Events on Sunday, April 6

Handsome Furs w/ Violens

Music

Handsome Furs

Sunday 4/ 6 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Wolf Parade have always relied on the dichotomy created by their two lead songwriters: melancholic, Bowie-esque keyboardist Spencer Krug and tense,... 

The Cool Kids

Music: Hip-Hop

The Cool Kids

Sunday 4/ 6 @ S.O.B.'s

Whether or not you caught the Cool Kids' stellar set (and, um, Kanye) at our One Step Beyond party in January,... 

The Dirtbombs w/ Kelley Stoltz and Another Saturday Night

Music

The Dirtbombs

Sunday 4/ 6 @ Maxwell's

The Dirtbombs have been driving the creepers-and-pompadour crowd ballistic for nearly ten years now with their chunky, skronking squall. Fortified by... 

Ongoing Events

Yoon Lee

Art

Yoon Lee

Sunday 4/ 6 @ Pierogi

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

Theatre

Romeo and Juliet

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Beka Goedde and David Meanix

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>The Four of Us</em>

Theatre

The Four of Us

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>The Saragossa Manuscript</em> (1968)

Film

The Saragossa Manuscript

Sunday 4/ 6 @ BAM

The Saragossa Manuscript is a labyrinthine film that plays like a Napoleonic-era Arabian Nights. Based on a novel, the film follows... 

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

Art

Lady Pink and Aiko

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Sunday 4/ 6 @ Broadhurst Theatre

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

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

Art

Georganne Deen

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

Theatre

Street Limbo Blues

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jan de Cock

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>Macbeth</em>

Theatre

Macbeth

Sunday 4/ 6 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

Stephen Petronio Company

Dance

Stephen Petronio Company

Sunday 4/ 6 @ The Joyce Theater

Stephen Petronio's choreography is inextricably linked with the music it accompanies — his latest production could just as easily be a... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 4/ 6 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Big Kids Little Kids </em>

Art

Big Kids Little Kids

Sunday 4/ 6 @ Cinders Gallery

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

New York Underground Film Festival

Film

New York Underground Film Festival

Sunday 4/ 6 @ Anthology Film Archives

For 15 years, the New York Underground Film Festival has showcased overlooked, unexpected, and experimental gems. Due to restructuring efforts, however,... 

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

Art: Photography

Irving Penn

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>Another Vermeer</em>

Theatre

Another Vermeer

Sunday 4/ 6 @ Dorothy Strelsin Theatre

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

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

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jasper Johns

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Sunday 4/ 6 @ Union Square Theatre

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

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

Art

Lee Friedlander

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>

Special Event

blog.mode

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

New Directors/New Films

Film

New Directors/New Films

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>Design and the Elastic Mind</em>

Art

Design and the Elastic Mind

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Sunday 4/ 6 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

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

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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>Paradise Park</em>

Theatre

Paradise Park

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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...