Events on Sunday, August 30

Jelly Pool Parties feat. Grizzly Bear w/ Beach House and Vega

Music

Grizzly Bear

Sunday 8/30 @ East River State Park

The time has come at last; it's the final Pool Party of the summer. But dry your eyes, ye sensitive (no,... 

Mother Mother w/ ARMS

Music

Mother Mother

Sunday 8/30 @ Union Hall

It'd be a safe bet to say that Ryan Guldemond, lead singer for Vancouver quintet Mother Mother, probably has several worn-out... 

Cine-Brunch: Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

Film

Cine-Brunch: Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

Sunday 8/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Sunday 08.30.09
Cine-Brunch: Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
12:30pm doors | 1pm screening
FREE
18+... 

Music

Howlies

Sunday 8/30 @ The Mercury Lounge

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24 & 46: Michael Winterbottom Double Feature

Film

24 & 46: Michael Winterbottom Double Feature

Sunday 8/30 @ 92YTribeca

 Cinetic FilmBuff and MGM are proud to present a Michael Winterbottom Double... 

Saycon (of HAIR) featuring Kojo Modibo Sun

Music

Saycon (of HAIR) featuring Kojo Modibo Sun

Sunday 8/30 @ Joe's Pub

Saycon Sengbloh was most recently seen on Broadway as "Abraham Lincoln" in the smash hit Broadway Revival... 

Kind Monitor

Music

Kind Monitor

Sunday 8/30 @ Joe's Pub


"Delicate melodies ... true song-writing talent."  
-Beyond Race Magazine

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Robert Glasper Experiment CD Release Party

Music

Robert Glasper Experiment CD Release Party

Sunday 8/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Robert Glasper Experiment CD Release Party
10pm doors | 10:30pm show
$20
Strictly 21+
This is a... 

Music

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Sunday 8/30 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Birthed by Mouth in the year two-thousand and five,... 

Music

David Baron w/ special guests The Bryan Brothers

Sunday 8/30 @ The Mercury Lounge

A passionate singer, gifted pianist, and insightful songwriter, David... 

The Luvely Rae's Insomnia

Performing Arts

The Luvely Rae's Insomnia

Sunday 8/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

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Music

El Tri @ Webster Hall

Sunday 8/30 @ The Bowery Presents

Ongoing Events

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 8/30 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

After the Jump Fest '09

Festival: Music

After the Jump Fest

Sunday 8/30 @ Littlefield

After the Jump isn't like those other summer festivals. Based solely on their name recognition, AtJ's headliners would probably be lucky... 

<em>In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960&ndash;1976</em>

Art

In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 8/30 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 8/30 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Art

Klaus Moje

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Abraaj Capital Art Prize

Art

Abraaj Capital Art Prize

Sunday 8/30 @ Museum of Art and Design

In her intricate tapestry, Rhyme and Reason, Tehran-based artist Nazgol Ansarinia arranges a coil of burka-clad figures into an arresting example... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Sunday 8/30 @ 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,... 

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Sundays with Poe

Sunday 8/30 @ Under St. Marks

Edgar Allen Poe is a very black-and-white — and red — storyteller. His tales of terror and misfortune easily lend themselves... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Film

Passing Strange

Sunday 8/30 @ IFC Center

Grease 2 may have ruined the rock musical for you, but Spike Lee's film version of Passing Strange should renew your... 

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam</em>

Art

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>Flame and Citron</em>

Film

Flame and Citron

Sunday 8/30 @ Landmark Sunshine

After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word... 

<em>Is This Recyclable?</em>

Art

Is This Recyclable?

Sunday 8/30 @ Under Minerva Gallery

Under Minerva's latest group show, curated by Vanessa Juriga, invited multimedia artists of all stripes to exhibit work made from found... 

<em>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Sunday 8/30 @ 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,... 

<em>The Baader Meinhof Complex</em>

Film

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Sunday 8/30 @ Angelika Film Center

Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army... 

Ron Arad: No Discipline

Art

Ron Arad: No Discipline

Sunday 8/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 8/30 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

Gregory de la Haba: <em>Equus Maximus</em>

Art

Gregory de la Haba

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 8/30 @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... 

