Events on Saturday, May 3

Drums Along the Hudson

Festival: Performing Arts

Drums Along the Hudson

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Inwood Hill Park

Inwood plays host to this Native American powwow celebrating the Hudson River. The multicultural gathering features indigenous performers like the inter-tribal... 

Party

Rejection Letter Party

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church

Home to Richard Foreman's experimental theatre and film, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater has been a mainstay of the East Village's avant-garde for... 

FIXED feat. Erol Alkan

Music: DJ

Erol Alkan

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Studio B

Erol Alkan first rose to prominence in London, where he spun alongside cohort Rory Phillips at the infamous Trash night. It... 

Sixth Annual Kentucky Derby BBQ Party

Party

Kentucky Derby BBQ Party

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Pete's Candy Store

As Louisville is a considerable trot from NYC, the party people at Pete's Candy Store have been kind enough to throw... 

dead prez

Music: Hip-Hop

dead prez

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Public Assembly

Equal parts Malcolm X and Abbie Hoffman, dead prez make hyper-intelligent and unflinchingly combative hip-hop that marries thug narratives and progressive... 

[SOLD OUT] Yelle

Music

[SOLD OUT] Yelle

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Highline Ballroom

Yelle's timing couldn't be better. Hot on the heels of fellow Frenchies Justice and the Ed Banger crew, she's riding waves... 

PEN World Voices presents A <em>Believer</em> Nighttime Event

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

A Believer Nighttime Event

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Tishman Auditorium

Organized by The Believer magazine and hosted by comic/actor Todd Barry, this evening features a musical performance by John Wesley Harding,... 

The Teenagers w/ Team Robespierre

Music

The Teenagers

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

With trademark Parisian pouts and Zoolander-like stage presence, these fashionable Frenchies sing catchy, often X-rated electro-pop in accented Franglais. Their sugar-coated-crass... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

White Like Me

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Tseng Kwong Chi: <em>Self Portraits 1979-1989</em>

Art

Tseng Kwong Chi

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

Without newlyweds or a bus-load of septuagenarians, photographs of "picture-perfect" places like the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, and Cinderella's Castle are... 

UniverSoul Circus presents <em>Jabulani: Joy, Happiness, and Laughter</em>

Performing Arts

UniverSoul Circus

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Various locations

Step right up to behold ghetto-fabulous pachyderms, comedic acrobats, and hip-hop in the big top! Based out of Atlanta and inspired... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... 

<em>The New Normal </em>

Art

The New Normal

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Artists Space

Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop... 

<em>Once Upon a Time in the West </em>(1968)

Film

Once Upon a Time in the West

Saturday 5/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Sergio Leone may have pioneered the spaghetti western with his "Dollar Trilogy," but the Italian director's true masterpiece is the dark,... 

Tamara Kostianovsky: <em>The Proper Animal, Part II</em>

Art

Tamara Kostianovsky

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Black & White Gallery

Tamara Kostianovsky's debut solo exhibition, Actus Reus, is the second part of a three-part series, titled The Proper Animal and hosted... 

<em>Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art </em>

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Saturday 5/ 3 @ International Center of Photography

Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Union Square Theatre

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

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

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Redbelt</em>

Film

Redbelt

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Various locations

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

Jeff Garlin

Comedy

Jeff Garlin

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Carolines

Jeff Garlin brings his self-deprecating brand of humor back to New York for a weekend of shows at Carolines. The multi-talented... 

<em>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>

Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Kanishka Raja: <em>Indian Yellow</em>

Art

Kanishka Raja

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Envoy Gallery

Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from... 

Tribeca Film Festival and Apple

Workshop/Class

Tribeca Film Festival and Apple

Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Apple Store, Soho

For the fourth year running, the Apple Store teams up with the Tribeca Film Festival for a series of free filmmaking... 

Theatre

Fire Island

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center

Sitting on floor cushions and deck chairs, the audience provides the stage here, playing an integral role in recreating the relaxed,... 

<em>WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution</em>

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Saturday 5/ 3 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120... 

The Bruce High Quality Foundation: <em>The Retrospective </em>

Art

The Bruce High Quality Foundation

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Susan Inglett Gallery

The Bruce High Quality Foundation's motto is "Professional problems, amateur solutions" — a perfect summary of its invigorating handmade aesthetic and... 

<em>The Four of Us</em>

Theatre

The Four of Us

Saturday 5/ 3 @ New York City Center

Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan... 

<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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>Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions</em>

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

The Date Farmers: <em>The Crying Playboy</em>

Art

The Date Farmers

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with... 

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

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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>Constantine's Sword</em>

Film: Documentary

Constantine's Sword

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Quad Cinema

Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects.... 

