Events on Sunday, July 13

Bastille Day on 60th Street

Festival: Performing Arts

Bastille Day

Sunday 7/13 @ 60th St

Like the Fourth of July, if the bright lights were replaced by an angry mob, Bastille Day commemorates the symbolic crux... 

Wale w/ Blu & Exile

Music: Hip-Hop

Wale

Sunday 7/13 @ S.O.B.'s

Hip-hop's been feeling a lot of heat lately, but tonight's show should restore faith in the future of the game. Fresh... 

JellyNYC presents the Breeders w/ Matt and Kim and the Whip

Music

The Breeders

Sunday 7/13 @ McCarren Park Pool

Despite being an aging "alternative nation" act, the Breeders continue to inspire legions of loyalists: Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox could be... 

F Yeah Fest feat. Circle Jerks, Dillinger Four, Matt & Kim, Team Robespierre, Monotonix, and Japanther

Music

F Yeah Fest

Sunday 7/13 @ Club Exit

While a drum-and-keyboard combo may seem small on paper, food-fighting duo Matt & Kim's giddy alt-punk is bigger than it has... 

Sunday Best! feat. Kevin Saunderson

Music: DJ

Kevin Saunderson

Sunday 7/13 @ The BKLYN Yard

Along with his peers Derrick May, Juan Atkins, and Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson built Detroit into one of the world's techno... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 7/13 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

Afro-Punk Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Afro-Punk Festival

Sunday 7/13 @ Various locations

While punk may be dead (buried beneath a pile of cheap studded belts, no doubt), Afro-punk is alive and pulsing with... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Sunday 7/13 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... 

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

Art

What My Dad Gave Me

Sunday 7/13 @ Rockefeller Center

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

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Sunday 7/13 @ 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>Stuck</em>

Film

Stuck

Sunday 7/13 @ 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>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

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

Film: Documentary

Encounters at the End of the World

Sunday 7/13 @ Film Forum

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

Summergarden

Music

Summergarden

Sunday 7/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Two of the city's blue-chip performing arts titans — the Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center — join forces for... 

<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Sunday 7/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For... 

<em>The Exiles (</em>1961)<em> </em>

Film

The Exiles

Sunday 7/13 @ IFC Center

Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

J.M.W. Turner

Art

J.M.W. Turner

Sunday 7/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 7/13 @ 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>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Sunday 7/13 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

<em>Unreal City</em>

Art

Unreal City

Sunday 7/13 @ Gallery Satori

With the UN forecasting that 50% of the world's population will reside in mega-cities by 2050, Gallery Satori's inaugural exhibition, Unreal... 

<em>Beauty in Trouble</em>

Film

Beauty in Trouble

Sunday 7/13 @ Angelika Film Center

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

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Sunday 7/13 @ 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,... 

Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture

Performing Arts

Hot!

Sunday 7/13 @ Dixon Place

Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,... 

<em>The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac</em> and <em>The Young Ladies of...</em>

Performing Arts

Taylor Mac

Sunday 7/13 @ HERE Arts Center

As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes... 

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

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

<em>Eight Miles High</em>

Film

Eight Miles High

Sunday 7/13 @ Cinema Village

German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — sleeping her way through a variety of... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Sunday 7/13 @ Union Square Theatre

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

<em>Twelve Ophelias</em>

Theatre

Twelve Ophelias

Sunday 7/13 @ McCarren Park Pool

Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to... 

<em>Poets of the Paste </em>

Art

Poets of the Paste

Sunday 7/13 @ 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>Savage Grace </em>

Film

Savage Grace

Sunday 7/13 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition </em>

Art: Photography

Click!

Sunday 7/13 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Photography has always been both celebrated and suspect for its popularity with so-called amateurs. The rise of do-it-yourself shutterbugs has given... 

<em>My Winnipeg</em>

Film

My Winnipeg

Sunday 7/13 @ IFC Center

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

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

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero

Festival: Performing Arts

William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero

Sunday 7/13 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

When William Holden burst upon the screen as a violinist-turned-boxer in Golden Boy, he exhibited an alchemical quality that was nine-tenths... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Sunday 7/13 @ 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>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Sunday 7/13 @ Longacre Theatre

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

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 7/13 @ Paragraph

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

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

Art

Playing the Building

Sunday 7/13 @ Battery Maritime Building

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

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

Film

When Did You Last See Your Father?

Sunday 7/13 @ 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?... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Sunday 7/13 @ 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,... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Sunday 7/13 @ Various locations

Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... 

<em>Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol</em>

Theatre

Neal Medlyn

Sunday 7/13 @ P.S. 122

In Neal Medlyn's fourth musical parody, an off-kilter androgynous romp arranged by Obie-winner Kenny Mellman, the performer channels the artist formerly... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Sunday 7/13 @ Guggenheim Museum

After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... 

<em>Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired</em>

Film: Documentary

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Sunday 7/13 @ Quad Cinema

Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Sunday 7/13 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Sunday 7/13 @ Various locations in the East River

Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns... 

<em>Last Year at Marienbad </em>(1961)

Film

Last Year at Marienbad

Sunday 7/13 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Director Alain Resnais' interrogations of time and memory compelled his reinvention of narrative, culminating in the legendarily enigmatic Last Year in... 

<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>

Film

Sangre de Mi Sangre

Sunday 7/13 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Sunday 7/13 @ 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>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Sunday 7/13 @ Various locations

The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... 

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

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Festival: Performing Arts

JAPAN CUTS

Sunday 7/13 @ Japan Society

The biggest festival of contemporary Japanese film in North America, JAPAN CUTS has a diverse lineup that reflects the country's struggle...