Events on Sunday, November 8

The Brooklyn Beefsteak

Food/Wine

The Brooklyn Beefsteak

Sunday 11/ 8 @ The Bell House-

Beefsteaks, aka all-you-can-stomach-meat-and-ale parties, were occasions for fat cats like Boss Tweed to secure male blue-collar votes for a mountain of... 

Dance Parade's Lift-Off 2010 w/ DJ Bruce Tantum

Special Event: Benefit

Dance Parade's Lift-Off 2010

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Santos Party House

Dance Parade is teaming up with Food Party NYC to kick off the 2010 season at Santos! Dance Parade is a... 

Monsters of Folk @ Beacon Theatre

Music

Monsters of Folk @ Beacon Theatre

Sunday 11/ 8 @ The Bowery Presents

Beacon Theatre
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2124 Broadway, New York, NY
(212) 465-6500
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Terry Riley's "In C" Remixed - CD Release Concert

Music

Terry Riley's "In C" Remixed - CD Release Concert

Sunday 11/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Legendary experimental composer Terry Riley's groundbreaking work changed the world of contemporary classical music, deconstructing the basic elements of sound and... 

<em>Sauve qui peut (la vie) </em>(1980)<em> </em>

Film

Sauve qui peut (la vie)

Sunday 11/ 8 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Long before she played the alluring, masochistic lead in Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher, Isabelle Huppert tapped into her inner kink... 

Lower East Side Synagogues O! Multitudes! Three Centuries of Domestic Architecture on the Lower East Side

Special Event

Lower East Side Synagogues O! Multitudes! Three Centuries of Domestic Architecture on the Lower East Side

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

If landscape is history, as Henry James suggested, then housing is the history of New York. This fascinating and comprehensive architectural... 

SOLD OUT! The Red Book Dialogues: Alice Walker

Special Event

SOLD OUT! The Red Book Dialogues: Alice Walker

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Mike Marshall's Big Trio

Music

Mike Marshall's Big Trio

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Joe's Pub

"A fully instrumental project such as Mike Marshall's Big Trio must be viewed in totality as an... 

Ken Auletta with David Remnick: Google and Beyond

Special Event

Ken Auletta with David Remnick: Google and Beyond

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Book signing of Ken Auletta's Googled: The End of the World as We Know It to follow the event. Copies of... 

Dance

The de Mille Legacy with New York Theatre Ballet

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

New York Theatre Ballet, directed by Diana Byer, presents reconstructed works by Agnes de Mille from her Broadway and concert repertoire,... 

Baby Loves Disco

Music: DJ

Baby Loves Disco

Sunday 11/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Baby Loves Disco
All Ages
This is a General Admission, Standing
... 

Dance

The de Mille Legacy with New York Theatre Ballet

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

New York Theatre Ballet, directed by Diana Byer, presents reconstructed works by Agnes de Mille from her Broadway and concert repertoire,... 

Sunday at the Met—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Special Event

Sunday at the Met—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Sunday 11/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Come enjoy a Sunday at the Met! This afternoon explores Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868, the first... 

Jeff Corwin on Animal Extinction

Special Event

Jeff Corwin on Animal Extinction

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Book signing of Jeff Corwin's 100 Heartbeats: A Journey to Meet Our Planet's Endangered Animals and the Heroes Working to Save... 

Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Symphony Space

The New York Times bestselling author of Uglies discusses his latest series—which takes readers on a fantastical adventure around the world,... 

Wolfmother with Heartless Bastards and thenewno2

Music

Wolfmother with Heartless Bastards and thenewno2

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Terminal 5

Wolfmother are an Australian hard rock band that formed in Sydney in 2000.    The Heartless Bastards are taking us on... 

Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs

Party

Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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,... 

Who Does She Think She IS

Film

Who Does She Think She IS

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Symphony Space

2008. Pamela Tanner Boll and "Nancy C. Kennedy. USA. 73 min. Color.

”An engaging documentary about the... 

Ongoing Events

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Paragraph

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

1962 New York Film Critics Circle

Film

1962 New York Film Critics Circle

Sunday 11/ 8 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

1962: The Yankees were Champs, Silent Spring raised hell about Earth, and "Bond, James Bond" leapt off the page with Dr.... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Ars Nova presents ANT Fest 2009

Theatre

ANT Fest

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Ars Nova Theater

Ars Nova's ANT Fest gives artists from every imaginable discipline a chance to show off their stuff. Nothing much is sacred... 

