Events on Saturday, October 10
HardFest NYC presents Crookers w / Major Lazer
Saturday 10/10 @ Terminal 5
Like many of dance music's current bastards, "fidget house" started off as an in-joke between a few DJs. But if, as...
Saturday 10/10 @ Habana Outpost
PowerUp NY, a new Brooklyn-based community organization promoting clean, renewable energy, is hosting its first seminar on rooftop solar-power systems at...
Saturday 10/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Baby Loves Disco
12pm doors & show
$15
All Ages
Steven Severin (of Siouxsie & The Banshees/The Creatures)
Saturday 10/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Steven Severin (of Siouxsie & The Banshees/The...
Robert Frank Film Series: “Pull My Daisy” (1959) & “Conversations in Vermont” (1969)
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents these two films directed by Robert Frank to accompany the special exhibition Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans,”...
Drummer (feat. members of the Black Keys, Houseguest and The Party of Helicopters)
Saturday 10/10 @ The Mercury Lounge
Five special guys, feeling good together… That’s what Patrick...
Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears
Saturday 10/10 @ 92YTribeca
Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears like things big. While they are, first and foremost, a pop band, the Brooklyn-based quintet...
Arthur Russell Tribute Concert and Book Reading
Saturday 10/10 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A tribute to the legendary musician and composer who died of AIDS. Solo and duo performances of Arthur Russell music by...
Radio Happy Hour w/ Tunde Adebimpe (of TV on the Radio) and Kumail Nanjiani
Saturday 10/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Saturday 10/10 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Hope Sandoval was born June 24, 1966 and grew up in east L.A. with her Mexican-American family. She started her career...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Bowery Presents
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African Film Festival at the New Museum presents South African Cinema Now: A Film Series
Saturday 10/10 @ New Museum
Max and Mona, 2004, 107 min
Dir. Teddy Mattera, South Africa
In English, Afrikaans, and Zulu Meokgo &...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn has been at the heart of the vibrant Northwest independent music scene ever since her debut album...
The Losers Lounge Tribute to David Bowie
Saturday 10/10 @ Joe's Pub
The Losers Lounge is back with an all new tribute to DAVID BOWIE on October 8th, 9th...
The Losers Lounge Tribute to David Bowie
Saturday 10/10 @ Joe's Pub
The Losers Lounge is back with an all new tribute to DAVID BOWIE on October 8th, 9th...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Mercury Lounge
Brimming with mystery, Timber Timbre is the enigmatic brainchild...
Minne-apple in the Big Apple Happy Hour 6pm
Saturday 10/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Minne-apple in the Big Apple Happy Hour 6pm
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Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/10 @ American Museum of Natural History
What eats fish, fowl, snails, fruit, crawfish, and frogs? Frogs do. The neckless, tailless charmers of class Amphibia count some voracious...
Saturday 10/10 @ Woodward Gallery
We've been missing the Keith Haring tribute mural over on Houston, and there's no better way to refresh our love for graffiti...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 10/10 @ City Hall Park
Peter Coffin, the artist who flew a UFO over the Baltic Sea in summer 2008, takes over City Hall Park with a...
Saturday 10/10 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Saturday 10/10 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Reviving a play from 2001 may seem hasty, but Lucy Thurber's Killers and Other Family thrives in 2009. This one-act thriller...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Legendary avant-garde filmmaker Alain Resnais opens the NYFF's strongest lineup in years with Wild Grass, which beguiled critics at Cannes. Other...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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 10/10 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Saturday 10/10 @ 44 1/2
Following last July's presentation of Deadpan, Creative Time kicks off the fall with video art by three up-and-coming artists on MTV's...
Saturday 10/10 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Bracketed by those historic "falls" in nearby Berlin (of the city itself and, later, its Wall), the Polish Poster School's expressionistic,...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Flea Theater
Happily married, Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile are as reliable as their GM namesake. But why are they and the rest of...
Saturday 10/10 @ Gagosian Gallery
Arguably Japan's best-known contemporary artist and recipient of a major retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum last summer, Takashi Murakami returns with...
Saturday 10/10 @ Music Box Theatre
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) comes a lighter, comedic take on Midwestern life. A pot-smoking donut shop owner...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
As part of the Bronx Museum's progressive year-long series Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100, designer and Bronx native Vito Acconci...
Saturday 10/10 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
Michael "Casablanca" Curtiz, super-producer Alexander Korda, even Béla Legosi — they and other talented compatriots left Hungary in the early-20th century,...
Big Dance Theater: Comme Toujours Here I Stand
Saturday 10/10 @ The Kitchen
From Robert Maxwell epics to nude acrobatic dance shows, the Kitchen is always working to stretch the boundaries of theatre. We're...
Saturday 10/10 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
An Evening Without Monty Python
Saturday 10/10 @ Town Hall
All-new players enact the classic sketch bits of Monty Python's Flying Circus, under the keen and expert eye of directors Eric...
Saturday 10/10 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Saturday 10/10 @ Various locations
As anticipated, some of the wildly popular tours and talks of the OHNY weekend are already fully booked. (Bummer! We still...
Saturday 10/10 @ Exit Art
Last year, Abu Dhabi bought up 90% of the Chrysler Building, an asterisk on any architectural map of New York. It's...
Saturday 10/10 @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage
Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Saturday 10/10 @ Linda Gross Theater
Hard-hitting playwright David Mamet adopts a lighter touch with School and Keep Your Pantheon, the two one-acts that make up this...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Living Theatre
A misunderstood girl like Lizzie Borden deserves nothing less than her own rock musical, and Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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 10/10 @ American Airlines Theater
Patrick Marber's (Closer) highly anticipated After Miss Julie transplants August Strindberg's 1888 classic to the eve of the British Labour Party's...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
Tim Blake Nelson's Eye Of God is an intriguing, noirish murder mystery set in a small town outside of Oklahoma City...
