Events on Saturday, April 26
Saturday 4/26 @ University Settlement
Ever since its beginnings in the South Bronx, hip-hop has been a till-the-breaka-dawn kind of thing — so it's fitting that...
Saturday 4/26 @ Highline Ballroom
Since forming in Swindon in 1987, MBM have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving out a...
Saturday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Otto Preminger's early knack for noir resurfaces in his controversial, entertaining courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder. In a stirring story...
Saturday 4/26 @ Montauk Club
Located not far from Park Slope's sleepy preschool nexus, the gothic, stained-glass Montauk Club feels like a time machine built for...
Saturday 4/26 @ The Steampoint
Every once in a while, conscience creeps into your calendar — happily, at tonight's benefit fest for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,...
Saturday 4/26 @ Trash Bar
Ford & Fitzroy are a seriously stand-out local band who're still paying dues. (That is to say, these guys wail and...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/26 @ Film Forum
Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life —...
Saturday 4/26 @ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...
Saturday 4/26 @ Queens Theatre in the Park
Hosted by the most diverse of the five boroughs and now in its third year, the week-long Asian Cultural Festival showcases...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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,...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica
Saturday 4/26 @ Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Rex Nettleford is the director of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica. He's also an Oxford Rhodes Scholar, a Vice...
Sunday in the Park with George
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Angelika Film Center
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's...
Saturday 4/26 @ Dance Theater Workshop
Seán Curran's work, which draws on his experience as a former Bill T. Jones dancer and theater choreographer, appeals to dance...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Bellwether Gallery
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ Artists Space
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 59E59 Theaters
Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several...
Saturday 4/26 @ Kips Gallery
Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it...
Saturday 4/26 @ DCTV
Noise-rockers and techno-twiddlers rejoice — the Bent Festival is entering its fifth year of circuit-bending mayhem. Sound-based sculptural installations fill the...
Saturday 4/26 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Culture Project
Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation...
Saturday 4/26 @ Connelly Theatre
Óscar Valero joins his Flamenco Dance Company artists to shake it to some sultry Andalusian rhythms. A heavyweight on the local...
Saturday 4/26 @ Metropolitan Opera House
The Met's new production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment is an exceptional reason to journey uptown. An everyman epic full...
Saturday 4/26 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
Saturday 4/26 @ IFC Center
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Postmasters
In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a...
Saturday 4/26 @ Dizzy's Club
Whether she's singing scat to standards or playing trombone on her original tunes, Brooklyn-based musician elizabeth! makes an impression. Before relocating...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Landmark Sunshine
Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...
Saturday 4/26 @ Kraine Theater
The new indie-rock musical Hostage Song offers a glimpse into the dark, hallucinatory experiences of two bound and blindfolded American civilians....
Saturday 4/26 @ Jack the Pelican
David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy...
New York African Film Festival
Saturday 4/26 @ Various locations
Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....
Saturday 4/26 @ The Joyce Theater
Don't let the commedia dell'arte name fool you — this 60-year-old troupe is very nieuwe wereld. Artistic director Ed Wubbe mows...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Tribeca Film Festival and Apple
Saturday 4/26 @ The Apple Store, Soho
For the fourth year running, the Apple Store teams up with the Tribeca Film Festival for a series of free filmmaking...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Saturday 4/26 @ Susan Inglett Gallery
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and...
Saturday 4/26 @ Billie Holiday Theater
Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with...
Saturday 4/26 @ Various locations
The Tribeca Film Festival always heaps on the glitz and glamor with its high-profile mainstream films (Tina Fey's Baby Mama kicks...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ Quad Cinema
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....
Saturday 4/26 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,...
