Events on Saturday, July 11
Saturday 7/11 @ 328 Saint Mark's
Picture a giant, empty warehouse in Brooklyn; now pack it to the rim with young, virulent artists and partygoers; throw a...
Saturday 7/11 @ 38 Howard St
An event like this one is why we really love NYC. Where else are you going to see a seemingly spontaneous...
Saturday 7/11 @ The Bell House-
If you're like us, the best proms were always in the movies, while yours devolved over the course of the night...
Radio Happy Hour w/ Michael Showalter
Saturday 7/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Radio Happy Hour is a live variety show featuring an old-time radio comedy/drama and your...
NY Eye & Ear: Bi-Annual Record Fair and All-Ages Music Fest
Saturday 7/11 @ 92YTribeca
Pendu presents: NY Eye & Ear Fest, a bi-annual Record Fair and all-ages Music Festival exclusively celebrating NYC DIY record labels...
Saturday 7/11 @ Lincoln Center
Accomplished director Tamas Ascher's turn at Ivanov highlights the humor and preserves the detachment of the intense title character that iconic...
Big 3 Palladium Orchestra: The Music of Machito, Tito Rodriguez, and Tito Puente
Saturday 7/11 @ Lincoln Center
This Latin jazz ensemble recreates the musical battles that occurred between the giants of 1950s mambo. The Big 3 Palladium Orchestra,...
TropiChat: Conversations with Latin American Filmmakers: Fernando Eimbcke
Saturday 7/11 @ New Museum
Fernando Eimbke discusses his new film LAKE TAHOE, which opens for a one-week engagement on Friday, June 10 at Anthology Film...
Jigsaw Soul 'Bound To Collide"
Saturday 7/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Eclectic in every way, Brooklyn's Jigsaw Soul make music that draws...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 7/11 @ 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,...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ The Public Theater
There's not a whole lot you can do in the New York theatre world for $20, but with the 2009 Summer...
Saturday 7/11 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ Atlantic Stage Two
Like The Europeans, this second play of PTP's New York season is another portrait of a woman in distress. Èmile Zola's...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Saturday 7/11 @ 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....
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ Galerie Zurcher
"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ Various locations
Last year's inaugural NY Eye & Ear Fest was a two-day music festival and record fair that hosted more than 30...
Saturday 7/11 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 7/11 @ Atlantic Stage Two
Howard Barker's The Europeans explores the scarring left in the wake of empire building. The already decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire and Habsburg...
Saturday 7/11 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Saturday 7/11 @ Landmark Sunshine
Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in...
Saturday 7/11 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ Museum of Art and Design
As with best-loved athletes, certain last names can be tonic: Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, Chabrol, Demy. It's been a half-century since the...
Saturday 7/11 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
Saturday 7/11 @ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...
Saturday 7/11 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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,...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ Jack the Pelican
What grew out of a one-person show in Jack the Pelican's project room earlier this year has dug in its heels...
Saturday 7/11 @ Lincoln Center
Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York...
Saturday 7/11 @ Spoon Theatre
Hiding Behind Comets takes place on a slow night for bartender Troy. His twin sister Honey and girlfriend Erin urge him...
Saturday 7/11 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
Saturday 7/11 @ P.S. 122
East River Commedia and Collective:Unconscious join forces with Performance Space 122 to host undergroundzero, a massive experimental-theatre festival. Curator Paul Bargetto...
Saturday 7/11 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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....
SummerDANZ: Nicholas Andre Dance
Saturday 7/11 @ New York Live Arts
Nick Ross’ dynamic ensemble will reprise Passio Nostri and Still Life, premiere Until Blue, a sextet set to music by the...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
French New Wave Essentials: BOB LE FLAMBEUR
Saturday 7/11 @ Museum of the Moving Image
FRENCH NEW WAVE ESSENTIALS AT THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN BOB LE FLAMBEUR
July 11 & 12, 2...
Saturday 7/11 @ 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
Saturday 7/11 @ 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
Saturday 7/11 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Saturday 7/11 @ 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
Saturday 7/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Film: Trust Us, This is All Made Up
Saturday 7/11 @ 92YTribeca
New York Premiere. TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi in person along with director Alex Karpovsky. Described by the New York Times...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ Lincoln Center
New York Premiere Re- I: Tibet
Re- II: Angkor Wat
Re- III: New Silk Road Choreography Shen Wei Sponsored...
French New Wave Essentials: BREATHLESS
Saturday 7/11 @ Museum of the Moving Image
FRENCH NEW WAVE ESSENTIALS AT THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN BREATHLESS
July 11 & 12, 4 PM
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Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Saturday 7/11 @ 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
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ Lincoln Center
From the matriarch of exploratory French theater comes a truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life’s ultimate question: What...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 7/11 @ 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
Saturday 7/11 @ 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
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Saturday 7/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Saturday 7/11 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 7/11 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s unparalleled collection of American art includes some 45 sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked...
