Events on Sunday, May 31
Sunday 5/31 @ World Financial Center Winter Garden
This year's River to River fest kicks off in a pretty monumental way, with the annual Bang on a Can Marathon....
Sunday 5/31 @ The BKLYN Yard
This week's installment of the Sunday Best series at BKLYN Yard sees endlessly charming Englishman Mr. Scruff taking to the decks....
Sunday 5/31 @ Housing Works Bookstore
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (don't worry, we had no idea, either) unleashes its tenth-annual Lit Mag Fair today...
Ben Sollee w/ the Demolition String Band
Sunday 5/31 @ The Bell House-
Acclaimed funky-folk cellist (and Kentucky boy) Ben Sollee is back in the city this weekend, performing the NY Loves Mountains benefit...
Sunday 5/31 @ St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery
Recently launched social networking site with a conscience Evolver.net is teaming up with Thrive NY to bring together innovative individuals, groups,...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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 Complete Dardenne Brothers
Sunday 5/31 @ 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 —...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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,...
The Heart of a Woman: Harlequin Cover Art 1949-2009
Sunday 5/31 @ Open House Gallery
Romance novels may not be taken seriously as literature, but this exhibition at Openhouse Gallery positions their covers as legitimate artwork....
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 59E59 Theaters
Morris Panych's dark comedy The Dishwashers is reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett work, complete with existential philosophizing and dialogue that prompts...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
charity: water at Chelsea Market
Sunday 5/31 @ Chelsea Market
Flavorpill is a longtime fan of charity: water, a non-profit org dedicated to building sustainable, clean, freshwater wells in some of...
The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success)
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ Under St. Marks
Edgar Allen Poe is a very black-and-white — and red — storyteller. His tales of terror and misfortune easily lend themselves...
Sunday 5/31 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Sunday 5/31 @ 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....
Sunday 5/31 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Sunday 5/31 @ 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
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Sunday 5/31 @ 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
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
Sunday 5/31 @ 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
Sunday 5/31 @ 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
Sunday 5/31 @ 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...
