Events on Sunday, December 13

Tailwaiters

Sports

Tailwaiters

Sunday 12/13 @ Gate C of Giants Stadium

A rite of passage for gridiron folk, tailgating is a pre-game experience that most never taste. Often it's because we commuters... 

Baby Loves Disco

Party

Baby Loves Disco

Sunday 12/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

spanThomas Friedman in Conversation with Dov Seidman

Special Event

Thomas Friedman in Conversation with Dov Seidman

Sunday 12/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

"Companies that get their hows wrong won't be able to just hire a P.R. firm to clean up the mess... not... 

Ensemble ACJW: 2009-10 LPR Residency

Music: Classical

Ensemble ACJW: 2009-10 LPR Residency

Sunday 12/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Sunday 12.13.09
Ensemble ACJW
6:30pm doors | 7:30pm show
... 

Preview of <em>Crazy Heart</em> with Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal in person

Film

Preview of Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal in person

Sunday 12/13 @ Museum of the Moving Image

Join us at Scandinavia House this Sunday, for a special program featuring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal in person with a... 

Music: Experimental

Trans-Siberian Orchestra @ Times-Union Center (Albany, NY)

Sunday 12/13 @ The Bowery Presents

Times Union Center

timesunioncenter-albany.com   
51 S Pearl St
Albany, NY 12207-1500
(518)
... 

Documentary Feature: Hammer & Tickle

Film

Documentary Feature: Hammer & Tickle

Sunday 12/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Yura Dashevsky, moderator

Join us for the screening... 

Music

Retribution Gospel Choir (feat. Alan Sparhawk of Low)

Sunday 12/13 @ The Mercury Lounge

Early Show   Retribution Gospel Choir plays loud and sings in key. Live, two minute pop songs run into psychedelic improvisations... 

Music

Matisyahu @ Webster Hall

Sunday 12/13 @ The Bowery Presents

Webster Hall 125 E 11th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 353-1600
Get directions www.websterhall.com  ... 

A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Casino Versus Japan, Tycho and Shigeto

Music

A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Casino Versus Japan, Tycho and Shigeto

Sunday 12/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Sunday 12.13.09 A Sunny... 

Music: Experimental

Trans-Siberian Orchestra @ Times-Union Center (Albany, NY)

Sunday 12/13 @ The Bowery Presents

Times Union Center

timesunioncenter-albany.com   
51 S Pearl St
Albany, NY 12207-1500
(518)
... 

Ongoing Events

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Sunday 12/13 @ 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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 12/13 @ Paragraph

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

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

Festival: Art

BAM Next Wave Art Festival    

Sunday 12/13 @ BAM

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

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Or,

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>Sesame Street: A Celebration!</em>

Film

Sesame Street: A Celebration!

Sunday 12/13 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Childhood's best-loved street entered midlife earlier this month (on November 10 to be precise) and BAM trumpets its grand 4-0 with... 

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

Theatre

So Help Me God!

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>Filthy Lucre: A Burlesque Christmas Carol</em>

Theatre

Filthy Lucre

Sunday 12/13 @ Walkerspace

Burlesque collective Pinchbottom re-imagines Dickens' classic tale with a bit more spice. This sexy update remains faithful to the original text... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 12/13 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

<em>My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?</em>

Film

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

Sunday 12/13 @ IFC Center

More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is... 

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

Theatre

In the Next Room

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Theatre

This

Sunday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ 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... 

Zero Film Festival

Festival: Film

Zero Film Festival

Sunday 12/13 @ Various locations

Freed from the fetters/influence of studio dollars and cents, the films in this festival display creativity at its purest and most... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>The Christmas Revels: A Celebration of the Winter Solstice</em>

Music: Global

The Christmas Revels

Sunday 12/13 @ Peter Jay Sharpe Theater, Symphony Space

For 30 years, the New York Revels has celebrated the Winter Solstice, highlighting a specific culutre and its custsoms. As an... 

<em>A Little Night Music</em>

Theatre

A Little Night Music

Sunday 12/13 @ Walter Kerr Theatre

Stephen Sondheim's melancholic farce receives a stirring revival due to Trevor Nunn's expertly delicate touch. Nunn elicits several nuanced performances from... 

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Art

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Sunday 12/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art

The title of this Rubin exhibition cites the "churning" sea of Hinduism's creation belief and the West's for-science explorations of the... 

