Events on Sunday, September 7

Fix Tape Exchange

Festival: Fair

Fix Tape Exchange

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Sound Fix

Since all the best things from the '80s and '90s have found their way back into our hearts (minus the slap... 

Wordless Music Series presents Flying Lotus w/ So Percussion and Daedelus

Music: DJ

Flying Lotus

Sunday 9/ 7 @ (le) poisson rouge

The Wordless Music Series offers another stellar lineup tonight at new downtown art-scene hub poisson rouge featuring future-hop auteur Flying Lotus.... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

Circus Amok presents <em>Sub-Prime Sublime</em>

Special Event

Circus Amok

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

Mel Kadel and Suzanne Sattler: <em>Swirl of Swarm</em>

Art

Swirl of Swarm

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>After Nature</em>

Art

After Nature

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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.... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 37 Arts

Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>The Pool</em>

Film

The Pool

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Film Forum

A portrait of class disparities and seemingly unattainable aspirations, The Pool — the latest from Chris Smith (American Movie) — follows... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Various locations

The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... 

Shakespeare in the Park presents <em>Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical</em>

Theatre

Hair

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Delacorte Theater

As you sing Hair's infectious songs on your way out of Central Park, you'll encounter other ecstatic fans. Impromptu dance sessions... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Various locations

Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie... 

Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea

Art

Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Deitch Studios

Street-art darling Swoon and her band of merry boat-builders — who sailed a scrap-raft flotilla dubbed the Miss Rockaway Armada up... 

<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Various locations

With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... 

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Theatre

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Sunday 9/ 7 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

J.M.W. Turner

Art

J.M.W. Turner

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Shoot the Piano Player </em>(1960)

Film

Shoot the Piano Player

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Film Forum

In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen... 

Kevin Bewersdorf: <em>Monuments to the INFOspirit</em>

Art

Kevin Bewersdorf

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink

City Gems

Dreamland Roller Rink

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Dreamland Roller Rink

Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Various locations

Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... 

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Spiegelworld

This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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,... 

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Guggenheim Museum

After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... 

<em>Traitor</em>

Film

Traitor

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Various locations

Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist... 

<em>A Number</em>

Theatre

A Number

Sunday 9/ 7 @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row

In Caryl Churchill's play A Number, a father faces the consequences of cloning his only son. As the original and the... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

Jennifer Steinkamp: <em>Daisy Bell</em>

Art

Daisy Bell

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Lehmann Maupin

In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God.... 

<em>Mister Foe</em>

Film

Mister Foe

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

The Citizens Band: <em>The Panic Is On</em>

Performing Arts

The Citizens Band

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Spiegelworld

If ever there was an act born for the decadent decor of South Street Seaport's Spiegelworld, it's the Citizens Band. The... 

<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Various locations

How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy... 

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Longacre Theatre

It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Elegy</em>

Film

Elegy

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Various locations

Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip... 

<em>Maximum Perception: Contemporary Brooklyn Performance </em>

Art

Maximum Perception

Sunday 9/ 7 @ English Kills

In addition to showcasing photos and videos of Brooklyn-spawned happenings, English Kills hosts performances for the duration of Maximum Perception. Tonight,... 

<em>A Secret</em>

Film

A Secret

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Various locations

This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

<em>Year of the Fish</em>

Film

Year of the Fish

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Angelika Film Center

Year of the Fish could be called an adult fairy tale — but really, it exposes the phrase as an oxymoron.... 

<em>Sa Ka La </em>

Theatre

Sa Ka La

Sunday 9/ 7 @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street

Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has been hailed as one of the world's greatest playwrights, yet few Americans had seen his work... 

Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Sunday 9/ 7 @ SculptureCenter

In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... 

<em>Sixty Six</em>

Film

Sixty Six

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Various locations

It's the summer of '66 and all of England is agog about the World Cup. That is, all except for 12-year-old,... 

Theatre

Lady

Sunday 9/ 7 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Theatrical parables about our nation's state of affairs aren't uncommon, but few draw as many subtle parallels as Lady. In the... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Sunday 9/ 7 @ IFC Center

Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...