Events on Sunday, January 13
Sunday 1/13 @ Church of the Heavenly Rest
Composer Olivier Messiaen drew from Western classical traditions, but also subverted them, eschewing conventions of motion and development in favor of...
Mirah and Spectratone International
Sunday 1/13 @ Southpaw
Leave it to bespectacled indie bookworm Mirah to add a subtle sensuality to the asexual world of entomology. On 2007's Share...
Sunday 1/13 @ Webster Hall
Stamp your passport at the door of Webster Hall for GlobalFEST, now in its fifth year. The 13 bands performing tonight...
Sunday 1/13 @ Union Hall
Since his days on The State, Michael Showalter has come to embody the Park Slope everyman, using his iPod as a...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/13 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The
Sunday 1/13 @ American Airlines Theater
Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan),...
Sunday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly...
Sunday 1/13 @ The Kitchen
French Austrian collective Superamas concludes its epic satirical trilogy on contemporary capitalism and commercial culture with BIG, 3rd episode (happy/end). The...
Sunday 1/13 @ Museum of Art and Design
Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from...
Sunday 1/13 @ Ad Hoc Art
Michael de Feo (best known as the "flower guy") wants the world to know that street art ain't all aerosol and...
Sunday 1/13 @ Queens Museum of Art
Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished...
Sunday 1/13 @ Film Forum
Director Otto Preminger was a Jewish refugee of Austrian origin whose unflinching independence led to innovations in both storytelling and social...
Sunday 1/13 @ 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 —...
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Sunday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists,...
Sunday 1/13 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Sunday 1/13 @ 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...
Sunday 1/13 @ 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,...
Sunday 1/13 @ The Public Theater
After seeing Brazilian performance artist Michel Melamed's one-man show Regurgitophagy, the phrase "feeding off the audience" will never be the same....
Sunday 1/13 @ The Chocolate Factory
After its successful premiere last fall,
Sunday 1/13 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
Sunday 1/13 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sunday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the...
Sunday 1/13 @ HERE Arts Center
Faithfully adapted from Mary Shelley's masterpiece, this puppet show miraculously conveys the somber Victorian mood of the original Frankenstein. With beautifully...
Sunday 1/13 @ Queens Museum of Art
Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what...
Sunday 1/13 @ The Public Theater
A freakish blend of standup, music, and drama, Reggie Watts' Disinformation is pretty much tailor-made for the new-theatre vibe of the...
Sunday 1/13 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Sunday 1/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,...
Sunday 1/13 @ P.S. 122
Multiplatform performance collective VisionIntoArt conjures nightmare hallucinations in the best sense: reveries of childhood smells and sounds, alternately biting and sweet,...
Sunday 1/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws...
Sunday 1/13 @ 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...
Sunday 1/13 @ Whitehall Ferry Terminal
Promising a truly unique theatrical experience, small metal objects will play out somewhere in the crowds of the Whitehall Staten Island...
Sunday 1/13 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial...
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Sunday 1/13 @ Atlantic Stage Two
Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God...
Sunday 1/13 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic,...
Sunday 1/13 @ 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...
Sunday 1/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas...
Sunday 1/13 @ New York Transit Museum
Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may...
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Sunday 1/13 @ P.S. 122
Today, the art of storytelling seems as quaint as silent film, a lumbering anachronism in a sea of ADD-paced narratives. Enter...
