All events on Sunday September 14

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Art
Street Art, Street Life
Sunday Sep 14 (noon–6pm) @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts More times »
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator Lydia Yee of the... View details »
Street Art, Street Life
Music: DJ
Digitalism
Sunday Sep 14 (10pm) @ Santos Party House
Giveaway
Digitalism's rework of the Cure's classic "Fire in Cairo" seemed to have mystical forecasting powers when an actual fire broke out while they performed at... View details »
Digitalism
More Flavor: Festival
Brooklyn Book Festival
Sunday Sep 14 (10am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
Free
Lit lovers in Brooklyn get treated to a book festival featuring both emerging and established authors. Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs), Ed Park... View details »
Brooklyn Book Festival
More Flavor: Shopping
Superstar DJ Record Fair
Sunday Sep 14 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Flea
Free
With the recent addition of a Wafels & Dinges outpost, we didn't think the Brooklyn Flea could get any better. But then we heard about... View details »
Superstar DJ Record Fair

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
In the Heights
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Brooklyn Flea
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Brooklyn Flea
Art
Louise Bourgeois
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Louise Bourgeois
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Sunday Sep 14 @ 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 »
Paragraph
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Film
Mister Foe
Sunday Sep 14 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous Scottish estate, spying on... View details »
Mister Foe
Art
After Nature
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
After Nature
Film
The Wackness
Sunday Sep 14 @ 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 »
The Wackness
Film
Year of the Fish
Sunday Sep 14 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
Year of the Fish could be called an adult fairy tale — but really, it exposes the phrase as an oxymoron. Ye Xian is sent... View details »
Year of the Fish
Film
Brideshead Revisited
Sunday Sep 14 @ 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 »
Brideshead Revisited
Art
J.M.W. Turner
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
J.M.W. Turner
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Sunday Sep 14 @ 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 »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Art
Dalí: Painting and Film
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Dalí: Painting and Film
Art
Arctic Hysteria
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Arctic Hysteria
Film: Documentary
The Order of Myths
Sunday Sep 14 @ 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 »
The Order of Myths
Film
Baghead
Sunday Sep 14 @ 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 »
Baghead
Film
Sixty Six
Sunday Sep 14 @ 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 »
Sixty Six
Film
Towelhead
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded in the Texas suburbs... View details »
Towelhead
Film
Bottle Shock
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small... View details »
Bottle Shock
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Sol LeWitt
Art: Architecture/Design
Conflux Festival
Sunday Sep 14 @ Center for Architecture More times »
Flâneurs, city explorers, artists, musicians, and writers congregate this weekend to celebrate urban psychogeography. Now in its fifth year, the Conflux Festival hosts a series... View details »
Conflux Festival
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Home Delivery
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
Sunday Sep 14 @ 37 Arts More times »
Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right notes. Jones, whose acclaimed... View details »
Fela!
Art
Kehinde Wiley
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Kehinde Wiley
Film
I Served the King of England
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy has everything to do... View details »
I Served the King of England
Film
Hamlet 2
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
Hamlet 2
Film: Documentary
Trouble the Water
Sunday Sep 14 @ IFC Center More times »
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts many Americans, especially while... View details »
Trouble the Water
Film
Traitor
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist bomber Samir (Don Cheadle)... View details »
Traitor
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
More Flavor: City Gem
Dreamland Roller Rink
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Dreamland Roller Rink
Performing Arts: Festival
Celebrate México Now
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
Hot on the sparkling heels of the West Indian Day Parade and Carnival comes another celebration of culture. In its fifth year, Celebrate México Now... View details »
Celebrate México Now
More Flavor: City Gem
Artists and Fleas
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
Artists and Fleas
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Sunday Sep 14 (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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More Flavor: City Gem
GreenFlea Market
Sunday Sep 14 (10am–6pm) @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School More times »
Free
As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big event. Outside, farmers from... View details »
GreenFlea Market
Film: Documentary
American Teen
Sunday Sep 14 @ 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 »
American Teen
Film
Able Danger
Sunday Sep 14 (9pm) @ Two Boots Pioneer Theater More times »
