Events on Friday, January 6
Videorover Season 3: Program #2
Friday 1/ 6 @ IndieScreen
NURTUREart’s semi-annual video series, Videorover, returns for a third season with two programs of video art by national and international artists....
The 35th Annual Three Kings Day Parade
Friday 1/ 6 @ El Museo del Barrio
If you're celebrating Three Kings Day today, you're going to want to be in El Barrio for the epic 35th annual...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Despite numerous setbacks, Slick Rick is still the Ruler. The Bronx-via-Britain resident has kept things fresh since the late '80s, releasing classic tracks...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 92YTribeca
The inaugural Omniphonic Festival brings two nights of Tuvan blues, Hindi Boleros, Transgolbal Bluegrass, Indian Brass, American Chansons and other everyday...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Not Coming to a Theater Near You, presented by the film blog. Presented in its original uncut...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
Camille O’Sullivan enjoys a formidable international reputation for her dramatic interpretations of the songs of Brel, Cave, Waits, Bowie and more....
Friday 1/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
2012 Winter Jazzfest w/ Curtis Hasselbring's New Mellow Edwards , John Medeski , The Nels Cline Singers , Jenny Scheinman's Mischief...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Classic Stage Company
Have things changed so much since Anton Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard in 1904? Flighty, ridiculous Lubov (Dianne Wiest) and her...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ IndieScreen
Werner Herzog and his charming German accent are back again with Into the Abyss, a documentary that uses a triple homicide...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Kaufman Center
A celebration of the instrument that virtuoso classical musician Andre Segovia described as "the easiest instrument to play, and the hardest...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Warby Parker Holiday Spectacle Bazaar
Friday 1/ 6 @ 45 Grand Street
Warby Parker, a socially conscious startup online prescription eyewear company known for its affordable fashion-forward frames, has turned a 4,000 square-foot...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Friday 1/ 6 @ The Times Center
Start the new year with David Cross, Alison Krauss, Errol Morris, Kristen Wiig, music producer Clive Davis, and actress Carey Mulligan...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Soho Playhouse
Baba Brinkman's (Rap Guide to Evolution) The Canterbury Tales Remixed brings Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless Canterbury Tales to vivid life in an entertaining...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Metropolitan Opera House
The Metropolitan Opera presents one of the most special holiday events of the season, Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. For the second...
Nils Karsten: 1969, 1970, 1971
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ 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...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Feast Your Eyes: Food Photo Invitational
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ Westside Theatre
You would swear that musical instruments are being played, but the only sounds in this show are coming out of the...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Friday 1/ 6 @ reRun Gastropub Theater
A fave from this summer's Rooftop Films program, the lesbian space aliens return for a run at Dumbo's intimate car-seat-filled theater,...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ 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...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ 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...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
More Than Enough w/ Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip
Friday 1/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Unofficial Comic-Con After Party After a brief hiatus, resident Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip have returned, blessing the night...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ Haunch of Venison
Castellani e Castellani is a special exhibition of new and seminal work by Enrico Castellani, one of Italy’s most influential artists. The show...
Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
Friday 1/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at the...
Friday 1/ 6 @ (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
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Lisbon’s Hebrew Bible: Medieval Jewish Art in Context
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
"Wonder of the Age": Master Painters of India, 1100–1900
Friday 1/ 6 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major loan exhibition is devoted to the connoisseurship of Indian painting, with some 220 works selected according to identifiable hands...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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....
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ El Museo del Barrio
Times of crisis are also times in which life extends into the streets. The artists in this exhibition have created gestures...
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Friday 1/ 6 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 6 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
You know that weird time on Friday between work and play? The workweek is fading, the weekend looms large, and you...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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....
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ (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...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Friday 1/ 6 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Joe's Pub
Madrid's dazzling Noche Flamenca, whose vitality, energy and passion have won accolades around the world, returns for a special limited engagement...
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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....
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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 1/ 6 @ 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....
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Friday 1/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ (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 1/ 6 @ 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)...
Lauren Kelley: Froufrou Conclusions
Friday 1/ 6 @ The Kitchen
Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE Opening Reception: Friday, November 11, 6-8pm Employing a wry wit when commenting on...
