Events on Tuesday, May 8
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The New York Academy of Medicine
For 50 years, New York’s criminal justice system has treated 16- and 17-year-olds who commit crimes, however minor, as adults. However,...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Radio City Music Hall
Florence Welch and her cast of collaborators channel the gothic pop of fellow UK eccentrics Kate Bush and Annie Lennox. Florence...
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Roseland Ballroom
Birthed by mouth in the year 2005, young Edward Sharpe had to wait nearly two years before he was to grow...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
David Sedaris is more than just a humor writer. His wit and trenchant social critique have made him something of a...
Bear in Heaven w/ Blouse, Doldrums
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Bowery Ballroom
After months of testing their limits and trusting their instincts, Bear in Heaven will emerge in April 2012 with I Love...
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create A New Future
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
CHRIS GUILLEBEAU is a writer, entrepreneur, and traveler. During a lifetime of self-employment and ventures ranging from online publishing to volunteer...
The Asia-Latin America Axis: Cooperation or Competition?
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Asia Society and Museum
Latin America and Asia have had a natural economic relationship of supplier and producer, with natural resources, such as those...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Bowery Presents
Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly made Something, their sophomore record, over 18 months between the back of an antique store in...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Mischief and Mayhem is a publishing collective, not a publishing company. Our goals are to nurture and promote distinctive authorial voices,...
McKenzie Eddy and Vado / Ski Beatz The Canary / The Heirs / Sean O'Connell
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Mercury Lounge
McKenzie Eddy is a double agent: businesswoman by day, musician by night. She is one of the original founders of DD172...
How We Behave Grant Watson, Adva Zakai, and Veridiana Zurita
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Kitchen
Free! http://www.thekitchen.org/event/322/0/1/ In the first week of May, If I Can't Dance commences a weeklong rehearsal period at The Kitchen...
Dead Confederate w/ the Doorbells
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Mercury Lounge
Dead Confederate take a post-grunge approach to their music, which also leans heavily on the group's psychedelic and Southern rock influences....
Bravo! An Evening with Andy Cohen: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture (Book Included)
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 92YTribeca
The man behind "The Real Housewives" and "Top Chef" dishes on his lifelong love affair with pop culture and the journey...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Brooklyn Bowl
The brainchild of Manhattan based writer/musician Matt Butler, Reckless Sons thrive on being one of New York’s most versatile and interesting...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
w/ special guest DJ Jaze Art Remote , DJ DP ONE from Famous Heavy Hitters and DJ KS*360 (KwikStep) Full Circle...
Florence + the Machine @ Radio City Music Hall
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Bowery Presents
w/ Blood Orange A lot can happen to a daydreaming girl in the world, and in the last few years, it's...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Lincoln Center Theater
It’s the middle of the night. Leo (Gabriel Ebert), age 21, has just arrived on the doorstep of the West Village...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Guggenheim Museum
John Chamberlain is most known for his sculptures made of candy-colored scraps of car parts that he twisted and fitted together...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Film Forum
Kudos to director Corinna Belz for having the wherewithal to make this remarkable, must-see portrait of renowned German artist Gerhard Richter....
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Music Box Theatre
In One Man, Two Guvnors, James Corden stars as Francis Henshall (“One Man”). Always-famished and easily-confused, Henshall agrees to work for...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library presents a major exhibition of works by the idiosyncratic illustrator, designer, and writer, Edward Gorey...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Landmark Sunshine
A long time coming, the life of Bob Marley has been pieced together in an ambitious documentary from Academy-Award winning filmmaker...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Museum of the City of New York
Manhattan’s familiar street grid is a work in progress, an evolving creation that began with a bold vision by the city’s...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Longacre Theatre
From the writer of Lombardi comes a new drama centered on basketball legends Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, committed rivals...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language is a group exhibition that brings together 12 contemporary artists and artists’ groups working in all mediums...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Morgan Library
The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote that "animals are good to think with." This exhibition examines the ways in which the artists,...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Apollo Theater
Blue Man Group is an organization founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. The organization produces theatrical shows and...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Between Reality and Virtuality
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Artgate Gallery
Mi Yuming's work blends photography and technology in a way that fully represents the hyper-connectedness of society. Harshly beautiful, her images...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Second Stage Theatre
We knew this play would tip the likeability scales when we learned it featured Topher That 70's Show Grace in his...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Laura Pels Theatre
Tony Award® nominee Moisés Kaufman (33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife) directs celebrated playwright Simon Gray's sharply comedic tale about the promises...
