All events on Saturday May 24

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Film
Touch of Evil
Saturday May 24 (8pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
When Orson Welles left his last American masterpiece, Touch of Evil, to the edit-happy heads of Universal, his position was similar to that of a... View details »
Touch of Evil
More Flavor: Workshop
[Re]cycle Kites
Saturday May 24 (noon–3pm) @ Socrates Sculpture Park in LIC
Free
If you're still in town for the holiday weekend, take an eco-trip down memory lane at Long Island City's sculpture park. As part of the... View details »
Film
Joint Security Area
Saturday May 24 (9:30pm) @ Anthology Film Archives More times »
Giveaway
There's no tongue slicing, incest, or eating of live octopi, but Park Chan-wook's Joint Security Area is no less gripping than his infamous Oldboy (2003).... View details »
Joint Security Area
More Flavor: Lecture
A Cyclist's History of New York
Saturday May 24 (2pm) @ Museum of the City of New York
As chaotic and challenging as the city is for cyclists, people on two wheels have been darting in and out of NYC traffic since before... View details »
A Cyclist's History of New York
Music: Rock/Pop
The Skaters
Saturday May 24 (8pm) @ Silent Barn in Williamsburg
James Ferraro and Spencer Clark might just be the Lewis and, uh, Clark of far-out drones. As the Skaters, the duo unflinchingly transform spontaneous yelps... View details »
The Skaters
Music: Rock/Pop
Islands
Saturday May 24 (7pm) @ Webster Hall
Giveaway
Montreal's Islands had already collaborated with Beck, Wolf Parade, and Arcade Fire when they released their debut LP, Return to the Sea, back in 2006.... View details »
Islands
Music: Rock/Pop
Firewater
Saturday May 24 (9pm) @ Southpaw in Park Slope
Giveaway
After the disintegration of his industrial group Cop Shoot Cop in 1996, singer Tod A. started Firewater, an outfit that has, at one time or... View details »
Firewater
Music: Global
The Earthman Experience
Saturday May 24 (9:30pm) @ BAM in Bklyn
Free
Haitian-born house-music veteran, bio-sonic shaman, and multi-intrumentalist Richard "Earthman" Laurent whips up a whirlwind tonight, blending tribal vocals, violin, and diverse percussion into Fela Kuti-inspired... View details »
The Earthman Experience

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Saturday May 24 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
Saturday May 24 (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
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Jump
Performing Arts: Theatre
Macbeth
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Macbeth
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Adding Machine
Art
© MURAKAMI
Saturday May 24 (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
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
Saturday May 24 (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
Olafur Eliasson
Saturday May 24 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Saturday May 24 (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 »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Passing Strange
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Passing Strange
Performing Arts: Dance
DanceAfrica 2008
Saturday May 24 @ BAM in Bklyn More times »
BAM's annual DanceAfrica festival is a beloved Memorial Day blowout that brings together traditional dance, film, and art, as well as an outdoor bazaar brimming... View details »
DanceAfrica 2008
Film
Then She Found Me
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Sunday in the Park with George
Film
The Fall
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Art
Kanishka Raja
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Kanishka Raja
Film
New York African Film Festival
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Film
Redbelt
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Art
Ralph Bakshi
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Ralph Bakshi
Art
Paul Chan
Saturday May 24 (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
Walton Ford
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Walton Ford
Film
Noise
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Film
Poultrygeist
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Film
The Children of Huang Shi
Saturday May 24 @ Various locations More times »
In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell) saved Chinese... View details »
The Children of Huang Shi
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Superheroes
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Saturday May 24 (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
Darina Karpov
Saturday May 24 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi in Wburg More times »
Free
Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting outward. Close attention to... View details »
Darina Karpov
Art
Robert Therrien
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Robert Therrien
Art
Tamara Kostianovsky
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Tamara Kostianovsky
Performing Arts: Theatre
Steve & Idi
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Steve & Idi
Performing Arts: Theatre
Birthright
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Birthright
Film
Son of Rambow
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Saturday May 24 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Sound and the Fury
Saturday May 24 (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 »
The Sound and the Fury
