All events on Sunday May 04
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- Madame du Sketchy's
- Sunday May 4 (7–10pm) @ Lucky Cheng's
- Giveaway
- You don't need art skills to gawk at naked boys and drag queens, but grab a pencil (or anything cylindrical) anyway and try your hand... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Pelican
- Sunday May 4 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg in Williamsburg
- Giveaway
- For Chicago's Pelican, the term "instru-metal" seems more reductive by the day. No, there are no vocals. Yes, there are metal influences. Certainly, the drummer's... View details »
- Art
- Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Sunday May 4 (2–5pm) @ Fisher Landau Center for Art More times »
- OpeningFree
- Notorious shopping grounds for bloodthirsty gallerists and curators, Columbia's MFA Exhibition is your chance to play collector and try to guess which one of these... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- Sunday May 4 (3pm) @ 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday May 4 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday May 4 (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
- Sunday May 4 (7pm) @ 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
- Sunday May 4 (3 & 7pm) @ 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
- Lee Friedlander
- Sunday May 4 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
- Sunday May 4 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
- Macbeth
- Sunday May 4 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Sunday May 4 (3pm) @ 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
- Sunday May 4 (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: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Sunday May 4 @ 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
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Sunday May 4 (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
- Gustave Courbet
- Sunday May 4 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Sunday May 4 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
- Olafur Eliasson
- Sunday May 4 (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
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Sunday May 4 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 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 »
- Film
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Sunday May 4 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Sunday May 4 (2pm) @ 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
- Sunday May 4 @ 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
- Sunday May 4 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Sunday May 4 (2pm) @ 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
- New York African Film Festival
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- Art
- Big Kids Little Kids
- Sunday May 4 (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 »
- Film
- Redbelt
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Shopping
- Brooklyn Flea
- Sunday May 4 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Clinton Hill More times »
- Free
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. This Sunday, the folks behind the Brownstoner blog... View details »
- Art
- Ralph Bakshi
- Sunday May 4 (11am–6pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Four of Us
- Sunday May 4 (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 »
- More Flavor: Conference
- PEN World Voices
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Constantine's Sword
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God's Ear
- Sunday May 4 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Sunday May 4 (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
- Yellow Moon
- Sunday May 4 (3:30 & 7:30pm) @ 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: Comedy
- Jeff Garlin
- Sunday May 4 (8pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Sunday May 4 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Steve & Idi
- Sunday May 4 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Birthright
- Sunday May 4 (4pm) @ 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
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- EATfest
- Sunday May 4 (2, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- 123 Festival
- Sunday May 4 (2 & 7:30pm) @ 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
- Sunday May 4 (2pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- White Like Me
- Sunday May 4 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- Film
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Sunday May 4 (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 »
- Film
- Stuff and Dough
- Sunday May 4 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Endgame
- Sunday May 4 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Bernstein Collaborations
- Sunday May 4 (3–5:40pm) @ New York State Theater More times »
- NYCB's season-long tribute to choreographer Jerome Robbins continues with an all-Robbins/Leonard Bernstein program — the work of lifelong friends and occasional enemies who would have... View details »
- Performing Arts
- UniverSoul Circus
- Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Cherry Blossom Festival
- Sunday May 4 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Sunday May 4 @ 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
- Port Authority
- Sunday May 4 (3pm) @ 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
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Sunday May 4 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Sunday May 4 (2pm) @ 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
- Sunday May 4 (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 »
