Events on Sunday, June 21
Sunday 6/21 @ Various locations
Make Music New York gives the start of summer a boost with an outdoor concert — or 850. In synch with...
Sunday 6/21 @ 7th Street
This weekend, the Bell House is setting up a block party on 7th Street, and everyone's invited. To see what Gowanus...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 6/21 @ Participant Inc
As part of Los Angeles-based gallery LAXART's LAPD (LA Public Domain) series, subtitled "Artistic and Curatorial Interventions in Experimental Contexts," curator...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Sunday 6/21 @ The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
As we anxiously wait for the Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, this exhibition at...
Sunday 6/21 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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...
Sunday 6/21 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
New York Asian Film Festival 2009
Sunday 6/21 @ IFC Center
For whatever reason, Asian cinema has become synonymous with violence, sex, and cyborgs, and the New York Asian Film Festival does...
Sunday 6/21 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Sunday 6/21 @ The Joyce Theater
Rennie Harris' latest work for dynamic dance company Philadanco captures the fractured political and social climate of the company's home city...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ The Brick Theater
The Brick's Antidepressant Festival doesn't promise more traditional antidepressants (of the self-medicating sort) like tubs of ice cream or scotch, but...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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,...
Sunday 6/21 @ Vineyard Theatre
The Brady Bunch meets The Bill Cosby Show in the age of Obama in Anika Larsen's autobiographical new musical Shafrika, the...
New York Bicycle Film Festival
Sunday 6/21 @ Various locations
NYC is a very bikeable city — just watch out for those car doors. It's also, of course, an extremely creative...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Sunday 6/21 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum joins forces with the Met to present a well-chosen selection of art objects and manuscripts illuminating the Islamic...
Sunday 6/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The pop troupers of the British Invasion weren't the 1960s' only across-the-pond transplants. In fact, several famous American studio directors —...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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...
Brighton Rock and 10 Rillington Place
Sunday 6/21 @ Film Forum
Best known for directing the Oscar-winning Gandhi, Sir Richard Attenborough has a resume of playing epic characters with unpeaceful tendencies. Film...
Sunday 6/21 @ Taschen Store NY
World-renowned art-book publisher Taschen's exclusive editions can often run into the thousands. Thankfully, its New York outpost offers bibliophiles a three-day...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Sunday 6/21 @ 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...
Sunday 6/21 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
Sunday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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...
Sunday 6/21 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
BAMcinemaFEST replaces the popular Sundance at BAM season with a slightly smaller but still impressive lineup of New York premieres including...
Sunday 6/21 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
Two southern newlyweds are the only characters present in Sweet Storm, but there is more than enough drama stemming from this...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Sunday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage
Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,...
Sunday 6/21 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project occupies a nebulous zone between fact and fiction, billing itself as a "fictional exploration" of the...
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Sunday 6/21 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
For 20 years now, this festival has tirelessly recited those three little words: justice for all. This year's edition features dozens...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Sunday 6/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Sunday 6/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
View the exhibition Napoleon III and Paris before it closes on Monday, September 7 and explore the changing shape of Paris during...
Sunday 6/21 @ 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
Sunday 6/21 @ 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
Sunday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Sunday 6/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Monday, September 7! Do you remember your first painting? Michelangelo’s biographers wrote that his...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Sunday 6/21 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Sunday 6/21 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Sunday 6/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
When Esoteric Buddhism was introduced to Japan from mainland China in the 9th century, it forever changed the visual landscape of...
Sunday 6/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Sunday 6/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Sunday 6/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Learn how with strokes of genius, artists in the Middle Ages explored...
