All events on Saturday March 15

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SPLAT! Graphic Novel Symposium
Saturday Mar 15 (9am–7:30pm) @ NYCIP
Though a Graphic Novel Symposium might sound a bit too "niche-y" (read: dorky) for people who prefer their novels graphic-free, SPLAT! encourages diehards and newcomers... View details »
SPLAT! Graphic Novel Symposium
Music: Electronic
[SOLD OUT] Cut Copy
Saturday Mar 15 (10pm–4am) @ Studio B
Sold Out!
The FIXED crew and Modular Records team up for another Greenpoint doubleheader. Tonight, Modular electro-pop outfit Cut Copy hit Studio B, bringing a taste of... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Cut Copy
More Flavor: Discussion
Richard Dawkins
Saturday Mar 15 (7pm) @ New York Society for Ethical Culture
Free
Richard Dawkins appears at the New York Society for Ethical Culture tonight to discuss both his best-selling book (The God Delusion) and the current state... View details »
Richard Dawkins
Music: Global
Bhangra Meets Brazil
Saturday Mar 15 (7pm) @ S.O.B.'s
Giveaway
Samba Soul plays afterparty to the New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival tonight, pleasing cineastes and partygoers with an appropriately exotic soundtrack. Although... View details »
Bhangra Meets Brazil
Art
Asian Contemporary Art Week
Saturday Mar 15 @ Various locations More times »
Asian Contemporary Art Week corrals dozens of artists for countless shows and lectures. At Ch'i, some of China's fresher faces work in the shadow of... View details »
Asian Contemporary Art Week
Music: Rock/Pop
The Chinese Stars
Saturday Mar 15 (8pm) @ Cake Shop
Formed from the remains of Providence noise-punks Arab on Radar, the Chinese Stars streamline their former band's abrasive tendencies. It's easy to toss the foursome... View details »
The Chinese Stars
Music: DJ
Jesse Rose
Saturday Mar 15 (10pm) @ Sullivan Room
Jesse Rose is a busy man. The Berlin-based producer founded both the Made to Play and Front Room imprints, has remixed everyone from Hot Chip... View details »
Jesse Rose

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Art
Tara Donovan
Saturday Mar 15 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
Tara Donovan
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Saturday Mar 15 (2 & 8pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday Mar 15 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Art
Francis Alÿs
Saturday Mar 15 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
Free
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Saturday Mar 15 (7 & 10pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Saturday Mar 15 (2, 5 & 8pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
Jump
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Saturday Mar 15 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere.... View details »
blog.mode
Art
New York States of Mind
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what has made New York... View details »
New York States of Mind
Art
Jaishri Abichandani
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished curator and a practicing... View details »
Jaishri Abichandani
Art
Unmonumental
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial squad brings together 30... View details »
Unmonumental
Art
Lee Friedlander
Saturday Mar 15 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
Lee Friedlander
Art
Jasper Johns
Saturday Mar 15 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use... View details »
Jasper Johns
Art
Jan de Cock
Saturday Mar 15 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The Belgian artist brings his... View details »
Jan de Cock
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Saturday Mar 15 (3 & 8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
Adding Machine
Art
Marvin Franklin
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–5pm) @ New York Transit Museum More times »
Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may not seem like a... View details »
Marvin Franklin
Performing Arts: Theatre
Open House
Saturday Mar 15 (8pm) @ Various locations More times »
Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry Theatre stages Open House... View details »
Open House
Performing Arts: Theatre
Betrayed
Saturday Mar 15 (3 & 8pm) @ Culture Project More times »
George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five years. Betrayed follows three... View details »
Betrayed
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Saturday Mar 15 @ International Center of Photography More times »
Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
Archive Fever
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
Saturday Mar 15 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with rays of light, it... View details »
Cai Guo-Qiang
Art
Gustave Courbet
Saturday Mar 15 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making modern paintings before the... View details »
Gustave Courbet
Art
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Saturday Mar 15 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
Saturday Mar 15 (10am–6pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is best known for iconic,... View details »
Irving Penn
Art
Be Kind Rewind
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a video store's entire inventory... View details »
Be Kind Rewind
Art
Jasper Johns
Saturday Mar 15 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the last decade. Johns, now... View details »
Jasper Johns
Film: Documentary
The Unforeseen
Saturday Mar 15 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this kind of material speaks... View details »
The Unforeseen
Art
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120 international female artists working... View details »
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Art: Photography
Robert Mapplethorpe
Saturday Mar 15 (10am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
Free
Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly Gallery presents nearly 50... View details »
Robert Mapplethorpe
Art: Architecture/Design
Design and the Elastic Mind
