Events on Saturday, October 17
Saturday 10/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
It seems like art exhibitions are becoming increasingly race-like, short sprints from piece to piece, each assessed and evaluated with a...
Saturday 10/17 @ Aviator Sports
"An epic re-jiggering of humanity is upon us," says the Official New York City Burning Man Decompression, giving you a chance...
Saturday 10/17 @ Socrates Sculpture Park
Halloween is getting started early this year with Socrates Sculpture Park's glam rock-themed festivities. Head to Queens early today and dress...
Saturday 10/17 @ La.venue
Forty years after Easy Rider hit the silver screen, Harley-Davidson's out to prove the rebel is alive and well. Commissioning ten...
Saturday 10/17 @ DCTV
Art in General, a nonprofit organization that helps emerging artists produce and present their work — and then spread the word...
Bryonn Bain: Lyrics from Lockdown
Saturday 10/17 @ Joe's Pub
LYRICS FROM LOCKDOWN is an unforgettable journey through hip hop, theater, spoken word...
Saturday 10/17 @ The Bowery Ballroom
A celebrated, international touring act for over four years, Perpetual Groove has built a reputation on intense, emotional music that fans...
Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before
Saturday 10/17 @ 92YTribeca
New York Premiere. Vashti Bunyan in person along with director Kieran Evans.
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Saturday 10/17 @ The Bowery Presents
Bubble do Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Saturday 10/17 @ Symphony Space
The infectious pop band Bubble create the sights and sounds of the Beatles for the whole family, just in time for...
Saturday 10/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
DJ Father Jeff and DJ Arsenal w/ DJ Ash
Saturday 10/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 8pm
Dénes Várjon, piano
with Izabella Simon, piano
“Mr. Várjon...
Saturday 10/17 @ Terminal 5
The songs of the Avett Brothers are honest: just chords with real voices singing real melodies. But, the heart and the...
Saturday 10/17 @ The Bowery Presents
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Robert Frank Film Series: “Me and My Brother” (1965-68)
Saturday 10/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents this film directed by Robert Frank to accompany the special exhibition Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans,” on...
Saturday 10/17 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Bottle Rockets remain one of the most steel-solid bands amongst the greatest of rural-rock trailblazers. The St. Louis, Missouri outfit...
Saturday 10/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction...
Aretha Franklin @ Citi Performing Arts Center's Wang Theatre (Boston)
Saturday 10/17 @ The Bowery Presents
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Saturday 10/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join the Vintage Dance Society for a grand evening of classic vintage dancing. All are welcome; no experience necessary. Refreshments will...
Saturday 10/17 @ Symphony Space
Kaplan blends American Roots, Folk, Alternative, Pop, Tin Pan Alley gems, Broadway numbers, and even Delta Blues songs into wild and...
Bitch and the Exciting Conclusion
Saturday 10/17 @ Joe's Pub
After a busy year spent producing and promoting “Boulder,” the latest album by Canadian Folk legend Ferron...
Saturday 10/17 @ Joe's Pub
Senegalese singer and star of the world stage Baaba Maal is a man with a mission that...
Maysles Cinema at the New Museum presents Living With Conviction: A Black Panther Party Film Series
Saturday 10/17 @ New Museum
Bastards of the Party, 2006, 90 min
Dir. Cle “Bone” Sloane In conjunction with the exhibition “Emory Douglas: Black Panther”...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/17 @ 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,...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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,...
The Tiger Lillies: Dark and Deviant
Saturday 10/17 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Led by Martyn Jacques in menacing facial makeup that's a cross between an evil clown and a commedia dell'arte character, the...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ Various locations
The New Yorker Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary with a slew of new events alongside old mainstays like Calvin Trillin's immensely...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ Kraine Theater
On a dark and stormy night in 1816, Dr. John Polidori, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin held a...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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,...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Saturday 10/17 @ BAM Harvey Theater
Since forming at the Yale School of Music a decade back, So Percusssion has been at the forefront of experimentation in...
Saturday 10/17 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Saturday 10/17 @ New York City Center
Writer and actress Lynn Redgrave comes from a family that practically lives and breathes onstage, so it's only natural to explore...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 10/17 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts is one of the most respected art schools in the country, but it's usually the fine...
Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ The Joyce Theater
Renowned Italian company Balletto Teatro di Torino makes its New York debut with works by resident choreographer Matteo Levaggi. Performances are...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ Film Forum
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Saturday 10/17 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Saturday 10/17 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
An intense...
Jackass: The Movie (2002) and Two Shorts
Saturday 10/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
Jackass: The...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
John Jahnke / Hotel Savant: The Archery Contest
Saturday 10/17 @ Performance Space 122
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York "...one of the highlights of the fall season at...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Saturday 10/17 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Saturday 10/17 @ 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....
Saturday Evenings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 10/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Thomas Beachdel
Get a sneak preview of a new exhibition or tour...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ Symphony Space
The Thalia Follies troupe kicks off their sixth season of political cabaret with with songs, sketches, and satire covering the Mayoral...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Saturday 10/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! From the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I,...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 10/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson speaks about Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 10/17 @ 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 10/17 @ 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...
Saturday 10/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of MoMA's ContemporAsian film series
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