All events on Sunday May 11
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- True Stories
- Sunday May 11 (3 & 8:15pm) @ BAM Rose Cinemas
- Only an artist as epic and outlandish as David Byrne could have made True Stories. The former Talking Heads frontman directs and stars in this... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
- Sunday May 11 (6pm) @ Cake Shop
- Giveaway
- The recent overload of whiskey-soaked, cigarette-stained folkies notwithstanding, there's still something to be said for the virtues of darkly atmospheric Americana. And Oregon-bred, Brooklyn-incubated strummer... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday May 11 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday May 11 (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 May 11 (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 May 11 (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 May 11 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- Sunday May 11 (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 May 11 (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 May 11 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art 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
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Sunday May 11 (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 May 11 (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 May 11 (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 »
- More Flavor: Convention
- BKLYN Designs 2008
- Sunday May 11 (11am–6pm) @ Various locations More times »
- The county of Kings stakes a spot in the house of style when BKLYN Designs launches this year's New York Design Week. The borough's finest... View details »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Sunday May 11 (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 May 11 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Sunday May 11 (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 May 11 (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 May 11 @ 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 May 11 (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 May 11 @ 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 May 11 (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
- The Fall
- Sunday May 11 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Sunday May 11 @ 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 »
- Film
- Redbelt
- Sunday May 11 @ Various locations More times »
- Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the martial art's principles. But... View details »
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- Brooklyn Flea
- Sunday May 11 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School 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 »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Sunday May 11 (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 May 11 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Sunday May 11 @ 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 May 11 @ 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 May 11 (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 May 11 @ 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 May 11 (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 »
- Film
- Noise
- Sunday May 11 @ Various locations More times »
- With Noise, writer/director Henry Bean has made a feature about urban sound pollution that doesn't grate on its viewers. It's no small feat, especially given... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Yellow Moon
- Sunday May 11 (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 »
- Film
- Poultrygeist
- Sunday May 11 @ Village East Cinema More times »
- Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of sex and dismemberment alive.... View details »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- Sunday May 11 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume and clothing. Superheroes delves... View details »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Sunday May 11 (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: Theatre
- Steve & Idi
- Sunday May 11 (3pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre 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: Theatre
- Birthright
- Sunday May 11 (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 »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Sunday May 11 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- 123 Festival
- Sunday May 11 (2 & 7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 — the second companies of American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Paul Taylor Dance Company,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Sound and the Fury
- Sunday May 11 (2pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop More times »
- Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel without summarizing or paraphrasing.... View details »
- Art
- White Like Me
- Sunday May 11 (noon–6pm) @ Jack the Pelican 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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Ariadne Unhinged
- Sunday May 11 (2pm) @ The Playhouse, Abrons Arts More times »
- The Gotham Chamber Opera's Ariadne Unhinged is the story of a woman who, deserted on a Greek island, steps up to the very edge of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- VOX 2008
- Sunday May 11 (noon–5:30pm) @ Skirball Center NYU More times »
- Showcasing American Composers spotlights singers, such as Lauren Flanigan and Emily Pulley, in two afternoons of brand-new opera. Known as a breeding ground for contemporary... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Endgame
- Sunday May 11 (3pm) @ BAM 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 »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Charlie Haden, Ethan Iverson, and Paul Motian
- Sunday May 11 (9 & 11pm) @ Village Vanguard More times »
- For this five-night stand, legendary Jazz drummer Paul Motian (perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio) teams up with Bad Plus... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- STRETCH (a fantasia)
- Sunday May 11 (8pm) @ The Living Theatre More times »
- Kristin Griffith gives an uninhibited performance as Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods in Susan Bernfield's STRETCH (a fantasia). History remembers Woods for "accidentally" erasing... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Bernstein Collaborations
- Sunday May 11 (3–5:40pm) @ New York State Theater More times »
- NYCB's season-long tribute to choreographer Jerome Robbins continues with an all-Robbins/Leonard Bernstein program — the work of lifelong friends and occasional enemies who would have... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Sunday May 11 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times »
- Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually a mixed bag, but... View details »
- Music: Classical
- Sergei Rachmaninov
- Sunday May 11 (5pm) @ Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall More times »
- Sergei Rachmaninov is one of those composers whose name evokes fiery passion and romance. In his day, however, he enjoyed popular acclaim, but little critical... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Sunday May 11 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Sunday May 11 (8pm) @ Ars Nova Theater More times »
- Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain Clamp and his shipmates... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Sunday May 11 (3pm) @ Linda Gross Theater More times »
- "I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A lot. So do middle-aged... View details »
- Art
- Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Sunday May 11 (noon–5pm) @ Fisher Landau Center for Art More times »
- Free
- Notorious shopping grounds for bloodthirsty gallerists and curators, Columbia's MFA Exhibition is your chance to play collector and try to guess which one of these... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Sunday May 11 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Sunday May 11 (2pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its subsequent film adaptation, hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- Sunday May 11 (3pm) @ Longacre Theatre More times »
- It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying spectacle — and, miraculously,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- Sunday May 11 (3pm) @ T. Schreiber Studio More times »
- The succinct comedies in this theatrical two-fer from Christopher Durang and Tom Stoppard both investigate the nature of bad dreams. Durang's The Actor's Nightmare focuses... View details »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Sunday May 11 (1pm–midnight) @ GalleryBar More times »
- Free
- After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and had a dream, wherein... View details »
