Events on Saturday, April 19

Sustainability Action Day: Toxic Tours & Urban Gardening

Special Event

Sustainability Action Day

Saturday 4/19 @ Eyebeam

The fertile minds at Eyebeam conclude their Feedback eco-exhibition with a green focus on NYC's gray areas. Natalie Jeremijenko stages a... 

Dubwise Sessions 17 feat. Sammy Dread w/ DRM, Erik the Red, and Lenky Don

Music: DJ

Sammy Dread

Saturday 4/19 @ Studio BPM

New dub-only specialty venue Studio BPM welcomes Jamaican old-head Sammy Dread tonight, sparking a little chaos in south Williamsburg. One of... 

Jammin' on the One feat. 9th Wonder w/ DJ MeLo-X

Music: DJ

9th Wonder

Saturday 4/19 @ Love

North Carolina was 9th Wonder's stomping ground way back when he used to make beats on FruityLoops in his college dorm... 

Salt & Samovar

Music

Salt & Samovar

Saturday 4/19 @ Joe's Pub

There's something classic about Salt & Samovar, and it's not just the old-timey lettering they use on handbills and album covers.... 

Verboten: SebastiAn & Kavinsky

Music: DJ

SebastiAn & Kavinsky

Saturday 4/19 @ Studio B

After touring with Daft Punk, reigning supreme on any number of indie blogs, and helping put France back on the dance-music... 

Ongoing Events

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Saturday 4/19 @ 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

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Eliot Feld's Mandance Project

Dance

Mandance Project

Saturday 4/19 @ The Joyce Theater

Eliot Feld's Mandance Project returns for its fourth Joyce season. The first program includes solos for two lovely ladies: former Martha... 

<em>Satyagraha</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Satyagraha

Saturday 4/19 @ Metropolitan Opera House

Satyagraha comes to the Met following an acclaimed run in London. This new production of Philip Glass' 1979 opera about Gandhi's... 

Ralph Bakshi

Art

Ralph Bakshi

Saturday 4/19 @ Animazing Gallery

With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's... 

Guillermo E. Brown: <em>Shuffle Mode</em>

Music

Guillermo E. Brown

Saturday 4/19 @ Apollo Theater

Since replacing Susie Ibarra as the drummer in David S. Ware's free-jazz quartet, Guillermo E. Brown has explored the idea that... 

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

Art

Georganne Deen

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

EATfest

Theatre

EATfest

Saturday 4/19 @ Roy Arias Theatre Center

On TV, Dr. Phil commands us to lose weight and our politicians beg us to trust them. Emerging Artist Theatre's EATfest... 

Dave Eggers curates <em>Lots of Things Like This</em>

Art

Lots of Things Like This

Saturday 4/19 @ Apex Art

Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 4/19 @ Paragraph

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

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Saturday 4/19 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order... 

<em>Constantine's Sword</em>

Film: Documentary

Constantine's Sword

Saturday 4/19 @ Quad Cinema

Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects.... 

<em>Macbeth</em>

Theatre

Macbeth

Saturday 4/19 @ Lyceum Theatre

Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the... 

Kanishka Raja: <em>Indian Yellow</em>

Art

Kanishka Raja

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Earth Day Expo 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Earth Day Expo 2008

Saturday 4/19 @ Habana Outpost

It's all too easy to get guilted into going green, with freegan friends and Al Gore cheerleaders pushing us into dangerously... 

Anne Hardy

Art

Anne Hardy

Saturday 4/19 @ Bellwether Gallery

Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 4/19 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Paul Chan: <em>The 7 Lights</em>

Art

Paul Chan

Saturday 4/19 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Saturday 4/19 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

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

Lucas Reiner: <em>Envoi</em>

Art

Lucas Reiner

Saturday 4/19 @ Kips Gallery

Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it... 

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

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Saturday 4/19 @ 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

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>A Hard Day's Night</em> (1964) and <em>The Knack, and How to Get It </em>(1965)

Film

A Hard Day's Night and The Knack, and How to Get It

Saturday 4/19 @ Film Forum

A Hard Day's Night may be the first music video ever made. After all, Richard Lester's black-and-white montage of Beatlemania is... 

