Events on Sunday, August 31
Sunday 8/31 @ The BKLYN Yard
After 14 brunch-forgetting fêtes, the Yard's Sunday Best! series fades into the summer sunset. For its final afternoon, the backyard boogie...
Sunday 8/31 @ Paddlewheel Queen
As part of its debaucherous Sunday School for Degenerates weekend, Made Event offers up this techno-centric boat party that makes a...
Ongoing Events
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 8/31 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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...
Sunday 8/31 @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ Imperial Theatre
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Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ Angelika Film Center
Year of the Fish could be called an adult fairy tale — but really, it exposes the phrase as an oxymoron....
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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,...
Sunday 8/31 @ Various locations
How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
North Korea may be producing more propaganda than popular culture these days, but South Korean cinema is flourishing, as evidenced by...
Sunday 8/31 @ English Kills
In addition to showcasing photos and videos of Brooklyn-spawned happenings, English Kills hosts performances for the duration of Maximum Perception. Tonight,...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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....
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
Sunday 8/31 @ IFC Center
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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 8/31 @ 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...
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Sunday 8/31 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Sunday 8/31 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Sunday 8/31 @ Dreamland Roller Rink
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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...
Sunday 8/31 @ Neue Galerie
With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a...
Sunday 8/31 @ Barrow Street Theater
In award-winning actor/playwright (and Flavorpill contributor) Halley Bondy's The Redheaded Man, a schizophrenic young architect named Brian (David Jenkins) is ruled...
Sunday 8/31 @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School
As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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...
Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet
Sunday 8/31 @ Film Forum
American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra gets the documentary treatment in Maria Anna Tappeiner's film Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet. Serra...
Sunday 8/31 @ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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...
Sunday 8/31 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Sunday 8/31 @ 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...
