Events on Saturday, May 10
Saturday 5/10 @ Havemeyer St
Calling all gearheads: whether you've got a modified chopper, a tall bike, or a trike, cruise down to a stretch of...
Saturday 5/10 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Bombastic UK quartet British Sea Power play the Echo tonight in support of their brand-new album, Do You Like Rock Music?...
Saturday 5/10 @ Webster Hall
Fresh off the Def Jux release of his tech-rap album Maths + English, UK grime mastermind Dizzee Rascal brings his introspective...
Saturday 5/10 @ Studio B
Bpitch Control labelmates Ellen Allien and Sascha Funke take charge at Studio B tonight, globetrotting together in support of Funke's new...
Saturday 5/10 @ Town Hall
After unofficially disbanding the Moldy Peaches — a potty-mouthed, fun-time, tantrum band full of spilled Cheerios and poop jokes — Adam...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/10 @ 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...
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Saturday 5/10 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Saturday 5/10 @ 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...
New York African Film Festival
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ New York Theatre Workshop
Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel...
Saturday 5/10 @ American Airlines Theater
Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its...
Saturday 5/10 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery
Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In...
Saturday 5/10 @ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Danspace Project
Acclaimed choreographer Hilary Easton's work draws on the humor of everyday life to contrast and highlight poignant themes. Her latest work,...
Saturday 5/10 @ The Joyce Theater
ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 — the second companies of American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and...
Saturday 5/10 @ Various locations
The county of Kings stakes a spot in the house of style when BKLYN Designs launches this year's New York Design...
Saturday 5/10 @ Quad Cinema
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....
Saturday 5/10 @ Ars Nova Theater
Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain...
Saturday 5/10 @ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...
Saturday 5/10 @ Gagosian Gallery
Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized...
Saturday 5/10 @ Angelika Film Center
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Skirball Center NYU
Showcasing American Composers spotlights singers, such as Lauren Flanigan and Emily Pulley, in two afternoons of brand-new opera. Known as a...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,...
Saturday 5/10 @ Linda Gross Theater
"I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A...
Saturday 5/10 @ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ The Kitchen
The Venezuela-born, Brooklyn-based choreographer Luis Lara Malvacías straddles disciplines, fusing movement, video art, sculpture, and tracking devices in his recent work...
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ PaceWildenstein
Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and...
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Saturday 5/10 @ Fisher Landau Center for Art
Notorious shopping grounds for bloodthirsty gallerists and curators, Columbia's MFA Exhibition is your chance to play collector and try to guess...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Postmasters
In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a...
Charlie Haden, Ethan Iverson, and Paul Motian
Saturday 5/10 @ Village Vanguard
For this five-night stand, legendary Jazz drummer Paul Motian (perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio) teams...
Sunday in the Park with George
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ The Living Theatre
Kristin Griffith gives an uninhibited performance as Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods in Susan Bernfield's STRETCH (a fantasia). History remembers...
Saturday 5/10 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Saturday 5/10 @ Bellwether Gallery
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —...
Saturday 5/10 @ Village East Cinema
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ LIVE from the NYPL
When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Saturday 5/10 @ 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...
Saturday 5/10 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Saturday 5/10 @ 303 Bond Street
Young gun (and award-winning choreographer) Austin McCormick's Judgment of Paris uniquely fuses 17th-century Baroque dance technique (ballet's precursor) with contemporary choreography...
Saturday 5/10 @ The Playhouse, Abrons Arts
The Gotham Chamber Opera's Ariadne Unhinged is the story of a woman who, deserted on a Greek island, steps up to...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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 5/10 @ Landmark Sunshine
Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...
The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
Saturday 5/10 @ T. Schreiber Studio
The succinct comedies in this theatrical two-fer from Christopher Durang and Tom Stoppard both investigate the nature of bad dreams. Durang's...







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