Events on Sunday, March 23

Old Time Relijun

Music

Old Time Relijun

Sunday 3/23 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

Half neo-no wave and half swaggering cow-punk, Old Time Relijun ax aggressively, hacking at traditional modes of composition until there's nothing... 

Graphic Novelists Read and Show feat. Julia Wertz w/ Jason Little, Liz Baillie, Sam Henderson, and Tom Hart

Books: Reading

Graphic Novelists Read and Show

Sunday 3/23 @ KGB Bar

Cartoonist, cheese-lover, and bike aficionado Julia Wertz is both irreverent and endearing. Her autobiographical comic book, The Fart Party, bows at... 

Xiu Xiu w/ Thao with the Get Down Stay Down

Music

Xiu Xiu

Sunday 3/23 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Whoever called consistency "the hobgoblin of small minds" clearly never heard Xiu Xiu. Women as Lovers is the band's sixth album... 

Ongoing Events

Jaishri Abichandani: <I>Reconciliations</I>

Art

Jaishri Abichandani

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

Theatre

Romeo and Juliet

Sunday 3/23 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row

In this updated, witty interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, familiar tropes clash with contemporary archetypes. The four-actor cast stays true... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 3/23 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Sunday 3/23 @ 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,... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Sunday 3/23 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

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

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

Tiny Ninja Theater presents<em> Treasure Island</em>

Theatre

Tiny Ninja Theater

Sunday 3/23 @ The Bowery Poetry Club

Yeah, yeah, Captain Picard is playing Macbeth at BAM, but you can't really argue with a stage adaptation of Robert Louis... 

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

Art

Jasper Johns

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

Georganne Deen: <em>The Love that Has No Opposite</em>

Art

Georganne Deen

Sunday 3/23 @ Smith-Stewart

Los Angeles painter Georganne Deen is an icon among West Coast post-punk aesthetes, and well-known to readers of Juxtapoz magazine as... 

<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Sunday 3/23 @ Broadhurst Theatre

Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The... 

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

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Sunday 3/23 @ 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 3/23 @ 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... 

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

Art

Design and the Elastic Mind

Sunday 3/23 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

blog.mode

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

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

Art

New York States of Mind

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

Asian Contemporary Art Week

Art

Asian Contemporary Art Week

Sunday 3/23 @ Various locations

Asian Contemporary Art Week corrals dozens of artists for countless shows and lectures. At Ch'i, some of China's fresher faces work... 

<em>Fight Girl Battle World</em>

Theatre

Fight Girl Battle World

Sunday 3/23 @ Center Stage

Now that graphic novels and sci-fi movies possess some geek-chic caché, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company has translated that aesthetic to the... 

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

Art: Photography

Irving Penn

Sunday 3/23 @ 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 3/23 @ Union Square Theatre

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

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

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Sunday 3/23 @ 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>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

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

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

Yoon Lee

Art

Yoon Lee

Sunday 3/23 @ Pierogi

In paintings by Californian artist Yoon Lee, colorful tendrils churn and dive in a storm that becomes indistinguishable from the landscape... 

<em>The 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Sunday 3/23 @ 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),... 

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

Art

Unmonumental

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jan de Cock

Sunday 3/23 @ 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>The Four of Us</em>

Theatre

The Four of Us

Sunday 3/23 @ New York City Center

Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan... 

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

Art

Lee Friedlander

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

Lady Pink and Aiko: <em>Brick Ladies of NYC</em>

Art

Lady Pink and Aiko

Sunday 3/23 @ Ad Hoc Art

Brick Ladies of NYC celebrates Lady Pink and Aiko Nakagawa, longstanding heavy hitters in both the street-art scene and the modern-art... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 3/23 @ Paragraph

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

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

Art

Marvin Franklin

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

<em>J'entends plus la guitare </em>(1991)

Film

J'entends plus la guitare

Sunday 3/23 @ Cinema Village

J'entends plus la guitare is Philippe Garrel's tribute to art-rock muse Nico. Though most famous for her recordings with the Velvet... 

Beka Goedde: <em>Entropically Favorable</em> and David Meanix: <em>This City</em>

Art

Beka Goedde and David Meanix

Sunday 3/23 @ Leo Kesting Gallery

In two separate exhibitions, Beka Goedde and David Meanix present the fractured beauty of cityscapes and human faces, exploring in tandem... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Sunday 3/23 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art

The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito

Sunday 3/23 @ Milk Studios

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

<em>Paradise Park</em>

Theatre

Paradise Park

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Sunday 3/23 @ 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... 

ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: <em>Ides of March</em>

Art

ABC No Rio 5th Bi-Annual: Ides of March

Sunday 3/23 @ ABC No Rio

ABC No Rio has been a hub for LES radicals and artists for over a quarter of a century, and now... 

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

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Sunday 3/23 @ 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...