Events on Saturday, October 24
Rain Machine (Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio)
Saturday 10/24 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Tv on the Radio frontman Kyp Malone lets his hair down, so to speak, on his first solo release as Rain...
Saturday 10/24 @ HiChristina
"Poetry, novelry, and revelry" come together in the ninth iteration of performance collective Birdsong, hosted by Tommy Pico at HiChristina in...
Little Shop of Horrors Sing-Along
Saturday 10/24 @ 92YTribeca
The 92Y Tribeca's intimate theater — more akin to a private screening room than a multiplex — is the perfect place...
Gotham Girls Roller Derby Doubleheader
Saturday 10/24 @ Hunter College, B3 Gym
Well before Drew Barrymore's Whip It! made a splash in theaters, the Gotham Girls Roller Derby was ripping up the track....
Saturday 10/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Experimental Icelandic group Múm make a rare New York appearance at the intimate LPR as part of the excellent Wordless Music...
Ezra Jack Keats in Story and Song
Saturday 10/24 @ Symphony Space
The enthralling multicultural stories and artwork of Ezra Jack Keats, the author of the Caldecott Medal-winning classic The Snowy Day and...
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Dancemopolitan: 15th Anniversary Season of the DanceNOW [NYC] Festival
Saturday 10/24 @ Joe's Pub
The DanceNOW [NYC] Festival, celebrating its 15th anniversary season in 2009-10 with an expanded season of performances...
Tokyo String Quartet & Inon Barnatan, piano
Saturday 10/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Saturday, October 24, 2009, 8 pm
Tokyo String Quartet
Inon Barnatan, piano
The Tokyo...
Saturday 10/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Waltz, tango, foxtrot, quick-step, rumba and more.
Saturday 10/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 10.24.09
Tribute Wars CMJ Showcase
Tragedy: All metal tribute to the...
Saturday 10/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Brenda Stiefel Sherman, host
Spend a splendid late-summer evening on our lovely...
Zach Brown Band with Special Guests!
Saturday 10/24 @ Terminal 5
Playing upwards of 200 dates a year, more than 3,000 shows in their career and selling more than 30,000 CDs independently,...
Robert Frank Film Series: “Cocksucker Blues” (1972)
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 10.24.09
I Love Vinyl
10pm
$5 (plus $5 well...
Saturday 10/24 @ 92YTribeca
Directors Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio in person for post-screening Q&A.
Growing...
Osso, DM Stith & Sufjan Stevens' The BQE
Saturday 10/24 @ 92YTribeca
With Sufjan Stevens in person to introduce the film, performance by Osso and opening set by DM Stith, plus Plus an...
Osso, DM Stith & Sufjan Stevens' The BQE: NYC Premiere of the film on DVD
Saturday 10/24 @ 92YTribeca
With Sufjan Stevens in person to introduce the film, performance by Osso and opening set by DM Stith, plus an art...
The Amazing (members of Dungen) / Real Estate / Farmer Dave Scher / Smith Westerns / Young Prisms
Saturday 10/24 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Mexican Summer / Kemado Showcase The Amazing (members of Dungen) / Real Estate / Farmer Dave Scher / Smith...
Saturday 10/24 @ Joe's Pub
"Easily one of Ireland's most important rock artists of the last twenty years"
-Tony Clayton-lea, The...
Saturday 10/24 @ 92YTribeca
Tribeca may be a far cry from the Skid Row of Little Shop of Horrors, but you can still head downtown...
Saturday 10/24 @ The Bowery Presents
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Saturday 10/24 @ James Cohan Gallery
There are few artists whose work has raised their genre's profile as much as Bill Viola's has for video art. From...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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,...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ Superfine Gallery and Restaurant
Jo Andres, a filmmaker and choreographer from NYC's '80s experimental art scene, presents a collection of her visual artwork for the...
Saturday 10/24 @ Abrons Arts Center
Dazzling musical ensemble the Citizens Band returns with its eighth original production, bringing the usual ragtag cast of regulars and special...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But...
Saturday 10/24 @ Fuse Gallery
SVA grad and sought-after illustrator Arik Roper has created unforgettable album art for bands as diverse as High on Fire and...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ New York Public Library
On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
1962 New York Film Critics Circle
Saturday 10/24 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
1962: The Yankees were Champs, Silent Spring raised hell about Earth, and "Bond, James Bond" leapt off the page with Dr....
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Saturday 10/24 @ The Joyce Theater
The always excellent Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet opens its fall season with the New York premiere of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Orbo...
Saturday 10/24 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ Kraine Theater
On a dark and stormy night in 1816, Dr. John Polidori, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin held a...
Saturday 10/24 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
"Give it a sweet melody" was the aesthetic must for Vestie Davis, a painter who froze mid-century New York in winsome,...
Saturday 10/24 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Saturday 10/24 @ The Lyceum Theatre, 149 West 45th Street
Feminist playwright Sarah Ruhl lets us in on the "medicinal" uses of the first vibrators. Set in the late 19th-century, In...
NY International Independent Film & Video Fest
Saturday 10/24 @ Village East Cinema
The Triumph of William Henry Harrison suggests that our ninth President faked his own pneumonic death in order to pursue a...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Saturday 10/24 @ New York Live Arts
Downtown theatre artist Neal Medlyn routinely uses celebrities as fodder for his pop-culture theatrical explorations, which have included an R. Kelly...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ Film Forum
Labeled both a "proletarian thunderbolt" and a communist turncoat, the ever-controversial Elia Kazan was — above the muck of his unfortunate...
Saturday 10/24 @ BLT Gallery
With a tagline like "not polluted in gimmicks, just a shot," BLT Gallery's latest exhibition promises to be an antidote to...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 10/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Saturday 10/24 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman savors the food shown in two Lilly Martin Spencer paintings in the...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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...
MoMA Presents: John Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence
Saturday 10/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Saturday, October 24 screening will be introduced by actress Gena Rowlands.
To...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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....
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Saturday 10/24 @ Lincoln Center
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In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Saturday 10/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Jack Ferver: A Movie Star Needs a Movie
Saturday 10/24 @ New Museum
Choreographed and Performed by Jack Ferver
With Liz Santoro
Film and Photography by Jason Akira Somma Breakout choreographer...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Step out of the streets and into one of NYC's most beautiful social dance ballrooms for an evening of waltz, tango,...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Saturday 10/24 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Now on view at the Met is the most extraordinary and comprehensive exhibition...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Saturday 10/24 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
LIVE from the NYPL & Creative Time present: Revolutions in Public Practice
Saturday 10/24 @ LIVE from the NYPL
For 35 years, Creative Time has been committed to groundbreaking new models in art-making that actively engage with and transform the...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 10/24 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Saturday 10/24 @ 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,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 10/24 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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...
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 10/24 @ 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...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/24 @ 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 10/24 @ 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. ...
