Events on Saturday, May 30

City Gems

YoGA at the MoMA

Saturday 5/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

The transformative art of yoga finds its way to the extraordinarily serene setting of the MoMA's sculpture garden. Flavorpill is honored... 

You Are Not Alone: An Evening of Comedy with Todd Barry and Eugene Mirman

Comedy

You Are Not Alone

Saturday 5/30 @ Highline Ballroom

Hilarity meets highbrow wit at McSweeney's, Smith, and Rumpus magazine's literary bash at the Highline Ballroom. Hosted by Rumpus editor and... 

SCORE! Gowanus Free Swap

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Gowanus Free Swap

Saturday 5/30 @ The BKLYN Yard

This Saturday afternoon, friendly outdoor venue the BKLYN Yard is hosting a massive swap, where fashionable New Yorkers gather to rifle... 

Music: DJ

Pilooski

Saturday 5/30 @ Secret Brooklyn location

Sometimes we feel the disco edit scene has become too fruitful for its own good. For every tasteful reworking (Wurst, Soft... 

KRS-One w/ DJ Kool Herc

Music: Hip-Hop

KRS-One

Saturday 5/30 @ Santos Party House

While Relapse is busy forcing everybody to acknowledge that perhaps Eminem's perceived impact on rap is in desperate need of some... 

Ongoing Events

Spring Exhibitions

Art

Spring Exhibitions

Saturday 5/30 @ 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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 5/30 @ Paragraph

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

Company XIV presents <em>Le Serpent Rouge: A Titillating Tragedy</em>

Dance

Le Serpent Rouge

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

<em>N&eacute;gritude</em>

Art

Négritude

Saturday 5/30 @ Exit Art

An ambitious multimedia exhibition in several parts, Négritude contemplates the inception, evolution, and contemporary international influence of a seminal 20th-century black... 

Art

Malcolm Morley

Saturday 5/30 @ Sperone Westwater

Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a... 

Theatre

Things of Dry Hours

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Saturday 5/30 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Theatre

Next Fall

Saturday 5/30 @ Playwrights Horizons

"You don't have to believe in hell to walk around all the time feeling like you're going to burn in it,"... 

Festival: Performing Arts

The Complete Dardenne Brothers

Saturday 5/30 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

It should come as little surprise that hyperrealist Belgian auteurs Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne began with experimental, political, hard-knock documentaries —... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 5/30 @ Artists and Fleas

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

Nam June Paik: <em>Live Feed, 1972-1994</em>

Art

Nam June Paik

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Children's Hour

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Ahmed Alsoudani

Art

Ahmed Alsoudani

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Jessica Stockholder: <em>Swiss Cheese Field</em>

Art

Jessica Stockholder

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Theatre

Our House

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Art

Klaus Moje

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>Exit the King</em>

Theatre

Exit the King

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>Tangled Alphabets</em>: Le&oacute;n Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Art

Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Saturday 5/30 @ 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

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Art

\'flō\: art, text, new media

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 5/30 @ 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

Jenny Holzer

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Saturday 5/30 @ The Morgan Library

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

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Japan Brand Pop-Up Store

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Japan Brand Pop-Up Store

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: <em>A Clearing in the Streets</em>

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Saturday 5/30 @ Collect Pond Park

The always awesome public-art sponsors at Public Art Fund debut a new downtown work by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith. Their... 

<em>Coraline</em>

Theatre

Coraline

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>A Play on Words</em>

Theatre

A Play on Words

Saturday 5/30 @ 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

The Heart of a Woman: Harlequin Cover Art 1949-2009

Saturday 5/30 @ Open House Gallery

Romance novels may not be taken seriously as literature, but this exhibition at Openhouse Gallery positions their covers as legitimate artwork.... 

Dance

Go-Go Killers!

Saturday 5/30 @ The Sage Theatre

In the year 2019, the economy is in permanent economic downturn; the rich are richier and bitchier; New Jersey  becomes "Old"... 

Art

Stuart Semple

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Huang Yong Ping

Art

Huang Yong Ping

Saturday 5/30 @ Gladstone Gallery

Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Art

KRAZY!

Saturday 5/30 @ Japan Society

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

Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West</em>

Art: Photography

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

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Special Event

charity: water at Chelsea Market

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Conferences

Yoga & Raw Food Expo

Saturday 5/30 @ The New Yorker Hotel

No stranger to world religions or tip-to-toe purging, the New Age movement we all thought faded away is back. NY Yoga... 

Theatre

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

Saturday 5/30 @ 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

Jonathan Horowitz

Saturday 5/30 @ 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>Surrendering the Absolutes, New Works by Robert Longo</em>

Art

Surrendering the Absolutes

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Theatre

True West

Saturday 5/30 @ 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,"... 

Gregory Crane: <em>Thirty Years of Drawings 1979-2009</em>

Art

Gregory Crane

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

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

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Theatre

The Dishwashers

Saturday 5/30 @ 59E59 Theaters

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

Art

Claes Oldenburg

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

The Zen Escape: Hike & Yoga

Getaways

The Zen Escape: Hike & Yoga

Saturday 5/30 @ Hudson Valley

If you feel like Robinson Crusoe in New York — shipwrecked among 8 million people — then this daytrip is the... 

Dance

School of American Ballet

Saturday 5/30 @ Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Juilliard

When philanthropist Lincoln Kirstein suggested to George Balanchine that they start their own ballet company (the future New York City Ballet),... 

<em>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Saturday 5/30 @ 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,... 

<em>Rashomon</em> (1950)

Film

Rashomon

Saturday 5/30 @ Film Forum

Released in 1950, Rashomon left a seismic mark on cinema's landscape and language — not to forget lie-test graphs. Akira Kurosawa's... 

Party

Make Love, Not War

Saturday 5/30 @ Black Betty

During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Saturday 5/30 @ 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

Saturday 5/30 @ 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

Saturday 5/30 @ 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

Saturday 5/30 @ 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.... 

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

Saturday 5/30 @ 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... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Saturday 5/30 @ 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

Saturday 5/30 @ 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

Art

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

Saturday 5/30 @ 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...