Events on Sunday, November 15
Sunday 11/15 @ Union Hall
Equal parts musician and performance artist, Reggie Watts uses little more than his voice to improvise intricate compositions for his audiences....
Sunday 11/15 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Art Brut are an eccentric, motley bunch who have more in common with Half Man Half Biscuit and Pulp than they...
Conversation with Tsai Ming-Liang
Sunday 11/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
Sunday 11/15 @ Symphony Space
A high definition screening of a production from Parma's Verdi Festival 2008. Considered one of Giuseppe Verdi’s greatest accomplishments, and certainly...
NYU Tisch Presents: Coyote, and Uncle Dale’s Sack of Stones
Sunday 11/15 @ Joe's Pub
Overworked and dispassionate, Coyote leaves the big city to find himself. Hungry and lost he meets (and...
Max Brenner: For the Love of Chocolate
Sunday 11/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Francine Segan, moderator
Book signing of Max Brenner's Chocolate: A Love Story to follow the event. Copies of...
Russian Piano School: A Conversation with Bella Davidovich
Sunday 11/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Dmitry Rachmanov, moderator
World-renowned pianist, the legendary first prize winner of the...
Sunday 11/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Sunday, November 15, 2009, 2pm
Artists from the Nov 15 Zukerman ChamberPlayers concert
Hanna Arie-Gaifman, moderator
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Geology: Rock Around the Clock
Sunday 11/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
What makes a mineral a mineral and a rock a rock? The earth's crust contains 2,000 different minerals and dozens of...
Sunday 11/15 @ Joe's Pub
Lauren Ambrose recently starred as Queen Marie in the Broadway revival of Eugene Ionesco’s tragicomedy, “Exit the...
Chris Smither and the Motivators with special guest Paul Cebar
Sunday 11/15 @ Joe's Pub
Some artists continually reinvent themselves; others identify their muse early on and spend their careers single-mindedly pursuing...
Zukerman ChamberPlayers & Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Sunday 11/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Sunday, November 15, 2009, 3 pm
Zukerman ChamberPlayers
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Kevin Murphy, piano
Yosuke...
Sunday 11/15 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Pierre-Laurent Aimard in an exclusive New York receital at Alice Tully Hall
Sunday 11/15 @ Lincoln Center
SPECIAL GIVEAWAY! Pierre-Laurent Aimard takes an adventurous journey through centuries of piano music, from...
Sunday 11/15 @ Asia Society and Museum
Faces of Tsai Ming-Liang Film Series 2009, 141 min., 35mm
In Mandarin and French with English subtitles
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Lower East Side Synagogues The Jewish Community of Revolutionary and Colonial Era New Amsterdam
Sunday 11/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Winding cobblestone streets and Dutch colonial architecture form the perfect setting in which to trace the early history of Jewish colonial...
The Rothschild Lecture: Richard C. Holbrooke, Kati Marton and Moderator Jim Hoge
Sunday 11/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Richard C. Holbrooke, who was recently appointed by President Obama as special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, has had a long...
Family Music, Ages 3-6 Bash the Trash 'n' Percussion
Sunday 11/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Sunday, November 15, 2009, 3pm
Bash the Trash
Bill Trigg, guest artist
In 60-minute...
Sunday 11/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Sunday, November 15, 2009, 2pm
Artists from the Nov 15 Zukerman ChamberPlayers concert
Hanna Arie-Gaifman, moderator
...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ 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...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAM turns its curatorial eye to France for this annual roundup of New York premieres from directors such as Francois Ozon...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ BAM
For those tired of Cirque du Soleil's overblown act, Cirkus Cirkör might be your European spectacle fix. Joined by live band...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Sunday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The most comprehensive Bauhaus exhibition ever comes to MoMA this fall after its debut in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall,...
Sunday 11/15 @ BLT Gallery
With a tagline like "not polluted in gimmicks, just a shot," BLT Gallery's latest exhibition promises to be an antidote to...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 11/15 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sunday 11/15 @ Kraine Theater
On a dark and stormy night in 1816, Dr. John Polidori, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin held a...
Sunday 11/15 @ Angelika Film Center
Collapse recalls Errol Morris' superlative series of interviews, First Person. Here, it's former LAPD officer turned rebel with cause-for-alarm Michael Ruppert,...
Sunday 11/15 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Sunday 11/15 @ The Cell (338 W 23rd St)
The Hypochondriac is an outstanding update of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid. Conceived by director Matthew AJ Gregory with Shira Gregory, Chris...
Sunday 11/15 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
The Lesser Seductions of History
Sunday 11/15 @ The Cherry Pit
August Schulenburg's new play takes place between 1960 and 1969, when public and private worlds noisily collided in outer space, on...
Sunday 11/15 @ Film Forum
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ American Museum of Natural History
Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ Various locations
Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city...
Sunday 11/15 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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,...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ August Wilson Theatre
Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ Classic Stage Company
The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 11/15 @ Anthology Film Archives
The French have lavished Jerry Lewis with bouquets throughout his career, while our love song for the madcap comedian has been...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 11/15 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ Performance Space 122
By appointment only: A rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine.
An enclosed space...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Sunday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:...
Sunday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Sunday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Kara Walker offers her interpretation of the painting The Power of Music by William Sidney Mount, on view in the...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Sunday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Now on view at the Met is the marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo. For decades the fragmentary marble figure...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Sunday 11/15 @ 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
Sunday 11/15 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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)
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Sunday 11/15 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 11/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the...
Sunday 11/15 @ Symphony Space
An exclusive "year in the life" look at one of the leading conductors of our time on the go: rehearsal excerpts and performance...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Sunday 11/15 @ 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
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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....
Sunday 11/15 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ Symphony Space
A high definition screening of the new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte from the Salzburg Festival 2009. German Director Claus...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Sunday 11/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Sunday 11/15 @ 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
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Sunday 11/15 @ 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,...
Sunday 11/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Tiny Tumblers is now specially priced to introduce your child to tumbling. Learn age-appropriate, skill-oriented progressions that provide a positive movement...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Sunday 11/15 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Sunday 11/15 @ 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. ...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 11/15 @ 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
Sunday 11/15 @ 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 11/15 @ Symphony Space
2009. Andrew Bujalski. USA. 100 min. Color. Starring Tilly Hatcher & Maggie Hatcher “One of the finest, most deftly talented...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Sunday 11/15 @ 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...
