Events on Sunday, June 28

Film: Documentary

Conspiracy of Hope

Sunday 6/28 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Twenty-three years ago, Amnesty International capped off its six-city, profile-raising Conspiracy of Hope concert series with an 11-hour kumbaya that featured... 

Rocks Off Concert Cruise feat. the Queers

Music

The Queers

Sunday 6/28 @ The Half Moon at Skyport Marina

Pop punk's most celebrated purveyors of off-kilter, fart-obsessed anthems sing love songs for the retarded (sailor) tonight, taking to the high... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Sunday 6/28 @ The Morgan Library

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

The Zen Escape: Hike & Yoga

Getaways

The Zen Escape: Hike & Yoga

Sunday 6/28 @ Hudson Valley

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

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 6/28 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

The Brick presents the Antidepressant Festival

Comedy

The Antidepressant Festival

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

<em>Sweet Storm</em>

Theatre

Sweet Storm

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

DJ Spooky's <em>Rebirth of a Nation</em>

Film

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation

Sunday 6/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With its almighty title, The Birth of a Nation (1915) proclaimed a novel directive for then-nascent cinema: let there be narrative.... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 6/28 @ Artists and Fleas

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

Theatre

Stunning

Sunday 6/28 @ The Duke Theater

David Adjmi's off-Broadway debut is a striking, and yes, stunning black satire of the insular Syrian-Jewish community in Midwood, Brooklyn. Teenage... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 6/28 @ 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

Klaus Moje

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

<em>Coraline</em>

Theatre

Coraline

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Sunday 6/28 @ 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>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

New York Asian Film Festival 2009

Festival: Performing Arts

New York Asian Film Festival 2009

Sunday 6/28 @ IFC Center

For whatever reason, Asian cinema has become synonymous with violence, sex, and cyborgs, and the New York Asian Film Festival does... 

LAXART Off-Site Initiatives presents Thomas Lawson: <em>New World</em>

Art

Thomas Lawson

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Hola Mexico Film Festival USA '09

Festival: Performing Arts

Hola Mexico Film Festival

Sunday 6/28 @ Quad Cinema

To the common channel-flipper, Mexico onscreen is either some "aye-dios-mio" melodrama or an epic starring a few trim Zapata moustaches. Founded... 

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 6/28 @ 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>Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam</em>

Art

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Sunday 6/28 @ 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.... 

Nylon Fusion Collective presents <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>

Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Sunday 6/28 @ Various locations

Think you know Shakespeare? Seen it all, have you? Not quite like this, you haven't. Nylon Fusion Collective's new production of... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 6/28 @ 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>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Sunday 6/28 @ 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: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Sunday 6/28 @ 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

Things of Dry Hours

Sunday 6/28 @ 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>Shafrika, the White Girl</em>

Theatre

Shafrika, the White Girl

Sunday 6/28 @ Vineyard Theatre

The Brady Bunch meets The Bill Cosby Show in the age of Obama in Anika Larsen's autobiographical new musical Shafrika, the... 

we know the secret of the colors: an ambient audio adventure through the lower west side

City Gems

we know the secret of the colors

Sunday 6/28 @ Spring Street

Part of being a New Yorker — or any city-dweller, really — means finding some equilibrium between thick-skinned, non-plussed cynic and... 

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Sunday 6/28 @ Studio 54

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

NYC Pride 2009

Festival: Performing Arts

NYC Pride

Sunday 6/28 @ Various locations

It's been a fraught political year for LGBT communities in the states, but today and tomorrow, open-hearted NYC brothers and sisters... 

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

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

The Putting Lot

Sports

The Putting Lot

Sunday 6/28 @ The Putting Lot

To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Sunday 6/28 @ 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,... 

<em>Wild Feature</em>

Art

Wild Feature

Sunday 6/28 @ Galerie Zurcher

"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Sunday 6/28 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Film

Brighton Rock and 10 Rillington Place

Sunday 6/28 @ Film Forum

Best known for directing the Oscar-winning Gandhi, Sir Richard Attenborough has a resume of playing epic characters with unpeaceful tendencies. Film... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Food/Wine

Flamenco-Tapas Dinner

Sunday 6/28 @ Monkey Town

That's "tapas," not "topless" — a vital distinction if you're inviting friends by phone to this evening's Flamenco-Tapas Dinner. Monkey Town... 

Art

Claes Oldenburg

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Sunday 6/28 @ 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>The Amish Project</em>

Theatre

The Amish Project

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 6/28 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Sundays with Poe

Sunday 6/28 @ Under St. Marks

Edgar Allen Poe is a very black-and-white — and red — storyteller. His tales of terror and misfortune easily lend themselves... 

BAMcinemaFEST

Festival: Performing Arts

BAMcinemaFEST

Sunday 6/28 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

BAMcinemaFEST replaces the popular Sundance at BAM season with a slightly smaller but still impressive lineup of New York premieres including... 

Art

PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones

Sunday 6/28 @ Governors Island

Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors... 

<em>Whatever Works</em>

Film

Whatever Works

Sunday 6/28 @ Various locations

Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Sunday 6/28 @ 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

West Side Story

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Sunday 6/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:... 

Performance 4: Roman Ondák

Special Event

Performance 4: Roman Ondák

Sunday 6/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Viewers play a vital role in the creation of Measuring the Universe (2007), by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák (b. 1966). Over... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Projects 90: Song Dong

Art

Projects 90: Song Dong

Sunday 6/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

For his first solo U.S. museum exhibition, Beijing-based artist Song Dong (b. 1966) presents his recent work
... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Sunday 6/28 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Young Architects Program 2009

Special Event

Young Architects Program 2009

Sunday 6/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

This exhibition features the proposals of the five finalists in the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. Each year five finalists are drawn... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Sunday 6/28 @ 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.... 

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Art

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Sunday 6/28 @ Asia Society and Museum

Not just for history buffs, the Asian Journeys exhibition explores the socio-political context for the American collecting of Asian Art in... 

James Ensor

Special Event

James Ensor

Sunday 6/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A major exhibition devoted to James Ensor, one of the most influential artists of the Belgian avant-garde and a percursor to... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Sunday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages

Art

Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

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 6/28 @ 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... 

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Film

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Sunday 6/28 @ Asia Society and Museum

Sight Unseen showcases rarely seen video works from Afghanistan and Iran. The exhibition features Afghan artist Rahraw Omarzad and Iranian artist... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Sunday 6/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 6/28 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Sunday 6/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Ancient Afghanistan—at the crossroads of major trade routes and the focus of invasions...