Events on Saturday, August 22
Underwater Peoples presents Summer Showcase in the Flesh
Saturday 8/22 @ Market Hotel
Your summer job as a caddy has ended. Your friends have gone back to school, or left the metro area. Your...
Saturday 8/22 @ Water Taxi Beach
If you've never made it out to Long Island City's Water Taxi Beach outpost, you're missing out on one of NYC's...
Willie Mae Rock Camp For Girls
Saturday 8/22 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Founded in 2004, Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls...
Burnt Sugar: 10th Anniversary celebration
Saturday 8/22 @ Joe's Pub
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber are celebrating their tenth anniversary as a solid fixture on New York's...
Saturday 8/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
New York City' Live Trivia Spectacular presents…
A Special...
Saturday 8/22 @ The Mercury Lounge
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LIGHT UP THE NIGHT w/ Tackleberry, Mike McGill and Daniel Auster
Saturday 8/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Saturday 8/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 08.22.09
Sharon Kenny
7pm doors | 7:30pm show
$20
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
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The Venn Diagrams & Clay McLeod Chapman
Saturday 8/22 @ Joe's Pub
"this two man variety talk show has fun with gender while dipping into everything from German cabaret...
Ongoing Events
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
Saturday 8/22 @ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ The Mint Theater
Lennox Robinson's 1933 comedy is set in a sleepy Irish resort town where a troupe of third-rate actors has unleashed Russian...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 8/22 @ Blank SL8
Marrying a contemporary design aesthetic to old-fashioned wanderlust, the Design-to-Go pop-up boutique by retailer AREAWARE presents an alternative view of the...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ Littlefield
Up-and-coming Gowanus spot Littlefield hosts this exhibition of New York local Abbey Braden's rock photography. Braden has made a name for...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ Triskelion Arts
Abby Bender and Andrew Dickerson — the directors at nonprofit dance space Triskelion Arts — curate this expansive, four-day festival in...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Angelic film icon Natalie Wood made a career playing innocent leading ladies with a bit of a bad-girl flair that endeared...
Saturday 8/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ IFC Center
Grease 2 may have ruined the rock musical for you, but Spike Lee's film version of Passing Strange should renew your...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ Hudson Valley
If you feel like Robinson Crusoe in New York — shipwrecked among 8 million people — then this daytrip is the...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 8/22 @ Webster Hall
Imagine your average circus — minus the smelly animals and potentially annoying children, but with the trapeze, fire-breathers, and a healthy...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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
Saturday 8/22 @ 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: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Saturday 8/22 @ 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
Saturday 8/22 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 Amoralists: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Saturday 8/22 @ Performance Space 122
EXTENDED - really, really, really extended.
This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 8/22 @ 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
Saturday 8/22 @ 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
Saturday 8/22 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Lady Rizo and the Assettes: Birds and Bees
Saturday 8/22 @ Joe's Pub
As Summer closes take a secret peek into Lady Rizo's world. The Assettes bloom, the Orchestra swells,...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Saturday 8/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Saturday 8/22 @ 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,...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Saturday 8/22 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Mark Morris Dance Group with Yo-Yo Ma
Saturday 8/22 @ Lincoln Center
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 8/22 @ 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 New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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
Saturday 8/22 @ 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—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Saturday 8/22 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The mandala, one of Himalayan Buddhism's most ubiquitous and complex symbols, is the focus of this fascinating exhibition. Mandalas are created...
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