Events on Saturday, November 21
Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could
Saturday 11/21 @ Symphony Space
These GRAMMY nominees play all-American roots rock with a feel-good R&B foundation and a happy, rollicking back porch vibe that gets...
Saturday 11/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 11.21.09
Ward 6 and Father Jeff
10pm show
$3
21 +
This is a General...
Alan Dershowitz vs. Jeremy Ben-Ami: American Foreign Policy and Israel
Saturday 11/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Eliot Spitzer, moderator
Debate over American policy in the Middle East is...
Last Chance—Roof Garden Café and Martini Bar open Saturday Night
Saturday 11/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s Roof Garden Café will close for the season on Sunday at 4:30 p.m.! Stop by the Met's rooftop on Saturday...
Team America: World Police Sing and Swear Along
Saturday 11/21 @ 92YTribeca
Part of our Sing-along series.
Put the "F" back in freedom with...
Emanuel & The Fear / Food Will Win the War / I Seem To Be A Verb
Saturday 11/21 @ 92YTribeca
With a sound that derives itself from composers and songwriters across the board, Emanuel & the Fear is an extraordinary 11-piece...
Saturday 11/21 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Not Coming to a Theater Near You, presented by the film blog of the same name. Editors...
Saturday 11/21 @ Asia Society and Museum
Faces of Tsai Ming-Liang Film Series 1998, 95 min., 35mm
In Mandarin with English subtitles Days before the new millennium,...
Saturday 11/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 11.21.09
Little Dragon...
Land of Talk / Surprise Me Mr. Davis /
Saturday 11/21 @ The Mercury Lounge
Land of Talk - 11:30 Surprise Me Mr. Davis - 10:30 Linfinity - 8:30 Montreal-based musical innovator Elizabeth Powell has...
Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen - The Ache of Possibility.
Saturday 11/21 @ Joe's Pub
"Jenkins will knock you flat….I've never been so seduced by music completely new to me yet as embraceable as any from...
Saturday 11/21 @ Joe's Pub
Hassan Hakmoun, the master Gnawa musician from Morocco, celebrates the release of his new album The Gift...
Jowee Omicil: Roots & Grooves CD Release
Saturday 11/21 @ Joe's Pub
“Jowee really showed his versatility when he performed… From roots, funky, to straight-ahead jazz, the band delivered with the same intensity...
Saturday 11/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
The New York Baroque Dance Company, directed by Catherine Turocy and accompanied by musicians of Concert Royal, invites you to an...
Saturday 11/21 @ Asia Society and Museum
Faces of Tsai Ming-Liang Film Series 2001, 116 min., 35mm
In Mandarin with English subtitles A woman on her...
Team America: World Police Sing & Swear Along
Saturday 11/21 @ 92YTribeca
Part of our Sing-along series.
Put the "F" back in freedom with...
Saturday 11/21 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with The Heavy Pets. Since forming in the fall of 2000, Particle has enjoyed a successful ride that has...
Langhorne Slim w/ Dawes and April Smith & The Great Picture Show
Saturday 11/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Saturday 11/21 @ Kraine Theater
On a dark and stormy night in 1816, Dr. John Polidori, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin held a...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAMcinématek's longest running series celebrates its tenth with a slew of new Czech films from both established and emerging filmmakers, including...
Anna Halprin, Anne Collod & guests: parades & changes, replays
Saturday 11/21 @ New York Live Arts
Presented in partnership with Performa 09 “The performers are engaging, wanting, being, and embracing an emotion; what they seem to be...
Saturday 11/21 @ BLT Gallery
With a tagline like "not polluted in gimmicks, just a shot," BLT Gallery's latest exhibition promises to be an antidote to...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Saturday 11/21 @ 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,...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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,...
The Lesser Seductions of History
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Saturday 11/21 @ Wired Store
The annual WIRED Holiday Pop-Up Store is back, this time setting up in the MPD. Be the first to check out...
Saturday 11/21 @ The Morgan Library
J.P. Morgan loved to purchase art from every era. This amazing eclecticism is reflected in his museum's rotating exhibition schedule, which...
Saturday 11/21 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ BAM
For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Saturday 11/21 @ Various
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Film Forum
Holiday is Jacques Tati's superfine intro to Monsieur Hulot, the French director's lovable alias and a magnet for pratfalls and faux...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
A pitch-black comedy about child murder and totalitarianism might not sound like a perfect weekend outing, but Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman,...
Saturday 11/21 @ Florence Gould Hall
French composer and provocateur Claude Debussy sent tremors through the opera world in 1902 with his scandalous Pelleas et Melisande. Next...
Saturday 11/21 @ Deitch Projects
Kristen Baker thinks of her painting process as analogous to a racetrack, based half on precise control, half on wild chaos....
Saturday 11/21 @ New York Theatre Ballet, The Dance Gallery
Spread throughout its season, these NYTB evenings showcase its current projects and establish closer ties to the audience. The company's exploration...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ The Flea Theater
While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,...
Saturday 11/21 @ FIT Museum
American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
This juicy satire of the theatre has all the right ingredients — daft fools, hard-hearted individuals, starry-eyed innocents, and many over-the-top...
Saturday 11/21 @ Classic Stage Company
The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas...
One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Saturday 11/21 @ EFA Project Space
"Printeresting" is a special word, only bestowed upon the most fascinating pieces of print. Curated by Printeresting.org, the thinking person's online resource...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Various
Co-chaired by Derek Lam and Olivia Palermo, Fashion for Action combines designer ready-to-wear and charity into a four-day event. A ticketed...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 11/21 @ The Duke Theater
With current speculation about the demise — or at least reconfiguration — of the publishing world, Ann Marie Healy’s dark comedy...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Center Stage
Christina and Amy are lifelong best friends, but the two couldn’t be more different. Christina comes from a wealthy but emotionally...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Various locations
Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city...
Saturday 11/21 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 11/21 @ Village East Cinema
Constructed by Noah Buschel, this neo-noir stars Michael Shannon as a Chicago P.I. with — surprise, surprise — a don't-ask past...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Saturday 11/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 11/21 @ 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— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Saturday 11/21 @ New Museum
For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum, Urs Fischer has taken over all three of the New Museum’s...
Saturday 11/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A technical examination and cleaning of one of the Met’s paintings, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, has revealed a...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 11/21 @ 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—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 11/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 92YTribeca
Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Saturday 11/21 @ Lincoln Center
FREE Exhibition
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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: Velázquez Rediscovered
Saturday 11/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of an extraordinary portrait recently reattributed to Velázquez,...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 11/21 @ 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
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Saturday 11/21 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
Saturday 11/21 @ The Kitchen
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 11/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, on view at the Met through September 6, 2010, is the first...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Saturday 11/21 @ 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,...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 11/21 @ 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
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen - The Ache of Possibility
Saturday 11/21 @ Joe's Pub
"Jenkins will knock you flat….I've never been so seduced by music completely new to me yet as embraceable as any from...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
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