All events on Saturday May 17
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- Blood on the Wall
- Saturday May 17 (11:30pm) @ Mercury Lounge
- Giveaway
- Bouncy Brooklynites Blood on the Wall aren't afraid of anything — least of all the judgmental eyes of indie-rock elitists. Whether cozying up to a... View details »
- Art
- GlassLab
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Cooper-Hewitt More times»
- The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its annual series GlassLab. Working... View details »
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- Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Saturday May 17 (6–9pm) @ NYCAMS More times»
- OpeningFree
- Two years ago, Brooklyn College's MFA thesis exhibition became a First Amendment cause célèbre, after city officials closed the show because certain works weren't "appropriate... View details »
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- Cameron Hayes
- Saturday May 17 (6–8pm) @ Ronald Feldman Gallery More times»
- OpeningFree
- For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with an absurdist sense of... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- [SOLD OUT] Hercules & Love Affair
- Saturday May 17 (10pm) @ Studio B in Greenpoint
- Sold Out!Giveaway
- You don't need to be a mirror-ball diva or a platform prince to know that the one thing neo-disco needs more of is gender-bending mopeage.... View details »
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- Creativity Now
- Saturday May 17 (11am–6pm) @ Cooper Union's Great Hall More times»
- Downtown creative-culture mag Tokion presents its fifth-annual Creativity Now conference, which has become a mecca of sorts for top artists and designers across several fields.... View details »
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- Dance Parade
- Saturday May 17 (1–8pm) @ Various locations
- Free
- New York is home to an astounding variety of dance styles (what other city could spawn both voguing and breakdancing?), so it's a little surprising... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Saturday May 17 (2 & 8pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times»
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Saturday May 17 (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
- Saturday May 17 (7 & 10pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (2, 5 & 8pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- Saturday May 17 (2pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (3 & 8pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (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 »
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- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Saturday May 17 (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 »
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- Gustave Courbet
- Saturday May 17 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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 »
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- Olafur Eliasson
- Saturday May 17 (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: Architecture/Design
- NY Design Week
- Saturday May 17 @ Various locations More times»
- As the design community flocks to New York for the 20th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center (May 17-19), over 50 design... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Saturday May 17 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 @ 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 »
- Art
- Kanishka Raja
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Envoy Gallery More times»
- Free
- Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from an idyllic British colonial... View details »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Saturday May 17 @ 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
- Saturday May 17 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- New York Photo Festival
- Saturday May 17 @ Various DUMBO locations in DUMBO More times»
- Giveaway
- As March's art fairs fade from memory, fans of contemporary photography have carved out an event all to themselves. For five days in DUMBO, the... View details »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Saturday May 17 (10am–7pm) @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Saturday May 17 @ 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
- James Nares Retrospective
- Saturday May 17 (7:30pm) @ Anthology Film Archives More times»
- As befits a linchpin of film's no wave movement, an anti-commercial culture founded partly in response to downtown NYC's new wave, director James Nares is... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God's Ear
- Saturday May 17 (3 & 8pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (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 »
- Art
- Walton Ford
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times»
- Free
- Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In Dying Words, Ford plays... View details »
- Film
- Noise
- Saturday May 17 @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (2:30 & 8:30pm) @ 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
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Saturday May 17 @ IFC Center More times»
- New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de... View details »
- Film
- Poultrygeist
- Saturday May 17 @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (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 »
- Art
- Anne Hardy
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times»
- Free
- Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs — five of which are... View details »
- Art
- Robert Therrien
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times»
- Free
- Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized chairs lean propped against... View details »
- Art
- Tamara Kostianovsky
- Saturday May 17 (11am–6pm) @ Black & White Gallery More times»
- Free
- Tamara Kostianovsky's debut solo exhibition, Actus Reus, is the second part of a three-part series, titled The Proper Animal and hosted by Black & White... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Steve & Idi
- Saturday May 17 (8pm) @ 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: Theatre
- Birthright
- Saturday May 17 (3 & 8pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 @ 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: Theatre
- The Sound and the Fury
- Saturday May 17 (8pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop in New York 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- POOM², A Page Out of Order M to M
- Saturday May 17 (7:30pm) @ Japan Society More times»
- Osaka native Yoshiko Chuma and her School of Hard Knocks bring artistry and politics to their multimedia dance piece POOM², A Page Out of Order... View details »
