Events on Sunday, May 3

Serious Eats presents Hot Dog Hootenanny

Food/Wine

Hot Dog Hootenanny

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Astor Center

One of our favorite food blogs hosts today's homage to the homey hotdog. Vendors from around NYC hawk their fare within... 

Dark Was the Night feat. Feist, the National, Bon Iver, and David Byrne

Music

Dark Was the Night

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Radio City Music Hall

Arguably the year's best release to date in any genre is the Red Hot Organization and 4AD's compilation Dark Was the... 

Ongoing Events

Theatre

Christmas Is Miles Away

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Connelly Theatre

British playwright Chloe Moss has received a number of awards and commissions, but her work hasn't been produced in the US... 

Art

Klaus Moje

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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>This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection</em>

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Sunday 5/ 3 @ International Center of Photography

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

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Chelsea Market

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

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Art

Jenny Holzer

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

<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/ 3 @ 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... 

Theatre

Desire Under the Elms

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Ward Shelley

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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>Valentino: The Last Emperor</em>

Film: Documentary

Valentino: The Last Emperor

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Theatre

Pretty Theft

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Art

KRAZY!

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Japan Society

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

<em>Il Divo</em>

Film

Il Divo

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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>Performance 1</em>: Tehching Hsieh

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Artists and Fleas

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

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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,... 

Festival: Performing Arts

PEN World Voices

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Various locations

This year's PEN World Voices Festival draws 160 writers together to celebrate literature from around the world. The weeklong gathering features... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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>ROOMS a Rock Romance</em>

Theatre

ROOMS a Rock Romance

Sunday 5/ 3 @ New World Stages

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

<em> Distracted </em>

Theatre

Distracted

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Laura Pels Theatre

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

Sakura Matsuri

Festival: Performing Arts

Sakura Matsuri

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Brooklyn Botanic Garden

The best rite of spring Brooklyn can offer — the Botanic Garden's Sakura Matsuri, or cherry-blossom festival — rolls out its... 

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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

Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

Chris Potter's Underground

Music

Chris Potter's Underground

Sunday 5/ 3 @ Jazz Standard

Saxophone virtuoso Chris Potter has been at it for years, presenting his compositions in a variety of bands that highlight his... 

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

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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>Anvil</em>

Film: Documentary

Anvil

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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.... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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>Tangled Alphabets</em>: Le&oacute;n Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Art

Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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>C.H.U.D.Z.</em>

Art

C.H.U.D.Z.

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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.... 

Art

Sites

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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... 

The Late Film

Film

The Late Film

Sunday 5/ 3 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

If an auteur's debut is their "Dear reader," then their last few films come into sight as postscripts: variations on a... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Sunday 5/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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 5/ 3 @ 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...