All events on Saturday May 03
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- [SOLD OUT] Yelle
- Saturday May 3 (11:30pm) @ Highline Ballroom
- Sold Out!
- Yelle's timing couldn't be better. Hot on the heels of fellow Frenchies Justice and the Ed Banger crew, she's riding waves kicked up by a... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- dead prez
- Saturday May 3 (9pm) @ Public Assembly in Wburg
- Equal parts Malcolm X and Abbie Hoffman, dead prez make hyper-intelligent and unflinchingly combative hip-hop that marries thug narratives and progressive politics. A Dave Chappelle... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Teenagers
- Saturday May 3 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg in 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 "Homecoming" single and its... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Drums Along the Hudson
- Saturday May 3 (11am–6pm) @ Inwood Hill Park
- Free
- Inwood plays host to this Native American powwow celebrating the Hudson River. The multicultural gathering features indigenous performers like the inter-tribal Thunderbird American Indian Dancers... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
- Kentucky Derby BBQ Party
- Saturday May 3 (3:30pm) @ Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg
- Free
- As Louisville is a considerable trot from NYC, the party people at Pete's Candy Store have been kind enough to throw an annual Kentucky Derby... View details »
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- Rejection Letter Party
- Saturday May 3 (9pm) @ 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 40 years. Tonight, the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- A Believer Nighttime Event
- Saturday May 3 (6pm) @ Tishman Auditorium
- Free
- Organized by The Believer magazine and hosted by comic/actor Todd Barry, this evening features a musical performance by John Wesley Harding, a Vladmaster screening which... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Erol Alkan
- Saturday May 3 (10pm) @ Studio B in Greenpoint
- Giveaway
- Erol Alkan first rose to prominence in London, where he spun alongside cohort Rory Phillips at the infamous Trash night. It was an open-minded affair... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Cherry Blossom Festival
- Saturday May 3 (10am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Botanical Garden in Bklyn More times »
- Before hitting rooftop barbeques and sunning in city parks, New Yorkers celebrate the arrival of warm weather with the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens' Annual Cherry Blossom... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Saturday May 3 (2 & 8pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Saturday May 3 (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
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Saturday May 3 @ 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
- Jump
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Saturday May 3 @ International Center of Photography More times »
- Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Saturday May 3 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Saturday May 3 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Saturday May 3 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
- Art
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Saturday May 3 (noon–6pm) @ PS1 Contemporary Art Center in LIC More times »
- With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120 international female artists working... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Saturday May 3 (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: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Saturday May 3 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Saturday May 3 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making modern paintings before the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Saturday May 3 @ 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
- The Four of Us
- Saturday May 3 (2:30 & 7:30pm) @ New York City Center More times »
- Itamar Moses is a young, successful playwright who happens to be best friends with a young, incredibly successful novelist named Jonathan Safran Foer. A fictionalized... View details »
- Art
- Kanishka Raja
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Macbeth
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Art
- Big Kids Little Kids
- Saturday May 3 (noon–7pm) @ Cinders in Wburg More times »
- Free
- There have been a lot of cheap shots volleyed between the youths of New York and Philadelphia. But regardless of who's a suburb of whom,... View details »
- Art
- Lots of Things Like This
- Saturday May 3 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
- Free
- Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and image. The list of... View details »
- Art
- Tseng Kwong Chi
- Saturday May 3 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times »
- Free
- Without newlyweds or a bus-load of septuagenarians, photographs of "picture-perfect" places like the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, and Cinderella's Castle are just postcards — it's... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Gregory Crewdson
- Saturday May 3 (10am–6pm) @ Luhring Augustine Gallery More times »
- Free
- For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with an army of production... View details »
- Art
- © MURAKAMI
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Art
- After the Reality 2
- Saturday May 3 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
- Free
- Tokyo gallerist Hiromi Yoshii revisits Japan's post-superflat art scene with After the Reality 2, a group exhibition featuring several first-time exhibitors and the return of... View details »
- Art
- The Date Farmers
- Saturday May 3 (11am–6pm) @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
- Free
- Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez — collectively known as the multimedia-art team the Date Farmers — mash up art history with Southern California's multi-ethnic culture,... View details »
- Art
- Residential Erection
- Saturday May 3 (11am–6pm) @ Postmasters More times »
- Free
- In his new show Residential Erection, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung lifts the veil on American politics with the biting wit of a political cartoonist and the... View details »
- Film
- New York African Film Festival
