Events on Sunday, July 19
Sunday 7/19 @ Jones Beach Amphitheater
This is the hip-hop show of the summer, folks. Seriously, the lineup for the second-annual Rock the Bells tour is almost...
Lee "Scratch" Perry & Dubblestandart
Sunday 7/19 @ Central Park SummerStage
There are few more fascinating or talented artists in the realm of reggae and dub music than Lee "Scratch" Perry. In...
Lecture: The Beautiful Evidence of Medieval Drawings
Sunday 7/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Come enjoy a Sunday at the Met! This lecture accompanies the exhibition Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages. Edward...
Cine-Brunch: Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles
Sunday 7/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Cine-Brunch: Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles, 1970)
12:30pm doors | 1pm screening
FREE
18+ or accompanied by...
Cine-Brunch: Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles, 1970)
Sunday 7/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sunday 07.19.09
Cine-Brunch: Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles, 1970)
12:30pm doors |...
A Tribute to Wardell Quezergue
Sunday 7/19 @ Lincoln Center
Ponderosa Stomp @ Lincoln Center Featuring Mac Rebennack, The Dixie Cups, Jean Knight, Robert Parker, Zigaboo Modeliste, Dorothy Moore, Tammy...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ IFC Center
We've all been there: walking innocently down the street, only to be taken aback by a little poster tacked to a...
Sunday 7/19 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Sunday 7/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
While Amsterdam is perhaps the requisite stop on your average high-school or college graduate's "awesome summer abroad," the city once attracted...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Sunday 7/19 @ Spoon Theatre
Hiding Behind Comets takes place on a slow night for bartender Troy. His twin sister Honey and girlfriend Erin urge him...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ Galerie Zurcher
"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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...
Sunday 7/19 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ Hudson Valley
If you feel like Robinson Crusoe in New York — shipwrecked among 8 million people — then this daytrip is the...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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
Sunday 7/19 @ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...
Sunday 7/19 @ Lincoln Center
Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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...
Sunday 7/19 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
Sunday 7/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This is the first major museum exhibition to focus exclusively on “The Pictures Generation.” Educated in the self-reflexive and critical principles...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Sunday 7/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Sunday 7/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Sunday 7/19 @ 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—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Sunday 7/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This landmark exhibition is devoted to one of the most important painters of...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Sunday 7/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Sunday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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...
Sunday 7/19 @ 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....
Sunday 7/19 @ Lincoln Center
From the matriarch of exploratory French theater comes a truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life’s ultimate question: What...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Sunday 7/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Sunday 7/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Sunday 7/19 @ 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...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Sunday 7/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This intimate installation highlights a group of nine exceptional early modern European paintings that have been promised to MoMA by David...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Sunday 7/19 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Sunday 7/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American artist Roxy Paine (born in 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide...
Sunday 7/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Sunday 7/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Premiere Brazil 2009, the seventh annual collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival,...
