Events on Saturday, August 16
Saturday 8/16 @ Union Pool
Fledgling music magazine Death+Taxes hosts its first-annual music-themed scavenger hunt. Team up with three to four friends and scour Brooklyn for...
Saturday 8/16 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Playing hearty pop-punk transposed from the pre-emo age, Jerseyites the Gaslight Anthem draw as much from boot-clad badasses like the Dropkick...
Warm Up feat. Kelley Polar Quartet w/ Metro Area
Saturday 8/16 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
If you're a two-finger pro (or just into moves made famous by Travolta), this weekend's Warm Up, hosted by nu-disco imprint...
Saturday 8/16 @ Harriet's Alter Ego
In its final summer installment, Flatbush boutique Harriet's Alter Ego throws its funkiest soiree yet. In addition to snatching your very...
Saturday 8/16 @ Countee Cullen Branch, New York Public Library
Otto Preminger's film version of Oscar Hammerstein II's Broadway reinterpretation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen was a milestone in African-American history....
Saturday 8/16 @ Central Park SummerStage
Steeped in complex rhythms and esoteric asides, Battles are destined to strike the world as difficult. Featuring an all-star lineup of...
Saturday 8/16 @ 242nd St-Van Cortlandt Park 1 Station
Hey, I'm Walkin' Here! invites like-minded bipeds to explore New York en masse for both entertainment and exercise. Tonight is the...
The Visual Rhetoric of Environmentalism
Saturday 8/16 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
Now that most naysayers have acknowledged that global warming isn't just overheated claptrap, it's time to organize. In the Visual Rhetoric...
Saturday 8/16 @ Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Doug Elkins' Fräulein Maria moves uptown from Joe's Pub to Lincoln Center Out of Doors, with an expanded version of its...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Saturday 8/16 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Saturday 8/16 @ Various locations
The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school...
Saturday 8/16 @ The Joyce Theater
The Windy City keeps sending its fine artistic representatives our way. After the phenomenal success of Steppenwolf Theatre's August: Osage County,...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Saturday 8/16 @ Black Betty
During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of...
Saturday 8/16 @ Vice Gallery
In addition to its publications on the newstands and booksheves, its web TV channel, and record label — Vice now unleashes...
Saturday 8/16 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Saturday 8/16 @ Neue Galerie
With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a...
Saturday 8/16 @ Ohio Theatre
Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance...
Saturday 8/16 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of...
Saturday 8/16 @ Various locations
Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but...
Saturday 8/16 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Saturday 8/16 @ Studio Museum in Harlem
Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood...
Saturday 8/16 @ Film Forum
The Americanization of French culture has long been a point of contention. Jean-Pierre Melville (née Grumbach; he modified it to express...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Saturday 8/16 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Saturday 8/16 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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...
Saturday 8/16 @ Various locations
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format....
What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
Saturday 8/16 @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row
The strange but affecting comedy What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends captures the awkward reality of relationships through...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Saturday 8/16 @ Various locations
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including...
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Saturday 8/16 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Saturday 8/16 @ James Cohan Gallery
Famous for his eviscerating depiction of middle-class suburbia, photographer Bill Owens ventures out into America's proverbial backyard. Owens tours the churches,...
Saturday 8/16 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
The bedrock figure of Britain's influential Free Cinema movement, director Lindsay Anderson clinched his fame with the anarchic end to If....
Saturday 8/16 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Saturday 8/16 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 8/16 @ Swimming Pool
Philadelphia's heady Headlong Dance Theater, a collaboration between David Brick, Andrew Simonet, and Amy Smith, is known for transforming the most...
Saturday 8/16 @ LIVE from the NYPL
When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of...
Saturday 8/16 @ IFC Center
Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially...
Saturday 8/16 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
NY International Fringe Festival
Saturday 8/16 @ Various locations
With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Saturday 8/16 @ English Kills
In addition to showcasing photos and videos of Brooklyn-spawned happenings, English Kills hosts performances for the duration of Maximum Perception. Tonight,...
Saturday 8/16 @ Various locations
Mayor Bloomberg gives the city a reason to wake up early on Saturday morning: a 6.9-mile car-free route from Central Park...
Saturday 8/16 @ Center for Book Arts
In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to...
Saturday 8/16 @ Dreamland Roller Rink
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this...
Saturday 8/16 @ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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,...
Saturday 8/16 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Saturday 8/16 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Saturday 8/16 @ P.S. 122
Flying Carpet Theatre's A Day in Dig Nation is the type of genre-defying show that is supposed to be thriving in...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
Saturday 8/16 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
Saturday 8/16 @ Central Park
With its roving outdoor staging, lack of sets, and mobile audience, New York Classical Theatre creates anything but traditional productions. This...
Saturday 8/16 @ 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...
