Events on Tuesday, January 31
Tuesday 1/31 @ Death by Audio
Not many bands can boast a former Japanese boy band singer, an analog synth obsessive, and a classical violinist, and fewer...
Tuesday 1/31 @ The Mercury Lounge
The BBC's prestigious Sound of 2012 list includes a thirsty young band that currently has our ear aflutter, Dry the River....
Tuesday 1/31 @ The Bowery Presents
Chicago's Smith Westerns combine classic power pop with the innocence of teen angst. Their songs reflect characteristically boyish concerns: girls, sex, and a...
Tuesday 1/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
On the last Tuesday of the month, The Next Chapter: Reading & Storytelling, brings you authors at their most raw. Of...
Tuesday 1/31 @ Joe's Pub
"Alex Jacquemin¹s new release combines the sounds of European and American jazz with the rich, sensuous melodies of Africa and the...
Eula, Wild Yaks, Lost Boy? and Gross Relations
Tuesday 1/31 @ Brooklyn Bowl
EULA is a 3-piece outfit found in Brooklyn, NY; Nate is the pants, Alyse is the blouse, and Jeff is the...
Tuesday 1/31 @ Joe's Pub
Paul Brill’s compositions for numerous award-winning films, TV series, and several acclaimed CDs of original and innovative songwriting prove that youthful...
Well&Often Presents The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You Book Release Party
Tuesday 1/31 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A night of poetry and music to celebrate the publication of The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You, the debut...
Intermediate Web Design // CSS3
Tuesday 1/31 @ 3rd Ward
Learn to design pages, format text, and create effects with the latest and most powerful Cascading Style Sheet tool: CSS3. ...
Tango-Fado Project: Binelli-Ferman Duo and Manhattan Camerata
Tuesday 1/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Tango-Fado Project invites you to explore the connections between Argentinean Tango and Portuguese Fado with the unique sounds of bandoneon...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 92YTribeca
Join filmmaker and Tribeca resident Ed Burns for candid conversation and select clips from his newest film, Newlyweds. Newlyweds is Burns’...
Painting I: Introduction to Traditional Oil Techniques
Tuesday 1/31 @ 3rd Ward
This course is designed to provide an understanding of the traditional oil painting techniques used by Old Masters through a hands-on...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 1/31 @ Music Box Theatre
If you thought meeting the real William Shatner required going to a Star Trek Convention or ComicCon, think again. At nearly...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ IFC Center
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Tuesday 1/31 @ IFC Center
Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen's documentary series, Stranger Than Fiction, makes for an excellent weekly retreat during the cold, dark winter...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ Various Locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's Winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Tuesday 1/31 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Tuesday 1/31 @ Openhouse Gallery
Dodge the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with a play date at Park Here, Nolita's very own indoor park, plush with grass...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 7Eleven Gallery
Alchemy, the process of turning base metals into gold, is the starting point for the group show Alchemy in the West...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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 Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Tuesday 1/31 @ The Public Theater
As the saying goes, ignorance is bliss, which could be a reason to bypass Mike Daisey's well-played indictment of, uh, we...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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....
Tuesday 1/31 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Tuesday 1/31 @ Cinema Village
Cinema is alive and well in Turkey. In addition to churning out its domestic blockbusters, the Muslim nation has a flourishing...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Fall to Earth, Deborah Hedwall gives a nearly flawless performance as Fay, a mother who has traveled across the...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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 Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Tuesday 1/31 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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)...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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....
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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,...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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:...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Tuesday 1/31 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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,...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
FUNDAMENTALS OF PASTEL Instructor Janet Cook
Tuesday 1/31 @ National Academy Museum
This class is aimed at those who want to learn how to use the medium of pastel. The student will either...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Tuesday 1/31 @ 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...
From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art
Tuesday 1/31 @ National Academy Museum
The exhibition From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art showcases new art projects from National Academy...
