Events on Sunday, December 20
Sunday 12/20 @ The Bell House-
There are many ways to celebrate (or forget about) the holidays. Tonight, Brooklyn takedown genius Matt Timms combines two of our...
Jews and Chinese Food: A Love Affair
Sunday 12/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Lee tackles the age old question: "why do Jews love Chinese food so much?" with scientific precision in tonight's talk. She...
Sunday 12/20 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Performing with Kevin Devine Few artists make an impact as complete as the one Matisyahu made with his Top 40 hit...
The Rothschild Lecture: Richard C. Holbrooke, Kati Marton and Moderator Jim Hoge
Sunday 12/20 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Book signing for Kati Marton's Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America to follow this event. Copies of this...
Main Squeeze Orchestra Holiday Extravaganza w/ The Last of the International Playboys
Sunday 12/20 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Ongoing Events
Sunday 12/20 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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,...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Sunday 12/20 @ Asia Society and Museum
The phrase "Hanging Fire" is the translation of an idiom referring to a delayed decision or judgment. This show asks viewers...
Sunday 12/20 @ American Museum of Natural History
Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites...
Sunday 12/20 @ Playwrights Horizons
What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in...
Sunday 12/20 @ David Zwirner
Dan Flavin organized fluorescent lights into eyeful towers, often leaving them untitled (with parenthetical dedications here and there) or with titles...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ Anthology Film Archives
To wrap up the Aughts, Second Avenue institution Anthology Film Archive hand-picks its blue-ribbon screenings from calendars past. Opening this retrospective...
Sunday 12/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of the French screenwriter, director, and actor Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff, 1907–1982) features newly...
Sunday 12/20 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ The Lyceum Theatre, 149 West 45th Street
Feminist playwright Sarah Ruhl lets us in on the "medicinal" uses of the first vibrators. Set in the late 19th-century, In...
Sunday 12/20 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage
Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
As part of the Bronx Museum's progressive year-long series Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100, designer and Bronx native Vito Acconci...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ Skirball Center NYU
The Nutcracker is a rite of passage. For Joffrey Ballet School students, this year's production is extra special because of the...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Sunday 12/20 @ Various
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Sunday 12/20 @ Film Forum
Cowboy, Indian, and Horse wreak havoc in this slapstick stop-motion animation film, based on a cult Belgian TV series distributed by...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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,...
Sunday 12/20 @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater...
Sunday 12/20 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
Sunday 12/20 @ Wired Store
The annual WIRED Holiday Pop-Up Store is back, this time setting up in the MPD. Be the first to check out...
Sunday 12/20 @ American Museum of Natural History
What eats fish, fowl, snails, fruit, crawfish, and frogs? Frogs do. The neckless, tailless charmers of class Amphibia count some voracious...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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:...
Sunday 12/20 @ The Flea Theater
While commercial theater ignores economic reality to sell tickets, The Flea and its resident company The Bats present The Great Recession,...
Sunday 12/20 @ Salon 94 Freemans
The downtown outpost of uptown gallery Salon 94 presents a blissed-out group show of work based on Zen Buddhist rock gardens....
Sunday 12/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (born in 1977) has created two new bodies of work that address the nature of the...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ Kraine Theater
In Scrooge & Marley, Israel Horovitz makes Marley (Ken Glickfeld) the onstage guide to Scrooge's (John Gazzale) unforgettable Christmas Eve. Intercutting...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School
As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big...
Sunday 12/20 @ BAM
His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks' supreme screwball comedy, is not unlike a neo-impressionist's version of conversation: the more colorful the bits,...
Sunday 12/20 @ South Street Seaport
Once a month, the New Amsterdam Market strives to become — like Les Halles, that olden market district in Paris —...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ Insound Design Store Pop-Up
Today through Monday, the folks of online indie catch-all Insound are setting up shop in Williamsburg. There are plenty of great...
Sunday 12/20 @ New York Public Library
On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers...
Sunday 12/20 @ Storefront
This unique event gathers the work of 40 political cartoonists from around the world, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Pat Oliphant and Jim...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Sunday 12/20 @ 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,...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Sunday 12/20 @ The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
As we anxiously wait for the Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, this exhibition at...
Sunday 12/20 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Shakespeare's Globe: Love's Labour's Lost
Sunday 12/20 @ 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,...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Sunday 12/20 @ City Hall Park
Peter Coffin, the artist who flew a UFO over the Baltic Sea in summer 2008, takes over City Hall Park with a...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson, Jr.: Crime or Emergency ***PLUS BONUS EDITIONS
Sunday 12/20 @ Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in her creation: a...
Sunday 12/20 @ ITP
This two-day showcase for the student artists of NYU's ITP Program features a floor of wonders. At this self-described "Center for...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Sunday 12/20 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
THALIA FILM SUNDAYS: Beaches of Agnes
Sunday 12/20 @ Symphony Space
2008. Agnès Varda. France. 110 min. Color. César Award: Best Documentary. French Critics Union: Best Film.[if gte mso 9]>
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Sunday 12/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Beginning in the remote desert community of Papunya in the early 1970s, Australia's...
Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868
Sunday 12/20 @ 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
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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....
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ Symphony Space
2005. Aleksandr Sokurov. Russia/Italy/Switzerland/France. 115 min. Color. “Engrossing, supremely assured.” – J. Hoberman, The Village Voice “Masterful. Insightful. Sokurov sees his...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Sunday 12/20 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Sunday 12/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Sunday 12/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Eric Fischl takes a fresh look at two John Singer Sargent paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZE: David Parker and The Bang Group Present Nut/Cracked
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs
Sunday 12/20 @ 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—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Sunday 12/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! In 1975, the Met acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Treasures of the Season at AsiaStore
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ Joe's Pub
“Heartbreakingly real, hilariously relatable”
–Jane Borden, Time...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Sunday 12/20 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Sunday 12/20 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
Sunday 12/20 @ Lincoln Center
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Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Meow to the World : Crisis is Born
Sunday 12/20 @ Joe's Pub
'Named one of the Best Cabaret acts of 2007, Meow Meow "Leaves audiences dangling helplessly at her...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Sunday 12/20 @ 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,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Sunday 12/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert...
Sunday 12/20 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Come in for our end-of-the-year blowout sale where all books, DVDs, CDs, and records are 10% off for all customers and...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Sunday 12/20 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! From the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I,...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Sunday 12/20 @ 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. ...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
Dec 16 - 20 Enter the unknown and unfamiliar with STIFTERS DINGE
Sunday 12/20 @ Lincoln Center
"This is the kind of experience that changes one's life. Go see this performance." - Cinema Solubile Five pianos as in-motion...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
Sunday 12/20 @ 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....
Sunday 12/20 @ 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...
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