You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Flea Theater
Given that 50% of marriages end in divorce, this is an all too familiar topic for many of us, but an...
The Printed Image in China, 8th-21st Century
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
China invented both paper and printing, and this exhibition presents an outstanding survey of the art of Chinese printing from the...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Old School
If you hit up SPRING/BREAK Art Show during Armory Week, then the group's next endeavor shouldn't be a hard sell. Designed...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Samuel J. Friedman Theater
Columnists are kings in midcentury America and Joseph Alsop wears the crown. Joe is beloved, feared and courted in equal measure...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Mishka
The Mishka folks have good eyes for great up and coming designers that they've utilized both for their own streetwear line...
Charles Atlas: The Illusion of Democracy
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Luhring Augustine Bushwick 25 Knickerbocker Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11237
Luhring Augustine, a Chelsea gallery founded in 1985, opens shop in the still burgeoning arts district of Bushwick with an inaugural...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Nederlander Theater
Disney's NEWSIES, the breakout new American musical, is now on Broadway in New York City! The musical, based on the beloved...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Skyscraper Museum
The first chapters in New York's high-rise history were written in the 1870s through the early 1900s when the city's great...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Cherry Lane Theatre
Lily's would-be fiancé Phillip blows off couples therapy and Dorian, her hot young ex-boyfriend, jumps in to fill the void. When...
New York African Film Festival
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Various New York locations
The 19th New York African Film Festival follows the theme of Africans in the Diaspora: Expatriates and Homecoming, so look for...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This exhibition, covering the period from 1910 to today, offers a critical reassessment of photography's role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde...
Foreclosed: Documents from the American Housing Crisis
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Alice Austen House Museum
The exhibition includes photography by: Bruce Gilden, Lauren Greenfield, Todd Hido (not confirmed), Imara Moore, John Moore, John Francis Peters, T.J....
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Patricia Watwood: Myths and Individuals
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Forbes Galleries
This exhibition presents paintings by Patricia Watwood who belongs to the emerging school of Contemporary Classical artists, an international group of...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
It seems like just yesterday Bruce High Quality Foundation had its Cadillac hearse parked inside the Whitney, but in fact two...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Walter Kerr Theatre
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and London's Olivier Award for Best Play, CLYBOURNE PARK is the wickedly funny and fiercely...
Florine Stettheimer: Alternative Modernist
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library
In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "The Steins Collect," which begins February 28, the Rare Book and Manuscript...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Landmark Sunshine
Martha Marcy May Marlene meets Another Earth in this indie sci-fi cult thriller directed by Zal Batmanglij and written by Batmanglij...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
The Gerwish's Porgy and Bess now comes to Broadway in a stunning and stirring new staging, featuring such legendary songs as...
Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, Linus Bill, and Adrien Horni: Paintings and Jugs
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Swiss Institute
Curated by Gianni Jetzer
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Metropolitan Room
Winner: Nightlife Award 2007, Outstanding Performance Cabaret Musical Comedy Backstage Bistro Award, Special Material Returns to the Metropolitan Room for its...
The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Tour
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Beacon Theatre
Beach Boys bring their historic 50th Anniversary Tour to New York’s Beacon Theatre on May 8 & 9! The Beach Boys,...
Bill Bollinger: The Retrospective
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ SculptureCenter
SculptureCenter is pleased to host Bill Bollinger: The Retrospective. This exhibition, surveys the brief, yet historically significant career of Bill Bollinger...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ New Amsterdam Theatre
Now in its 5th phenomenal year at the beautiful New Amsterdam Theatre on New York City's 42nd Street, MARY POPPINS has...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Morgan Library
Best known for his fluorescent light installations, Dan Flavin was also an avid draftsman. This first retrospective of his drawings will...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Ambassador Theatre
Chicago is the kiss-and-tell tale of Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who kills her lover as a career move; Billy Flynn,...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Barrow Street Theater
Nina Raine continues the "kitchen sink" tradition of British theatre with her wrenching family drama, Tribes. Billy (Russell Harvard) is the...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Department of Media and Performance Art's performance program resumes in 2012 with Words in the World, a series of performances...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall
Funded by the Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation and opened in 1991, the Rose Museum chronicles Carnegie Hall’s history. It exhibits...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ Village East Cinema
We aren't going to twist your arm, but we strongly recommend seeing Lee Hirsh's heart-wrenching documentary about bullying in America. Focusing...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Stephen Sondheim Theatre
As the SS American heads out to sea, two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love…proving that sometimes...