Saturday Mar 15 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
Design and the Elastic Mind
Performing Arts: Theatre
Life in a Marital Institution
Saturday Mar 15 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a liberal commune in upstate... View details »
Life in a Marital Institution
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
Saturday Mar 15 @ American Airlines Theater More times »
Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan), there are sly references... View details »
The 39 Steps 
Art
Luc Tuymans
Saturday Mar 15 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a media-saturated era, he's tackled... View details »
Luc Tuymans
Performing Arts: Theatre
Questa
Saturday Mar 15 (8pm) @ Wings Theatre More times »
Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in self-defense. Paul's resulting guilt... View details »
Questa
Art
Sterling Ruby
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–6pm) @ The Drawing Center More times »
Free
Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project space. In addition to... View details »
Sterling Ruby
Art
Matt Leines
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–6pm) @ Clementine Gallery More times »
Free
Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who studied illustration at RISD,... View details »
Matt Leines
Art
Jen DeNike
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart More times »
Free
At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united by a recurring motif... View details »
Jen DeNike
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Saturday Mar 15 (2 & 8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Saturday Mar 15 @ Broadhurst Theatre More times »
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The weighty issues on display... View details »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Art
The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
Saturday Mar 15 (10am–9pm) @ Milk Gallery More times »
Free
Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that reached out to people... View details »
The Vision and Art of  Shinjo Ito
Film
J'entends plus la guitare
Saturday Mar 15 @ Cinema Village More times »
J'entends plus la guitare is Philippe Garrel's tribute to art-rock muse Nico. Though most famous for her recordings with the Velvet Underground, the German-born icon... View details »
J'entends plus la guitare
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Saturday Mar 15 (2 & 8pm) @ The Belasco Theatre More times »
The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel Breaker) who flees his... View details »
Passing Strange
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fight Girl Battle World
Saturday Mar 15 (8pm) @ Center Stage More times »
Now that graphic novels and sci-fi movies possess some geek-chic caché, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company has translated that aesthetic to the stage with its newest... View details »
Fight Girl Battle World
Performing Arts: Theatre
Paradise Park
Saturday Mar 15 (2 & 8pm) @ Signature Theatre More times »
Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the playwright's third and final... View details »
Paradise Park
Performing Arts: Theatre
Gray Area
Saturday Mar 15 (2 & 8pm) @ Barrow Group Theatre More times »
When a jaded New York City theatre critic berates Civil War re-enactors on the radio, his cruel jests reach the ears of three Southern enthusiasts... View details »
Gray Area
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Housing Works Thrift Sales
Saturday Mar 15 (10am–6pm) @ Various locations More times »
Shopping for spring-fashion essentials at Manhattan prices ain't easy, but Housing Works' city-wide shopping extravaganza eases the pain with discounts on designers like Diane von... View details »
Housing Works Thrift Sales
Art
Yoon Lee
Saturday Mar 15 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi More times »
Free
In paintings by Californian artist Yoon Lee, colorful tendrils churn and dive in a storm that becomes indistinguishable from the landscape beneath it. Each canvas... View details »
Yoon Lee
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Saturday Mar 15 (2 & 8pm) @ Studio 54 More times »
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon... View details »
Sunday in the Park with George
Art
Cao Fei
Saturday Mar 15 (11am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery More times »
Free
Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City is a virtual metropolis designed for the online world Second Life, and Lombard-Freid Gallery is exhibiting a scale model... View details »
Cao Fei
Art
Subodh Gupta
Saturday Mar 15 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
Free
Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils and clichéd scenes of... View details »
Subodh Gupta
Art
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
Saturday Mar 15 (10am–6pm) @ Tina Kim Gallery More times »
Free
Works by Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh don't appear often outside of collaborations like these with Ghada Amer. Her nature scenes and wallpaper-like patterns are prim... View details »
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
Performing Arts: Theatre
Romeo and Juliet
Saturday Mar 15 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row More times »
In this updated, witty interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, familiar tropes clash with contemporary archetypes. The four-actor cast stays true to the bard's words... View details »
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Four of Us
Saturday Mar 15 (2:30 & 7:30pm) @ New York City Center More times »
Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan Safran Foer. A fictionalized... View details »
The Four of Us
Performing Arts: Comedy
Tim Minchin
Saturday Mar 15 (9pm) @ New World Stages More times »
Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his self-deprecating, raunchy humor. Armed... View details »
Tim Minchin
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Saturday Mar 15 @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph