All events on Saturday May 31
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- Langhorne Slim
- Saturday May 31 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- Giveaway
- Langhorne Slim leads a charmed life. Not that he hasn't paid his dues, but his nonstop touring has propelled him steadily up the indie-folk ladder,... View details »
- Art
- Playing the Building
- Saturday May 31 (6–8pm) @ Battery Maritime Building More times »
- OpeningFree
- From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David Byrne creates a monumental... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Clinic
- Saturday May 31 (9pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
- Giveaway
- Since their inception over a decade ago, Liverpool psych-retro-whatever wizards Clinic have been frequently described as "spooky," "cryptic," and "creepy" — but this does less... View details »
- Music: Global
- Stereo Total
- Saturday May 31 (3–9pm) @ The 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 Naco rockeros Amylulita and... View details »
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- Count Basie's New York
- Saturday May 31 (2pm) @ 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 Yorkers were just as... View details »
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- Manhattan Polo Classic
- Saturday May 31 (3pm) @ Governors Island
- GiveawayFree
- It's been more than 70 years since an honest-to-jodhpurs polo match was played in NYC. And who better to bring back this high-class recreational activity... View details »
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- Bang on a Can Marathon
- Saturday May 31 (6pm–6am) @ World Financial Center Winter Garden
- Free
- For the third year in a row, the Bang on a Can Marathon storms into the World Financial Center's Winter Garden for 12 straight hours... View details »
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- Yacht Rock
- Saturday May 31 (8:30pm) @ Union Hall
- Ever wish you could sail away to a simpler time — a time of piña coladas and getting caught in the rain? The masterminds of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cinephilia
- Saturday May 31 (8pm) @ The Studio at Theatre Row More times »
- In Cinephilia, Johnny and Arden have spent four years having sex, avoiding commitment, and quoting movies at each other, and it's all about to come... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Saturday May 31 (2 & 8pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Saturday May 31 (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 31 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Saturday May 31 (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
- © MURAKAMI
- Saturday May 31 (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
- Olafur Eliasson
- Saturday May 31 (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
- Saturday May 31 (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 31 @ 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
- Saturday May 31 (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
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Film
- The Fall
- Saturday May 31 @ 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 »
- Art
- Kanishka Raja
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Film
- Redbelt
- Saturday May 31 @ 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 »
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- BFF2008
- Saturday May 31 @ Various locations More times »
- During the eighth-annual Bicycle Film Festival, musicians and artists show love to their two-wheeled friends. Prior to the Studio B dance party that kicks off... View details »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Art
- Walton Ford
- Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times »
- Free
- Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In Dying Words, Ford plays... View details »
- Film
- Noise
- Saturday May 31 @ 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
- Saturday May 31 @ 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
- Saturday May 31 @ 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
- Saturday May 31 @ 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 »
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- Superheroes
- Saturday May 31 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 31 (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
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Art
- Robert Therrien
- Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
- Free
- Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized chairs lean propped against... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Birthright
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Saturday May 31 @ 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 »
- Film
- Savage Grace
- Saturday May 31 @ IFC Center More times »
- Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic... View details »
- Art
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Saturday May 31 (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
- Saturday May 31 (8pm) @ 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
- The New Normal
- Saturday May 31 (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
- Stuck
- Saturday May 31 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Stuck is inspired by one of those too-freakish-to-be-believed, real-life events that normally wends its way into a Law and Order episode rather than a full-length... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Prisoner of the Crown
- Saturday May 31 (3 & 8pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 31 (8 & 11pm) @ 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: Dance
- The Judgment of Paris
- Saturday May 31 (8pm) @ 303 Bond Street More times »
- 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 and theatre. Poking spicy... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- MOMIX: Lunar Sea
- Saturday May 31 (2 & 8pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- Moses Pendleton's acrobatic dance company MOMIX brings its classic Lunar Sea to the second half of the Joyce's month-long season. In typical Pendleton form, the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Saturday May 31 @ 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 »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
