All events on Sunday April 27
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- Kite Flight: Plastic Play
- Sunday Apr 27 (11am–2pm) @ Socrates Sculpture Park in LIC
- Free
- Inspired by the Socrates Sculpture Park's current Waste Not, Want Not exhibit, this free event invites participants to transform plastic bags into kites using designs... View details »
- Film: Shorts
- Jonas Mekas
- Sunday Apr 27 (5pm) @ Anthology Film Archives
- Giveaway
- Jonas Mekas probably didn't have a hard time scoring this two-day, three-program engagement at Anthology — after all, he founded the place. Mekas was one... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- [SOLD OUT] Atmosphere
- Sunday Apr 27 (7pm) @ Webster Hall
- Sold Out!
- Minneapolis' veteran duo Atmosphere (aka Slug and Ant, the backpacker's Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff) draw a die-hard crowd of indie hip-hop heads obsessed with... View details »
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- Music: Classical
- American Symphony Orchestra
- Sunday Apr 27 (4pm) @ Symphony Space
- Composer Jean Sibelius was totally metal. Case in point: he was Finnish, he loved nature, and he was profoundly influenced by Richard Wagner. The opening... View details »
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- Blackkat Mayday
- Sunday Apr 27 (2–6pm) @ Tompkins Square Park
- Free
- Over the last decade of Mayday bashes in Tompkins Square Park, the freaks have only gotten freakier and the parties more epic. In honor of... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- BLK JKS
- Sunday Apr 27 (5pm) @ Harriet's Alter Ego
- Free
- Today's date may not ring bells for Americans, but for South Africans, it's Freedom Day. To celebrate the 15th anniversary of democratic, non-apartheid elections in... View details »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Sunday Apr 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times»
- Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday Apr 27 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times»
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday Apr 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times»
- MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Sunday Apr 27 (7pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times»
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Sunday Apr 27 (3 & 7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times»
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Sunday Apr 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times»
- Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Sunday Apr 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times»
- In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- Sunday Apr 27 (3pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times»
- Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the stage (he was a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Sunday Apr 27 (3pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times»
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
- Art
- © MURAKAMI
- Sunday Apr 27 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art in Bklyn More times»
- Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Sunday Apr 27 @ International Center of Photography More times»
- Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Sunday Apr 27 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times»
- Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with rays of light, it... View details »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Sunday Apr 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times»
- Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making modern paintings before the... View details »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Sunday Apr 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times»
- France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Sunday Apr 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times»
- Giveaway
- Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy of meteorological description. In... View details »
- Art
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Sunday Apr 27 (noon–6pm) @ PS1 Contemporary Art Center in LIC More times»
- With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120 international female artists working... View details »
- Film
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Sunday Apr 27 @ Various locations More times»
- The Tribeca Film Festival always heaps on the glitz and glamor with its high-profile mainstream films (Tina Fey's Baby Mama kicks things off). But the... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Sunday Apr 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times»
- As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Sunday Apr 27 (2pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times»
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Sunday Apr 27 @ Broadhurst Theatre More times»
- Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The weighty issues on display... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Sunday Apr 27 (3pm) @ The Belasco Theatre More times»
- The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel Breaker) who flees his... View details »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Sunday Apr 27 @ Various locations More times»
- Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of sitcom, even after garnering... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Sunday Apr 27 (2pm) @ Studio 54 More times»
- Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon... View details »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Sunday Apr 27 @ Various locations More times»
- Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch. But due to the... View details »
- Art
- Big Kids Little Kids
- Sunday Apr 27 (noon–7pm) @ Cinders in Wburg More times»
- Free
- There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's a suburb of whom,... View details »
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- Brooklyn Flea
- Sunday Apr 27 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Clinton Hill More times»
- Free
