Events on Saturday, October 31
Flavorpill & MeanRed's Halloween: Gods & Heroes
Saturday 10/31 @ Masonic Temple
We've missed throwing our epic Halloween party — not least because Halloween happens to fall on Flavorpill's anniversary (but the open...
Saturday 10/31 @ Warsaw
The self-proclaimed "Greatest Halloween Party Ever" is back for its fifth year, boasting a ball pit (to bring back fun, if...
Häxan, Witchcraft Through the Ages
Saturday 10/31 @ Monkey Town
A silent-era freestyle, Häxan (pronounced "Hek-sen") still casts a spell in this digital age. A "scientific" look at witchcraft circa the...
Robert Frank Film Series: “Candy Mountain” (1987)
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Since forming in 2004, the New York City-based quartet has toured throughout the
Saturday 10/31 @ The Bowery Presents
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Saturday 10/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Booga Sugar presents Boogaween
11pm doors & show
$25 advance | $30 day of show
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Saturday 10/31 @ Terminal 5
Recording in their Washington DC based studio, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, better known as the international production and DJ duo...
Fright Night VHS Double Feature: Killer Workout and Chopping Mall
Saturday 10/31 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Not Coming to a Theater Near You, presented by the film blog of the same name. Editors...
Saturday 10/31 @ Joe's Pub
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Spottiswoode & His Enemies, the New York...
Justin Bond is Scary, Mary! A Halloween Extravaganza!!!
Saturday 10/31 @ Joe's Pub
Halloween, the day of the year with the thinnest veil between the light and the darkness -a...
World/Inferno Friendship Society @ Grand Ballroom, Manhattan Center
Saturday 10/31 @ The Bowery Presents
Performing with O'Death
New York, NY
Justin Bond is Scary, Mary! A Halloween Extravaganza!!!
Saturday 10/31 @ Joe's Pub
Halloween, the day of the year with the thinnest veil between the light and the darkness -a...
Black Taxi / Mike Krum / Les Sans Culottes / Hank & Cupcakes
Saturday 10/31 @ The Mercury Lounge
Celebrate Halloween - Costume Contest! Black Taxi - 11:30 Mike Krum - 10:30 Les Sans Culottes - 9:30 Hank & Cupcakes...
Saturday 10/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Mike Doughty
Porter Block
7pm doors | 7:30pm show...
Holla-Ween 3: The Crooked Disco Anniversary Party
Saturday 10/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 10.31.09
Holla-Ween 3: The Crooked Disco Anniversary Party
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Saturday 10/31 @ The Bowery Ballroom
A highly energized funk machine, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe has been expanding listeners' minds and making them move to animated grooves...
Phantom of the Opera with Live Score by Alloy Orchestra
Saturday 10/31 @ 92YTribeca
event featuring the astonishing Alloy Orchestra and one of the most influential horror films of all time, Phantom of the Opera...
Ongoing Events
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ The Duke Theater
With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Animazing Gallery
Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Winner of the 2008 Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Druid Ireland's The New Electric Ballroom is a bleak...
Three Emerging Artists at 44 1/2
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Anthology Film Archives
If Hollywood is a machine, its most prolific mechanic has to be Roger Corman. He's worked in more genres and discovered...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
Robert Williams is a legend in the mythology of lowbrow, pop surrealist, hot-rod visual art. Founder of Juxtapoz and darling of...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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,...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Metropolitan Pavilion
If you feel a chocolate jones coming on, head over to the Metropolitan Pavilion for a bittersweet, semi-sweet, and cream-filled weekend....
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Kraine Theater
On a dark and stormy night in 1816, Dr. John Polidori, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin held a...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
1962 New York Film Critics Circle
Saturday 10/31 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
1962: The Yankees were Champs, Silent Spring raised hell about Earth, and "Bond, James Bond" leapt off the page with Dr....
Saturday 10/31 @ Ameringer McEnery Yohe
LA-based artist Rebecca Campbell's paintings, including several large-scale works applying her eerie sense of space and sensitivity to anatomy and gesture,...
Saturday 10/31 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
A "Made in Japan" horror film means buckle up. Hausu (House), for one, is a 1977 trip into the realm of...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Saturday 10/31 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Saturday 10/31 @ Fuse Gallery
SVA grad and sought-after illustrator Arik Roper has created unforgettable album art for bands as diverse as High on Fire and...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Various Downtown locations
Combining the engaging giddiness of a street race with the riddle-quest of a spy spoof, Accomplice is an afternoon spent following...
Saturday 10/31 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner take a break from recording the latest National album to perform a new multimedia work in collaboration...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Australian arts company Aphids creates an intense meditation on sisterly bonds in A Quarreling Pair, a program of three miniature-puppet plays....
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Saturday 10/31 @ Lincoln Center
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Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Saturday 10/31 @ 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,...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 10/31 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join hustle-party diva Lori Brizzi for a hot Saturday night of classic hustle, salsa and West Coast swing with some of...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ BAM
Saturday 10/31 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In his films and photographs, Artur Zmijewski (Polish, b. 1966) investigates social norms by observing unusual or invented situations. Seeing his...
Saturday 10/31 @ Performance Space 122
By appointment only: A rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine.
An enclosed space...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ New York Live Arts
“This powerful theatrical and emotionally charged experience is shockingly relevant to our present cultural and historic moment.” - Anne Bogart, Artistic...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Saturday 10/31 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 10/31 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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. ...
