Events on Friday, July 13
Friday 7/13 @ The Cuddle Cave
Flavorpill house band (really!) Silent Drape Runners release their first EP, .G.O.T.H., at a very special, very gothy event. DJs hit...
Rewind Bowl: 80s vs 90s Party!
Friday 7/13 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Armed with New York's finest musicians, and their killer horn section, Stifler's Mom guarantees a stellar performance that will take you...
Rednecksploitation Double Feature
Friday 7/13 @ 92YTribeca
Join us for a double-feature of independently-made, rural-set exploitation films that we affectionately dub "Rednecksploitation." 8 pm Poor Pretty Eddie...
Central European World Music with Kálmán Balogh Gypsy Cimbalom Trio
Friday 7/13 @ Joe's Pub
The Hungarian Cultural Center, NY and Centrum Management present Central European World Music: a fascinating world music experience blending Eastern and Central...
The Bernie Worrell Orchestra w/ Deathrow Tull
Friday 7/13 @ The Mercury Lounge
Bernie Worrell: How many artists can say they were in on the ground floor of an honest-to-Rock & Roll Hall Of...
The Soundtrack Series- Virgin Territory
Friday 7/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Dana Rossi hosts this monthly dose of stories fueled by songs that has been featured in the New York Times, "Above...
Curator Insights: Colleen Browning: Urban Dweller – Exotic Traveler
Friday 7/13 @ National Academy Museum
Diana Thompson, Assistant Curator, National Academy Museum, leads a gallery talk on realist painter, Colleen Browning. Colleen Browning: Urban Dweller,...
Friday 7/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Monsieur Adi is a young fashion design student turned electronic musician from Paris. Many of his tracks have hit the top...
Doveman: The Burgundy Stain Sessions
Friday 7/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
26-year old Thomas Bartlett is one of New York's most in-demand keyboard players, collaborating & touring with artists such as Glen...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler , DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 7/13 @ (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 7/13 @ The Mercury Lounge
Described as "a modern brand of Americana" (New Yorker), Kingsley Flood draws more from the Clash than the Band. Bursting out...
Mestres do Forró Nordestino: Tribute to Luiz Gonzaga (U.S. debut)
Friday 7/13 @ Lincoln Center
Featuring Maciel Melo, Biliu de Campina, and Walmir Silva with Quarteto Olinda. Northeastern Brazil’s baião pioneer Luiz Gonzaga was at the...
Friday 7/13 @ Joe's Pub
Summer & Eve specialize in a hyper-articulate, nerdy, post-modern sort of musical comedy. weird al meets brett and germaine, if you...
A Great Big Pile of Leaves: Record Release Show
Friday 7/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Brooklyn trio A Great Big Pile of Leaves are releasing their new EP, Making Moves, with a show at the Knitting...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ The Joyce Theater
Applauded by The New York Times his "highly developed craft" and music choices that are "irresistible for their sly sensuality and...
Friday 7/13 @ The New York City Police Museum
Hot town summer in the city will be cooler for campers at The New York City Police Museum where children will...
Friday 7/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA’s ambitious survey of 20th century design for children is the first large-scale overview of the modernist preoccupation with children and...
Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience
Friday 7/13 @ Little Schubert Theater
Pottermania may have been superseded by The Hunger Games this year, but British import Potted Potter proves that there is still...
Friday 7/13 @ Archway under the Manhattan Bridge
The people behind the Brookln Flea just keep coming up with better places to set up shop. This time around they're...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ Soho Rep
Rising off-broadway playwright Annie Baker's new adaptation of Uncle Vanya is immersive, haunting, and as funny as a play about existential...
Friday 7/13 @ 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,...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
9 Scripts from a Nation at War
Friday 7/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
9 Scripts from a Nation at War (2007), a 10-channel video installation recently acquired by MoMA, marks the first work for...
Friday 7/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Stone carving is one of the oldest arts in China, its beginnings dating back to remote antiquity. Although jade, the mineral...
Friday 7/13 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Playwright David Adjmi, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, has racked up critical praise with Elective Affinities (Soho Rep, 2011) and Stunning (LCT3,...
The Brooklyn Museum presents Playing House
Friday 7/13 @ Brooklyn Museum
Since our addiction to Downton Abbey has yet to abate, we're excited to see further explorations into "period." And The Brooklyn...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
Friday 7/13 @ The Frick Collection
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes is the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi,...