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. This Sunday, the folks behind the Brownstoner blog... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
- Sunday Apr 27 (2pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times»
- Giveaway
- Don't let the commedia dell'arte name fool you — this 60-year-old troupe is very nieuwe wereld. Artistic director Ed Wubbe mows synthetic grass in The... View details »
- Art
- Georganne Deen
- Sunday Apr 27 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart More times»
- Free
- Los Angeles painter Georganne Deen is an icon among West Coast post-punk aesthetes, and well-known to readers of Juxtapoz magazine as a proponent of lyrical... View details »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Sunday Apr 27 (11am–6pm) @ Animazing Gallery More times»
- Free
- With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's worked with comix demigod... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Sunday Apr 27 (2:30 & 7:30pm) @ New York City Center More times»
- Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan Safran Foer. A fictionalized... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Women Center Stage Festival
- Sunday Apr 27 @ Culture Project in New York More times»
- Progressive downtown stalwart Culture Project has announced a promising lineup for its annual Women Center Stage festival. Highlights include a conversation with a former death-row... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Sunday Apr 27 @ Quad Cinema More times»
- Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects. What's unusual about Constantine's... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Sunday Apr 27 @ Landmark Sunshine More times»
- Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God's Ear
- Sunday Apr 27 (3pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times»
- Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives the production with a... View details »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Sunday Apr 27 @ Angelika Film Center More times»
- Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Sunday Apr 27 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times»
- Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift either skyward or down... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Yellow Moon
- Sunday Apr 27 (3:30 & 7:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times»
- Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several Smiths LPs-worth of adolescent... View details »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Sunday Apr 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times»
- The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- FUERZA: El Swing del Flamenco
- Sunday Apr 27 (2 & 7pm) @ Connelly Theatre More times»
- Óscar Valero joins his Flamenco Dance Company artists to shake it to some sultry Andalusian rhythms. A heavyweight on the local flamenco scene, Valero brings... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Steve & Idi
- Sunday Apr 27 (3pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in New York More times»
- Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then, just as Steve's on... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica
- Sunday Apr 27 (2pm) @ Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts More times»
- Rex Nettleford is the director of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica. He's also an Oxford Rhodes Scholar, a Vice Chancellor Emeritus of the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Birthright
- Sunday Apr 27 (4pm) @ Billie Holiday Theater More times»
- Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates themes of unemployment, incest,... View details »
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- Tribeca Film Festival and Apple
- Sunday Apr 27 @ The Apple Store, Soho More times»
- Free
- For the fourth year running, the Apple Store teams up with the Tribeca Film Festival for a series of free filmmaking workshops and discussions. The... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Untitiled Mars
- Sunday Apr 27 (6pm) @ P.S. 122 More times»
- Jay Scheib's experimental play, Untitled Mars (This Title May Change), attempts to answer David Bowie's age-old question, "Is there life on Mars?" Immediately upon entering... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Emancipation
- Sunday Apr 27 (3pm) @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center More times»
- The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of Nat Turner's historical 19th-century... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- EATfest
- Sunday Apr 27 (2, 5 & 7pm) @ Roy Arias Theatre Center More times»
- On TV, Dr. Phil commands us to lose weight and our politicians beg us to trust them. Emerging Artist Theatre's EATfest 2008 encourages us to... View details »
- Art
- White Like Me
- Sunday Apr 27 (noon–6pm) @ Jack the Pelican in Williamsburg More times»
- Free
- David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his photography, and the unpredictability... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Sunday Apr 27 @ IFC Center More times»
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
- Film
- Stuff and Dough
- Sunday Apr 27 (1, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times»
- Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life — from a dripping sink... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Endgame
- Sunday Apr 27 (3pm) @ BAM in Bklyn More times»
- In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but dark humor still reigns.... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Asian Cultural Festival
- Sunday Apr 27 @ Queens Theatre in the Park More times»
- Hosted by the most diverse of the five boroughs and now in its third year, the week-long Asian Cultural Festival showcases Asian and Asian-American comedians,... View details »
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- Paragraph
- Sunday Apr 27 @ Paragraph More times»
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Sunday Apr 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times»
- It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
