Events on Sunday, July 5
Sunday 7/ 5 @ The BKLYN Yard
Playhouse records' inimitable Losoul, aka Peter Kremeier, headlines this lazy afternoon of outdoor beats and beer at the Sunday...
Cine-Brunch: The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
Sunday 7/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sunday 07.05.09
Cine-Brunch: The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
12:30pm doors | 1pm screening
FREE
18+...
Summergarden 2009: New Music for New York
Sunday 7/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Each Sunday in July, enjoy free jazz and classical-music concerts in MoMA's Sculpture Garden. Presented in collaboration with The Juilliard School and...
Happy Feet w/ Rich Medina & Bobbito
Sunday 7/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sunday 07.05.09
Happy Feet w/ Rich Medina & Bobbito
10pm doors...
Black Rock Coalition w/ BRC Orchestra, Meta & the Cornerstones, and McRad
Sunday 7/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sunday 07.05.09
Black Rock Coalition w/
BRC Orchestra
Meta & the Cornerstones
McRad
6pm doors |...
Ongoing Events
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
New York Asian Film Festival 2009
Sunday 7/ 5 @ IFC Center
For whatever reason, Asian cinema has become synonymous with violence, sex, and cyborgs, and the New York Asian Film Festival does...
we know the secret of the colors
Sunday 7/ 5 @ Spring Street
Part of being a New Yorker — or any city-dweller, really — means finding some equilibrium between thick-skinned, non-plussed cynic and...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 7/ 5 @ 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 7/ 5 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 7/ 5 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Various locations
Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the...
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ BAM
Promising "movies, music & revolution," BAM's annual Afro-Punk fest features acclaimed docs like the quiet A Man Named Pearl, the stirring...
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center marks a half-century of existence with this three-day paean to the musical, America's most fanciful contribution to the arts....
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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 7/ 5 @ 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
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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 Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Sunday 7/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 7/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 7/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Sunday 7/ 5 @ 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...
