All events on Sunday July 27
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- Triumph of the Will
- Sunday July 27 (5pm) @ Anthology Film Archives
- Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's legacy rose and fell with her disreputable subjects, Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich — such that, despite her innovations in cinematography... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- MGMT w/ the Ting Tings
- Sunday July 27 (2pm) @ McCarren Park Pool
- Free
- It's been too long since we've had a good, weird pop band like Brooklyn's MGMT. Founded by Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser in a prankish... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- The Wet Spots
- Sunday July 27 (8pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater
- Polyamorous husband-and-wife musical-comedy duo the Wet Spots first caught the public eye with their video Do You Take It (in the Ass?), which was viewed... View details »
- Music: Global
- Taj Mahal w/ the Skatalites
- Sunday July 27 (3–7pm) @ Central Park SummerStage
- Free
- Self-taught polyglot and multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal originally hails from Harlem, but his unique brand of blues reflects traditions from Cuba, Hawaii, West Africa, and Europe... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday July 27 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday July 27 (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 July 27 (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 July 27 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Sunday July 27 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Sunday July 27 (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 »
- More Flavor: Shopping
- Brooklyn Flea
- Sunday July 27 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School 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
- Louise Bourgeois
- Sunday July 27 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
- After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- Sunday July 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
- Sunday July 27 (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
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Sunday July 27 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Sunday July 27 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Sunday July 27 (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
- Sunday July 27 (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
- Boeing Boeing
- Sunday July 27 (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 »
- Art
- After Nature
- Sunday July 27 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- The After Nature exhibition evokes a nightmare/fantasy of humankind's impending self-destruction and its aftermath. Sculptor Maurizio Cattelan imagines a horse's deadly collision with the museum... View details »
- Art
- Playing the Building
- Sunday July 27 (noon–6pm) @ Battery Maritime Building More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Sunday July 27 @ Various locations More times »
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Summergarden
- Sunday July 27 (8pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Free
- Two of the city's blue-chip performing arts titans — the Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center — join forces for Summergarden at MoMA. In... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Click!
- Sunday July 27 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
- Photography has always been both celebrated and suspect for its popularity with so-called amateurs. The rise of do-it-yourself shutterbugs has given us vital, world-changing information... View details »
- Film
- Tell No One
- Sunday July 27 @ Various locations More times »
- Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Sunday July 27 @ Various locations More times »
- For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Hot!
- Sunday July 27 @ Dixon Place More times »
- Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque, and comedy. It also... View details »
- Art
- J.M.W. Turner
- Sunday July 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective of J.M.W.... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Sunday July 27 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
- Free
- Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
- Art
- Unreal City
- Sunday July 27 (noon–6pm) @ Gallery Satori More times »
- Free
- With the UN forecasting that 50% of the world's population will reside in mega-cities by 2050, Gallery Satori's inaugural exhibition, Unreal City, presents 12 artists... View details »
- Art
- Dalí: Painting and Film
- Sunday July 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For Dalí, film not only... View details »
- Art
- Arctic Hysteria
- Sunday July 27 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage landscape serves as the... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- Sunday July 27 @ IFC Center More times »
- Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially segregated Mardi Gras tradition... View details »
- Film
- Baghead
- Sunday July 27 @ Various locations More times »
- Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie about a pair of... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
- Sunday July 27 @ Quad Cinema More times »
- Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974), but to many... View details »
- Film
- Nights of Cabiria
- Sunday July 27 (4pm) @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
- In one of Frank O'Hara's off-the-cuff lunch poems, Giulietta Masina makes a seemingly random appearance as "wife of Federico Fellini, é bell' attrice." The New... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Twelve Ophelias
- Sunday July 27 @ McCarren Park Pool More times »
- Free
- Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to overcome the past and... View details »
- Film: Festival
- BAM Animation
- Sunday July 27 @ BAM Rose Cinemas More times »
- With Pixar's Wall-E pushing for a Best Picture Oscar bid this year, animation is really getting its spot in the sun. This weekend, BAM presents... View details »
- Art
- Max Beckmann
- Sunday July 27 (11am–6pm) @ Neue Galerie More times »
- With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a different brand of expressionism.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Taylor Mac
- Sunday July 27 (7:30pm) @ HERE Arts Center More times »
- As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes up residence at HERE,... View details »
- Art
- Good Wood 2008
- Sunday July 27 @ 3rd Ward More times »
- Free
- Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its own unscuffed moment. Good... View details »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Sunday July 27 (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: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- Sunday July 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Gerald Dearing
- Sunday July 27 (noon–7pm) @ Gallery Nine5 More times »
- Free
- The recently opened Gallery Nine5 in Nolita presents photographs by Gerald Dearing, who was born in Normandy as WWII raged around him. He immigrated to... View details »
- Art
- Kehinde Wiley
- Sunday July 27 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem More times »
- Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Sunday July 27 (3 & 7:30pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
- Sunday July 27 (2pm) @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
- Giveaway
- The strange but affecting comedy What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends captures the awkward reality of relationships through surreal actions and interactions.... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- Sunday July 27 @ Various locations More times »
- The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana.... View details »
