Events on Sunday, August 2
Sunday 8/ 2 @ East River State Park
Madcap songsmith Dan Deacon usually performs solo, convincing sweaty audience members to engage in dance-offs, group chants, and mass fits of...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ The BKLYN Yard
Maurice Fulton is one of dance music's most creative, enigmatic producers. Last year, his 12-inch release under his Syclops moniker hearkened...
Cine-Brunch: The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
Sunday 8/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Cine-Brunch: The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
12:30pm doors...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Betty Black w/ Pillow Theory and Chewing Pics ...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ Joe's Pub
Rachel Bay Jones and her debut CD, ShowFolk, have been earning praise from both the...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ The Mercury Lounge
Drums vs. drum machines. Samplers vs. guitars. Take these...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ Joe's Pub
Jesca Hoop ’s childhood was highly musical, singing folk song harmonies with four...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 8/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ New York Live Arts
TAKE Dance Company, a contemporary dance ensemble known for its gentle blend of eastern and western sensibilities led by artistic director...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Liberty State Park
Following last year's successful foray into the East Coast festival market, All Points West is back — and this time the...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Various locations
Lorna's Silence — the Dardenne brothers' latest piece of blue-collar verisimilitude — merits neither the "master" prefix nor the lambasting it's...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
Sunday 8/ 2 @ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Beekman Theatre
With the tagline "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese," Gotta Dance sets its defiant yet humorous tone right from...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Sunday 8/ 2 @ P.S. 122
A thoroughly original and frequently hilarious new play, the Amoralists' The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side places the audience...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ Landmark Sunshine
After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Sunday 8/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 Amoralists: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Sunday 8/ 2 @ Performance Space 122
EXTENDED - really, really, really extended.
This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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,...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Sunday 8/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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....
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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 8/ 2 @ 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...
Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Sunday 8/ 2 @ 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,...
