Events on Sunday, October 26

Red Hook Ball Fields Season Closer

Food/Wine

Red Hook Ball Fields

Sunday 10/26 @ Red Hook Ball Fields

If you didn't feel like paying the 100 bucks to sample top-notch street fare at the Vendy Awards, today is your... 

Photojojo presents DUMBO Street Art Photo Safari

Special Event

DUMBO Street Art Photo Safari

Sunday 10/26 @ York St F stop

The good folks at Photojojo host a Photo Safari during which intrepid participants are encouraged to capture street art in DUMBO.... 

Champagne Brunch Sail

City Gems

Champagne Brunch Sail

Sunday 10/26 @ North Cove Marina

Summer has faded and the cold winds and overcast days are coming our way. Savor one of the remaining fall days... 

Benefit for Laura Kennedy feat. Bush Tetras + James Chance w/ Lenny Kay, Ivan Julian, Deborah Frost and the Vanity Set

Music

Benefit for Laura Kennedy feat. Bush Tetras + James Chance

Sunday 10/26 @ Cake Shop

For more than 20 years, funk-infused post-punkers Bush Tetras have walked the line between dance-floor shimmy and seedy, streetwise shake. Sadly,... 

LA Theatre Works: <em>War of the Worlds</em> / <em>The Lost World</em>

Theatre

War of the Worlds / The Lost World

Sunday 10/26 @ Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts

Familiar to NPR and XM listeners, the acclaimed radio-theatre company LA Theatre Works comes to Brooklyn for a pre-Halloween get-together. John... 

Ongoing Events

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 10/26 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre

There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 10/26 @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School

As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big... 

Blek Le Rat

Art

Blek Le Rat

Sunday 10/26 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints.... 

Darmstadt presents Essential Repertoire

Music: Experimental

Essential Repertoire

Sunday 10/26 @ Issue Project Room

During a certain week in October, NYC experiences a sharp influx of music-industry nerds, reminding everyone of this city's musical history... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 10/26 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

<em>If You See Something Say Something</em>

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Sunday 10/26 @ Joe's Pub

We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 10/26 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker

Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Sunday 10/26 @ Studio Museum in Harlem

Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Sunday 10/26 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

<em>Farragut North</em>

Theatre

Farragut North

Sunday 10/26 @ Linda Gross Theater

Playwright Beau Willimon served on the staff of many political campaigns — including Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid — and his knowledge gives us... 

Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Sunday 10/26 @ SculptureCenter

In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Sunday 10/26 @ Angelika Film Center

This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... 

<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Sunday 10/26 @ American Airlines Theater

A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... 

<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Sunday 10/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Sunday 10/26 @ Landmark Sunshine

Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... 

<em>Lola Montes</em> (1955)

Film

Lola Montes

Sunday 10/26 @ Film Forum

With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes,... 

<em>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Sunday 10/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived —... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 10/26 @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from... 

Jennifer Steinkamp: <em>Daisy Bell</em>

Art

Daisy Bell

Sunday 10/26 @ Lehmann Maupin

In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God.... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Sunday 10/26 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Sunday 10/26 @ Walter Kerr Theatre

Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Sunday 10/26 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator... 

I Kiffe NY: French Urban Cultures Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

I Kiffe NY

Sunday 10/26 @ Various locations

The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past... 

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Theatre

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Sunday 10/26 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

Amazing Maize Maze

City Gems

Amazing Maize Maze

Sunday 10/26 @ Queens County Farm Museum

If you don't mind the trek, the Queens County Farm Museum's Amazing Maize Maze is one of fall's finest (and strangest)... 

Free Night of Theater 2008

Theatre

Free Night of Theater 2008

Sunday 10/26 @ Various locations

What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in... 

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Sunday 10/26 @ Laura Pels Theatre

Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's... 

WFMU Record and CD Fair

Festival: Fair

WFMU Record and CD Fair

Sunday 10/26 @ Metropolitan Pavilion

Take out those earbuds and head over to the Metropolitan Pavilion for a weekend of charitable digging that benefits everyone's favorite... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 10/26 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>

Art: Photography

Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts

Sunday 10/26 @ Brooklyn Historical Society

From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many... 

Chanel Mobile Art

Art

Chanel Mobile Art

Sunday 10/26 @ Rumsey Field in Central Park

Visionary architect Zaha Hadid collaborates with Chanel and fashion baron Karl Lagerfeld to land an ephemeral museum in the middle of... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 10/26 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Sunday 10/26 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits... 

<em>Humboldt County</em>

Film

Humboldt County

Sunday 10/26 @ Various locations

Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest... 

<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Sunday 10/26 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is... 

Sun K. Kwak: <em>Times Composed</em>

Art

Sun K Kwak

Sunday 10/26 @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art

Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Sunday 10/26 @ Angelika Film Center

English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... 

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

Sunday 10/26 @ The Mint Theater

The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Sunday 10/26 @ Storm King Art Center

In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,... 

Banksy: <em>The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill</em>

Art

The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

Sunday 10/26 @ Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

Banksy, the art world's man of mystery (and controversy), continues to play the role of provocateur at The Village Pet Store... 

<em>Pop Surrealism: In the Language of Angels</em>

Art

In the Language of Angels

Sunday 10/26 @ Ad Hoc Art

This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly... 

<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Sunday 10/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped... 

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Sunday 10/26 @ Spiegelworld

This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... 

Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink

City Gems

Dreamland Roller Rink

Sunday 10/26 @ Dreamland Roller Rink

Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this... 

Film

Burn After Reading

Sunday 10/26 @ Various locations

After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Sunday 10/26 @ Barrow Street Theater

In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... 

<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>

Art

NeoHooDoo

Sunday 10/26 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... 

<em>Choke</em>

Film

Choke

Sunday 10/26 @ Landmark Sunshine

Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 10/26 @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater... 

<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Sunday 10/26 @ Museum of Arts and Design

To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items... 

<em>Filth and Wisdom</em>

Film

Filth and Wisdom

Sunday 10/26 @ IFC Center

The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna?... 

<em>Beachwood Drive</em>

Theatre

Beachwood Drive

Sunday 10/26 @ June Havoc Theatre

Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a... 

Brooklyn Flea and Green Jeans Present: Fall Furniture Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Fall Furniture Festival

Sunday 10/26 @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School

Every Sunday in October, vintage mavens Brooklyn Flea team up with eco-designers Greenjeans to showcase young, local, and sustainable furniture makers... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 10/26 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

Jason Douglas Griffin: <em>80's Babies</em>

Art

'80s Babies

Sunday 10/26 @ Leo Kesting Gallery

With his graphic style and street-wise influence, Jason Douglas Griffin gives us 80's Babies. These portraits of twentysomethings include paintings on... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Sunday 10/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man... 

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Sunday 10/26 @ Soho Rep

It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Sunday 10/26 @ Riverside Park South

Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown... 

<em>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Sunday 10/26 @ Landmark Sunshine

British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but... 

<em>Wig Out!</em>

Theatre

Wig Out!

Sunday 10/26 @ Vineyard Theatre

Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Sunday 10/26 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... 

<em>Ashes of Time Redux</em>

Film

Ashes of Time Redux

Sunday 10/26 @ Angelika Film Center

Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong... 

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Sunday 10/26 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based... 

The New York Art Book Fair

Festival: Fair

The New York Art Book Fair

Sunday 10/26 @ Phillips de Pury & Company

The auction house Phillips de Pury & Company, which has a reputation for fetching top dollar for contemporary art,  plays host... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Sunday 10/26 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women...