Events on Sunday, November 22

Chili Takedown

Food/Wine

Chili Takedown

Sunday 11/22 @ The Bell House-

As the temperature cools, there's no better place to be than inside with a hot bowl of homemade chili. Luckily, the... 

Camera Obscura          
 

Music

Camera Obscura            

Sunday 11/22 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Performing with Papercuts Glasgow’s Camera Obscura have had several line-up changes since founder members Tracyanne Campbell and Gavin Dunbar first began... 

Shells

Comedy

Shells

Sunday 11/22 @ Joe's Pub

“Real tragedy and painful humor… like a Beckett character”
–Justin Boyd, The Brooklyn Rail
... 

Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen - The Ache of Possibility

Music

Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen - The Ache of Possibility

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Brody Condon: Case

Books: Reading

Brody Condon: Case

Sunday 11/22 @ New Museum

**Ticket holders may arrive at any point during the performance, which lasts from 12-6 p.m. There is no set time for... 

Devendra Barnhart @ Town Hall

Music

Devendra Barnhart @ Town Hall

Sunday 11/22 @ The Bowery Presents

Town Hall
www.the-townhall-nyc.org
123 W 43rd St
New York, NY 10036-6507
(212) 997-1003
Get directions
... 

Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs

Festival

Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs

Sunday 11/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Israeliness™ is an Israeli-style, bi-weekly program for families with young children, focusing on Israeli culture and conducted entirely in Hebrew. Moms,... 

Conferences

Jewish Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Conference

Sunday 11/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

If you write or illustrate children's books for the Jewish market, this conference is for you. Meet and network with top... 

Performa: Scratch the Grand Finale

Music

Performa: Scratch the Grand Finale

Sunday 11/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

 

Sunday 11.22.09
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Family Music, Ages 6+ The Grouchy Genius: The Life and Music of Dvořák

Music: Classical

Family Music, Ages 6+ The Grouchy Genius: The Life and Music of Dvořák

Sunday 11/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Sunday, November 22, 2009, 3pm

Steven Isserlis, artistic director & cello
Todd Phillips, violin
Nicholas Cords,... 

Drag racing/Drag dressing G.V. Super gets psychoanalyzed

Special Event

Drag racing/Drag dressing G.V. Super gets psychoanalyzed

Sunday 11/22 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Mike Chico, a single, 56 year old gay man who threw a few things into a paper bag when he was... 

Lower East Side Synagogues Bialystoker the Beautiful, Shteibl Row and the Sites of Historic East Broadway

Special Event

Lower East Side Synagogues Bialystoker the Beautiful, Shteibl Row and the Sites of Historic East Broadway

Sunday 11/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Discover 150 years of Lower East Side history on Shteibl Row, noted for its abundance of 19th-century one- and two-room synagogues.... 

The Crisis Next Door: Latin America with Ralph Buultjens

Special Event

The Crisis Next Door: Latin America with Ralph Buultjens

Sunday 11/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Is Mexico in a civil war? Is Chavez's Venezuela a threat? How will Cuba change? How serious is the Latin American... 

Singles Networking Workshop / Ages 40 and up

Party

Singles Networking Workshop / Ages 40 and up

Sunday 11/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Brenda Stiefel-Sherman

Spend an afternoon talking shop and swapping cards with other... 

Ongoing Events

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 11/22 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Sunday 11/22 @ 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,... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 11/22 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
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Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Downtown Alliance presents <em>Re:Construction</em>

Art

Re:Construction

Sunday 11/22 @ Various locations

Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Sunday 11/22 @ 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,... 

Horse Trade Theater Group and Radiotheatre present <em>Frankenstein</em>

Theatre

Frankenstein

Sunday 11/22 @ Kraine Theater

On a dark and stormy night in 1816, Dr. John Polidori, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin held a... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Sunday 11/22 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)

After last season's successful run on Off-Broadway, Fela! takes its rightful place on the Great White Way. Choreographer Bill T. Jones'... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 11/22 @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... 

Performa 09

Festival: Art

Performa 09

Sunday 11/22 @ Various locations

Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

The Flea presents <em>The Great Recession</em>

Theatre

The Great Recession

Sunday 11/22 @ The Flea Theater

While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 11/22 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

Gerald Dearing and Steve Pyke: <em>Matter of Fact</em>

Art: Photography

Matter of Fact

Sunday 11/22 @ BLT Gallery

With a tagline like "not polluted in gimmicks, just a shot," BLT Gallery's latest exhibition promises to be an antidote to... 

<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>The New Electric Ballroom</em>

Theatre

The New Electric Ballroom

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>Vestie Davis' New York</em>

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Sunday 11/22 @ 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,... 

8th Annual Next Wave Art Festival at BAM &nbsp; &nbsp;

Festival: Art

BAM Next Wave Art Festival    

Sunday 11/22 @ BAM

For the visual component of its seminal Next Wave Festival, BAM opens its studio spaces to exhibit new work by some... 

<em>Broke-ology</em>

Theatre

Broke-ology

Sunday 11/22 @ 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.... 

Art

Dan Flavin

Sunday 11/22 @ David Zwirner

Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles... 

<em>Nightingale</em>

Theatre

Nightingale

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>The Hypochondriac</em>

Theatre

The Hypochondriac

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 11/22 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

<em>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</em>

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Sunday 11/22 @ Various

For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las... 

Theatre

This

Sunday 11/22 @ Playwrights Horizons

Melissa James Gibson's latest slice-of-life play focuses on Jane (Julianne Nicholson), a newly widowed and once-promising thritysomething poet who stumbles through... 

