Events on Saturday, May 17
Saturday 5/17 @ Various locations
New York is home to an astounding variety of dance styles (what other city could spawn both voguing and breakdancing?), so...
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Saturday 5/17 @ Studio B
You don't need to be a mirror-ball diva or a platform prince to know that the one thing neo-disco needs more...
Saturday 5/17 @ The Mercury Lounge
Bouncy Brooklynites Blood on the Wall aren't afraid of anything — least of all the judgmental eyes of indie-rock elitists. Whether...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/17 @ Artists Space
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Saturday 5/17 @ International Center of Photography
Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ The Kitchen
Among the many giants of the downtown avant-garde, Arthur Russell stands apart. The cellist, composer, singer, and left-field disco producer ("Kiss...
Saturday 5/17 @ Imperial Theatre
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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ P.S. 122
Having picked up the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Best Ensemble award last summer, the Shalimar company returns to New York with eight...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...
New York African Film Festival
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ IFC Center
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...
Saturday 5/17 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ The Great Hall at Cooper Union
Downtown creative-culture mag Tokion presents its fifth-annual Creativity Now conference, which has become a mecca of sorts for top artists and...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Monkey Town
More than ever, food represents our values, culture, and identities just as much as painting, literature, or film. Tonight, Monkey Town...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Bellwether Gallery
Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —...
Saturday 5/17 @ Quad Cinema
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Irish Repertory Theatre
The Chelsea-based Irish Repertory Theatre company is devoted to Irish and Irish-American work. The New York premiere of Richard F. Stockton's...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Storm King Art Center
In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,...
Saturday 5/17 @ Various DUMBO locations
As March's art fairs fade from memory, fans of contemporary photography have carved out an event all to themselves. For five...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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...
POOM², A Page Out of Order M to M
Saturday 5/17 @ Japan Society
Osaka native Yoshiko Chuma and her School of Hard Knocks bring artistry and politics to their multimedia dance piece POOM², A...
Saturday 5/17 @ World Financial Center
Corporate Carnival turns the World Financial Center Winter Garden into a circus sideshow of daring acts: ambitious executives climbing the corporate...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Saturday 5/17 @ PaceWildenstein
Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Various locations
As the design community flocks to New York for the 20th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center (May...
The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
A cyclotron built to study the science and execution of noise, No Fun Fest enters its fifth year with a move...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Douz and Mille
Outside the world of visual arts, Bill Shannon is best known as the breakdancer (and sometime-skater) deftly balanced on a pair...
Saturday 5/17 @ Birdland
Pharoah Sanders is not the Kangol-clad, cable-knit-sweater-wearing, electric-clarinet kind of jazz musician. A link between Coltrane's free-form experiments and the fusion...
Saturday 5/17 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho
Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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...
Sunday in the Park with George
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Anthology Film Archives
As befits a linchpin of film's no wave movement, an anti-commercial culture founded partly in response to downtown NYC's new wave,...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ 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...
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Saturday 5/17 @ NYCAMS
Two years ago, Brooklyn College's MFA thesis exhibition became a First Amendment cause célèbre, after city officials closed the show because...
