Events on Sunday, October 11
Sunday 10/11 @ Symphony Space
2009. U.S. 102 min. Robert Stone. Color.
“A beautifully composed tribute to visionary thinking and political ingenuity.” –The...
Sunday 10/11 @ Symphony Space
A high definition screening of Liliana Cavani’s production of Verdi’s classic, recorded live at La Scala, conducted by Lorin Maazel and...
Happy Feet w/ Rich Medina & Bobbito
Sunday 10/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Happy Feet w/ Rich Medina & Bobbito
10pm doors & show
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Sunday 10/11 @ Joe's Pub
This woman is the real thing!” - Billboard Magazine
“Koutrakos is like a smoky volcano of...
Sunday 10/11 @ Symphony Space
A high definition screening. In the words of the prestigious German weekly Die Zeit, the stage production of Wagner's Rheingold and...
Sunday 10/11 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Often compared to the early lo-fi eclectic mixtures of...
Sunday 10/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Terry Riley & Gyan Riley
6:30pm doors | 7:30pm show
$20 advance | $22 day of...
Jane Velez-Mitchell with Ashleigh Banfield
Sunday 10/11 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Veteran TV news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell discusses her most recent book, iWant: My Journey from Addiction and Consumption to a Simpler,...
Sunday 10/11 @ Symphony Space
2008. Yojiro Takita. Japan. 131 min. Color. Starring Masahiro Motoki.
Academy Award: Best Foreign Film. Winner of 10 Japan Academy...
Justin Bond: Rock Witch! A little Night Music from Rock's High Priestesses of Sorcery!
Sunday 10/11 @ Joe's Pub
For one night only Justin Bond will be standing under the pointed hats of some of your favorite Dark Ladies... along...
Sunday 10/11 @ The Mercury Lounge
Le Loup creates music heavily laden with intricate patterns...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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,...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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,...
Sunday 10/11 @ Kraine Theater
On a dark and stormy night in 1816, Dr. John Polidori, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin held a...
Sunday 10/11 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Sunday 10/11 @ Various locations
As anticipated, some of the wildly popular tours and talks of the OHNY weekend are already fully booked. (Bummer! We still...
Sunday 10/11 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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,...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ Film Forum
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Sunday 10/11 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Sunday 10/11 @ The Flea Theater
Happily married, Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile are as reliable as their GM namesake. But why are they and the rest of...
Sunday 10/11 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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....
Sunday 10/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Sunday 10/11 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Sunday 10/11 @ 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
Sunday 10/11 @ 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”
Sunday 10/11 @ 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
Sunday 10/11 @ 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
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
In Cahoots: Maurice Sendak and Spike Jonze
Sunday 10/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
The Thursday,...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Sunday 10/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Sunday 10/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
John Jahnke / Hotel Savant: The Archery Contest
Sunday 10/11 @ Performance Space 122
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York "...one of the highlights of the fall season at...
Sunday 10/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
An enchanting...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs
Sunday 10/11 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Israeliness™ is an Israeli-style, bi-weekly program for families with young children, focusing on Israeli culture and conducted entirely in Hebrew. Moms,...
Sunday 10/11 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
Sunday 10/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
MoMA Presents: Joan Braderman’s The Heretics
Sunday 10/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Friday, October 9 screening includes a discussion with director Joan Braderman.
The...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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....
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Sunday 10/11 @ 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!
Sunday 10/11 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Sunday 10/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
Sunday 10/11 @ 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. ...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 10/11 @ 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...
