Events on Sunday, May 25

Sunday Best! feat. Roy Davis Jr.

Music: DJ

Roy Davis Jr.

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... 

The Sun Ra Arkestra

Music

The Sun Ra Arkestra

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... 

Apparat w/ Telefon Tel Aviv

Music: Electronic

Apparat

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

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

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... 

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

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... 

<em>Heavy Metal in Baghdad</em>

Film: Documentary

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

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... 

<em>The Sound and The Fury (April Seventh, 1928)</em>

Theatre

The Sound and the Fury

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... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

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... 

<em>STRETCH (a fantasia)</em>

Theatre

STRETCH (a fantasia)

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... 

Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>

Art

Purvis Young

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... 

<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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... 

<em>Birthright</em>

Theatre

Birthright

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... 

2008 Columbia University MFA Thesis Exhibition

Art

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... 

<em>Noise</em>

Film

Noise

Sunday 5/25 @ Various locations

With Noise, writer/director Henry Bean has made a feature about urban sound pollution that doesn't grate on its viewers. It's no... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

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... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

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,... 

E.S.T. Marathon 2008

Theatre

E.S.T. Marathon

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... 

Durang's <em>The Actor's Nightmare</em> and Stoppard's <em>The Real Inspector Hound</em>

Theatre

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... 

<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>

Art: Photography

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... 

<em>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>

Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

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... 

<em>Telectroscope</em>

Art

Telectroscope

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.... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

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... 

Darina Karpov: <em>Infinitely Small Disasters</em>

Art

Darina Karpov

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... 

<em>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Sunday 5/25 @ Landmark Sunshine

In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone.... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

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... 

<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

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... 

<em>Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead</em>

Film

Poultrygeist

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... 

<em>Port Authority</em>

Theatre

Port Authority

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... 

Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

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... 

<em>Masculine Feminine </em>(1966)

Film

Masculine Feminine 

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... 

<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

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... 

<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

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... 

<em>Oedipus Loves You</em>

Theatre

Oedipus Loves You

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... 

<em>The Edge of Heaven</em>

Film

The Edge of Heaven

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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 5/25 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Touch of Evil </em>(1958)

Film

Touch of Evil

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... 

GlassLab feat. Antenna Design, Constantin & Laurene Boym, and Kid Robot

Art

GlassLab

Sunday 5/25 @ Cooper-Hewitt

The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its... 

<em>Redbelt</em>

Film

Redbelt

Sunday 5/25 @ Various locations

Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Sunday 5/25 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

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,... 

<em>Son of Rambow</em>

Film

Son of Rambow

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... 

Theatre

TELL

Sunday 5/25 @ Collective:Unconscious

Funny, serious, and daring, TELL is a collaborative theatre work that explores the phenomenon of confession by artfully weaving together a... 

Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

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... 

MOMIX <em>Passion</em>

Dance

MOMIX

Sunday 5/25 @ The Joyce Theater

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... 

DanceAfrica 2008

Dance

DanceAfrica 2008

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... 

<em>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>

Theatre

Jollyship the Whiz Bang

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... 

David Ford: <em>White Like Me</em>

Art

White Like Me

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... 

<em>Then She Found Me</em>

Film

Then She Found Me

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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

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... 

Bill Shannon: <em>WORK</em>

Art

Bill Shannon

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... 

<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>

Film

Sangre de Mi Sangre

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... 

<em>Prisoner of the Crown</em>

Theatre

Prisoner of the Crown

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... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>Take your time</em>

Art

Olafur Eliasson

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

Art

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... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

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... 

<em>Sopranos</em> Symposium

Special Event

Sopranos Symposium

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... 

<em>Top Girls </em>

Theatre

Top Girls

Sunday 5/25 @ Biltmore Theater

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... 

Eighth International Toy Theater Festival

Theatre

Toy Theater Festival

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... 

<em>Joint Security Area </em>(2000)

Film

Joint Security Area

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... 

Paul Chan: <em>The 7 Lights</em>

Art

Paul Chan

Sunday 5/25 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift... 

15th Annual New York African Film Festival<em> </em>

Film

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.... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Sunday 5/25 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

Ralph Bakshi

Art

Ralph Bakshi

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... 

<em>The Children of Huang Shi</em>

Film

The Children of Huang Shi

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...