Events on Saturday, October 3
Saturday 10/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
A Mouthful
Saturday 10/ 3 @ Market Hotel
It's a night of returns: Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter bring back their popular dance party, and welcome long-gone friend Dixon....
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ Webster Hall
Saturday 10/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY...
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Sign and Intervene
Saturday 10/ 3 @ New Museum
For over twenty years, artist and activist Rigo 23 has challenged the status quo and advocated for social and political change...
New African Productions Presents: Sheba Sahlemariam
Saturday 10/ 3 @ Joe's Pub
A refugee from the majestic war-torn land of Ethiopia, Sheba Sahlemariam was reared among the concrete jungles...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ Terminal 5
“It was originally going to be a concept album...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Designed for both recreational and professional dance students, Ballet Fusion combines a traditional ballet class with a 30-minute body-conditioning warm-up based...
LIGHT UP THE NIGHT w/ Tackleberry, Mike McGill, & Daniel Auster
Saturday 10/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LIGHT UP THE NIGHT w/...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ Joe's Pub
Oct 3rd: Toshi Reagon and BigLovely Oct 4th: Toshi Reagon: Sacred Music show...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Wordless Music & LPR present:...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join New York's tap world! We offer a blend of styles in our tap classes, ranging from the classic Broadway Tap...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Besnard Lakes raise immediate comparisons to the Arcade...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
Canadian born Laura Ovcjak brings a refreshing change to the solo singer/songwriter. With an eclectic sound reminiscent of 10,000 Maniacs, Melissa...
Martyn w/ Kotchy, Starkey, and DJ Sharmaji
Saturday 10/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 10.03.09
Martyn
w/ Kotchy
Starkey
DJ Sharmaji
11pm doors & show
$10 advance |...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
"Karsh Kale has established himself as a spokesman for a generation of music that...
Tom Russell: Blood and Candle Smoke CD Release
Saturday 10/ 3 @ Joe's Pub
“Tom Russell is Johnny Cash, Jim Harrison and Charles Bukowski rolled into one. I feel a great...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ The Bowery Ballroom
New York's Amazing Baby formed in January 2008 and...
Concert: Itzhak Perlman Plays Chamber Music with Members of the Perlman Music Program
Saturday 10/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Founded and guided by Toby Perlman, the Perlman Music Program fosters both musicians and musicianship. The students learn to share their...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Various locations
One glance at the schedule for the second-annual 1st Irish theatre festival makes clear that the dramatic voices of today's Ireland...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
ITP 30th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday 10/ 3 @ The IAC Building
NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), a two-year graduate program for the design and study of new media forms in the Tisch...
Big Dance Theater: Comme Toujours Here I Stand
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ powerHouse Arena
This cleverly titled one-man show turns mainstream media's perception of hip-hop on its head. Photographer Trevor Traynor notes the double entendre...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Under Minerva Gallery
Under Minerva's latest group show, curated by Vanessa Juriga, invited multimedia artists of all stripes to exhibit work made from found...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Saturday 10/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
While Amsterdam is perhaps the requisite stop on your average high-school or college graduate's "awesome summer abroad," the city once attracted...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Museum of Art and Design
In her intricate tapestry, Rhyme and Reason, Tehran-based artist Nazgol Ansarinia arranges a coil of burka-clad figures into an arresting example...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Various locations
FIAF's yearly, interdisciplinary festival Crossing the Line presents a three-week slate of exciting new works by artists from New York and...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Tilton Gallery
The German artist's second solo exhibition at the Tilton Gallery features paintings of female figures on central display. Lucas' evident confidence...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ New York City Center
Fall for Dance this year celebrates the centenary of Ballets Russes, the Paris-based Russians who made ballet artistically relevant. Reconstructions include...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Film Forum
From Marilyn Monroe's airy delivery to the liberal antics of on-the-lam musicians Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Collect Pond Park
The always awesome public-art sponsors at Public Art Fund debut a new downtown work by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith. Their...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ York Theatre Company (619 Lexington Ave, 212.935.5824)
Blind Lemon Blues shines brightest when the writers let classics by Blind Lemon, Led Belly, and others take center stage. Three...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
Heeb Magazine and 92YTribeca are pleased to present the NYC showing of the fourth annual Heeb Hundred Portrait Exhibition. The Heeb...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Performance Exhibition Series
The exhibition will be performed live three...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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.
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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....
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Saturday 10/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
MoMA Presents: Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Where Is Where?
Saturday 10/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Eija-Liisa Ahtila (b. Finland, 1959), an artist celebrated for her often interrelated moving image installation pieces and 35mm films, returns to...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
John Jahnke / Hotel Savant: The Archery Contest
Saturday 10/ 3 @ Performance Space 122
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York "...one of the highlights of the fall season at...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Lucy Guerin Inc: Structure and Sadness
Saturday 10/ 3 @ New York Live Arts
Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin uses the 1970 collapse of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne Australia, where 35 men lost their...
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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. ...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Saturday 10/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Saturday 10/ 3 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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 Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Singles and couples of all ages and levels welcome. A group lesson is held during the first hour of each party....
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Saturday 10/ 3 @ 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...