Abbey Braden: <em>Punk Photo</em>

Art: Photography

Punk Photo

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>Is Life Worth Living? </em>

Theatre

Is Life Worth Living?

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>Humpday</em>

Film

Humpday

Sunday 8/30 @ Angelika Film Center

Don't let the doltish title dissuade: Humpday is a truly astute comedy of manners. Herein lies the basic setup behind Kelly... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

2009 New York International Fringe Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

NY Fringe Festival

Sunday 8/30 @ Various downtown theaters

With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,... 

Art

Claes Oldenburg

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>Lorna's Silence</em>

Film

Lorna's Silence

Sunday 8/30 @ Various locations

Lorna's Silence — the Dardenne brothers' latest piece of blue-collar verisimilitude — merits neither the "master" prefix nor the lambasting it's... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Sunday 8/30 @ Barrow Street Theater

David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... 

Acconci Studio Installation at Bronx Museum of the Arts

Art

Vito Acconci at Bronx Museum

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: <em>A Clearing in the Streets</em>

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

<em>We Live in Public</em>

Film: Documentary

We Live in Public

Sunday 8/30 @ IFC Center

Over ten years in the making, We Live in Public documents the life of Internet visionary and "Warhol of the Web"... 

French New Wave Essentials

Film

French New Wave Essentials

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Downtown Alliance presents <em>Re:Construction</em>

Art

Re:Construction

Sunday 8/30 @ Various locations

Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 

Art

PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones

Sunday 8/30 @ Governors Island

Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors... 

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

2009 Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

Festival: Music

Charlie Parker Jazz Fest

Sunday 8/30 @ Various locations

Spend the last weekend in August celebrating the life and legacy of the famed bebop saxophonist with a stellar lineup that... 

The Putting Lot

Sports

The Putting Lot

Sunday 8/30 @ The Putting Lot

To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them... 

<em>Gotta Dance</em>

Film: Documentary

Gotta Dance

Sunday 8/30 @ Beekman Theatre

With the tagline "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese," Gotta Dance sets its defiant yet humorous tone right from... 

<em>FLOAT</em>

Art

FLOAT

Sunday 8/30 @ Socrates Sculpture Park

A two-day exhibition of ephemeral sculpture and interactive installation art, FLOAT seems timed to mirror our own fixation with the rapidly... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Sunday 8/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:... 

&ldquo;Medieval Garden Enclosed&rdquo; on the Met Blog.

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Sunday 8/30 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

In & Out of Amsterdam: <em>Art & Project Bulletin</em>, 1968–1989

Art

In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989

Sunday 8/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:... 

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Art

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Projects 90: Song Dong

Art

Projects 90: Song Dong

Sunday 8/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

For his first solo U.S. museum exhibition, Beijing-based artist Song Dong (b. 1966) presents his recent work
... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Performance 4: Roman Ondák

Special Event

Performance 4: Roman Ondák

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Sunday 8/30 @ 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—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting

Art

Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting

Sunday 8/30 @ 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,... 

French New Wave Essentials: <em>Pierrot Le Fou</em>

Festival: Film

French New Wave Essentials: Pierrot Le Fou

Sunday 8/30 @ Museum of the Moving Image

 

PLEASE NOTE: Screenings take place at The Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan

  French New... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

French New Wave Essentials: <em>Le Bonheur</em>

Festival: Film

French New Wave Essentials: Le Bonheur

Sunday 8/30 @ Museum of the Moving Image

... 

Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection

Special Event

Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Allen Toussaint

Music

Allen Toussaint

Sunday 8/30 @ Joe's Pub

"In a career that has spanned nearly half the... 

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Art

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Film

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

James Ensor

Special Event

James Ensor

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Young Architects Program 2009

Special Event

Young Architects Program 2009

Sunday 8/30 @ 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

Art

What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Food/Wine

Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!

Sunday 8/30 @ Brooklyn Bowl

Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Sunday 8/30 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Sunday 8/30 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Sunday 8/30 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Sunday 8/30 @ 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...