Events on Saturday, August 15
Saturday 8/15 @ Gawker Rooftop
Street artist Billi Kid curates the first major Gawker Artists exhibition on the rooftop of the gossip-media empire's swank digs in...
Saturday 8/15 @ Lincoln Center
Brooklyn son Ben Munisteri's choreography doesn't generally evoke the fluid movements and graceful routines you might expect from your average dance...
Saturday 8/15 @ The BKLYN Yard
When the Wurst Music Co. gets together for its annual barbeque, you can count on two things: disco and sausages. The...
The Plastic People of the Universe
Saturday 8/15 @ Joe's Pub
The Plastic People of the Universe been called "the greatest obscure rock band...
Hercules and Love Affair (Weekender)
Saturday 8/15 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Hercules And Love Affair continue their disco revolution with...
Family Day Bubble do Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Saturday 8/15 @ Lincoln Center
New York pop band Bubble exposes young ears to the music of the Beatles by recreating their greatest records, here reprising...
Saturday 8/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 08.13.09
Midival Punditz
Karsh Kale
11pm doors & show
$18
Strictly 21+
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Animal Collective @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Saturday 8/15 @ The Bowery Presents
Despite the evident appeal of their deliciously skewed songs,...
Saturday 8/15 @ Lincoln Center
A kaleidoscopic reimagining of an epic episode of the Ramayana, replete with ecological and economic reverberations, this extraordinary film inspired by...
Saturday 8/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LPR Presents NYC's #1 Dance Party: The Freedom Party ft: DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth Free dance parties...
Saturday 8/15 @ Lincoln Center
SPECIAL FLAVORPILL OFFER: Save 25% with code FP50 "The choir stole the show." —The New York Times on the Schola...
New African Production Presents Razia Said
Saturday 8/15 @ Joe's Pub
Born in Madagascar, Razia began singing for her family at the age of three, listening to what she calls “a very...
Saturday 8/15 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Scottish indie-pop stalwarts the Trash Can Sinatras were founded...
East Coast Tribal: A Bold Expression of Modern Feminine
Saturday 8/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
East Coast Tribal is a movement discipline, a dance-style, and a perspective: grounded in Bellydance, with influences of Hip hop,...
Family Day Puppet Pageant: Beautiful Princess Rat of the MTA
Saturday 8/15 @ Lincoln Center
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Teengirl Fantasy w/ lucky dragons , Ecstatic Sunshine and Growing
Saturday 8/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Last night i had a dream and in it teengirl fantasy was playing a special song, just 4 me, and it...
Saturday 8/15 @ Joe's Pub
Erik Mongrain is an amazingly talented 28 year old acoustic guitarist from Montreal Quebec. He has a...
SOLD OUT! The Living Mandala Experience
Saturday 8/15 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The event is sold out...BUT there are $15 observer tickets available! Purchase tickets at the Rubin Museum admission desk. Step...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Webster Hall
Imagine your average circus — minus the smelly animals and potentially annoying children, but with the trapeze, fire-breathers, and a healthy...
Saturday 8/15 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
As part of the Bronx Museum's progressive year-long series Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100, designer and Bronx native Vito Acconci...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Beekman Theatre
With the tagline "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese," Gotta Dance sets its defiant yet humorous tone right from...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Saturday 8/15 @ Film Forum
Most movie buffs are familiar with the American film noir canon, but outside of The Third Man (1949), most are completely...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Various downtown theaters
With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ The Joyce Theater
It has been 25 years since Tulsa Ballet last appeared here, and the company's Joyce debut program reflects Artistic Director Marcello...
Saturday 8/15 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Saturday 8/15 @ P.S. 122
A thoroughly original and frequently hilarious new play, the Amoralists' The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side places the audience...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Landmark Sunshine
After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Village Vanguard
Saxophonist JD Allen plays short, three-to-four minute songs that bring back an economy that's often lacking in contemporary instrumental jazz. The...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Anthology Film Archives
Mid-century Hollywood had enough eye-patched directors roaming its lots to form a themed doo-wop group: John Ford, Fritz Lang, Nicholas Ray,...
Saturday 8/15 @ Various Manhattan locations
The second year of Summer Streets begins Saturday the 8th, and continues for the two following Saturdays. On each of the...
Saturday 8/15 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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...
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
Saturday 8/15 @ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Various locations
Lorna's Silence — the Dardenne brothers' latest piece of blue-collar verisimilitude — merits neither the "master" prefix nor the lambasting it's...
Saturday 8/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Saturday 8/15 @ 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,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 8/15 @ 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
Saturday 8/15 @ 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
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Saturday 8/15 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Saturday 8/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 8/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawad, speaks about the rich culture and history of Afghanistan at...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 8/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 8/15 @ 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 New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 8/15 @ 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
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Saturday 8/15 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Saturday 8/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Saturday 8/15 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 8/15 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 8/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take a break from city life and visit the Met’s blog dedicated to your neighboring medieval garden! July 1, 2009 marked the first anniversary...
The Amoralists: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Saturday 8/15 @ Performance Space 122
EXTENDED - really, really, really extended.
This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East...