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- Paragraph
- Saturday May 31 @ 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
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Art
- Neo Rauch
- Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
- Free
- Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding art-world buzz and a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Art
- GlassLab
- Saturday May 31 (10am–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
- Saturday May 31 (10am–5pm) @ 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
- Cameron Hayes
- Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Ronald Feldman Gallery More times »
- Free
- For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with an absurdist sense of... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Saturday May 31 (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
- Saturday May 31 (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
- The Edge of Heaven
- Saturday May 31 (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
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- Saturday May 31 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 31 (2 & 8pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Architecture of Authority
- Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
- Free
- In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross examines everything from a... View details »
- Art
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Art
- Zhang Huan
- Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
- Free
- For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric Western world — must... View details »
- Art
- Telectroscope
- Saturday May 31 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
- Saturday May 31 @ The Brick Theater More times »
- The Brick's annual festival celebrates the occasionally ornery relationship between theatre and film. The centerpiece is 72-Hour Films, for which participants start writing and shooting... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Toy Theater Festival
- Saturday May 31 @ 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 »
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- World Science Festival
- Saturday May 31 @ Various locations More times »
- With rock stars turning to astrophysics and environmentalism reaching a fever pitch, science has never been cooler. The World Science Fair casts away the tired... View details »
- Art
- Bill Shannon
- Saturday May 31 (noon–7pm) @ 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: Opera
- Il Matrimonio Segreto
- Saturday May 31 (7:30pm) @ BAM Harvey Theater More times »
- Domenico Cimmarosa's comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto is a tawdry soap-fest, filled with romance, deceit, and characters running in farcical circles, declaring their feelings with... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- TELL
- Saturday May 31 (7:30pm) @ 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
- Saturday May 31 (8pm) @ 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
- Christian Vincent
- Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery More times »
- Free
- ... e realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they seem to be parts... View details »
- Art
- Natsuki Uruma
- Saturday May 31 (noon–6pm) @ Rivington Arms More times »
- Free
- Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a night of heavy drinking... View details »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Art
- Laleh Khorramian
- Saturday May 31 (11am–6pm) @ Salon 94 Freemans More times »
- Free
- I Without End, the title piece of Laleh Khorramian's second solo show at Salon 94 Freemans, is a three-channel video projection that reads like a... View details »
- Art
- Tom Sachs
- Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Sperone Westwater More times »
- Free
- In one of his two latest exhibitions, high-profile craftsman Tom Sachs (and his basement factory of art-elves) transform a Chelsea gallery into a ten-room menagerie... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Armitage Gone! Dance
- Saturday May 31 (7:30pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
- Inspired by physicist Brian Greene's book The Elegant Universe, choreographer Karole Armitage presents two evenings of dance as part of the Works & Process series... View details »
- Art
- Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
- Saturday May 31 (11am–6pm) @ Honey Space More times »
- Free
- Straying from the austere, white-washed norm, Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson's Portrait of Sylvia Elena leads gallery patrons to subterranean levels of mourning. The ground... View details »
- Art
- Francisco de Goya
- Saturday May 31 (11am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho More times »
- Free
- Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series of small etchings titled... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Three on a Couch
- Saturday May 31 (3 & 8pm) @ Soho Playhouse More times »
- Though Carl Djerassi spent most of his career in a lab coat — as one of the chemists behind the first oral contraceptive, he could... View details »
- Art
- JACK*%SS
- Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times »
- Free
- When bug-eyed boys mace each other on MTV, they're jackasses, but when Chris Burden's studio assistant shoots him in the arm, it's art. The distinction... View details »
- Art
- Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
- Saturday May 31 (10am–6pm) @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery More times »
- Free
- The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery owner Gavin Brown and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hamlet
- Saturday May 31 (8pm) @ Delacorte Theater More times »
- Free
- Shakespeare's tale of murder and madness hasn't been staged at the Delacorte Theater since 1975, when Sam Waterston played the title role, but it's been... View details »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Saturday May 31 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- Saturday May 31 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
- Free
- When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
