Events on Sunday, June 15
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....
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
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Sunday 6/15 @ Imperial Theatre
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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...
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...
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,...
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)...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
