Events on Sunday, May 25
Sunday 5/25 @ The BKLYN Yard
You could call Roy Davis Jr. a Chicago-house legend, Daft Punk friend, or future-soul phenom, and no one would bat an...
Sunday 5/25 @ Sullivan Hall
Jazz legend Sun Ra broached the transvibrational gulf back in 1993, but his Arkestra floats on, cooing an astral lullaby that...
Sunday 5/25 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Though Apparat (aka Berlin-based producer Sascha Ring) is best known for frayed-out beats, his most recent album, Walls, has a dreamier,...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 5/25 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ Clearview Cinema
Heavy-metal rebelliousness is one of the many luxuries that US freedom affords us. In Baghdad, on the other hand, it's just...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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 5/25 @ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...
Sunday 5/25 @ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Sunday 5/25 @ 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,...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ Fulton Ferry Landing
British artist Paul St George says his great-grandfather wanted to link the US and England with a tunnel under the ocean....
Sunday 5/25 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sunday 5/25 @ Pierogi
Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and...
Sunday 5/25 @ Film Forum
At its core, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculine Feminine is a simple boy-meets-girl tragedy, with Jean-Pierre Léaud as the pensive boy and yé-yé...
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ P.S. 122
The barrier-breaking, Dublin-based Pan Pan Theatre reinvents a classic Freudian tale in Oedipus Loves You. This innovative stab at the plays...
Sunday 5/25 @ Film Forum
Fatih Akin's last feature, the much-touted Head-On (2004), packed a punch so punk rock that it injected raw adrenaline directly into...
Sunday 5/25 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
When Orson Welles left his last American masterpiece, Touch of Evil, to the edit-happy heads of Universal, his position was similar...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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,...
Sunday 5/25 @ Angelika Film Center
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
Sunday 5/25 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...
Sunday 5/25 @ BAM
BAM's annual DanceAfrica festival is a beloved Memorial Day blowout that brings together traditional dance, film, and art, as well as...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ IFC Center
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Sunday 5/25 @ NYCAMS
Two years ago, Brooklyn College's MFA thesis exhibition became a First Amendment cause célèbre, after city officials closed the show because...
Sunday 5/25 @ 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...
Sunday 5/25 @ Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
If the names "Jacques Derrida" and "Paulie Walnuts" are equally meaningful to you, then the Sopranos Symposium is for you. Fordham...
Sunday 5/25 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Theatre company Great Small Works proves that tiny can be just as powerful as massive. For just over a week, little...
Sunday 5/25 @ Anthology Film Archives
There's no tongue slicing, incest, or eating of live octopi, but Park Chan-wook's Joint Security Area is no less gripping than...
New York African Film Festival
Sunday 5/25 @ Various locations
Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch....
Sunday 5/25 @ Imperial Theatre
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Sunday 5/25 @ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...
Sunday 5/25 @ Various locations
In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson...
