Events on Sunday, October 5
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
The always-hoppin' Atlantic Avenue becomes an even busier thoroughfare today. Local boutiques, craftspeople, musicians, and restaurants hawk their wares (or just...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 92nd St Y
James Wood is one of the few academics who has been able to transcend the stodgy, tedious style of writing that...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 10/ 5 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Eyebeam
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Various locations
The New Yorker Festival is back with a jam-packed weekend of readings, discussions, film screenings, and private walking tours — in...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Various locations
A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Various locations
Year-round educational programs from openhousen
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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 —...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Dreamland Roller Rink
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Views from the Avant-Garde takes spectators on a sojourn to film's farthest-flung lunar landscape. The 12th edition of this NYFF showcase...
Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Joyce Soho
Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos create an intimate hour-long piece that addresses the intricacies of finding and sustaining love in the...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Lazarides Gallery NYC
Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Various locations
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Governors Island
Family vacay meets interactive art party for Figment's mini-golf open, an all-day picnic and sports competition on Governors Island. Manhattan's southern...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Various locations
Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Cinders Gallery
Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which...
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Sunday 10/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Terminal 5
These identical Canadian twins strike a balance by melding voices — one ethereal, one gutsy — with a musical diversity ranging...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....
Sunday 10/ 5 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Ohio Theatre
This dance/clown/theatre ensemble has received lots of awards since forming in 1995, but you can't attribute its success to any one...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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)...
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Sunday 10/ 5 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ English Kills
Scattered around English Kills, Bushwick's DIY living/exhibition space, new sculptures from Brooklyn-based artist Hiroshi Shafer reinterpret and poke fun at male-female...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ V&A
Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Various locations
Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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 10/ 5 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Mafioso and Lo Scopone Scientifico
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Film Forum
Director Alberto Lattuada is too often the odd man out in film appreciation's musical-chairs shuffling, but the mid-century maestro's satirical gifts...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ 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,...
Sunday 10/ 5 @ Various locations in the East River
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns...
