All events on Sunday March 16
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- Tiny Ninja Theater
- Sunday Mar 16 (1:30pm) @ The Bowery Poetry Club More times »
- Giveaway
- Yeah, yeah, Captain Picard is playing Macbeth at BAM, but you can't really argue with a stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island cast... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Pogues
- Sunday Mar 16 (7:30pm) @ Roseland Ballroom More times »
- The Pogues' enduring take on traditional Irish folk — filtered through Joe Strummer's bark and Keith Richards' health regimen — proved that the spirit of... View details »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Sunday Mar 16 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday Mar 16 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Sunday Mar 16 (1–4pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Sunday Mar 16 (7pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Sunday Mar 16 (3 & 7pm) @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- blog.mode
- Sunday Mar 16 @ 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 »
- Art
- New York States of Mind
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Art
- Jaishri Abichandani
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Art
- Unmonumental
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Sunday Mar 16 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Sunday Mar 16 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Jan de Cock
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Sunday Mar 16 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Marvin Franklin
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Open House
- Sunday Mar 16 (5pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Betrayed
- Sunday Mar 16 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Sunday Mar 16 @ 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 »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Sunday Mar 16 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Sunday Mar 16 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Irving Penn
- Sunday Mar 16 (11am–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 »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Sunday Mar 16 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- The Unforeseen
- Sunday Mar 16 @ 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 »
- Art
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Life in a Marital Institution
- Sunday Mar 16 (3:30 & 7:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The 39 Steps
- Sunday Mar 16 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Questa
- Sunday Mar 16 (3:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Jen DeNike
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Sunday Mar 16 (2pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Sunday Mar 16 @ 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 »
- Art
- The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Film
- J'entends plus la guitare
- Sunday Mar 16 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Sunday Mar 16 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fight Girl Battle World
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Paradise Park
- Sunday Mar 16 (2pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gray Area
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Art
- Yoon Lee
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- Film
- The Housemaid
- Sunday Mar 16 (1:30pm) @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- Kim Ki-young's films draw comparisons to those of Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel, characterized as they are by an affinity for horror and an interest in... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Sunday Mar 16 (2pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Asian Contemporary Art Week
- Sunday Mar 16 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sunday Mar 16 @ 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 »
- Art
- ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: Ides of March
- Sunday Mar 16 (1–6pm) @ ABC No Rio More times »
- Free
- ABC No Rio has been a hub for LES radicals and artists for over a quarter of a century, and now it's set for demolition... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Sunday Mar 16 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Sunday Mar 16 @ 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 »