Friday 7/13 @ Neil Simon Theatre
Since its Broadway debut, this spectacular musical phenomenon has thrilled millions of theatregoers worldwide: mesmerizing them with its passion, captivating them...
Friday 7/13 @ Red Star
Join us every Friday night for a FREE comedy show with your host Annie Lederman. The comedy show is in our...
Friday 7/13 @ The New York Botanical Garden
This stunning tribute to French Impressionist Claude Monet showcases a seasonally changing interpretation of the gardens that inspired his art. In...
Friday 7/13 @ Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden
Stop by on the second Friday of every month for a brief lecture by museum staff, followed by a question and...
Friday 7/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, is a jewel among Italian museums and a haven for art lovers. Founded at the end of...
Friday 7/13 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
The work of one of Japan’s most important living artists is back in New York, where the ground-breaking eccentric made her...
Friday 7/13 @ Various NYC Rooftops
Once again, Rooftop Films presents New Yorkers with an array of outdoor, cinematic opportunities of the finest caliber. The summerlong independent...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ Various Locations
Pizza in New York is a point of contention (and competition) for many, but if there's one man that knows his...
Abigail Deville: Invisible Men
Friday 7/13 @ Recess in Red Hook
Abigail DeVille has taken over Reccess's Red Hook outpost for a two-month residency employing her signature style of combined bricolage, painting,...
Christian McBride Big Band w/Ulysses Owens
Friday 7/13 @ Dizzy's Club
Christian McBride (born May 31, 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle,...
Friday 7/13 @ 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 7/13 @ 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...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Friday 7/13 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Friday 7/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the...
Friday 7/13 @ 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 7/13 @ 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 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Rinpa" is a modern term that refers to a distinctive style of Japanese pictorial and applied arts that arose in the...
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
Friday 7/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For the Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition at the Met, Baz Luhrmann orchestrates a conversation between Italian designers Elsa Schiaparelli and...
Friday 7/13 @ Various locations
It's hard to believe it's been half a decade since Wes Anderson released his last live-action film. (Not that we didn't...
Friday 7/13 @ The Mint Theater
Love Goes To Press, a theatrical match for the screwball films of the 1940s, revels in the sassy, sisterly solidarity between...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ Helen Hayes Theatre
Hair band devotees rejoice: The anthems of the '80s are back. The new musical features the hits of Journey, Bon Jovi,...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ BAM
Selected Artists: Glen Baldridge Timothy Hull & Future Expansion Architecture Ed Purver Showpaper featuring Adam Void & Gaia, Cassius Fouler &...
Friday 7/13 @ IFC Center
Kumare could be the card that reshuffles the deck on faith and organized religion. Part documentary, part sociology experiment, Vikram Gandhi's...
Friday 7/13 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker
Struggling to find the nuggets of truth in the attack ads that inevitably monopolize election-year television? From now through the end...
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Beer Here: Brewing New York's History
Friday 7/13 @ New York Historical Society
New York City has a long and inebriating past as a brewing city. This exhibit not only examines the history (both...
Friday 7/13 @ Brooklyn Fireproof
We aren't sure you'll emerge a new man (or woman) after partaking in the Bushwick Walkabout Festival, but your appetite for...
Life in Miniature: Asante Goldweights and Sculptures
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City
Friday 7/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Tomás Saraceno (born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973) will create a constellation of large, interconnected modules constructed with transparent and...
Friday 7/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
It's time again for MoMA's annual film survey proving Brazil can score at something other than football. Celebrating its tenth edition,...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ Chelsea Market
Whether you're repping the East or West Coast, there's bound to be something to tickle your fancy at Paper's Super(Duper) Market....
Friday 7/13 @ Steven Kasher Gallery
The only photographer allowed backstage at the Beatles' final concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park and the primary photographer at the...
Friday 7/13 @ Apollo Theater
Blue Man Group is an organization founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. The organization produces theatrical shows and...
Trisha Brown's Astral Converted
Friday 7/13 @ Park Avenue Armory
Trisha Brown Dance Company's reconstruction of Astral Converted demonstrates a remarkable collaboration between three esteemed figures in the artistic industry. Robert Rauschenberg...
Friday 7/13 @ Nederlander Theater
Disney's NEWSIES, the breakout new American musical, is now on Broadway in New York City! The musical, based on the beloved...