The Next Director: So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray

Film

So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray

Sunday 12/13 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

BK's finest small-scale directors are the married focus of this seven-film series. Whether you term their portraits naturalistic or neo-realist, the... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Age of Iron

Sunday 12/13 @ Classic Stage Company

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

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>Candide</em> at 250: Scandal and Success

Special Event

Candide at 250

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

The Great Recession

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity</em>

Art

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

Sunday 12/13 @ 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,... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

<em>Les Contes d'Hoffman</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Les Contes d'Hoffman

Sunday 12/13 @ Metropolitan Opera House

Theatrical director Bart Sher (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) re-envisions Jacques Offenbach's popular opera about the crazy imagination of... 

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

Art

Thomas Chambers

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Sunday 12/13 @ New World Stages

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

<em>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Sunday 12/13 @ IFC Center

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

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

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Sunday 12/13 @ Angelika Film Center

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

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Theatre

Shakespeare's Globe: Love's Labour's Lost

Sunday 12/13 @ Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University

The Brits know how to do it. Shakespeare’s Globe theater company makes a rare trip from London with Love’s Labour’s Lost,... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Sunday 12/13 @ 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'... 

New York Theatre Ballet's <em>The Nutcracker</em>

Dance

The Nutcracker

Sunday 12/13 @ Florence Gould Hall

[if... 

Company XIV presents <em>The Apple Trilogy</em>: <em>Snow White</em>

Dance

Snow White

Sunday 12/13 @ 303 Bond Street

Snow White is the last and tastiest slice of Company XIV's Apple Trilogy (Le Serpent Rouge and The Judgment of Paris... 

<em>Nightingale</em>

Theatre

Nightingale

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

A Christmas Carol

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

<em>She Like Girls</em>

Theatre

She Like Girls

Sunday 12/13 @ Ohio Theatre

"I don't know what I am, but I know how I feel," declares Kia Clark, an African-American teenager coming to terms... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 12/13 @ Artists and Fleas

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

Tim Burton

Art

Tim Burton

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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

Film

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Sunday 12/13 @ Various

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

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 12/13 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Fashion/Style: Shopping

WIRED Pop-Up Store

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>Cartoons in Conflict</em>

Art

Cartoons in Conflict

Sunday 12/13 @ Storefront

This unique event gathers the work of 40 political cartoonists from around the world, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Pat Oliphant and Jim... 

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>Orpheus X</em>

Theatre

Orpheus X

Sunday 12/13 @ The Duke Theater

Writer/composer Rinde Eckert’s Orpheus X refracts the familiar myth through a postmodern, post-feminist lens. The production, directed by Robert Woodruff, is... 

Madcap Manhattan Festival

Festival: Film

Madcap Manhattan

Sunday 12/13 @ Film Forum

Glamour, bon mots, and mythos define this tribute to our city's comedic heritage. There are "aha"s throughout Harold Lloyd's Speedy and... 

<em>Brief Encounter</em>

Theatre

Brief Encounter

Sunday 12/13 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

Emma Rice's inventive adaptation of Noel Coward's Still Life and its 1945 David Lean film charms before the curtain even rises:... 

Art

Dan Flavin

Sunday 12/13 @ David Zwirner

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

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

<em>The Missing Person</em>

Film

The Missing Person

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Tennessee Williams on Film

Festival: Film

Tennessee Williams on Film

Sunday 12/13 @ IFC Center

For two weekends, this mini-retrospective highlights a few of the legendary Southern dramatist's most memorable cinematic moments, such as Elizabeth Taylor's... 

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
&nbsp;

Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Frankenstein

Sunday 12/13 @ Kraine Theater

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

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

Art

Re:Construction

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>Groovaloo Freestyle</em>

Dance

Groovaloo Freestyle

Sunday 12/13 @ Union Square Theatre

When reminding audiences to silence phones and not take pictures, Groovaloo's DJ should add, "Don't try this at home!" After all,... 

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Sunday 12/13 @ 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,... 

<em>Ernest in Love</em>

Theatre

Ernest in Love

Sunday 12/13 @ Irish Repertory Theatre

The delightful cast of Ernest in Love doesn't let a weak score get in the way of this whimsical story about... 

Acconci Studio Installation at Bronx Museum of the Arts

Art

Vito Acconci at Bronx Museum

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>Race</em>

Theatre

Race

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

The Brick presents Fight Fest

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

Fight Fest

Sunday 12/13 @ The Brick Theater

The Brick's three-week Fight Fest celebrates the art and grace of fight choreography and features the premiere of festival curator Tim... 

<em> Superior Donuts </em>

Theatre

Superior Donuts

Sunday 12/13 @ 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 12/13 @ 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... 

Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson, Jr.: Crime or Emergency ***PLUS BONUS EDITIONS

Performing Arts

Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson, Jr.: Crime or Emergency ***PLUS BONUS EDITIONS

Sunday 12/13 @ Performance Space 122

Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in her creation:  a... 

Beyond the Absurd: Ronald Tavel & Andy Warhol

Film

Beyond the Absurd

Sunday 12/13 @ Anthology Film Archives

Tavel doesn't ring quite like Edie or Nico or Paul America, but one could say that the multitalented playwright gave Warhol... 

<em>A Streetcar Named Desire</em>

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire

Sunday 12/13 @ BAM Harvey Theater

Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is an American classic, but Australia’s Sydney Theatre Company — under the direction of the... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Matter of Fact

Sunday 12/13 @ 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>Before Tomorrow</em>

Film

Before Tomorrow

Sunday 12/13 @ Film Forum

Closing out the Fast Runner trilogy on an elegiac note, Before Tomorrow offers a periscope to Inuit life in 1840, when... 

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 12/13 @ 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,... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Sunday 12/13 @ 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 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 12/13 @ 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... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Sunday 12/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Velázquez Rediscovered

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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 12/13 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Christmas  Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season

Art

Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season

Sunday 12/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the presentation before it closes on Wednesday! Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the... 

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Art

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Gabriel Orozco

Art

Gabriel Orozco

Sunday 12/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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 12/13 @ 92YTribeca

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

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 12/13 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Sunday 12/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art

The mandala, one of Himalayan Buddhism's most ubiquitous and complex symbols, is the focus of this fascinating exhibition. Mandalas are created... 

The &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Art

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

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

The Next Director: Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim

Film

The Next Director: Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim

Sunday 12/13 @ BAM

This year, BAMcinematek's annual series highlighting up-and-coming filmmakers focuses on American collaborators So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray, who have... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Pulitzer–winning Author Elizabeth Strout on Two Paintings by Winslow Homer / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Pulitzer–winning Author Elizabeth Strout on Two Paintings by Winslow Homer / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Sunday 12/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Elizabeth Strout, imagines the stories behind Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts and The Gale, two... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Art

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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 12/13 @ Lincoln Center

FREE Exhibition Now - January... 

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Art

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Sunday 12/13 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

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

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree

Film: Documentary

Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree

Sunday 12/13 @ Symphony Space

2006. Pierre-Yves Borgeaud. Senegal/Switzerland/Luxembourg. 108 minutes. Color. This musical follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's epic journey tracing the trail left by... 

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 12/13 @ 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... 

Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore

Sunday 12/13 @ Asia Society and Museum

AsiaStore has scoured the marketplaces of Asia to bring you the perfect gift at the perfect price! Celebrate the season with... 

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 12/13 @ 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... 

HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZE: David Parker and The Bang Group Present Nut/Cracked

Dance

HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZE: David Parker and The Bang Group Present Nut/Cracked

Sunday 12/13 @ New York Live Arts

“As this rethinking of The Nutcracker becomes funnier, it becomes more beautiful and impressive. Nut/Cracked is a stylistic riot. [It] is... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Sunday 12/13 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

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

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Dance

Women in Dance at the 92nd Street Y: History in the Making

Sunday 12/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Join an absolutely illustrious group of dance artists as they celebrate their creative vision, careers and Jewish roots in this not... 

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Art

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Sunday 12/13 @ 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 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 12/13 @ 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... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Sunday 12/13 @ Brooklyn Bowl

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

Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Art

Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Sunday 12/13 @ New Museum

Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)

Sunday 12/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator Mike Hearn takes us inside the extraordinary world of Luo Ping, discussing the range and brilliance of the artist's vision.... 

Bauhaus Lounge

Art

Bauhaus Lounge

Sunday 12/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Art

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Sunday 12/13 @ Asia Society and Museum

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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 12/13 @ 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 "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Art

The "Young Archer" Attributed to Michelangelo

Sunday 12/13 @ 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... 

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 12/13 @ 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... 

Ute Lemper: Last Tango Berlin

Music: Global

Ute Lemper: Last Tango Berlin

Sunday 12/13 @ Joe's Pub

"More than a teacher and cultural ambassador representing Continental cultural history, she is a confrontational entertainer and... 

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 12/13 @ 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... 

Sesame Street: A Celebration!

Film

Sesame Street: A Celebration!

Sunday 12/13 @ BAM

BAM celebrates the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street with a weekend... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Sunday 12/13 @ 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—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

Art: Photography

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

Sunday 12/13 @ 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...