Events on Sunday, January 4

Keith Haring: <em>The Ten Commandments</em>

Art

Keith Haring

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Deitch Studios

Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... 

<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Sunday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 1/ 4 @ 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... 

C215: <em>Junk Store</em>

Art

C215

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Ad Hoc Art

Parisian artist C215 has been peeking from the shadows on a cross-continental level, and he's ready for his first stateside solo... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Sunday 1/ 4 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Sunday 1/ 4 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... 

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008</em>

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized... 

<em>Slava's Snowshow</em>

Theatre

Slava's Snowshow

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Helen Hayes Theatre

Slava Polunin's style of pantomime, which he calls "Expressive Idiotism," is on display at the revived Slava's Snowshow. When he first... 

<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 1/ 4 @ 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>The Wrestler</em>

Film

The Wrestler

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Landmark Sunshine

There's a lot of Oscar buzz building over Mickey Rourke's performance in The Wrestler, but does Darren Aronofsky's movie live up... 

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Studio 54

Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of... 

<em>The Brooklyn Block Party</em>

Art

The Brooklyn Block Party

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Ad Hoc Art

Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is... 

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Sunday 1/ 4 @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Angelika Film Center

English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Sunday 1/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Landmark Sunshine

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Pipilotti Rist: <em>Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)</em>

Art

Pipilotti Rist

Sunday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around... 

Under the Sign of Fincher

Festival: Performing Arts

Under the Sign of Fincher

Sunday 1/ 4 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Brad Pitt and David Fincher peer up at the De Niro/Scorsese crest for actor-director collaborations, ranking as one of recent cinema's... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 1/ 4 @ 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... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Wollman Rink

While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Theater of War</em>

Film: Documentary

Theater of War

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Film Forum

Let it never be said that Theater of War does not cover serious ground: the documentary is about war, the power... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Artists and Fleas

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

<em>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Sunday 1/ 4 @ IFC Center

In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Sunday 1/ 4 @ New York City Center

Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Barrow Street Theater

In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... 

<em>The Secret of the Grain</em>

Film

The Secret of the Grain

Sunday 1/ 4 @ IFC Center

That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste... 

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Laura Pels Theatre

Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's... 

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Sunday 1/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,... 

<em>Wendy and Lucy</em>

Film

Wendy and Lucy

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Film Forum

Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>

Art

NeoHooDoo

Sunday 1/ 4 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Landmark Sunshine

Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 1/ 4 @ 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>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Sunday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time... 

<em>Revolutionary Road</em>

Film

Revolutionary Road

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Various locations

Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,... 

<em>Improbable Frequency</em>

Theatre

Improbable Frequency

Sunday 1/ 4 @ 59E59 Theaters

Ireland's Rough Magic Theatre Company makes its US debut with Improbable Frequency, an absurd, over-the-top musical comedy about a British spy... 

Ray Mortenson: <em>Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx</em>

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Museum of the City of New York

The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's... 

<em>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Sunday 1/ 4 @ 2econd Stage Theatre

Becky Shaw mixes screwed-up pseudo-siblings, a lightning-fast marriage, and an awkward blind date into one fantastic screwball romance of a play.... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 1/ 4 @ 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 Twentyfirst</em>

Art

The Twentyfirst

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Silver Shed

Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few... 

Kate Gilmore

Art

Kate Gilmore

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Smith-Stewart

Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup.... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Angelika Film Center

This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... 

<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Museum of Arts and Design

To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items... 

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Linda Gross Theater

Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 1/ 4 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker

Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Sunday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Working from photographic source material — both found media imagery and personal snapshots — Marlene Dumas has constructed an impressive body... 

<em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Sunday 1/ 4 @ Various locations

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Sunday 1/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...