Events on Saturday, May 31
Saturday 5/31 @ Museum of the City of New York
Although Jersey-born William Basie and his musical cohorts were based in Kansas City and Chicago throughout most of the Depression, New...
Saturday 5/31 @ World Financial Center Winter Garden
For the third year in a row, the Bang on a Can Marathon storms into the World Financial Center's Winter Garden...
Saturday 5/31 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Langhorne Slim leads a charmed life. Not that he hasn't paid his dues, but his nonstop touring has propelled him steadily...
Saturday 5/31 @ Governors Island
It's been more than 70 years since an honest-to-jodhpurs polo match was played in NYC. And who better to bring back...
Saturday 5/31 @ Union Hall
Ever wish you could sail away to a simpler time — a time of piña coladas and getting caught in the...
Saturday 5/31 @ The BKLYN Yard
Known for all-night, Fontana's-basement dance bashes, Nacotheque gives NYC its first daytime-party tan of the summer at today's piñata picnic. After...
Saturday 5/31 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Since their inception over a decade ago, Liverpool psych-retro-whatever wizards Clinic have been frequently described as "spooky," "cryptic," and "creepy" —...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/31 @ Battery Maritime Building
From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David...
Saturday 5/31 @ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...
Saturday 5/31 @ Various locations
With rock stars turning to astrophysics and environmentalism reaching a fever pitch, science has never been cooler. The World Science Fair...
Saturday 5/31 @ Soho Playhouse
Though Carl Djerassi spent most of his career in a lab coat — as one of the chemists behind the first...
Saturday 5/31 @ Salon 94 Freemans
I Without End, the title piece of Laleh Khorramian's second solo show at Salon 94 Freemans, is a three-channel video projection...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Saturday 5/31 @ Gagosian Gallery
Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ IFC Center
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ Rivington Arms
Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho
Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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....
Saturday 5/31 @ The Joyce Theater
Moses Pendleton's acrobatic dance company MOMIX brings its classic Lunar Sea to the second half of the Joyce's month-long season. In...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Saturday 5/31 @ PaceWildenstein
Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery...
Saturday 5/31 @ Imperial Theatre
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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday 5/31 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 303 Bond Street
Young gun (and award-winning choreographer) Austin McCormick's Judgment of Paris uniquely fuses 17th-century Baroque dance technique (ballet's precursor) with contemporary choreography...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery
Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In...
Saturday 5/31 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
In Cinephilia, Johnny and Arden have spent four years having sex, avoiding commitment, and quoting movies at each other, and it's...
Saturday 5/31 @ Various locations
During the eighth-annual Bicycle Film Festival, musicians and artists show love to their two-wheeled friends. Prior to the Studio B dance...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with...
Saturday 5/31 @ Angelika Film Center
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
Saturday 5/31 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
Saturday 5/31 @ Honey Space
Straying from the austere, white-washed norm, Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson's Portrait of Sylvia Elena leads gallery patrons to subterranean levels...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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 in the Park with George
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ IFC Center
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...
Saturday 5/31 @ BAM Harvey Theater
Domenico Cimmarosa's comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto is a tawdry soap-fest, filled with romance, deceit, and characters running in farcical circles,...
Saturday 5/31 @ Artists Space
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public...
Saturday 5/31 @ Aperture Gallery
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross...
Saturday 5/31 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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,...
The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
Saturday 5/31 @ The Brick Theater
The Brick's annual festival celebrates the occasionally ornery relationship between theatre and film. The centerpiece is 72-Hour Films, for which participants...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
Saturday 5/31 @ 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...
Saturday 5/31 @ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Saturday 5/31 @ NYCAMS
Two years ago, Brooklyn College's MFA thesis exhibition became a First Amendment cause célèbre, after city officials closed the show because...
Saturday 5/31 @ Various locations
In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson...
Saturday 5/31 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inspired by physicist Brian Greene's book The Elegant Universe, choreographer Karole Armitage presents two evenings of dance as part of the...
