Events on Saturday, May 23
Saturday 5/23 @ The Mercury Lounge
Head honcho Emanuel and the ten-plus nerdy-looking troubadours toting violins, horns, guitars, and percussion instruments as Fear create a full-blown orchestral...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ 303 Bond Street
The original "origin" story is another glittery triumph for choreographer/director Austin McCormick and XIV. With the assistance of a demonic Ringmistress...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Saturday 5/23 @ International Center of Photography
By August 1944, France had been liberated from the clutch of the Vichy regime, but war had left its proud-as-a-peacock couture...
Saturday 5/23 @ Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
One of the first Broadway plays to openly discuss female homosexuality, Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, from 1934, holds up remarkably...
Saturday 5/23 @ Sperone Westwater
Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a...
Saturday 5/23 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
With public-art dandy Claes Oldenburg, Pound's dictum seems especially true: all great art is born of the metropolis. The Whitney's Oldenburg...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Saturday 5/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
While the peripatetic, 20th-century artist may only have been the second most famous Francis Bacon to bless English shores, he was...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ International Center of Photography
For photographer Richard Avedon, the decisive moment came as a flash of mischief. Picture: two lovely femmes, their coated backs shielding...
The Geographical History of America
Saturday 5/23 @ The Red Room
"Geography does not look like it does in relation to the human mind" wrote Gertrude Stein. Like her portrait by Picasso...
Saturday 5/23 @ Cinders Gallery
"Chudz," according to Urban Dictionary, is a term that can mean either sex or a "complete and utter" pimp (although said...
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ Connelly Theatre
British playwright Chloe Moss has received a number of awards and commissions, but her work hasn't been produced in the US...
Saturday 5/23 @ Metro Pictures
In Robert Longo's Surrendering the Absolutes, his signature large-scale charcoal drawings explore the atmospheric effects of light, and the ways in...
Saturday 5/23 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 5/23 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
Saturday 5/23 @ Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts
A champion of the good old-fashioned methods of observation and draughtsmanship, Gregory Crane populates urban and rural landscapes with spirited sets...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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,...
Yesterday's Loner: Steve McQueen
Saturday 5/23 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Steve McQueen is probably the only man on the planet who could have made a turtleneck and blazer look badass. It's...
The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success)
Saturday 5/23 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
In her latest work, composer/singer/theatre artist Cynthia Hopkins explores when failure is actually success — and vice versa — voyaging from...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/23 @ The Sage Theatre
In the year 2019, the economy is in permanent economic downturn; the rich are richier and bitchier; New Jersey becomes "Old"...
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ Center for Book Arts
A motley collection of works by 30 artists makes up the \'flō\: art, text, new media exhibition, which examines the use...
Saturday 5/23 @ Anna Kustera Gallery
The toast of London's contemporary art world, Stuart Semple brings a warped progression on Pop Art to New York. Everlasting, Nothing...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Saturday 5/23 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Saturday 5/23 @ Chelsea Market
Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of...
Saturday 5/23 @ Black Betty
During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ Artists Space
Flowers that manage to exist in cement-road crevices: a timeless analogy for nature's resiliency in the face of man, and also,...
Saturday 5/23 @ James Cohan Gallery
With his passing in 2006, Nam June Paik left a legacy as one of the ancestors of early video art. Paik's...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
Saturday 5/23 @ 59E59 Theaters
Morris Panych's dark comedy The Dishwashers is reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett work, complete with existential philosophizing and dialogue that prompts...
Saturday 5/23 @ Goff + Rosenthal Gallery
Iraqi-born American painter Ahmed Alsoudani builds tumultuous compositions about violence, war, and human suffering, juxtaposing human and bestial figures whose violent...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Saturday 5/23 @ 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....
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ 59E59 Theaters
True to its title, Brian Dykstra's A Play on Words is an English major's idea of non-stop fun. A Play on...
Saturday 5/23 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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,...
Surveillance from the Doll House
Saturday 5/23 @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.
Laurie Simmons' 2006 mini-musical film in three acts, The Music of Regret, eloquently captures the tone of this bittersweet and poignant...
Saturday 5/23 @ New York Theatre Workshop
Delroy Lindo returns to the New York stage as Tice Hogan, a black communist recruiter in depression-era Alabama whose values are...
Saturday 5/23 @ Museum of Art and Design
As a German Down Under, glass-art virtuoso Klaus Moje has single-handedly made Australia a hub for that fine art's evolution. Artist...
Saturday 5/23 @ Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
Jessica Stockholder gets wild with layered compositions of paint blobs, handmade paper, laser-cut textiles (some furry, some shiny), and other collaged...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ Felissimo Design House
Bring home a taste (or a tasteful element) of Japan from Felissimo Design House's Japan Brand Pop-Up store. If MUJI just...
Saturday 5/23 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Saturday 5/23 @ 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
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Saturday 5/23 @ 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....
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 5/23 @ 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...
