Events on Saturday, March 29
Saturday 3/29 @ Columbia University's Teacher College
As a recent New York Times article points out, we're living in a heyday for people interested in locally sourced organic...
Saturday 3/29 @ Death by Audio
Sian Alice Group have only been kicking around the
Saturday 3/29 @ Various locations
WWF (the one with pandas, not wrestlers) takes Earth Hour global this year with the help of more than 20 partnering...
Japanther w/ the Pharmacy and Pterodactyl
Saturday 3/29 @ Market Hotel
Tonight, Todd P's new Bushwick venue, the Market Hotel, hosts a much-belated SXSW afterparty. Puppet-loving prankster duo Japanther headline with their...
Saturday 3/29 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Portland's Blitzen Trapper take the stage with countrified indie rock. The sextet's third release, last year's Wild Mountain Nation, is a...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ The Waterfront
Hot on the heels of Asian Contemporary Art Week and just in time for the Armory Show comes a hybrid of...
Saturday 3/29 @ Cinders Gallery
There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's...
Saturday 3/29 @ Andrew Kreps Gallery
In Peter Coffin's latest solo show, 30 video screens play archival footage of frolicking animals, while a motorized, roller coaster-like contraption...
Saturday 3/29 @ New World Stages
Australian comic Tim Minchin — dubbed Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — gives Off-Broadway audiences a sampling of his...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Café Pick Me Up
Upon arriving at Café Pick Me Up, you're handed a coffee, a prop to wear, and a piece of paper outlining...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday 3/29 @ 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,...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Sunday in the Park with George
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Jack Shainman Gallery
Subodh Gupta traverses painting, sculpture, and video with tightly thematic stories from Indian history, told in the dialect of household utensils...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Pier 94
The Armory Show is the epicenter of art-fair mania. In one of the art world's most opulent displays, artists from 21...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Hudson Franklin Gallery
Like Sol Lewitt trapped in RadioShack, Jeremy Boyle surrenders his artistic role to mechanical gizmos. The latest version of his Self-Playing...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Envoy Gallery
Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from...
Saturday 3/29 @ Altman Building
LA Art in New York brings together a small, proud band of the West Coast's most dynamic contemporary-art galleries. Although the...
Saturday 3/29 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 3/29 @ Clementine Gallery
Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Hotel 30/30
In four days, six art fairs open their doors within a few square miles of each other — all the better...
Saturday 3/29 @ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
Saturday 3/29 @ Milk Studios
Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that...
Saturday 3/29 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...
Saturday 3/29 @ Comix
Metal aficionado and nerd hero Brian Posehn drops in to Comix for back-to-back nights of standup sets, fresh off a busy...
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Saturday 3/29 @ Jeff Bailey Gallery
In his second solo exhibition at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Martin McMurray presents The Unreliable Narrator, a series of subtle-toned, soft-focus acrylics....
Saturday 3/29 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Various locations
There's never a shortage of good film festivals and programs in New York, but the annual New Directors/New Films consistently emerges...
Saturday 3/29 @ Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
In historical drama Another Vermeer, notorious art forger Han van Meegeren sells his own painting — claiming it a crecently discovered...
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh
Saturday 3/29 @ Tina Kim Gallery
Works by Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh don't appear often outside of collaborations like these with Ghada Amer. Her nature scenes and...
Saturday 3/29 @ Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
The SCOPE fair brings together the beauty, violence, and humor of emerging artists in the global community. Exhibitors from Brooklyn to...
Saturday 3/29 @ Gramercy Theatre
According to esteemed commentator Stanley J. Krammerhead III, the Rutles were "essentially imperical malengistes of a rhythmically radical yet verbally passé...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Leo Kesting Gallery
In two separate exhibitions, Beka Goedde and David Meanix present the fractured beauty of cityscapes and human faces, exploring in tandem...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...






































































