Events on Sunday, May 24

Sunday Best! feat. Quentin Harris

Music: DJ

Sunday Best! feat. Quentin Harris

Sunday 5/24 @ The BKLYN Yard

The Sunday Best! series — weekly through Labor Day weekend — is back at al fresco hangout the BKLYN Yard (formerly... 

Adventure w/ EAR PWR and Javelin

Music: Electronic

Adventure w/ EAR PWR

Sunday 5/24 @ Cake Shop

Adventure hails from Baltimore, where he's the resident MIDI composition expert in the Wham City clan. His 8-bit dance tracks sound... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 5/24 @ 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

Klaus Moje

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 5/24 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Exit the King</em>

Theatre

Exit the King

Sunday 5/24 @ 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

Our House

Sunday 5/24 @ Playwrights Horizons

Whip-smart playwright Theresa Rebeck's newest play, Our House, is a dark send-up of television and how the news and reality TV... 

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

Art

Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 5/24 @ Artists and Fleas

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

Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 5/24 @ 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: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Dishwashers

Sunday 5/24 @ 59E59 Theaters

Morris Panych's dark comedy The Dishwashers is reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett work, complete with existential philosophizing and dialogue that prompts... 

<em>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Sunday 5/24 @ The Morgan Library

If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original... 

Theatre

Desire Under the Elms

Sunday 5/24 @ 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,... 

Theatre

Things of Dry Hours

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Sunday 5/24 @ Studio 54

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

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success)

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Art

KRAZY!

Sunday 5/24 @ Japan Society

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

Yesterday's Loner: Steve McQueen

Festival: Performing Arts

Yesterday's Loner: Steve McQueen

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Sunday 5/24 @ 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>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Sunday 5/24 @ 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>Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West</em>

Art: Photography

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

Sunday 5/24 @ 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>C.H.U.D.Z.</em>

Art

C.H.U.D.Z.

Sunday 5/24 @ Cinders Gallery

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

Art: Photography

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Sunday 5/24 @ 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,... 

Theatre

True West

Sunday 5/24 @ 181 Ave B

"I wanted to write a play about double nature, one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff,"... 

<em>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Sunday 5/24 @ 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>A Play on Words</em>

Theatre

A Play on Words

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Art

Claes Oldenburg

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Coraline</em>

Theatre

Coraline

Sunday 5/24 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

It's no fluke that beloved songwriter Stephin Merritt chose to set Neil Gaiman's book-turned-movie Coraline to music. The darkly droll circumstances... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 5/24 @ 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>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Sunday 5/24 @ 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,... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Sunday 5/24 @ 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.... 

Theatre

The Children's Hour

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Art

Jenny Holzer

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Sunday 5/24 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 5/24 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Sunday 5/24 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 5/24 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art

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

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

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 5/24 @ 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... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Sunday 5/24 @ 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

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Sunday 5/24 @ 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

Art

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

Sunday 5/24 @ 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...