All events on Sunday May 18

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Film
The Virgin Suicides
Sunday May 18 (2, 4:30, 6:50 & 9:15pm) @ BAM Rose Cinemas in Bklyn
Cinematographer Ed Lachman doesn't have the cachet of Christopher Doyle or Vittorio Storaro, but he cuts an impressive figure nonetheless. Lachman's strength is his versatility:... View details »
The Virgin Suicides
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Black Kids
Sunday May 18 (7:30pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
Sold Out!
Jacksonville, Florida's five-piece Black Kids skyrocketed from unknowns to critical darlings in only a few months. Though they claim just a four-song, self-released EP to... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Black Kids

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Paragraph
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Jump
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Adding Machine
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Sunday in the Park with George
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Cai Guo-Qiang
Art
Gustave Courbet
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Gustave Courbet
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Passing Strange
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Sunday May 18 (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 »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Macbeth
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Macbeth
Art
© MURAKAMI
Sunday May 18 (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 »
© MURAKAMI
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Flea
Sunday May 18 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Clinton Hill 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 »
Brooklyn Flea
Film
New York African Film Festival
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
New York African Film Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
God's Ear
Sunday May 18 (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 »
God's Ear
Art
Paul Chan
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Paul Chan
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Art
Ralph Bakshi
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Ralph Bakshi
Film: Documentary
Constantine's Sword
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Constantine's Sword
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Olafur Eliasson
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Yellow Moon
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Yellow Moon
Performing Arts: Theatre
Steve & Idi
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ 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 »
Steve & Idi
Film
Then She Found Me
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Then She Found Me
Film
Roman de Gare
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Roman de Gare
Performing Arts: Theatre
Birthright
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Birthright
Art
White Like Me
Sunday May 18 (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 »
White Like Me
Performing Arts: Theatre
Endgame
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ 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 »
Endgame
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Sound and the Fury
Sunday May 18 (2pm) @ 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 »
The Sound and the Fury
Performing Arts: Theatre
Port Authority
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Port Authority
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Art
Purvis Young
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Purvis Young
Film
Redbelt
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Redbelt
Film
Son of Rambow
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Son of Rambow
Art
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Boeing Boeing
Performing Arts: Theatre
STRETCH (a fantasia)
Sunday May 18 (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 »
STRETCH (a fantasia)
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Superheroes
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Performing Arts: Theatre
E.S.T. Marathon
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
E.S.T. Marathon
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
Sunday May 18 (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 »
The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
Film
The Fall
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
The Fall
Film
Noise
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Noise
Film
Poultrygeist
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Poultrygeist
Performing Arts: Dance
MOMIX
Sunday May 18 (2 & 7:30pm) @ 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 »
MOMIX
Performing Arts: Theatre
Top Girls
Sunday May 18 (2pm) @ 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 »
Top Girls
Art: Photography
New York Photo Festival
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
New York Photo Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
Prisoner of the Crown
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ 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 »
Prisoner of the Crown
Performing Arts: Theatre
La Femme Est Morte
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Sunday May 18 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center in Mountainville More times »
In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
Sol LeWitt
Art
Bill Shannon
Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ 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 »
Bill Shannon
Art: Architecture/Design
NY Design Week
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
NY Design Week
Film
James Nares Retrospective
Sunday May 18 (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 »
James Nares Retrospective
Film
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Sunday May 18 @ 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 »
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Art: Architecture/Design
Dine on Design
Sunday May 18 (8pm) @ 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 »
Dine on Design
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Music: Rock/Pop
No Fun Fest
Sunday May 18 (6:30pm) @ Knitting Factory More times »
A cyclotron built to study the science and execution of noise, No Fun Fest enters its fifth year with a move from Brooklyn to... View details »
No Fun Fest
Performing Arts: Theatre
TELL
Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ 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 »
Art
GlassLab
Sunday May 18 (noon–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 »
GlassLab
Art
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Sunday May 18 @ NYCAMS More times »
Free
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 »
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
More Flavor: Conference
Creativity Now
Sunday May 18 (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 »
Creativity Now