Events on Sunday, November 4

The ING New York City Marathon

Sports

New York City Marathon

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Various locations

New York is stretching its collective hamstrings in preparation for the more than 90,000 amateur and pro runners who applied for... 

Band of Horses w/ the Drones

Music

Band of Horses

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Terminal 5

Don't be put off by their songs' placement in Wal-Mart ads — a starving musician's gotta eat, you know — Band... 

Disco Tea feat. Danny Krivit

Music: DJ

Danny Krivit

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Splash

In his 35-year career, NYC legend Danny Krivit has DJ'd alongside Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage, produced MFSB's disco-classic "Love... 

Ongoing Events

The Crown Point Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

The Crown Point Festival

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Abrons Arts Center

The Crown Point Festival returns to the Lower East Side, having expanded over the years from a fledgling short-film series into... 

<i>The Misanthrope</i>

Theatre

The Misanthrope

Sunday 11/ 4 @ New York Theatre Workshop

Molière's most celebrated play, The Misanthrope has never ceased to be relevant, with its profound... 

<i>Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York</i>

Art

Making a Home

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Japan Society

Though New York's Japan Society hosts only two exhibitions a year, they're reliably terrific. This fall, young curator Eric C. Shiner... 

<i>The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece</i>

Art

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Sunday 11/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Having won the 1401 door-design competition for Florence's Battistero di San Giovanni's (Baptistry of St. John) northern portal, native Florentine Lorenzo... 

<i>Wake Up!</i>

Theatre

Wake Up!

Sunday 11/ 4 @ The Lafayette Street Theater at The Theaters at 45 Bleecker

Karen Finley's Wake Up! enacts America's chronic impulse toward intervention — both personal... 

Keith Edmier: 1991-2007

Getaways

Keith Edmier

Sunday 11/ 4 @ CCS Bard Hessel Museum

Sculptor Keith Edmier learned his trade in a Tinseltown special-effects studio; like Oscar-winning films, Edmier's meticulous sculptures traffic in grandiose sentimentality,... 

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" earlier this year —... 

PERFORMA 07

Festival: Performing Arts

PERFORMA 07

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Various locations

Unrivaled by any other event in the world (so far), PERFORMA is a biennial of performance art by more than 90... 

<i>Drum of the Waves of Horikawa</i>

Theatre

Drum of the Waves of Horikawa

Sunday 11/ 4 @ HERE Arts Center

Equal parts Sid Vicious and Akira Kurosawa, Drum of the Waves of Horikawa is a brilliant mashup of two seemingly disparate... 

<i>Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art</i>

Art

Infinite Island

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of contemporary Caribbean art gathers works from 14... 

Richard Prince:<i> Spiritual America</i>

Art

Richard Prince: Spiritual America

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Guggenheim Museum

Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off... 

<i>Shirley at the Tropicana</i>

Theatre

Shirley at the Tropicana

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Access Theater

Shirley Johnson is a clueless carrot-top with a hopeless crush on her boss. Upstaged by a hotsy-totsy temp and embarrassed at... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Hispanic Society of America

While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year... 

Mark Bradford: <i>Neither New nor Correct</i>

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

As winner of the 2006 Bucksbaum Award — given to a Whitney Biennial star — Mark Bradford was granted a future... 

<i>Spain</i>

Theatre

Spain

Sunday 11/ 4 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

Sometimes it's necessary to seek solace inside your head when confronted with unwelcome problems — so why not have some fun... 

<i>The Usual Freak Show</i>

Comedy

The Usual Freak Show

Sunday 11/ 4 @ La MaMa E.T.C.

  After quitting New York for over a decade, downtown darling Jeffrey Essmann returns to La MaMa's welcoming breast with a... 

P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions: <i>Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz</i>, <i>Senso Unico</i>, Kris Martin and Adel Adbessemed

Art

P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions

Sunday 11/ 4 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

P.S.1 curators have devised the best way to watch (or skim) all 15 hours and... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Sunday 11/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

On the heels of Richard Serra's steel behemoths comes MoMA's full-scale retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear, who works...