Events on Saturday, July 25
G.I. Joe Stop Motion Film Festival
Saturday 7/25 @ 92YTribeca
Before the franchise gets the Transformers treatment, Hasbro's most popular action figures arrive at the 92Y with decidedly more expressive performances....
Family Day—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 7/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Explore Afghanistan’s rich heritage! This event accompanies the special exhibition Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul, now on view...
New Museum and Maysles Cinema Present Living With Conviction: A Black Panther Party Film Series
Saturday 7/25 @ New Museum
Joan As Police Woman (Full Band Show), Holly Miranda
Saturday 7/25 @ 92YTribeca
Joan As Police Woman is the musical nom de guerre of the singer and multi-instrumentalist Joan Wasser. After playing in a...
The Albertans, Miracles of Modern Science, & The Tales
Saturday 7/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 07.25.09
The Albertans
Miracles of Modern Science
The Tales
7pm doors | 7:30pm show
$10...
Saturday 7/25 @ 92YTribeca
Getting outside herself by going deeper within, Kay sometimes flirts with jazz, sometimes jazzes up funk and sometimes strips down pretty...
Harlem Renaissance Orchestra with special guest Houston Person
Saturday 7/25 @ Lincoln Center
This jewel of Harlem revives the music of the Big Band era, with a tribute to jazz tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet....
Saturday 7/25 @ Lincoln Center
Maly Drama Theatre The St. Petersburg-based Maly Drama Theatre returns to the Festival with director Lev Dodin's powerful stage adaptation...
Joan As Police Woman—Full Band Show, Holly Miranda
Saturday 7/25 @ 92YTribeca
"A voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else's seem ordinary and mundane, the indie generation's Dusty Springfield.
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Saturday 7/25 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Da boyz in Satanicide are from Jer-Z and have colectivley kicked more Rock N' Roll ass then Kiss and Zep and...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 7/25 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Saturday 7/25 @ Monkey Town
For its eighth Monthly Dinner, Monkey Town serves up one of the most chewed-over films in history — Last Year at...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Galerie Zurcher
"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Spoon Theatre
Hiding Behind Comets takes place on a slow night for bartender Troy. His twin sister Honey and girlfriend Erin urge him...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 92nd St Y
Acclaimed post-Bop pianist Bill Charlap returns for his fifth year as artistic director of this popular festival encapsulating all things jazz....
Saturday 7/25 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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,...
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
Saturday 7/25 @ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Lincoln Center
Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Film Forum
At the tail end of Nicholas Ray's 1954 alt-Western Johnny Guitar, a moribund old hand utters a triumphant alas to his...
Saturday 7/25 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Saturday 7/25 @ Various locations
The Animation Block Party returns to Brooklyn to draw in newcomers and connoisseurs. On Friday, Rooftop Films opens the fest with...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Saturday 7/25 @ 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
Saturday 7/25 @ 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
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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....
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Saturday 7/25 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 7/25 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ Joe's Pub
The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ Lincoln Center
Venitian playwright Carlo Goldoni’s 1761 three-part satire of the Italian middle class was given new life more than 50 years ago...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ New York Live Arts
I LOVE TOMORROW strives to elucidate the circuitous journey of the past in relationship to preconceived notions about the future, careening...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Saturday 7/25 @ 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—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Saturday 7/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The collections of African and Oceanic art in the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva,...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
Saturday 7/25 @ Lincoln Center
Irreverently mirroring the opaque maneuverings of today’s Russian power brokers, the illustrious Chekhov International Theatre Festival offers audiences an edgy, modern-day...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 7/25 @ 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
Saturday 7/25 @ 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...
JACK FERVER / undergroundzero festival
Saturday 7/25 @ Performance Space 122
If you don't see:
I Am Trying To Hear Myself and Vandam Goodbar...
You don't know Jack.
...
Saturday 7/25 @ 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,...