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

Theatre

The Sound and the Fury

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>

Art

Purvis Young

Saturday 5/ 3 @ GalleryBar

After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and... 

Ralph Bakshi

Art

Ralph Bakshi

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Animazing Gallery

With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's... 

<em>Up the Yangtze </em>

Film: Documentary

Up the Yangtze

Saturday 5/ 3 @ IFC Center

Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of... 

<em>Birthright</em>

Theatre

Birthright

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Paul Chan

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Lee Friedlander: <em>A Ramble in Olmsted Parks</em>

Art

Lee Friedlander

Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop... 

<em>Endgame</em>

Theatre

Endgame

Saturday 5/ 3 @ BAM

In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but... 

Dave Eggers curates <em>Lots of Things Like This</em>

Art

Lots of Things Like This

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Apex Art

Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Paragraph

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

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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,... 

The Mother Hips w/ New Monsoon

Music

The Mother Hips

Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Mercury Lounge

The Mother Hips' anthemic rock is punctuated by falsetto howls and soaring, multi-layered orchestration. Tempered by a fundamental NorCal-style of experimental... 

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

Film

New York African Film Festival

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Various locations

Given their stakes and scope, it's no wonder that even the weakest of African films tend to pack a visceral punch.... 

<em>Port Authority</em>

Theatre

Port Authority

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Guggenheim Museum

Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with... 

<em>Roman de Gare</em>

Film

Roman de Gare

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Angelika Film Center

Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

<em>Big Kids Little Kids </em>

Art

Big Kids Little Kids

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Cinders Gallery

There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's... 

Anne Hardy

Art

Anne Hardy

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Bellwether Gallery

Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs —... 

<em>God's Ear</em>

Theatre

God's Ear

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Vineyard Theatre

Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives... 

<em>From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art</em>

Art

Recent Icelandic Art

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Scandinavia House

Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia... 

Gustave Courbet

Art

Gustave Courbet

Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Lucas Reiner: <em>Envoi</em>

Art

Lucas Reiner

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Kips Gallery

Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it... 

Tribeca Film Festival

Film

Tribeca Film Festival

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Various locations

The Tribeca Film Festival always heaps on the glitz and glamor with its high-profile mainstream films (Tina Fey's Baby Mama kicks... 

<em>Macbeth</em>

Theatre

Macbeth

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Lyceum Theatre

Director Rupert Goold switches out Scottish castles for Soviet regalia in his modern revamping of Macbeth. Patrick Stewart returns to the... 

<em>Design and the Elastic Mind</em>

Art

Design and the Elastic Mind

Saturday 5/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation... 

PEN World Voices: Public Lives/Private Lives

Conferences

PEN World Voices

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Various locations

The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is, as the name suggests, an annual celebration of language, writing, and free... 

<em>Steve & Idi</em>

Theatre

Steve & Idi

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Aspiring playwright Steve's life is becoming bleaker and bleaker — his boyfriend dumps him, his agent drops him — and then,... 

<em>Stuff and Dough</em>

Film

Stuff and Dough

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Film Forum

Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life —... 

Gregory Crewdson

Art: Photography

Gregory Crewdson

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery

For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with... 

<em>Son of Rambow</em>

Film

Son of Rambow

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Angelika Film Center

Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a... 

EATfest

Theatre

EATfest

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Roy Arias Theatre Center

On TV, Dr. Phil commands us to lose weight and our politicians beg us to trust them. Emerging Artist Theatre's EATfest... 

<em>After the Reality 2 </em>

Art

After the Reality 2

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Deitch Projects

Tokyo gallerist Hiromi Yoshii revisits Japan's post-superflat art scene with After the Reality 2, a group exhibition featuring several first-time exhibitors... 

Adolph Gottlieb: <em>Paintings from Four Decades</em>

Art

Adolph Gottlieb

Saturday 5/ 3 @ PaceWildenstein

Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and... 

<em>Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee</em>

Theatre

Yellow Moon

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 59E59 Theaters

Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several... 

<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Saturday 5/ 3 @ LIVE from the NYPL

When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of... 

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

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung: <em>Residential Erection</em>

Art

Residential Erection

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Postmasters

In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a... 

<em>Then She Found Me</em>

Film

Then She Found Me

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Various locations

Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of... 

123 Festival

Dance

123 Festival

Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Joyce Theater

ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 — the second companies of American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and... 

Sakura Matsuri: Cherry Blossom Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Cherry Blossom Festival

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Before hitting rooftop barbeques and sunning in city parks, New Yorkers celebrate the arrival of warm weather with the Brooklyn Botanical... 

<em>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Landmark Sunshine

Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins... 

Theatre

Emancipation

Saturday 5/ 3 @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of...