Events on Saturday, August 8
Saturday 8/ 8 @ South Street Seaport
On the concrete playgrounds where we grew up, he who could walk the dog and go around the world was king....
Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Old American Can Factory
Famous Friends presents the second-annual Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, this time boasting two stages (one indoor, one outdoor) crowded with veteran...
Wordless Music presents Liquid Liquid w/ Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail for 200 Electric Guitars
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Lincoln Center
Most people have probably heard Liquid Liquid without even knowing it: the wobbly, dubby bass-line on their signature song "Cavern" was...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Fort Greene Park
Few things say "summer in the city" like a chill session on a stoop with good friends and good music. That's...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Mercury Lounge
All Errortype:11 want to do is rock you like...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ New Museum
Mark Karan & Jemimah Puddleduck
Saturday 8/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Mark Karan of Bob Weir & RatDog brings his band, Jemimah Puddleduck out for the first time in over three years!...
Radio Happy Hour w/ Andrew W.K. - A John Hughes Tribute
Saturday 8/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Radio Happy Hour, a live variety show featuring an old-time radio comedy/mystery and guest stars is following up their hilarious...
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
Saturday 8/ 8 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Crooked Disco featuring DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar
About: Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked...
A Little Night Music: Stefan Vladar
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Lincoln Center
"Viennese pianist Stefan Vladar is one of the U.S. concert world's best-kept secrets." —Toledo Blade
Dream Theatre @ Brookhaven Amphitheater
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Bowery Presents
Octavarium is not only the eighth studio album from...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Ohio Theatre
Have your avant garde... and eat it, too. The Bushwick hit Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant comes to Soho for four evenings...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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 & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Saturday 8/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Joe's Pub
SOLD OUT Sam Bradley was born in London in 1986 and began...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Asphalt Orchestra (World Premiere)
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Lincoln Center
An iconoclastic 12-piece marching band conceived by Bang on a Can premieres ambitious processional music from every corner of the music...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Stefan Vladar and the Mostly Mozart Orchestra
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Lincoln Center
TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE -- DON'T MISS IT! "Viennese pianist Stefan Vladar is one of the U.S. concert world's best-kept secrets."...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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,...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
French New Wave Essentials: THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Museum of the Moving Image
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The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 8/ 8 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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 Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