Saturday 10/10 @ Film Forum
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Saturday 10/10 @ Asia Society and Museum
The phrase "Hanging Fire" is the translation of an idiom referring to a delayed decision or judgment. This show asks viewers...
Saturday 10/10 @ Marlborough Chelsea
This exhibition follows Will Ryman's popular springtime showing of The Bed at the Saatchi Gallery Project Room in London. Here, the...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (born in 1977) has created two new bodies of work that address the nature of the...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Palace Theatre
Argentine opera singer Josephine Scaglione's magnetically angelic presence contrasts beautifully with the unforgiving world around her in Arthur Laurents' gritty revival...
Saturday 10/10 @ Grey Art Gallery at NYU
Thanks be to the senior Aboriginal Australian painters who gave their blessing for this superlative, uber-rare exhibition spotlighting the early work...
Saturday 10/10 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Mint Theater
Lennox Robinson's 1933 comedy is set in a sleepy Irish resort town where a troupe of third-rate actors has unleashed Russian...
Saturday 10/10 @ TADA! Theater
Charles Dickens didn't write Penny Penniworth, but Chris Weikel's one-act farce might lead you to believe otherwise. Penny's quest for love...
Saturday 10/10 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Saturday 10/10 @ Gallery FCB
Call it Omar Mullick's 21st-century angle on The Americans. For his first solo show, the photographer hyphenates Robert Frank's landmark observance...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 10/10 @ The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
As we anxiously wait for the Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, this exhibition at...
Saturday 10/10 @ American Folk Art Museum
A prolific 19th-century painter who was once considered "America's first modern" for his prepossessing, flat-color land- and seascapes, Thomas Chambers is...
Saturday 10/10 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Just before the release of Where the Wild Things Are on October 16, Spike Jonze gets his first retrospective, and with...
Saturday 10/10 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Saturday 10/10 @ Monster Island
From the Land of the Rising Sun comes a new genus of video artists, and Tokyo-based gallery Pepper's Project curates a...
Saturday 10/10 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 10/10 @ Lincoln Center Theater
Broke-ology takes on a host of sticky topics, covering personal dreams vs. family responsibility, chronic poverty, and caring for aging parents....
Saturday 10/10 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Saturday 10/10 @ 171 E 121st St
It's an all-too-rare occasion when we view New York from a new angle. In The Provenance of Beauty, that perspective is...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Did you know that the musical heritage of China is one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back...
MoMA Presents: Hilla Medalia’s After the Storm
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Hilla Medalia’s powerful, absorbing After the Storm reveals a New Orleans that most of us have never seen before. The film...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Walter Liedtke discusses the unique patronage of Johannes Vermeer and its influence on the artistic and psychological aesthetic of The...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Co-curators Jeffrey Munger and Meredith Chilton discuss the details of a delightful dessert table with culinary historian Ivan Day. This table...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
When Esoteric Buddhism was introduced to Japan from mainland China in the 9th century, it forever changed the visual landscape of...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Eric Fischl takes a fresh look at two John Singer Sargent paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s unparalleled collection of American art includes some 45 sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked...
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Paul Sietsema’s ethereal drawings, sculptures, and films explore combinations of color, space, and movement through subjects spanning a broad geographic and...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage to Manhattan from...
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
Somewhere between...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Du Paquier ceramic manufactory, founded by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in Vienna...
Spike Jonze: Award-Winning Music Videos, Short Films, and Commercials, Part 2
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
Jonze continues...
Saturday 10/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection is the Rubin Museum's newest exhibition and latest offering of Himalayan art and culture. ...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The first comprehensive exhibition of Luo Ping’s paintings ever presented in America, Eccentric...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American artist Roxy Paine (born in 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawad, speaks about the rich culture and history of Afghanistan at...
MoMA Presents: Joan Braderman’s The Heretics
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Friday, October 9 screening includes a discussion with director Joan Braderman.
The...
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s Director Thomas P. Campbell narrates this audio tour of the exhibition Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid, with commentary from exhibition...
John Jahnke / Hotel Savant: The Archery Contest
Saturday 10/10 @ Performance Space 122
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York "...one of the highlights of the fall season at...
Saturday 10/10 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Saturday 10/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The mandala, one of Himalayan Buddhism's most ubiquitous and complex symbols, is the focus of this fascinating exhibition. Mandalas are created...
Downtown 81 (New York Beat Movie) (1981/2000)
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction...
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
After two years of major construction and renovation, the Met’s Charles Engelhard Court—the spectacular, light-filled pavilion along Central Park—has reopened to...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Saturday 10/10 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This is the first exhibition of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s paintings in the United States...
Saturday 10/10 @ Asia Society and Museum
The first solo New York museum exhibition of Japanese artist Yoshihiro Suda features a new work, inspired by pieces from Asia...
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
Sure to...
Saturday 10/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This summer's installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture....
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 10/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take a break from city life and visit the Met’s blog dedicated to your neighboring medieval garden! July 1, 2009 marked the first anniversary...
Ursula Eagly/Ori Flomin/Mina Nishimura: Fields of Ida/Toronto/Timmy's idea
Saturday 10/10 @ New York Live Arts
Ursula Eagly builds strange yet recognizable worlds. Her newest solo, Fields of Ida, is set on a bare stage, where movements...
