrument to play, and the hardest...
Wednesday 1/25 @ The Clurman at Theater Row
A one-man virtuoso acrobatic performance that cleverly skews the audience's perspective on gravity, LEO is a showcase for the effortlessly talented...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Like New Group's previous Burning, Russian Transport is another seriocomic, well-written depiction of a dysfunctional family perfomed by a cast that is belivable...
Wednesday 1/25 @ International Center of Photography
Legendary photojournalist and newspaper freelancer of the 1930s and 1940s, Weegee has made his fame capturing gruesome murder scenes and high-profile...
Wednesday 1/25 @ IFC Center
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Storefront for Art and Architecture
To the naked eye, Allard van Hoorn's 007_Urban_Songline looks like a room filled with strings; a child-like maze for visitors to...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Various Locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's Winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Cameo Gallery
If the giggles elicited by clowning around with your friends aren't evidence enough, Big Terrific proves that hearty laughs can be...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 7Eleven Gallery
Alchemy, the process of turning base metals into gold, is the starting point for the group show Alchemy in the West...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
BAMcinématek presents Pina in 3D
Wednesday 1/25 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ P.S. 122
"And now for something completely different," is the best way to segue into this annual festival organized by renowned contemporary performance...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Barrow Street Theater
The Nightmare Story is the calling card show from PigPen, the storytelling/music/puppet/theatre company that has raked in the Fringe Fest awards...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Wednesday 1/25 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
How I learned To Drive is not a feel-good story, a tender tale of the loss of teen innocence. It is...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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....
Wednesday 1/25 @ Brooklyn Museum
The exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties presents the work of 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Slice
West Village pizzeria Slice isn't your average pie shop. And its Connect Four Smackdown isn't your average night of bar board...
It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
Six nude female performers perform dance routines and wordlessly express themselves in Young Jean Lee's Untitled Feminist Show. Thankfully, Lee always...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Fall to Earth, Deborah Hedwall gives a nearly flawless performance as Fay, a mother who has traveled across the...
Wednesday 1/25 @ David Zwirner Gallery
Doug Wheeler has achieved something that defies comprehension in his illuminating large-scale installation currently housed at David Zwirner Gallery. Along with...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ HERE Arts Center
A winter highlight, Culturemart both previews and celebrates works-in-progress from HARP, HERE's artist residency program. The lineup includes five works by...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Wednesday 1/25 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
The New York Jewish Film Festival
Wednesday 1/25 @ The Jewish Museum
Thanks to the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, there is more than enough to nosh on at...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Blackston Gallery
This group show features five young Brooklyn artists, who all reference simultanéisme, a term coined in the early 20th century by...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Wednesday 1/25 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Wednesday 1/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This third and final phase of the American Wing renovation project comprises 26 renovated and enlarged galleries for the Met Museum’s...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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,...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art
Wednesday 1/25 @ National Academy Museum
The exhibition From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art showcases new art projects from National Academy...
Wednesday 1/25 @ (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...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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:...
Wednesday 1/25 @ New York Live Arts
Returning for its third New York City Season, SITI Company is proud to begin its presenting partnership with the newly formed...
Wednesday 1/25 @ Haunch of Venison
Haunch of Venison is pleased to present the first U.S. exhibition of Thomas Heatherwick, one of Britain’s most celebrated architect designers. <!--StartFragment-->The...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Wednesday 1/25 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ National Academy Museum
Featuring works by over 100 artists and architects, the Annual reveals the cross-generational dialogue occurring in the art world by juxtaposing...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Wednesday 1/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Perhaps the greatest figure painter and landscapist of China’s modern period, Fu Baoshi successfully integrated Western and traditional artistic influences to...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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)...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/25 @ 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....