Life in Miniature: Asante Goldweights and Sculptures
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation
The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition, Life in Miniature: Asante Goldweights and Sculptures from...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ BAM Harvey Theater
No doubt, your cultural calendar is brimming, but we recommend carving out two hours and 30 minutes to catch Jonathan Pryce...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Museum of Art and Design
For some, the family business means working in dentistry or construction. In the case of the Argentos, it's filmmaking. A supremely...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Minskoff Theatre
More than 60 million people around the world have come to discover the thrill, the majesty, the truly one-of-a-kind musical that...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Brooklyn Museum
This vast, large-scale exhibit of Keith Haring's early work circa 1978-1982 boasts rarely seen sketchbooks, flyers, subway drawings, works on paper,...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ American Airlines Theater
Don’t Dress for Dinner, the wildly funny comedy by Marc Camoletti (Boeing-Boeing), is coming to Roundabout Theatre Company and it’s going...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Museum of the City of New York
The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, the foundational...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of Taryn Simon's (b. 1975, New York) photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Ukrainian Museum
Ukrainian Kilims: Journey of a Heritage, an exhibition of more than 30 selected kilims from The Ukrainian Museum's permanent collection, reveal...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Joyce Theater
Renowned for its visionary choreography and exquisite dancers, Alonzo King LINES Ballet returns to The Joyce this spring with a program...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Frick Collection
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes is the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi,...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row
Writer Susan Charlotte and Director Antony Marsellis, who brought “The Shoemaker” to sold-out audiences, team up again in “Women Of A...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
During the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods (ca. 4000-2650 B.C.), people living in the Nile Valley began recording their beliefs through...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
A backstory of David Rabe's poignant An Early History of Fire is that Danny (Theo Stockman) was mesmerized by heartland fires....
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Schoenfeld Theater
One of the finest Broadway casts ever assembled now brings one of the most entertaining political dramas ever written to new...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Scott Eder Gallery
Maybe you know Drew Friedman's Old Jewish Comedians books, or his work in such iconic irreverent magazines like High Times, MAD, or National Lampoon, or the...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Various locations
We aren't sure how horror purists will take Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's twist on the category, but we found The...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Duke Theater
When someone says the word "cock," you're most likely not be thinking theatre. Get your mind out of the gutter. The...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Neil Simon Theatre
Since its Broadway debut, this spectacular musical phenomenon has thrilled millions of theatregoers worldwide: mesmerizing them with its passion, captivating them...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Queens Museum of Art
Frank Oscar Larson (1896-1964) was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, of Swedish immigrant parents and lived in Flushing, Queens most of his...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Helen Hayes Theatre
Hair band devotees rejoice: The anthems of the '80s are back. The new musical features the hits of Journey, Bon Jovi,...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Chelsea Market
Billyburg flea market institution Artists & Fleas heads to Manhattan to occupy a pop-up at Chelsea Market. Thirty artisans (some from...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Through her self portraits, Cindy Sherman has been a film noir starlet, a murderous Caravaggio muse, a centerfold, a rodeo clown,...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Unveil Your Creative Writing Genius
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ CourseHorse
Eliminate bad writing habits and begin cultivating confidence through practice and praise; develop an awareness of your strengths and weaknesses in...
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Since the 1980s, a number of contemporary artists working in photography, film, and video have taken as their subject the art...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzhong
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Asia Society and Museum
Wu Guanzhong (1919–2010) stands as one of the most important artists of twentieth-century China. Born in Jiangsu Province, Wu studied art...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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:...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Gowanus Print Lab
Adobe InDesign is the industry standard for creating layouts, working with typography, and publishing documents. This course will explore the tools...
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Although it is well known that Edgar Degas was inspired by Rembrandt, whose etchings he sought out in Rome as a...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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,...
Afro Burri Fontana Curated by Elena Geuna
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ Haunch of Venison
Haunch of Venison is pleased to announced Afro Burri Fontana, the first exhibition in the United States to focus on the...
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael’s wife Sarah were important patrons of modern art in Paris during the...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ The Jewish Museum
The art of Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) – a painter who began his career as a member of the Nabi group of...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 8 @ 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....