- Saturday May 3 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God's Ear
- Saturday May 3 (3 & 8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
- Playwright Jenny Schwartz made a downtown splash last year with her breakout play God's Ear, and now the Vineyard Theatre revives the production with a... View details »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fire Island
- Saturday May 3 (6pm) @ 3LD Art & Technology Center More times »
- Sitting on floor cushions and deck chairs, the audience provides the stage here, playing an integral role in recreating the relaxed, beachy feel of notoriously... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Emancipation
- Saturday May 3 (7:30pm) @ Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center More times »
- The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Emancipation, a brand-new play by longtime company member Ty Jones. Emancipation tells the story of Nat Turner's historical 19th-century... View details »
- Art
- Lucas Reiner
- Saturday May 3 (11am–6pm) @ Kips Gallery More times »
- Free
- Los Angeles painter Lucas Reiner may be related by blood to some of the funniest men in America, but when it comes to painting, he's... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Saturday May 3 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Saturday May 3 (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
- Anne Hardy
- Saturday May 3 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
- Free
- Photographer Anne Hardy could just as easily have succeeded as an installation artist or set dresser. Her elaborately staged photographs — five of which are... View details »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Art
- Tamara Kostianovsky
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- EATfest
- Saturday May 3 (5 & 7pm) @ Roy Arias Theatre Center More times »
- On TV, Dr. Phil commands us to lose weight and our politicians beg us to trust them. Emerging Artist Theatre's EATfest 2008 encourages us to... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Saturday May 3 @ Quad Cinema More times »
- Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects. What's unusual about Constantine's... View details »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Film
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Saturday May 3 @ Various locations More times »
- The Tribeca Film Festival always heaps on the glitz and glamor with its high-profile mainstream films (Tina Fey's Baby Mama kicks things off). But the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Yellow Moon
- Saturday May 3 (2:30 & 8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
- Ah, to be 17 again! Leila and Lee are two teens from a dead-end Scottish town who, while marinating in several Smiths LPs-worth of adolescent... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Steve & Idi
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Film
- Stuff and Dough
- Saturday May 3 (1, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
- Suffused in natural light and crackling with background noise, Romania's latest film import brims with the clatter of everyday life — from a dripping sink... View details »
- Art
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Saturday May 3 @ 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 »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Saturday May 3 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Birthright
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- More Flavor: Workshop
- Tribeca Film Festival and Apple
- Saturday May 3 @ The Apple Store, Soho More times »
- Free
- For the fourth year running, the Apple Store teams up with the Tribeca Film Festival for a series of free filmmaking workshops and discussions. The... View details »
- Art
- White Like Me
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Art
- The New Normal
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Saturday May 3 @ IFC Center More times »
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Endgame
- Saturday May 3 (2 & 7:30pm) @ BAM in Bklyn More times »
- In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but dark humor still reigns.... View details »
- More Flavor: Conference
- PEN World Voices
- Saturday May 3 @ Various locations More times »
- The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is, as the name suggests, an annual celebration of language, writing, and free speech. Now entering its... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- 123 Festival
- Saturday May 3 (2 & 8pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- ABT II, Ailey II, and Taylor 2 — the second companies of American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Paul Taylor Dance Company,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Sound and the Fury
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Performing Arts
- UniverSoul Circus
- Saturday May 3 @ Various locations More times »
- Step right up to behold ghetto-fabulous pachyderms, comedic acrobats, and hip-hop in the big top! Based out of Atlanta and inspired by black vaudeville from... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Film
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Saturday May 3 (2pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- Sergio Leone may have pioneered the spaghetti western with his "Dollar Trilogy," but the Italian director's true masterpiece is the dark, star-studded Once Upon a... View details »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
- Film
- Redbelt
- Saturday May 3 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Jeff Garlin
- Saturday May 3 (8 & 10:30pm) @ Carolines More times »
- Jeff Garlin brings his self-deprecating brand of humor back to New York for a weekend of shows at Carolines. The multi-talented comedian recently announced that... View details »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Saturday May 3 @ 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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Mother Hips
- Saturday May 3 (9pm) @ Mercury Lounge More times »
- The Mother Hips' anthemic rock is punctuated by falsetto howls and soaring, multi-layered orchestration. Tempered by a fundamental NorCal-style of experimental rawness, the band clearly... View details »
- Art
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Saturday May 3 (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 »