On this anniversary of September 11, revisit the tragic events of 2001 through the lens of fiction and conspiracy theory. Able Danger was, according to... View details »
Able Danger
Performing Arts: Acrobatics
New York Clown Theatre Festival
Sunday Sep 14 @ The Brick Theater More times »
The Brick Theater Inc.'s third annual New York Clown Theatre Festival descends upon Williamsburg this September, proving that there's more to modern-day clowning than red... View details »
New York Clown Theatre Festival
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Minitek
Sunday Sep 14 @ Penn Plaza Pavilion More times »
Mutek now has some much-needed competition when it comes to North American electronic-music festivals. Created by the founders of Minimoo — a series of techno-oriented... View details »
Minitek
Performing Arts: Opera
Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
Sunday Sep 14 (2:30 & 8pm) @ La MaMa E.T.C. More times »
Wickham Boyle's Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness uses the specificity of personal experience to try to better understand a pivotal moment in history. The moving... View details »
Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Glass Cage
Sunday Sep 14 (2pm) @ The Mint Theater More times »
The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that are enjoyed on the... View details »
The Glass Cage
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Indie Market
Sunday Sep 14 (11am–7pm) @ Brooklyn Indie Market More times »
Free
The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty brunch spots, the collective... View details »
Brooklyn Indie Market
Film
The Pool
Sunday Sep 14 @ Film Forum More times »
A portrait of class disparities and seemingly unattainable aspirations, The Pool — the latest from Chris Smith (American Movie) — follows the story of a... View details »
The Pool
Art
Kevin Bewersdorf
Sunday Sep 14 (noon–6pm) @ V&A More times »
Free
Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells himself like a televangelist... View details »
Kevin Bewersdorf
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lady
Sunday Sep 14 (3pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater More times »
Theatrical parables about our nation's state of affairs aren't uncommon, but few draw as many subtle parallels as Lady. In the woods of Illinois, three... View details »
Film
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Sunday Sep 14 @ Film Forum More times »
Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis... View details »
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Music: Festival
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance. Starting today, the high... View details »
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
More Flavor: Spectacle
Circus Amok
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various NYC parks More times »
Free
After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional three-ringers. Offbeat, political, and,... View details »
Circus Amok
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
ASSSSCAT 3000
Sunday Sep 14 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre More times »
Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from The Daily Show, Saturday... View details »
ASSSSCAT 3000
Film
Burn After Reading
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift both their tone and... View details »
Burn After Reading
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sa Ka La
Sunday Sep 14 (8pm) @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street More times »
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has been hailed as one of the world's greatest playwrights, yet few Americans had seen his work until three years ago,... View details »
Sa Ka La
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
Sunday Sep 14 (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
We Burn, We Shiver
Film
A Secret
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not really about the Holocaust.... View details »
A Secret
Art
Swirl of Swarm
Sunday Sep 14 (noon–7pm) @ Cinders More times »
Free
Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which conveys the need for... View details »
Swirl of Swarm
Art: Photography
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Sunday Sep 14 (noon–5pm) @ Brooklyn Historical Society More times »
From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many faces. With help from... View details »
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Craft Beer Week
Sunday Sep 14 @ Various locations More times »
Contrary to popular belief, moderate beer consumption doesn't make you fat — it's the accompanying munchies and other bad dietary habits that lead to beer... View details »
Craft Beer Week
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fifty Words
Sunday Sep 14 (3pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic night alone soon sours:... View details »
  Fifty Words
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Number
Sunday Sep 14 (2pm) @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
In Caryl Churchill's play A Number, a father faces the consequences of cloning his only son. As the original and the carbon copy take turns... View details »
A Number
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Man for All Seasons
Sunday Sep 14 (2pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims of its leader. In... View details »
A Man for All Seasons
Art
Daisy Bell
Sunday Sep 14 (noon–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
Free
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God. The exhibit's titular song... View details »
Daisy Bell
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Sunday Sep 14 (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 »
The Science Barge
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Absinthe
Sunday Sep 14 (8pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a shopping mall, Spiegelworld's old... View details »
Absinthe