Events on Sunday, April 26

WBAR-B-Q feat. Gang Gang Dance w/ Soft Circle, PackFM, and Free Blood

Festival: Performing Arts

WBAR-B-Q feat. Gang Gang Dance

Sunday 4/26 @ Lehman Lawn, Barnard College

WBAR is Barnard College's beloved radio station, a scrappy outpost of weirdness and esoterica hidden deep within the ivory tower. This... 

Ongoing Events

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Sundays with Poe

Sunday 4/26 @ Under St. Marks

Edgar Allen Poe is a very black-and-white — and red — storyteller. His tales of terror and misfortune easily lend themselves... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 4/26 @ 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>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 4/26 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Sunday 4/26 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 4/26 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Theatre

Pretty Theft

Sunday 4/26 @ Access Theater

Allegra, the teenage heroine of Adam Syzymkowicz's play, Pretty Theft, is as pretty as her name. She's also had a great... 

<em>Hunger</em>

Film

Hunger

Sunday 4/26 @ IFC Center

Hunger takes its aesthetic and narrative cues from its protagonist, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). Focusing on Sands' last... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Sunday 4/26 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

A playground altercation between two preteen boys escalates to full-on war when their parents get involved in French playwright Yasmina Reza's... 

<em>Goodbye Solo</em>

Film

Goodbye Solo

Sunday 4/26 @ Angelika Film Center

At a time when the American cinematic landscape is as barren as a date between two mumblecore actors, North Carolina-born Ramin... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Sunday 4/26 @ 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>The Old West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention</em>

Film

The Old West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention

Sunday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Tall tales of the Old West loom over our imaginations like the Sequoias out yonder. Many of these myths were self-invented:... 

<em>Anvil</em>

Film: Documentary

Anvil

Sunday 4/26 @ Angelika Film Center

Based on cultural stereotypes involving maple syrup, socialized health care, and general congeniality, heavy metal wouldn't seem to be Canada's forte.... 

<em>C.H.U.D.Z.</em>

Art

C.H.U.D.Z.

Sunday 4/26 @ Cinders Gallery

"Chudz," according to Urban Dictionary, is a term that can mean either sex or a "complete and utter" pimp (although said... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Sunday 4/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Pictures Generation pulls the curtain on the young laboratory of the New York art scene in the '70s and '80s.... 

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Sunday 4/26 @ Studio 54

Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by... 

Hernan Bas: <em>Works from the Rubell Family Collection</em>

Art

Hernan Bas

Sunday 4/26 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Hernan Bas is Miami's biggest home-grown art star, known for darkly poetic, romanticized works that read as chapters in an epic,... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Sunday 4/26 @ Landmark Sunshine

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 4/26 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker

Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells... 

Art

Jenny Holzer

Sunday 4/26 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Jenny Holzer thrives outside the more traditional, brick-and-mortar art world of paint and photography, using LED and light projection as her... 

Theatre

Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them

Sunday 4/26 @ The Public Theater

Christopher Durang's latest satirical comedy, Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, doesn't take itself too seriously despite... 

<em>ROOMS a Rock Romance</em>

Theatre

ROOMS a Rock Romance

Sunday 4/26 @ New World Stages

ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a... 

First Light: Satyajit Ray from the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy

Festival: Performing Arts

First Light: Satyajit Ray from the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy

Sunday 4/26 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Long before India became the center of the cinematic universe, Satyajit Ray was radioing in vivid, day-in-the-life messages from the subcontinent.... 

<em> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Sunday 4/26 @ Laura Pels Theatre

In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the... 

<em>This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection</em>

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Sunday 4/26 @ International Center of Photography

The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 4/26 @ Paragraph

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

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 4/26 @ Artists and Fleas

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

Mike Nichols

Film

Mike Nichols

Sunday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

When Mike Nichols debuted in the late '50s as one half of the improv duo Nichols and May, few could've predicted... 

<em>La Didone</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Didone

Sunday 4/26 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

Gleefully existing at the intersection of camp and high-brow culture, the Wooster Group's La Didone sets a new standard for genre-bending... 

Ward Shelley: <em>Who Invented the Avant Garde</em>

Art

Ward Shelley

Sunday 4/26 @ Pierogi

The Byzantine details of Ward Shelley's "timeline drawing" mind-maps bear a fuzzy likeness to American Splendor. Applying ultimate to-do list techniques... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Sunday 4/26 @ IFC Center

No less than Marty Scorsese helped distribute this grim intersection of five interlocking storylines about the Camorra, the Italian mafia arm... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Sunday 4/26 @ 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... 