Bill Bollinger: The Retrospective
Friday 7/13 @ SculptureCenter
SculptureCenter is pleased to host Bill Bollinger: The Retrospective. This exhibition, surveys the brief, yet historically significant career of Bill Bollinger...
Friday 7/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
James Rosenquist began to paint the 86-foot-long F-111 in 1964, in the middle of one of this country’s most turbulent decades....
Friday 7/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This retrospective, organized in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Tate Modern in London, will be the...
Friday 7/13 @ Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center
Slowgirl, by whippersnapper playwright Greg Pierce, opens Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater, an intimate new performance venue perched on top of...
Friday 7/13 @ 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 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
The You Are Here Festival (aka the maze)
Friday 7/13 @ Secret Project Robot
Trouble, the art duo (composed of Sam Hillmer and Laura Paris), bring their performance/interactive art maze to Bushwick for four weeks...
Friday 7/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
One of the foremost artists of our day, Ellsworth Kelly (American, b. 1923) may be best known for his rigorous abstract...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Gold, Jasper, and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court
Friday 7/13 @ The Frick Collection
Johann Christian Neuber was one of Dresden’s most famous goldsmiths. Sometime before 1775 he was named court jeweler to Friedrich Augustus...
The Printed Image in China, 8th-21st Century
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
New York Asian Film Festival 2012
Friday 7/13 @ Various locations
From the Vulgaria to the Tormented, the 11th annual New York Asian Film Festival hits all sorts of nerve centers. Presenting...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Bruce High Quality Foundation: Art History with Labor
Friday 7/13 @ Lever House Art Collection
The next time you walk by Lever House's glass-enclosed lobby at Park and 53rd, you'll likely notice the handy work of...
Friday 7/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This installation of Italian illuminations from the Robert Lehman Collection, featuring examples by leading masters from the early fourteenth to the...
Friday 7/13 @ Peter Jay Sharp Theater
For their first uptown production, the Amoralists have expanded their ranks to feature a 26-person cast in the sprawling The Bad...
Friday 7/13 @ Public Art Fund
From the monuments of ancient Egypt to the Statue of Liberty, public art has traditionally been a means to represent a...
Inspired by Tagore: Works by NYC Students
Friday 7/13 @ Asia Society and Museum
Inspired by Tagore is part of a series of exhibitions that presents the work of New York City students created in...
Friday 7/13 @ Haunch of Venison
Haunch of Venison is pleased to announce Catch My Drift, a solo exhibition by Doug Argue, curated by Lily Alexander. A...
Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzhong
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ CourseHorse
Learn how to 'Say Yes to Saying Yes'! Initiate scenes, build on scene partner's suggestions and build a foundation in scene...
Friday 7/13 @ Asia Society and Museum
Video installation in which Chinese artist Wang GongXin, credited as one of the first artists to have created a site-specific video...
Friday 7/13 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Gordon Parks: 100 Moments celebrates a photographer who transformed the visual story of America with his ever-questioning lens, highlighting—in particular—the significance of Parks’s...
Friday 7/13 @ The Kitchen
Curated by Lumi Tan Time and space in the urban setting are often highly regimented, with different moments and...
Lincoln Center Festival presents National Theater of Scotland's Macbeth
Friday 7/13 @ Lincoln Center
One of Shakespeare’s most deeply psychological plays is given a riveting, utterly original reimagining by the National Theatre of Scotland. Tony...
Friday 7/13 @ National Academy Museum
This dramatic exhibition explores the infinite properties of the color white presented in various ways and different media. Works by Stephen...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ Asia Society and Museum
Video installation in which Chinese artist Wang GongXin, credited as one of the first artists to have created a site-specific video...
Friday 7/13 @ Haunch of Venison
Haunch of Venison will present renowned sound artist Bill Fontana's Liquescent, a solo exhibition of four sound/video works or “sound sculptures” that...
Friday 7/13 @ 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....
Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
Friday 7/13 @ The Jewish Museum
The art of Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) – a painter who began his career as a member of the Nabi group of...
Lincoln Center Festival presents Paris Opera Ballet: Giselle
Friday 7/13 @ Lincoln Center
One of the great creations in the company’s history and a jewel of the form, Giselle is the consummate Romantic ballet,...
Friday 7/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Five Minute Focus Tours offers visitors a brief introduction to one work of art from the museum's collection at the...
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
Friday 7/13 @ El Museo del Barrio
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World will examine the visual arts and aesthetic development across the Caribbean, considering the histories of the...
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
Friday 7/13 @ 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...
