All events on Sunday September 07

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Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
The Citizens Band
Sunday Sep 7 (10pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
If ever there was an act born for the decadent decor of South Street Seaport's Spiegelworld, it's the Citizens Band. The musical collective combines theatre,... View details »
The Citizens Band
Music: DJ
Flying Lotus
Sunday Sep 7 (10pm) @ (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. The LA DJ/producer has... View details »
Flying Lotus
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Fix Tape Exchange
Sunday Sep 7 (8pm) @ Sound Fix
Free
Since all the best things from the '80s and '90s have found their way back into our hearts (minus the slap bracelets. sigh.), it's no... View details »
Fix Tape Exchange
Art
Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
Sunday Sep 7 (8pm) @ Deitch Studios More times »
Opening
Free
Street-art darling Swoon and her band of merry boat-builders — who sailed a scrap-raft flotilla dubbed the Miss Rockaway Armada up the Mississippi River over... View details »
Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
Art
Kevin Bewersdorf
Sunday Sep 7 (5pm) @ V&A More times »
Opening
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
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
Sunday Sep 7 (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
Art
Daisy Bell
Sunday Sep 7 (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

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Sunday Sep 7 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Sunday Sep 7 (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 7 (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 7 (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 7 (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 7 (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
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Paragraph
Sunday Sep 7 @ 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: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Sunday Sep 7 (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 »
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Sunday Sep 7 (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 7 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Sunday Sep 7 (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 »
Boeing Boeing
Art
After Nature
Sunday Sep 7 (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 7 @ 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 7 @ 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
Tell No One
Sunday Sep 7 @ 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 »
Tell No One
Film
Brideshead Revisited
Sunday Sep 7 @ 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 7 (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 7 @ 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 7 (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 7 (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 7 @ 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 7 @ 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 7 @ 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
Bottle Shock
Sunday Sep 7 @ 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 7 (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
Home Delivery
Sunday Sep 7 (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 7 @ 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 7 (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 7 @ 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 7 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hair
Sunday Sep 7 (8pm) @ Delacorte Theater More times »
Free
As you sing Hair's infectious songs on your way out of Central Park, you'll encounter other ecstatic fans. Impromptu dance sessions will occur; strangers will... View details »
Hair
Film: Documentary
Trouble the Water
Sunday Sep 7 @ 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 7 @ 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 7 @ 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
Film
Elegy
Sunday Sep 7 @ Various locations More times »
Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip Roth short story. Renowned... View details »
Elegy
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Dreamland Roller Rink
Sunday Sep 7 (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
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Artists and Fleas
Sunday Sep 7 (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
Film
Shoot the Piano Player
Sunday Sep 7 @ Film Forum More times »
In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen (you guessed it) piano... View details »
Shoot the Piano Player
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Sunday Sep 7 (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 »
[title of show]
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GreenFlea Market
Sunday Sep 7 (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
Art
Maximum Perception
Sunday Sep 7 (1–9pm) @ English Kills More times »
Free
In addition to showcasing photos and videos of Brooklyn-spawned happenings, English Kills hosts performances for the duration of Maximum Perception. Tonight, festivities begin with a... View details »
Maximum Perception
Film: Documentary
American Teen
Sunday Sep 7 @ 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
Performing Arts: Acrobatics
New York Clown Theatre Festival
Sunday Sep 7 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Glass Cage
Sunday Sep 7 (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
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Brooklyn Indie Market
Sunday Sep 7 (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 7 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lady
Sunday Sep 7 (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 »
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Circus Amok
Sunday Sep 7 @ 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 7 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sa Ka La
Sunday Sep 7 (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
Film
A Secret
Sunday Sep 7 @ 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 7 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Number
Sunday Sep 7 (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
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Sunday Sep 7 (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 7 (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