All events on Sunday May 25
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- Apparat
- Sunday May 25 (9pm) @ Knitting Factory
- Giveaway
- Though Apparat (aka Berlin-based producer Sascha Ring) is best known for frayed-out beats, his most recent album, Walls, has a dreamier, more ambient feel —... View details »
- Film
- Masculine Feminine
- Sunday May 25 @ Film Forum More times »
- 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 star Chantal Goya as... View details »
- Art
- Telectroscope
- Sunday May 25 @ Fulton Ferry Landing More times »
- Free
- British artist Paul St George says his great-grandfather wanted to link the US and England with a tunnel under the ocean. He also claims that... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Roy Davis Jr.
- Sunday May 25 (3–9pm) @ The Yard
- You could call Roy Davis Jr. a Chicago-house legend, Daft Punk friend, or future-soul phenom, and no one would bat an eye. Unlike his often-pigeonholed... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Sun Ra Arkestra
- Sunday May 25 (9pm) @ Sullivan Hall
- Jazz legend Sun Ra broached the transvibrational gulf back in 1993, but his Arkestra floats on, cooing an astral lullaby that never starts, never ends,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday May 25 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday May 25 (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
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Art
- © MURAKAMI
- Sunday May 25 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art 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 »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Sunday May 25 @ 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
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- DanceAfrica 2008
- Sunday May 25 @ BAM 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 »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Sunday May 25 @ 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
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Film
- The Fall
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Sunday May 25 @ 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
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Shopping
- Brooklyn Flea
- Sunday May 25 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School 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 »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Film
- Noise
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Film
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Sunday May 25 @ 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
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Film
- The Children of Huang Shi
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Sunday May 25 (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
- Darina Karpov
- Sunday May 25 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Birthright
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Art
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Sound and the Fury
- Sunday May 25 (2pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop 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 »
- Art
- White Like Me
- Sunday May 25 (noon–6pm) @ Jack the Pelican 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- MOMIX
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Prisoner of the Crown
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Oedipus Loves You
- Sunday May 25 (8pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- STRETCH (a fantasia)
- Sunday May 25 (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
- Sunday May 25 @ 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: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Sunday May 25 @ 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
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Art
- GlassLab
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Art
- Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Art
- Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Sunday May 25 (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
- Sunday May 25 (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
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Film
- The Edge of Heaven
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Top Girls
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Film
- Touch of Evil
- Sunday May 25 (5pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Joint Security Area
- Sunday May 25 (6:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Toy Theater Festival
- Sunday May 25 @ St. Ann's Warehouse 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 »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Sopranos Symposium
- Sunday May 25 (10am) @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Heavy Metal in Baghdad
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Art
- Bill Shannon
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- TELL
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Sunday May 25 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center 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 »
