Events on Sunday, October 18
Sunday 10/18 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Initially stringing their dark pop on a conceit (entire albums in the same key, with the same chords on every song),...
Sunday 10/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Using balloons, parachutes and paper airplanes, learn how air affects flight. Make a kite and test your theories outdoors.
Sunday 10/18 @ Joe's Pub
From the foothills of Appalachia a new musical combo has appeared; grown from seeds of the folk,...
The Newman Lecture: Richard Dawkins with Robert Krulwich on Evolution
Sunday 10/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Debate about evolution still rages 150 years after the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. Richard Dawkins has established himself as...
Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Take the ferry to Staten Island, and learn all about Governors Island, Ellis Island, the Verrazano Bridge and other harbor sights....
David Bazan with Say Hi and Dave Godowsky
Sunday 10/18 @ The Bowery Ballroom
David Bazan http://www.davidbazan.com/ http://www.myspace.com/davidbazan Known for his tenure performing as Pedro the Lion, songwriter David Bazan retired the band...
Sunday 10/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Claire Chase, classical flute player 6:30 pm doors, 7:30 pm show $10 All Ages This is a First-Come, Fully Seated event....
Sunday at the Met—A Chinese Celebration
Sunday 10/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Come enjoy a Sunday at the Met! Today's events highlight two special exhibitions, Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)...
Assertiveness Training: Say What You Mean
Sunday 10/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Ellen Calmenson
Does it feel like others roll right over you? Do...
Sunday 10/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
BONOBO (DJ Set) Eliot Lipp 10 pm doors and show $12 advance, $15 day of show 18+ or accompanied by legal...
Sunday 10/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Moderated by Matthew Bishop
Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer and...
Writers Studio reading featuring Susan Choi
Sunday 10/18 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
The Writers Studio welcomes special guest Susan Choi, who reads along with Writers Studio faculty members Lisa Badner (poetry), Lucinda Holt...
Sunday 10/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
All across the country, Baby Loves Disco is slowly but surely transforming the hippest night clubs into child proof...
Career Match: Connecting Who You Are With What You'll Love To Do
Sunday 10/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Shoya Zichy
Learn more about who you are and what career path...
Sunday 10/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Sunday, October 18
11am to 5:30pm, Lexington Avenue, 79th to 94th Streets
Rain or Shine!
FREE
Sunday 10/18 @ Joe's Pub
He began taking private guitar lessons at the age of 10. As a 7th grader, his school...
Alarm Will Sound & Nonesuch Records Present: "a/rhythmia" Release Party
Sunday 10/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
A CD release party and listening event for Alarm Will Sound's 2009 Nonesuch Records debut recording "a/rhythmia," with the music of...
Trenton Lee Stewart's "The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma"
Sunday 10/18 @ Symphony Space
The author talks with Symphony Space Education Director Madeline Cohen about the next much-anticipated entry in his New York Times bestselling...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Sunday 10/18 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ The Joyce Theater
Renowned Italian company Balletto Teatro di Torino makes its New York debut with works by resident choreographer Matteo Levaggi. Performances are...
Sunday 10/18 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ Kraine Theater
On a dark and stormy night in 1816, Dr. John Polidori, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin held a...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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,...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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)
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ Film Forum
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ Various locations
The New Yorker Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary with a slew of new events alongside old mainstays like Calvin Trillin's immensely...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Sunday 10/18 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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
Sunday 10/18 @ Performance Space 122
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York "...one of the highlights of the fall season at...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 10/18 @ 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
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of MoMA's ContemporAsian film series
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Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Sunday 10/18 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Sunday 10/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Sunday 10/18 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Sunday 10/18 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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...
Men in Orbit (1979) & G Man (1978) & She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978)
Sunday 10/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Sunday 10/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Sunday 10/18 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
Sunday 10/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Spike Jonze: Award-Winning Music Videos and Short Films, Part 1
Sunday 10/18 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
In which...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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 10/18 @ 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...
Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs
Sunday 10/18 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Sunday 10/18 @ 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...
