October 3, 2008

Friday in NYC: Gilbert & George, New Yorker Fest

It’s Friday, October 3 and here are today’s events in NYC:

New Yorker Festival begins with a 10 p.m. dance party at the Hiro Ballroom and Lounge

Gilbert & George exhibition opens at the Brooklyn Museum

Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940 opens at the Museum of the City of New York

Solos: Tulou/Affordable Housing for China and Wall Stories: Children’s Wallpaper and Books opens at Cooper-Hewitt

Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage opens at the Whitney Museum

Previews begin on Broadway for “Speed-the-Plow”

Lights on Broadway will dim at 8 PM for one minute in honor of Paul Newman

10th New York Turkish Film Festival begins

The 2008 New York Film Festival: Special Event: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni at 6:30 p.m.

Hip-Hop and the 2008 Presidential Election event at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of the City of New York with Bakari Kitwana, Chuck D; Angela Woodson, Keli Goff and Adam Mansbach

Free First Fridays at the Bronx Museum: High Water, A Squeeze Radio Show Case, from 6 to 10 p.m.

Haunted tours of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island

Photojournalist James Nachtwey’s XDR-TB images projected onto buidings at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Astor Place and Union Square from 7:30 p.m. to midnight and at Reuters in Times Square at 4:34, 8:58 and 9:58 p.m.

Dana Gould - Writer / Executive Producer of “The Simpsons” at Comix at 8:30 an 10:45 p.m.

Lucia di Lammermoor at the Met Opera with Diana Damrau and Anna Netrebko at 8 p.m.

Carnegie Hall concert: The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute at 8 p.m.

Book signing at the International Center of Photography with Bob Gruen at 6 p.m.

Free class at the NY Public Library on Digital Gotham at 3:15 p.m.

Lisa Horne-Morgan’s workshop production of “Black Mother Funny” at Symphony Space at 7:30 p.m.

Get $8 tickets to see Off-Broadway’s Naked Boys Singing by showing up at the New World Stages box office between 1:30 and 10:30 p.m. with the electronic coupon good for any performance in October

OHNY Weekend Launch Party at Penthouse, One York, Tribeca

Cheese Basics class at 6:30 p.m. at Artisanal Premium Cheese Center

“Giant Killer Shark: The Musical” performs as part of the NY Musical Theatre Festivalat TBG Theater

The Rocket Summer play Webster Hall

Hot Chip plays Terminal 5

Dark Meat & Vivian Girls play the Rocks Off Concert Cruise

Friday’s weekly free walking tours include the Grand Central neighborhood tour at 12:30 and Times Square Exposé at noon

Noah Lekas, Porter Block and the Accident that Led Me to the World play at the American Folk Art Museum’s Free Music Fridays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Museums open after 7 p.m.: American Folk Art Museum, to 7:30 p.m. (with free admission from 5:30 to close;) and the Guggenheim to 7:45 p.m. (where admission is pay-what-you-wish from 5:45 to close.)

Empire State Building lighting goes blue/blue/white for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Walk to Cure Diabetes

Museums open to 8 p.m.: International Center of Photography, (which has “voluntary contribution” admission from 5 to close;) Museum of Modern Art, (which is free from 4 to 8 p.m.;) New-York Historical Society, (with free admission from 6 p.m.;) Bronx Museum, (which is free all day;) and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (which is free the first Friday of each month from 5 to 8 p.m.;) and the newly re-opened Brooklyn Children’s Museum which is free from 5 to 8 p.m.

Museums open to 9 p.m.: the Met; Whitney, (which is pay-what-you-wish from 6 to 9 p.m.,) Cooper-Hewitt; the Morgan, (with free admission from 7 p.m.;) Neue Galerie; and the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum - but only on the first Friday of the month.

Closing at 10 p.m.: Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, (with free admission from 7 p.m. to close.)

More late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)

Image source: Brooklyn Museum; Gilbert & George. Apostasia (detail), 2004. Rubell Family Collection, Miami. © Gilbert & George

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