Events on Sunday, March 2

Music

Cidinho Teixeira and Friends

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Zinc Bar

Every Sunday night for the last ten years, Rio de Janeiro's Cidinho Teixeira has played piano for a packed house in... 

<em>King Kong</em> (1933)

Film

King Kong

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Film Forum

King Kong's legacy is a study in adaptation as a means of cultural survival. The now-75-year-old ape has undergone two face... 

Cynthia Hopkins and Gloria Deluxe present Transmissions from the Future

Performing Arts

Cynthia Hopkins and Gloria Deluxe

Sunday 3/ 2 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

Cynthia Hopkins and her melancholy band, Gloria Deluxe, celebrate their new recording of music from last year's live rockumentary production, Must... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Gray Area</em>

Theatre

Gray Area

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Barrow Group Theatre

When a jaded New York City theatre critic berates Civil War re-enactors on the radio, his cruel jests reach the ears... 

<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>

Art

Unmonumental

Sunday 3/ 2 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial... 

CineKink

Film

CineKink

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Various locations

For the fifth year running, CineKink showcases screen-legal perversions — legal, at least, in this city — with nearly a week... 

<em>Questa</em>

Theatre

Questa

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Wings Theatre

Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Sunday 3/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,... 

Theatre

Rum & Coke

Sunday 3/ 2 @ June Havoc Theatre

In Carmen Peláez's one-woman show Rum & Coke, the protagonist begins a search for beauty and a forgotten Cuba after finding... 

<em>The Vision and Art of  Shinjo Ito</em>

Art

The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Milk Studios

Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions</em>

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Sunday 3/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His... 

<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>

Art

Marvin Franklin

Sunday 3/ 2 @ New York Transit Museum

Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Drawings 1997-2007</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the... 

<em>The Play About the Naked Guy</em>

Theatre

The Play About the Naked Guy

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Nagelberg Theatre

Fast-paced and exuberantly profane, The Play About the Naked Guy skewers Off-Broadway's longstanding "art vs commerce" debate. Christopher Borg's Eddie saves... 

Jen DeNike: <em>Thirteen</em>

Art

Jen DeNike

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Smith-Stewart

At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

<em>Design and the Elastic Mind</em>

Art

Design and the Elastic Mind

Sunday 3/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation... 

<em>Grace</em>

Theatre

Grace

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of... 

Lee Friedlander: <em>A Ramble in Olmsted Parks</em>

Art

Lee Friedlander

Sunday 3/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop... 

<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Studio 54

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat... 

<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>

Special Event

blog.mode

Sunday 3/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas... 

Dance

AHOY!

Sunday 3/ 2 @ S.L.A.M.

If pirates being devoured by a giant octopus 20 feet above your head is the sort of thing that floats your... 

Jaishri Abichandani: <I>Reconciliations</I>

Art

Jaishri Abichandani

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Queens Museum of Art

Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished... 

<em>The 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Sunday 3/ 2 @ American Airlines Theater

Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan),... 

<em>Life in a Marital Institution</em>

Theatre

Life in a Marital Institution

Sunday 3/ 2 @ 59E59 Theaters

In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a... 

Lucian Freud: <em>The Painter's Etchings</em>

Art

Lucian Freud

Sunday 3/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... 

Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Guggenheim Museum

Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with... 

<em>The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower</em>

Theatre

The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Vineyard Theatre

Ben Katchor's epic indie-rock musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower returns, upgrading to the... 

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Sunday 3/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Hispanic Society of America

While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year... 

<em>Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art </em>

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Sunday 3/ 2 @ International Center of Photography

Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

<em>WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution</em>

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Sunday 3/ 2 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Sunday 3/ 2 @ The Belasco Theatre

The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel... 

Jan de Cock: <em>Denkmal 11</em>

Art

Jan de Cock

Sunday 3/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The... 

<em>Betrayed</em>

Theatre

Betrayed

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Culture Project

George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Sunday 3/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws... 

<em>Paradise Park</em>

Theatre

Paradise Park

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Signature Theatre

Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the... 

<em>It's a Free World... </em>

Film

It's a Free World...

Sunday 3/ 2 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

British director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006) just may be the reigning king of cinematic socialist realism.... 

<I>New York States of Mind</I>

Art

New York States of Mind

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Queens Museum of Art

Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what... 

<em>The Unforeseen</em>

Film: Documentary

The Unforeseen

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Angelika Film Center

For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this... 

<em>Open House</em>

Theatre

Open House

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Various locations

Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry... 

Irving Penn: <em>Close Encounters: Portraits of Artists and Writers</em>

Art: Photography

Irving Penn

Sunday 3/ 2 @ The Morgan Library

Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Museum of Art and Design

Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from... 

<em>Looking Up</em>

Theatre

Looking Up

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Theater for the New City

Trapeze-theatre piece Looking Up seamlessly combines two unlikely mediums into a surprisingly nice little love story. Solo trapeze artist Wendy and... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Sunday 3/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop... 

<em>Pop Subversion</em>

Art

Pop Subversion

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Ad Hoc Art

Over 30 artists fill Ad Hoc's walls with twisted fairy-tale imagery, tortured visages, and disemboweled beauties in Pop Subversion. Some confront... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 3/ 2 @ Paragraph

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