Events on Sunday, December 14

Gowanus Music Club presents Kings Highway, the Vote, and Reverse Psychology
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Music: Rock/Pop
Gowanus Music Club
@ The Bell House
If you hated Jack Black's antics in School of Rock but loved the idea of kids wailing on guitars and beating...  View details »
<em>McSweeney's</em> presents Ed Park w/ Deb Olin Unferth and Heidi Julavits
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Reading
McSweeney's Reading Night
@ KGB Bar
This week, KGB Bar's Sunday night fiction series hosts an evening with McSweeney's that features two founding editors of the Believer,...  View details »
Free

Ongoing Events

Artists and Fleas
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
More Flavor: City Gem
Artists and Fleas
@ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Back Back Back</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Performing Arts: Theatre
Back Back Back
@ New York City Center
Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's...  View details »
Ongoing
GreenFlea Market
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More Flavor: City Gem
GreenFlea Market
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Trinity Church presents Handel's <em>Messiah</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Music: Classical
Handel's Messiah
@ Trinity Church
Savor the chance to hear Handel's Messiah on the site where the epic oratorio received its New World premiere. Trinity Church...  View details »
Ongoing
James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art: Photography
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Dance Dance Revolution</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Dance
Dance Dance Revolution
@ Ohio Theatre
Les Freres Corbusier, the cheeky and frenetic dance/theatre ensemble responsible for immersive theater environments like Hell House, is at it again...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art: Photography
Rudy Burckhardt
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Taking Over</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Taking Over
@ The Public Theater
Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Black Watch</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Black Watch
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>We Are Wizards</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Film: Documentary
We Are Wizards
@ Cinema Village
Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and...  View details »
Ongoing
La Suprette 2008
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La Suprette 2008
@ La Suprette
After a particularly black Black Friday, holiday shopping may not be at the top of anyone's "things I want to do"...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Blasted</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Blasted
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Federico Fellini's <em>Amarcord</em> (1973)
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Film
Amarcord
@ Film Forum
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975, Federico Fellini's Amarcord is his most sentimental and unabashedly...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>A Christmas Tale</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Film
A Christmas Tale
@ IFC Center
In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art: Architecture/Design
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Comedy
Sleepwalk With Me
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
South Pacific
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
C215: <em>Junk Store</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
C215
@ Ad Hoc Art
Parisian artist C215 has been peeking from the shadows on a cross-continental level, and he's ready for his first stateside solo...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Brooklyn Block Party</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Art
The Brooklyn Block Party
@ Ad Hoc Art
Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Cripple of Inishmaan
@ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...  View details »
Ongoing
Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
Marlene Dumas
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Working from photographic source material — both found media imagery and personal snapshots — Marlene Dumas has constructed an impressive body...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speed-the-Plow
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
Street Art, Street Life
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Garrison Keillor: Man in Tux and Red Shoes with Piano
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Reading
Garrison Keillor
@ Feinstein's at Loews Regency
It's a good thing A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor has one of the most recognizable voices in America, because...  View details »
Ongoing
Ice Skating in Prospect Park
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
More Flavor: City Gem
Ice Skating in Prospect Park
@ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
The Labyrinth Wall
@ Exit Art
Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth...  View details »
Opening
Ongoing
Free
Paragraph
Month_12 Monday Day_15
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
@ Paragraph
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Man for All Seasons
@ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Religulous</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Film: Documentary
Religulous
@ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...  View details »
Ongoing
Kate Gilmore
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
Kate Gilmore
@ Smith-Stewart
Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
ASSSSCAT 3000
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
ASSSSCAT 3000
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Streamers</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Streamers
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Let the Right One In</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Film
Let the Right One In
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art: Photography
William Eggleston
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>February</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Dance
February
@ La MaMa E.T.C.
LeeSaar the Company — a partnership between actress/writer Lee Sher and dancer/choreographer Saar Harari — brings a split bill of dance...  View details »
Ongoing
Union Square Holiday Market
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Union Square Holiday Market
@ Union Square
Holiday shopping is often the stuff of anxiety attacks, but it doesn't have to be bankruptcy-inducing or mind-numbing, thanks to the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Improbable Frequency</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Improbable Frequency
@ 59E59 Theaters
Ireland's Rough Magic Theatre Company makes its US debut with Improbable Frequency, an absurd, over-the-top musical comedy about a British spy...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Wendy and Lucy</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Film
Wendy and Lucy
@ Film Forum
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Film
Synecdoche, New York
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Pipilotti Rist: <em>Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
Pipilotti Rist
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Seagull</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Seagull
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
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War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
@ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Firemen's Ball </em>(1967)
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Film
The Firemen's Ball
@ BAM Rose Cinemas
Made during the Czech New Wave's abbreviated springtime, The Firemen's Ball was "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion in...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
NeoHooDoo
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Ronnie Spector's Xmas Party
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More Flavor: Party
Ronnie Spector's Xmas Party
@ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
Rock 'n roll's original bad girl hosts her annual Christmas party at B.B. King's this year, putting her stamp on classics...  View details »
Ongoing
Ray Mortenson: <em>Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art: Photography
Broken Glass
@ Museum of the City of New York
The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's...  View details »
Ongoing
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: <em>Bamboo Blues</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Dance
Pina Bausch
@ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Tanztheater is one of the most dynamic styles of contemporary dance, incorporating a collage of music, dialogue, and stage design with...  View details »
Ongoing
Misnomer Dance Theater: <em>Being Together</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Dance
Misnomer Dance Theater
@ Joyce Soho
Chris Elam is a rare bird: a downtown New York choreographer who appeals to a wider audience: look to his work...  View details »
Ongoing
Calder Jewelry
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art: Architecture/Design
Calder Jewelry
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Film
Rachel Getting Married
@ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...  View details »
Ongoing
Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
Elizabeth Peyton
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Keith Haring: <em>The Ten Commandments</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
Keith Haring
@ Deitch Studios
Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Film
I've Loved You So Long
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Brooklyn Indie Market
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
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Brooklyn Indie Market
@ Brooklyn Indie Market
The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
@ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...  View details »
Ongoing
Gilbert & George
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
Gilbert & George
@ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Atheist</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Atheist
@ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Pal Joey</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Pal Joey
@ Studio 54
Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Art
Quilts of the 1930s
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>[title of show]</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
[title of show]
@ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Deville's Holiday Special</em> feat. Pufferella and Ad Deville
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art
Deville's Holiday Special
@ Factory Fresh
This holiday season, Factory Fresh founder Ad Deville gives you a look at his own burgeoning body of work alongside that...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Billy Elliot</em>
Month_12 Monday Day_15
Performing Arts: Theatre
Billy Elliot
@ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...  View details »
Ongoing
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art: Architecture/Design
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...  View details »
Ongoing
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Leandro Erlich: <em>Swimming Pool</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
Art: Architecture/Design
Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich....  View details »
Ongoing
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Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_12 Sunday Day_14
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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