- Art
- White Like Me
- Saturday May 17 (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 »
- Art
- The New Normal
- Saturday May 17 (noon–5pm) @ Artists Space More times»
- Free
- Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public — has inspired ample... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- MOMIX
- Saturday May 17 (2 & 8pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times»
- Moses Pendleton's gravity-defying MOMIX dance company performs Passion, a visually stunning piece that kicks off the group's four-week season at the Joyce. Breathtaking physical feats... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Prisoner of the Crown
- Saturday May 17 (3 & 8pm) @ Irish Repertory Theatre More times»
- The Chelsea-based Irish Repertory Theatre company is devoted to Irish and Irish-American work. The New York premiere of Richard F. Stockton's Prisoner of the Crown... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Judgment of Paris
- Saturday May 17 (8pm) @ 303 Bond Street More times»
- 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 and theatre. Poking spicy... View details »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- Corporate Carnival
- Saturday May 17 (1, 4 & 7pm) @ World Financial Center More times»
- Free
- Corporate Carnival turns the World Financial Center Winter Garden into a circus sideshow of daring acts: ambitious executives climbing the corporate ladder, skilled bankers juggling... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Endgame
- Saturday May 17 (2 & 7:30pm) @ 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: Theatre
- STRETCH (a fantasia)
- Saturday May 17 (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: Theatre
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Saturday May 17 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Tribute
- A Tribute to Arthur Russell
- Saturday May 17 (8pm) @ The Kitchen More times»
- Among the many giants of the downtown avant-garde, Arthur Russell stands apart. The cellist, composer, singer, and left-field disco producer ("Kiss Me Again," which features... View details »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Saturday May 17 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House More times»
- Free
- Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia House hosts work by... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Saturday May 17 @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (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 »
- Art
- Neo Rauch
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times»
- Free
- Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding art-world buzz and a... View details »
- Art
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times»
- Free
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and DIY spirit. The title... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Saturday May 17 (2 & 8pm) @ 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: Architecture/Design
- Dine on Design
- Saturday May 17 (7:30 & 10pm) @ Monkey Town in Wburg More times»
- More than ever, food represents our values, culture, and identities just as much as painting, literature, or film. Tonight, Monkey Town hosts a six-course meal... View details »
- Art
- Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Saturday May 17 (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: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ International Center of Photography More times»
- Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese cultural norms. Riffing on... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Saturday May 17 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 17 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
- Top Girls
- Saturday May 17 (2 & 8pm) @ Biltmore Theater More times»
- Top Girls isn't what you'd call a "feel-good" play. It's more like a provocative, hard-to-digest one that will leave you thinking for days, maybe years... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Pharoah Sanders
- Saturday May 17 (8:30 & 11pm) @ Birdland More times»
- 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 of the '70s and... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- No Fun Fest
- Saturday May 17 (7pm) @ Knitting Factory More times»
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A cyclotron built to study the science and execution of noise, No Fun Fest enters its fifth year with a move from
- Art
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times»
- Free
- Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and European contemporaries — he... View details »
- Art
- Zhang Huan
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times»
- Free
- For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric Western world — must... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- La Femme Est Morte
- Saturday May 17 (8pm) @ P.S. 122 More times»
- Having picked up the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Best Ensemble award last summer, the Shalimar company returns to New York with eight performances of its Rocky... View details »
- Art
- Bill Shannon
- Saturday May 17 (noon–7pm) @ Douz and Mille More times»
- Free
- Outside the world of visual arts, Bill Shannon is best known as the breakdancer (and sometime-skater) deftly balanced on a pair of crutches. Born with... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- TELL
- Saturday May 17 (7:30pm) @ Collective:Unconscious More times»
- Free
- Funny, serious, and daring, TELL is a collaborative theatre work that explores the phenomenon of confession by artfully weaving together a series of vignettes. An... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- Saturday May 17 (8pm) @ 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
- Christian Vincent
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery More times»
- Free
- ... e realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they seem to be parts... View details »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Saturday May 17 (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 »
- Art
- Tom Sachs
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Sperone Westwater More times»
- Free
- In one of his two latest exhibitions, high-profile craftsman Tom Sachs (and his basement factory of art-elves) transform a Chelsea gallery into a ten-room menagerie... View details »
- Art
- Francisco de Goya
- Saturday May 17 (11am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho More times»
- Free
- Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series of small etchings titled... View details »
- Art
- Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
- Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery More times»
- Free
- The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery owner Gavin Brown and... View details »