<em>Viridiana</em> (1961)

Film

Viridiana

Sunday 4/26 @ Film Forum

Blasphemy is to Luis Buñuel's iconographic oeuvre as faith is to Catholicism — one-word tenets for worshippers of each Spanish institution.... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 4/26 @ 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>Tangled Alphabets</em>: Le&oacute;n Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Art

Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Sunday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

For all its fundamental utility, language can also warp into an abstract whatsit — at least in the artful hands of... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Sunday 4/26 @ Circle in the Square Theatre

Norman's plan for a "dirty weekend" with his sister-in-law Annie turns into a couple days of chaos with the whole family... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 4/26 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Sunday 4/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

From setup to snap and on through to print, the picture postcard of the early 1900s aimed to be a simple,... 

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Sunday 4/26 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Sunday 4/26 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 4/26 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Art

Sites

Sunday 4/26 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Back in 1982, artist Agnes Denes staged an environmental coup (not to mention a conceptual beaut) by planting two acres of... 

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Sunday 4/26 @ Chelsea Market

Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of... 

<em>Exit the King</em>

Theatre

Exit the King

Sunday 4/26 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

400-year-old King Berenger (Geoffrey Rush) doesn't know he has only 90 minutes left to live at the beginning of Ionesco's rarely... 

Theatre

Chasing Manet

Sunday 4/26 @ 59E59 Theaters

Tina Howe brings offbeat wit to nursing homes in her well-observed new play Chasing Manet. In it, a famous painter who's... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 4/26 @ 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... 

<em>Performance 1</em>: Tehching Hsieh

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Sunday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Art and life are inseparable for Tehching Hsieh. The Taiwan-born artist, who literally jumped ship into the US in 1974, created... 

<em>Il Divo</em>

Film

Il Divo

Sunday 4/26 @ Landmark Sunshine

Il Divo is a searing political biopic of three-time Italian Prime Minister and Senator-for-life Giulio Andreotti, which focuses on his unparalleled... 

<em>American Swing</em>

Film: Documentary

American Swing

Sunday 4/26 @ Quad Cinema

We first heard about Plato's Retreat from a small cameo in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. Years later, we didn't need... 

Winners of the Prix Louis Delluc

Festival: Performing Arts

Winners of the Prix Louis Delluc

Sunday 4/26 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Prix Louis Delluc winners are an illustrious bunch, indeed. In 1950, the ascetic splendor of Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 4/26 @ 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>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Sunday 4/26 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Thirty-odd years after reintroducing Gustave Caillebotte to American audiences, the Brooklyn Museum offers another marvelous paean to a figure whose posthumous... 

<em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Sunday 4/26 @ Various locations

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born... 

<em>Red Fly/Blue Bottle</em>

Theatre

Red Fly/Blue Bottle

Sunday 4/26 @ HERE Arts Center

Red Fly/Blue Bottle is a multimedia experiment conducted by the play's protagonist, Clarissa. An entomologist, her scientific specialty both explains and... 

Art

KRAZY!

Sunday 4/26 @ Japan Society

For all the otaku and hikikomori out there, this exhibition needs no further explanation — but for anyone curious about how... 

Food/Wine

Dine in Brooklyn

Sunday 4/26 @ Various Brooklyn restaurants

It's great that the "week" in Restaurant Week has lasted for two months, but the series still doesn't cater (ha-cha!) to... 

Theatre

Desire Under the Elms

Sunday 4/26 @ St. James Theater

Robert Falls' strikingly visceral production breathes new life into Eugene O'Neill's problematic, oedipal love triangle of a play. In other hands,... 

<em>Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West</em>

Art: Photography

Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West

Sunday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

From Zane Grey's far-fetched dime novels to homespun images describing a seemingly limitless stretch of adventure, the American West — as... 

<em>Valentino: The Last Emperor</em>

Film: Documentary

Valentino: The Last Emperor

Sunday 4/26 @ Film Forum

The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Sunday 4/26 @ Asia Society and Museum

Check out the premiere U.S. museum showing of Yang Fudong's Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest. The five-part cinematic masterpiece depicts... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Sunday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message... 

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 4/26 @ 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... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Sunday 4/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Sunday 4/26 @ 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...