Maurice Sendak

Art

Maurice Sendak

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Animazing Gallery

Just before the debut of the splashy new film version of Where the Wild Things Are, Animazing Gallery in Soho presents... 

Theatre

This

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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> Let Me Down Easy </em>

Theatre

Let Me Down Easy

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 2econd Stage Theatre

With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The... 

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

Theatre

Or,

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Acconci Studio Installation at Bronx Museum of the Arts

Art

Vito Acconci at Bronx Museum

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Sunday 11/ 8 @ IFC Center

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

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
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Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

<em> Superior Donuts </em>

Theatre

Superior Donuts

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Matter of Fact

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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'... 

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

Theatre

Frankenstein

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Kraine Theater

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

<em>Collapse</em>

Film: Documentary

Collapse

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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,... 

Aphids of Australia: <em>A Quarreling Pair</em>

Performing Arts: Puppetry

A Quarreling Pair

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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.... 

<em>The Hypochondriac</em>

Theatre

The Hypochondriac

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Art

Dan Flavin

Sunday 11/ 8 @ David Zwirner

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

Tenth Anniversary Django Reinhardt NY Festival

Festival: Music

Django Reinhardt Festival

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Birdland

Birdland celebrates the tenth Django Reinhardt NY Festival with a week of shows that feature legendary gypsy jazz guitarist Tchavolo Schmitt... 

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

Theatre

The Lesser Seductions of History

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Thomas Chambers

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>The Red Shoes</em> (1948)

Film

The Red Shoes

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Film Forum

Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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>After Miss Julie</em>

Theatre

After Miss Julie

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

In the Next Room

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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>Accomplice</em>: New York

Theatre

Accomplice

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>Broke-ology</em>

Theatre

Broke-ology

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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.... 

Performa 09

Festival: Art

Performa 09

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Various locations

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

<em>This Is Beauty, Girls</em>: Nine Cyanotypes by Jo Andres

Art

This Is Beauty, Girls

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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>Vestie Davis' New York</em>

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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,... 

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

Special Event

Candide at 250

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Sixth Annual New York Comedy Festival feat. Bill Maher and Ricky Gervais

Comedy

New York Comedy Festival

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Various locations

The sixth New York Comedy Festival brings pros and rising stars together on ten stages for a week of citywide laughter.... 

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

Art

Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>The Oldsmobiles</em>

Theatre

The Oldsmobiles

Sunday 11/ 8 @ The Flea Theater

Happily married, Mr. and Mrs. Oldsmobile are as reliable as their GM namesake. But why are they and the rest of... 

Theatre

The Age of Iron

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Classic Stage Company

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

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

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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,... 

Roger Corman: Poe and Beyond

Film

Roger Corman: Poe and Beyond

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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>Loaded</em>

Theatre

Loaded

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Festival: Art

BAM Next Wave Art Festival    

Sunday 11/ 8 @ BAM

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

<em>Nightingale</em>

Theatre

Nightingale

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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>Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity</em>

Art

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Artists and Fleas

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

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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,... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

Re:Construction

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Various locations

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

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Sunday 11/ 8 @ New World Stages

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

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/ 8 @ Lincoln Center

FREE Exhibition Now - January... 

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Art

Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Kurt Hentschläger: ZEE

Special Event

Kurt Hentschläger: ZEE

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Performance Space 122

By appointment only: A rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine.

An enclosed space... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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: 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/ 8 @ 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... 

You Cannot Start Without Me

Film

You Cannot Start Without Me

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Rabih Mroue's Gift to New York

Film

Rabih Mroue's Gift to New York

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Performance Space 122

A surprise reading for New York by Jim Fletcher (Saturday) and Vivi Tellas (Sunday), followed by a selection of Mroue's video... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Art

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Art

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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 &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen - The Ache of Possibility

Music

Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen - The Ache of Possibility

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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—Eccentric  Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Art

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Asia Society and Museum

... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Sunday 11/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


View exhibition site

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

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/ 8 @ 92YTribeca

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

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

Art: Photography

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Film

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Brooklyn Bowl

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

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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.  ... 

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/ 8 @ 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

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Sunday 11/ 8 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Did you know that the musical heritage of China is one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Art

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Israeliness&trade;: Israeli Family Programs

Special Event

Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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,... 

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/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

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/ 8 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

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In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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,... 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Mornings with Monet

Art

Mornings with Monet

Sunday 11/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


In conjunction with the exhibition Monet's Water Lilies
Skip the crowds and enjoy... 

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Art

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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... 

Beeswax

Film

Beeswax

Sunday 11/ 8 @ Symphony Space

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

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

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The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Sunday 11/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...