<em>Hanging Fire</em>: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Art

Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em> In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) </em>

Theatre

In the Next Room

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>Race</em>

Theatre

Race

Sunday 11/22 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

David Mamet gets his teeth back in this fast-paced and highly entertaining new play. The all-star cast handle Mametese with aplomb... 

Acconci Studio Installation at Bronx Museum of the Arts

Art

Vito Acconci at Bronx Museum

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Sunday 11/22 @ Barrow Street Theater

David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... 

<em>Collapse</em>

Film: Documentary

Collapse

Sunday 11/22 @ 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,... 

<em> So Help Me God! </em>

Theatre

So Help Me God!

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>The Missing Person</em>

Film

The Missing Person

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity</em>

Art

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

Sunday 11/22 @ 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,... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Thomas Chambers: <em>American Marine and Landscape Painter</em>

Art

Thomas Chambers

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Sunday 11/22 @ IFC Center

Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Sunday 11/22 @ New World Stages

After a long and successful run on Broadway, Avenue Q makes a smooth transition to its new home at New World... 

Liz Duffy Adams's <em>Or,</em>

Theatre

Or,

Sunday 11/22 @ Women's Project

Or, recounts an eventful day in the life of 17th-century secret agent/playwright Aphra Behn (played by the formidable Maggie Siff). Rather... 

<em> Superior Donuts </em>

Theatre

Superior Donuts

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>Loaded</em>

Theatre

Loaded

Sunday 11/22 @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row

Patrick (Kevin Spirtas) and Jude (Scott Kerns) are in the getting-to-know-you-better stage of their relationship after meeting through the Internet and... 

<em>Candide</em> at 250: Scandal and Success

Special Event

Candide at 250

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Fashion for Action 2009

Fashion/Style

Fashion for Action 2009

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Tim Burton

Art

Tim Burton

Sunday 11/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>WIRED</em> Magazine's Holiday Pop-Up Store

Fashion/Style: Shopping

WIRED Pop-Up Store

Sunday 11/22 @ Wired Store

The annual WIRED Holiday Pop-Up Store is back, this time setting up in the MPD. Be the first to check out... 

<em>After Miss Julie</em>

Theatre

After Miss Julie

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>M. Hulot's Holiday</em> (1953)

Film

M. Hulot's Holiday (1953)

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Food/Wine

New Amsterdam Market

Sunday 11/22 @ South Street Seaport

Once a month, the New Amsterdam Market strives to become — like Les Halles, that olden market district in Paris —... 

New Czech Films

Festival: Film

New Czech Films

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Age of Iron

Sunday 11/22 @ Classic Stage Company

The Age of Iron is an unusual look at the Trojan War. Combining scenes from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida with Thomas... 

Flux Theatre Ensemble presents <em>The Lesser Seductions of History</em>

Theatre

The Lesser Seductions of History

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Charles Dickens' <em>A Christmas Carol</em>

Special Event

A Christmas Carol

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Sunday 11/22 @ 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,... 

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Art

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Art

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Sunday 11/22 @ Asia Society and Museum

... 

Jessica Dessner, Denny Renshaw & Deborah Johnson: Art from Sufjan Stevens' Run Rabbit Run and The BQE

Art

Jessica Dessner, Denny Renshaw & Deborah Johnson: Art from Sufjan Stevens' Run Rabbit Run and The BQE

Sunday 11/22 @ 92YTribeca

Please join us for the opening of our gallery exhibition of photographs by Denny Renshaw used for The BQE release, Jessica... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Sunday 11/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


View exhibition site

This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Art

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Art

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Art

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

You Cannot Start Without Me

Film

You Cannot Start Without Me

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Eccentric  Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Art

Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Sunday 11/22 @ 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.  ... 

Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Sunday 11/22 @ Lincoln Center

FREE Exhibition Now - January... 

What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Art

What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

&ldquo;Medieval Garden Enclosed&rdquo; on the Met Blog.

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Art

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Artist Kara Walker Discusses "The Power of Music" / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Artist Kara Walker Discusses "The Power of Music" / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Bauhaus Lounge

Art

Bauhaus Lounge

Sunday 11/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen - The Ache of Possibility

Music

Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen - The Ache of Possibility

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Sunday 11/22 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Velázquez Rediscovered

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Shells

Performing Arts

Shells

Sunday 11/22 @ Joe's Pub

“Heartbreakingly real, hilariously relatable”
–Jane Borden, Time
... 

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Film

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Sunday 11/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


View the entire film schedule
Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music:... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Sunday 11/22 @ Brooklyn Bowl

Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,... 

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Art

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Sunday 11/22 @ 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—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Art

Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Sunday 11/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


View the online checklist
Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on... 

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Beeswax

Film

Beeswax

Sunday 11/22 @ Symphony Space

2009. Andrew Bujalski. USA. 100 min. Color. Starring Tilly Hatcher & Maggie Hatcher   “One of the finest, most deftly talented... 

Monet's Water Lilies

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Monet's Water Lilies

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

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Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Sunday 11/22 @ 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 &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

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The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Sunday 11/22 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

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Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Sunday 11/22 @ 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

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Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Sunday 11/22 @ 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,... 

Israeliness&trade;: Israeli Family Programs

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Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs

Sunday 11/22 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Israeliness™ is an Israeli-style, bi-weekly program for families with young children, focusing on Israeli culture and conducted entirely in Hebrew. Moms,... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

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Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

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Sculpture in Color

Sunday 11/22 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

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Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

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Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Sunday 11/22 @ 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... 

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

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Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Sunday 11/22 @ 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...