Events on Sunday, June 15

Second Annual Bloomsday Book Club: James Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em>

Special Event

James Joyce's Ulysses

Sunday 6/15 @ McNally Robinson Booksellers

Bloomsday is Dublin's yearly celebration of Ulysses, native son James Joyce's monumental tome that takes place entirely on June 16, 1904.... 

Music: DJ

Nicky Siano

Sunday 6/15 @ Santos Party House

Tonight, seminal NYC club kid Nicky Siano takes the helm at one of the city's newest (and best) venues. A DJ... 

Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival

Sunday 6/15 @ Museum at Eldridge Street

As you cruise past the LES knish shops and Chinatown fruit stands this afternoon, stop by the Eldridge Street block party... 

Damon and Naomi w/ Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh

Music

Damon and Naomi

Sunday 6/15 @ (le) poisson rouge

Since the breakup of Galaxie 500 in 1991, members Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang have released six well-received albums under the... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Three on a Couch</em>

Theatre

Three on a Couch

Sunday 6/15 @ Soho Playhouse

Though Carl Djerassi spent most of his career in a lab coat — as one of the chemists behind the first... 

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

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

Chris Burden: <em>What My Dad Gave Me</em>

Art

What My Dad Gave Me

Sunday 6/15 @ Rockefeller Center

In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector... 

<em>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>

Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Sunday 6/15 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 6/15 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>

Art

Purvis Young

Sunday 6/15 @ GalleryBar

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

<em>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Sunday 6/15 @ Landmark Sunshine

In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone.... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

David Byrne: <em>Playing the Building</em>

Art

Playing the Building

Sunday 6/15 @ Battery Maritime Building

From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David... 

Cedar Lake Spring Season<em> </em>

Dance

Cedar Lake

Sunday 6/15 @ Cedar Lake Theater

Cedar Lake is a vibrant contemporary ballet company housed in the former studio of famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The group is... 

<em>Port Authority</em>

Theatre

Port Authority

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

Renegade Craft Fair

Art: Happening

Renegade Craft Fair

Sunday 6/15 @ McCarren Park Pool

Since 2003, Chicago-based store Renegade Handmade has stretched its DIY tentacles into San Francisco and New York via the Renegade Craft... 

<em>Encounters at the End of the World</em>

Film: Documentary

Encounters at the End of the World

Sunday 6/15 @ Film Forum

In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)... 

Theatre

Crother Spyglass and The Resistible Rise of Fatlinda Paloka

Sunday 6/15 @ Theater for the New City

Beneath the surface of the off-kilter narrative of The Resistible Rise of Fatlinda Paloka is a clever parable about culture clash... 

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Sunday 6/15 @ 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>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>

Theatre

Jollyship the Whiz Bang

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>Monsieur Verdoux</em> (1947)

Film

Monsieur Verdoux

Sunday 6/15 @ Film Forum

The initial response to Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux was notoriously mixed. James Agee's superlative-laced review was the exception, as most American... 

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival

Theatre

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>Birthright</em>

Theatre

Birthright

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Sunday 6/15 @ Riverside Park South

Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown... 

<em>Savage Grace </em>

Film

Savage Grace

Sunday 6/15 @ IFC Center

Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Sunday 6/15 @ Union Square Theatre

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

Natsuki Uruma

Art

Natsuki Uruma

Sunday 6/15 @ Rivington Arms

Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a... 

<em>Beauty in Trouble</em>

Film

Beauty in Trouble

Sunday 6/15 @ Angelika Film Center

Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,... 

Durang's <em>The Actor's Nightmare</em> and Stoppard's <em>The Real Inspector Hound</em>

Theatre

The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Sunday 6/15 @ 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,... 

<em>Quid Pro Quo</em>

Film

Quid Pro Quo

Sunday 6/15 @ Landmark Sunshine

Radio reporter Isaac Knot (Nick Stahl) was rendered a paraplegic in a car accident that killed both of his parents when... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

Theatre

Hamlet

Sunday 6/15 @ Delacorte Theater

Shakespeare's tale of murder and madness hasn't been staged at the Delacorte Theater since 1975, when Sam Waterston played the title... 

<em>Poets of the Paste </em>

Art

Poets of the Paste

Sunday 6/15 @ Ad Hoc Art

Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and... 

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

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Sunday 6/15 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

The Affordable Art Fair

Art

The Affordable Art Fair

Sunday 6/15 @ Altman Building

We know how long you were saving up your pennies and nickels in order to nab that Francis Bacon triptych at... 

E.S.T. Marathon 2008

Theatre

E.S.T. Marathon

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>Prisoner of the Crown</em>

Theatre

Prisoner of the Crown

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

Newfest: LGBT Film Festival

Film

Newfest

Sunday 6/15 @ Various locations

Ideally, all independent cinema would be queer — in the sense that it would all live outside the status quo, challenging... 

<em>Cinephilia</em>

Theatre

Cinephilia

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>Top Girls </em>

Theatre

Top Girls

Sunday 6/15 @ Biltmore Theater

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... 

<em>Telectroscope</em>

Art

Telectroscope

Sunday 6/15 @ 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.... 

<em>Red River </em>(1948)

Film

Red River

Sunday 6/15 @ Anthology Film Archives

In Howard Hawks' Red River, which was adapted from a Saturday Evening Post story, John Wayne plays a proud, self-made cattleman... 

Darina Karpov: <em>Infinitely Small Disasters</em>

Art

Darina Karpov

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>

Film

Sangre de Mi Sangre

Sunday 6/15 @ IFC Center

New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Sunday 6/15 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Bill Shannon: <em>WORK</em>

Art

Bill Shannon

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>When Did You Last See Your Father?</em>

Film

When Did You Last See Your Father?

Sunday 6/15 @ Angelika Film Center

Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father?... 

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Sunday 6/15 @ Longacre Theatre

It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Sunday 6/15 @ 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,... 

Human Rights Watch 2008 International Film Festival

Film

Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Sunday 6/15 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Let's face it: in the US cultural landscape, aesthetic value and social conscience coexist in cinema about as easily as Church... 

<em>Miss America</em>

Theatre

Miss America

Sunday 6/15 @ La MaMa E.T.C.

In the world premiere of Miss America, ever-funny feminist/lesbian theatre company Split Britches upends the beloved convention of ladies' beauty pageants.... 

<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks 2008

Theatre

Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks

Sunday 6/15 @ Ohio Theatre

Summerworks 2008, Clubbed Thumb's 13th annual festival of new plays, starts with the raucous Constitutional Convention on June 4, a free... 

The French Collection

Dance

The French Collection

Sunday 6/15 @ The Joyce Theater

As part of the French Collection dance festival, three of France's most prominent companies grace the Joyce stage. Heddy Maalem Company's... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 6/15 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Vincent River</em>

Theatre

Vincent River

Sunday 6/15 @ 59E59 Theaters

British import Vincent River, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, has impressive credentials — and lives up... 

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

Art

Paul Chan

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>Stuck</em>

Film

Stuck

Sunday 6/15 @ Angelika Film Center

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... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Sunday 6/15 @ 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>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Sunday 6/15 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage... 

<em>My Winnipeg</em>

Film

My Winnipeg

Sunday 6/15 @ IFC Center

In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur...