All events on Sunday August 03
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- Rock the Bells
- Sunday Aug 3 (noon) @ Jones Beach Amphitheater
- Rock the Bells brings together the best of the old-school and classic rappers: De la Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Rakim, Nas, and the reunited... View details »
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- America Eats!
- Sunday Aug 3 (1pm) @ Freebird Books
- Free
- Pat Willard's new book America Eats! chronicles the way we ate during the Great Depression. "America Eats" was originally a project funded by FDR's... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Jamie Lidell
- Sunday Aug 3 (3pm) @ Central Park SummerStage
- Jamie Lidell has arrived. In his performances since 2005's fantastically received, surprisingly soulful Multiply, the demi-founder of the now-defunct IDM outfit Super_Collider has thrilled audiences... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Black Lips
- Sunday Aug 3 (2pm) @ McCarren Park Pool
- Free
- In 1971, Lester Bangs published an essay called "James Taylor Marked for Death," in which he heralded the Troggs as the raw libido of rock... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
- DJ Harvey
- Sunday Aug 3 (6–10pm) @ Paddlewheel Queen
- Giveaway
- While many DJs treat their obscure record collections as ends unto themselves, the UK's DJ Harvey uses his esoteric knowledge to really bring the party.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday Aug 3 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Sunday Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 @ 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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 @ 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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 @ 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 Aug 3 @ 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 Aug 3 @ 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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 @ 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
- Dalí: Painting and Film
- Sunday Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 @ 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 Aug 3 @ 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 Aug 3 @ 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
- Sixty Six
- Sunday Aug 3 @ Various locations More times »
- It's the summer of '66 and all of England is agog about the World Cup. That is, all except for 12-year-old, bespectacled Bernie, who's been... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Twelve Ophelias
- Sunday Aug 3 @ 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 »
- Art
- Max Beckmann
- Sunday Aug 3 (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 »
- Art
- Good Wood 2008
- Sunday Aug 3 @ 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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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
- Kehinde Wiley
- Sunday Aug 3 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Dreamland Roller Rink
- Sunday Aug 3 (noon–9pm) @ Dreamland Roller Rink More times »
- Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this weekend. With some initial... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Misalliance
- Sunday Aug 3 (7pm) @ Central Park More times »
- Free
- With its roving outdoor staging, lack of sets, and mobile audience, New York Classical Theatre creates anything but traditional productions. This season, Nobel- and Oscar-winning... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Artists and Fleas
- Sunday Aug 3 (noon–8pm) @ Artists and Fleas More times »
- Free
- The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to the accompaniment of an... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Sunday Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 (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 Aug 3 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- Sunday Aug 3 (noon, 1, 3 & 4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
- Free
- Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