Art
White Like Me
Saturday May 24 (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
Art
The New Normal
Saturday May 24 (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 »
The New Normal
Performing Arts: Dance
MOMIX
Saturday May 24 (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 »
MOMIX
Performing Arts: Theatre
Prisoner of the Crown
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Prisoner of the Crown
Performing Arts: Theatre
Oedipus Loves You
Saturday May 24 (8 & 11pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
The barrier-breaking, Dublin-based Pan Pan Theatre reinvents a classic Freudian tale in Oedipus Loves You. This innovative stab at the plays of Sophocles and Seneca... View details »
Oedipus Loves You
Performing Arts: Dance
The Judgment of Paris
Saturday May 24 (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 »
The Judgment of Paris
Performing Arts: Theatre
STRETCH (a fantasia)
Saturday May 24 (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)
Performing Arts: Theatre
E.S.T. Marathon
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Recent Icelandic Art
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Saturday May 24 @ 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
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Saturday May 24 (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
Art
Neo Rauch
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Neo Rauch
Art
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Saturday May 24 (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 »
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Performing Arts: Theatre
Port Authority
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Port Authority
Art
GlassLab
Saturday May 24 (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 »
GlassLab
Art
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Saturday May 24 (10am–5pm) @ 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
Art
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Saturday May 24 (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
Art
Cameron Hayes
Saturday May 24 (10am–6pm) @ Ronald Feldman Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Cameron Hayes
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Saturday May 24 (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
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Film
The Edge of Heaven
Saturday May 24 (1, 3:30, 7:15 & 9:40pm) @ Film Forum More times »
Giveaway
Fatih Akin's last feature, the much-touted Head-On (2004), packed a punch so punk rock that it injected raw adrenaline directly into your system. His latest,... View details »
The Edge of Heaven
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Boeing Boeing
Performing Arts: Theatre
Top Girls
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Top Girls
Art: Photography
Architecture of Authority
Saturday May 24 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
Free
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross examines everything from a... View details »
Architecture of Authority
Art
Adolph Gottlieb
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Adolph Gottlieb
Art
Zhang Huan
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Zhang Huan
Film
Band of Outsiders
Saturday May 24 @ Film Forum More times »
Giveaway
Film Forum's five-week tribute to French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard's 1960s heyday includes tonight's screening of the director's classic Bande à Part. The film... View details »
Band of Outsiders
Performing Arts: Theatre
La Femme Est Morte
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Performing Arts: Theatre
Toy Theater Festival
Saturday May 24 @ St. Ann's Warehouse in DUMBO More times »
Theatre company Great Small Works proves that tiny can be just as powerful as massive. For just over a week, little theatre takes over the... View details »
Toy Theater Festival
More Flavor: Discussion
Sopranos Symposium
Saturday May 24 (8am–7pm) @ Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus More times »
Free
If the names "Jacques Derrida" and "Paulie Walnuts" are equally meaningful to you, then the Sopranos Symposium is for you. Fordham University hosts a three-day... View details »
Sopranos Symposium
Film: Documentary
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Saturday May 24 @ Clearview Cinema More times »
Heavy-metal rebelliousness is one of the many luxuries that US freedom affords us. In Baghdad, on the other hand, it's just plain reckless. Long hair... View details »
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Art
Bill Shannon
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Bill Shannon
Performing Arts: Theatre
TELL
Saturday May 24 (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 24 (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 »
The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
Art
Christian Vincent
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Christian Vincent
Art
Purvis Young
Saturday May 24 (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
Art
Tom Sachs
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Tom Sachs
Art
Francisco de Goya
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Francisco de Goya
Art
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Saturday May 24 (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 »
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Saturday May 24 (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