Events on Saturday, September 20
Saturday 9/20 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks' supreme screwball comedy, is not unlike a neo-impressionist's version of conversation: the more colorful the bits,...
Saturday 9/20 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Post-punk New York was flush with graceful guitar duos. Television's Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and...
Saturday 9/20 @ Housing Works UBC
If you're looking for an opportunity to hit the spelling-bee circuit, look no further. Since staring down eight-year-olds at the Scripps...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Kraine Theater
In A Great Place To Be From, a heatwave in Milwaukee has driven some of the town's citizens to extremes. Against...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ The Mint Theater
The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that...
Saturday 9/20 @ Aperture Gallery
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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....
Saturday 9/20 @ V&A
Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Various locations
How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy...
Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
Saturday 9/20 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Wickham Boyle's Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness uses the specificity of personal experience to try to better understand a pivotal moment...
Saturday 9/20 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Saturday 9/20 @ Film Forum
Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola...
All Tomorrow's Parties Festival
Saturday 9/20 @ Kutsher's Country Club
Up in the Catskills, the New York installment of legendary UK alternative fest All Tomorrow's Parties features the Meat Puppets, Built...
Saturday 9/20 @ Center Stage
Quickening uncovers the struggles of four women who make the choice to have abortions. Set in a Portland abortion clinic, the...
Saturday 9/20 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
Saturday 9/20 @ Various locations
Contrary to popular belief, moderate beer consumption doesn't make you fat — it's the accompanying munchies and other bad dietary habits...
Saturday 9/20 @ Associazione San Cono
Not far from the touristy San Gennaro Festival is Ciao Italy, a celebration of Williamsburg's Italian community. Ciao is not for...
Saturday 9/20 @ 303 Gallery
Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303...
Saturday 9/20 @ Angelika Film Center
Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous...
Saturday 9/20 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Saturday 9/20 @ Zach Feuer Gallery
Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a...
Saturday 9/20 @ Cinders Gallery
Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which...
Saturday 9/20 @ Various NYC parks
After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional...
Saturday 9/20 @ IFC Center
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...
Saturday 9/20 @ Dreamland Roller Rink
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this...
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Saturday 9/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's...
Saturday 9/20 @ Symphony Space
Now in its fourth year, the NYC Short Film Festival brings a diverse group of original, international shorts to uptown institution...
Saturday 9/20 @ HERE Arts Center
Juggernaut Theatre Company's Oh What War is unflinching political theatre. Inspired by Joan Littlewood's 1960s musical Oh! What a Lovely War,...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Cinema Village
Documentarian Emily Abt focuses on Bronx doctor Mehret Mandefro, and two of her female African-American patients as they struggle to manage...
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Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ David Zwirner
From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a...
Saturday 9/20 @ Various locations
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Eyebeam
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ George Billis Gallery
In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings...
New York Clown Theatre Festival
Saturday 9/20 @ The Brick Theater
The Brick Theater Inc.'s third annual New York Clown Theatre Festival descends upon Williamsburg this September, proving that there's more to...
Saturday 9/20 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic...
Saturday 9/20 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Chelsea Brewing Company
Benjamin Franklin once said, "Beer is proof god wants us to be happy." This weekend, the Gotham Imbiber and its second...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Saturday 9/20 @ Brooklyn Historical Society
From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many...
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
Saturday 9/20 @ Various locations
In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance....
Saturday 9/20 @ Various locations
Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Various locations
A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French...
Saturday 9/20 @ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....
Saturday 9/20 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Exit Art
The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice...
Saturday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ The Kitchen
A divisive female figure appears on the American political scene, promising to push the nation toward her own right-wing agenda —...