<em>Another Vermeer</em>

Theatre

Another Vermeer

Saturday 4/19 @ Dorothy Strelsin Theatre

In historical drama Another Vermeer, notorious art forger Han van Meegeren sells his own painting — claiming it a crecently discovered... 

Gregory Crewdson

Art: Photography

Gregory Crewdson

Saturday 4/19 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery

For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with... 

<em>Hostage Song</em>

Theatre

Hostage Song

Saturday 4/19 @ Kraine Theater

The new indie-rock musical Hostage Song offers a glimpse into the dark, hallucinatory experiences of two bound and blindfolded American civilians.... 

<em>After the Reality 2 </em>

Art

After the Reality 2

Saturday 4/19 @ Deitch Projects

Tokyo gallerist Hiromi Yoshii revisits Japan's post-superflat art scene with After the Reality 2, a group exhibition featuring several first-time exhibitors... 

New York Comic Con

Conferences

New York Comic Con

Saturday 4/19 @ Jacob K. Javits Center

New York Comic Con features a who's-who lineup of illustrators, writers, filmmakers, artists, and actors. With celebrities like postmodern author Neil... 

Theatre

Fire Island

Saturday 4/19 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center

Sitting on floor cushions and deck chairs, the audience provides the stage here, playing an integral role in recreating the relaxed,... 

Jeremy Boyle

Art

Jeremy Boyle

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Saturday 4/19 @ 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 Four of Us</em>

Theatre

The Four of Us

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung: <em>Residential Erection</em>

Art

Residential Erection

Saturday 4/19 @ Postmasters

In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a... 

Women Center Stage Festival

Theatre

Women Center Stage Festival

Saturday 4/19 @ Culture Project

Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Saturday 4/19 @ American Folk Art Museum

The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and... 

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

Art

Lady Pink and Aiko

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Tseng Kwong Chi: <em>Self Portraits 1979-1989</em>

Art

Tseng Kwong Chi

Saturday 4/19 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

Without newlyweds or a bus-load of septuagenarians, photographs of "picture-perfect" places like the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, and Cinderella's Castle are... 

Theatre

Emancipation

Saturday 4/19 @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of... 

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

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Lee Friedlander

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>Untitiled Mars (This Title May Change)</em>

Theatre

Untitiled Mars

Saturday 4/19 @ P.S. 122

Jay Scheib's experimental play, Untitled Mars (This Title May Change), attempts to answer David Bowie's age-old question, "Is there life on... 

Tamara Kostianovsky: <em>The Proper Animal, Part II</em>

Art

Tamara Kostianovsky

Saturday 4/19 @ Black & White Gallery

Tamara Kostianovsky's debut solo exhibition, Actus Reus, is the second part of a three-part series, titled The Proper Animal and hosted... 

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

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Saturday 4/19 @ Landmark Sunshine

Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins... 

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

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Peter Coffin: <em>You Are Me</em>

Art

Peter Coffin

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Bobby Previte's <em>April in New York 2008</em>

Music

Bobby Previte

Saturday 4/19 @ South Street Seaport

Rare is the drummer whose compositions attract as much praise as his timekeeping; Bobby Previte is one of the few. For... 

<em>Big Kids Little Kids </em>

Art

Big Kids Little Kids

Saturday 4/19 @ Cinders Gallery

There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's... 

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

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Saturday 4/19 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

The Kids in the Hall

Comedy

The Kids in the Hall

Saturday 4/19 @ Best Buy Theatre

Not everyone "gets" the Kids in the Hall's humor (it helps if you prefer a good deal of absurdity peppering your... 

Martin McMurray: <em>The Unreliable Narrator</em>

Art

Martin McMurray

Saturday 4/19 @ 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.... 

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

<em>God's Ear</em>

Theatre

God's Ear

Saturday 4/19 @ Vineyard Theatre

Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives... 

The Date Farmers: <em>The Crying Playboy</em>

Art

The Date Farmers

Saturday 4/19 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with... 

15th Annual New York African Film Festival<em> </em>

Film

New York African Film Festival

Saturday 4/19 @ Various locations

Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....