Events on Friday, January 27
Hero, Villain, Yeti: A Geeks OUT Museum Visit
Friday 1/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Geeks OUT travels to the Rubin Museum of Art for their Hero, Villain, Yeti exhibit. Browse comics from around the world...
Friday 1/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art
1973, 1973, USA, Charles Jarrott, 149 min. This is the infamous film which sundered the Burt Bacharach and Hal David songwriting partnership. As...
Friday Night Dinner: Featuring Ari Berman of The Nation
Friday 1/27 @ 92YTribeca
With the gear up to the Republican primaries in full swing and a general election right around the corner, Ari Berman...
Art Battles: Battle for Poland w/ DJ Kalkutta
Friday 1/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Born from the artistic movement in 2001 that blended graffiti and fine art, Art Battles was the first competitive venue where...
Making Hiring a Strength of Your Company
Friday 1/27 @ General Assembly
Finding and landing the right talent is one of the most important drivers of any business. Yet, how many companies are...
Bounce w/ Kenny Summit , special guest DJs Rhenalt & Esteban and resident Bounce NYC DJs
Friday 1/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
BOUNCE is a monthly house party created by a collective of DJs and producers who are bringing fresh, top notch dance...
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
The Inspired Word presents: "Slamming Stories" Storytelling Slam w/ host Erica Bradshaw
Friday 1/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Inspired Word performance series is totally excited to present the first of what will be a regular event, Slamming Stories....
Friday 1/27 @ 92YTribeca
Arizona deputy Clint Eastwood comes to Gotham to extradite murderer Don Stroud and the lean, taciturn plainsman has to deal with...
The Review Panel- An Evening of Critical Conversation About Art
Friday 1/27 @ National Academy Museum
David Cohen and art critics Michèle Cone, Ana Finel Honigman, and Anthony Haden-Guest discuss current exhibitions on view in the City....
The Freedom Party w/ special guest Rakim (live), DJ Herbert Holler , DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 1/27 @ (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...
Friday 1/27 @ Joe's Pub
A few years ago two American nomads began exploring a music without rules or regard to borders. The glue was simply...
Ongoing Events
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Friday 1/27 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Friday 1/27 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ P.S. 122
"And now for something completely different," is the best way to segue into this annual festival organized by renowned contemporary performance...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ The Front Room
Each of the artists in this exhibition IN-HABITAT interprets the concept of habitat, and the meaning of inhabiting this world in...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Svetlana Mircheva: Possible Exhibitions
Friday 1/27 @ NURTUREart Gallery
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Possible Exhibitions, Svetlana Mircheva presents a handful of diminutive dioramas from an...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ Blackston Gallery
This group show features five young Brooklyn artists, who all reference simultanéisme, a term coined in the early 20th century by...
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ Brooklyn Museum
The exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties presents the work of 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored...
Friday 1/27 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Friday 1/27 @ 7Eleven Gallery
Alchemy, the process of turning base metals into gold, is the starting point for the group show Alchemy in the West...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ Various Locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's Winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
New Fun Music Time w/ Supernature
Friday 1/27 @ Manhattan Inn
Friday nights are always a good time to check in with the Manhattan Inn for their DJ dance parties. Tonight the...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ Cinema Village
Cinema is alive and well in Turkey. In addition to churning out its domestic blockbusters, the Muslim nation has a flourishing...
Friday 1/27 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Nils Karsten: 1969, 1970, 1971
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Friday 1/27 @ Kaufman Center
A celebration of the instrument that virtuoso classical musician Andre Segovia described as "the easiest instrument to play, and the hardest...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ IFC Center
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Friday 1/27 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Fall to Earth, Deborah Hedwall gives a nearly flawless performance as Fay, a mother who has traveled across the...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ The Secret Theatre
Amelia hires a private investigator because she suspects her husband Bill, a former astronaut who was on the first manned mission...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Friday 1/27 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Friday 1/27 @ 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"
Friday 1/27 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Friday 1/27 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Bustle in your Hedgerow - a lyric pulled from the Led Zeppelin epic "Stairway to Heaven", puts on sporadic shows showcasing...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Friday 1/27 @ 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,...
Friday 1/27 @ (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...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Friday 1/27 @ 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
Friday 1/27 @ National Academy Museum
The exhibition From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art showcases new art projects from National Academy...
An Evening with Martha Colburn, Sean Lennon, Greg Saunier (Mystical Weapons)
Friday 1/27 @ The Kitchen
This New York trio of improvisers includes Martha Colburn, Sean Lennon, and Greg Saunier. Wild and hallucinatory, recent performances have featured...
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Friday 1/27 @ 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 1/27 @ 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...
Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely Rocks the house
Friday 1/27 @ Joe's Pub
Toshi Reagon has been described as "a talented, versatile singer, songwriter and musician with a profound ear for sonic Americana--from folk...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Friday 1/27 @ 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,...
Friday 1/27 @ (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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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
Friday 1/27 @ 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...
Friday 1/27 @ 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....
