Events on Sunday, September 13
Sunday 9/13 @ Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
While book festivals can suffer from a lack of star power, that won't be the case here. Thurston Moore, David Cross,...
Sunday 9/13 @ The Archway
33-45-78: Those measurements cause some guys and gals to lose themselves. This Saturday, 30 vendors gather beneath the Manhattan Bridge to...
Sunday 9/13 @ New Museum
Sunday 9/13 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Cinder marks the 7th studio album in 14 years...
HOWL Festival at the New Museum Presents: Autobiographical Reading by Richard Hell
Sunday 9/13 @ New Museum
Four Hundred Years in America: Colonial Period Tour
Sunday 9/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson began his exploration of the Hudson River, leading to the establishment of the colony of...
The Calculus of Friendship: Alan Alda and Steven Strogatz
Sunday 9/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join renowned actor Alan Alda and author Steven Strogatz for a touching and humorous discussion about Strogatz's remarkable relationship with his...
Sunday 9/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Moving Sounds 2009 Festival w/ Timetable Percussion Trio, DJ Christopher Just, D13, Bernhard Lang
Sunday 9/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sunday 09.13.09
Moving Sounds 2009 Festival
w/ Timetable Percussion Trio
DJ Christopher Just
D13
Bernhard...
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: On Women in the Developing World
Sunday 9/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Dan Rather, moderator
Hear about Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and...
Sunday 9/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
A parent or responsible adult must accompany the child in the water at all times. Children have a positive first experience...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Sunday 9/13 @ Asia Society and Museum
The phrase "Hanging Fire" is the translation of an idiom referring to a delayed decision or judgment. This show asks viewers...
Sunday 9/13 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Sunday 9/13 @ IFC Center
Grease 2 may have ruined the rock musical for you, but Spike Lee's film version of Passing Strange should renew your...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ South Street Seaport
Once a month, the New Amsterdam Market strives to become — like Les Halles, that olden market district in Paris —...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Various locations
For nine glorious days, craft brewers from across the country take over the city, showcasing their creations in over 80 bars....
Sunday 9/13 @ Various locations
One glance at the schedule for the second-annual 1st Irish theatre festival makes clear that the dramatic voices of today's Ireland...
Sunday 9/13 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 9/13 @ Woodward Gallery
We've been missing the Keith Haring tribute mural over on Houston, and there's no better way to refresh our love for graffiti...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Sunday 9/13 @ Film Forum
In Carol Reed's brooding noir, all of 1947 Belfast is on the lookout for IRA leader James Mason. With a bullet...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Rendez-vous with Juliette Binoche
Sunday 9/13 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
French actress Juliette Binoche has built an impressively diverse resumé over the past two decades. But while she tackles traditional leading-lady...
Sunday 9/13 @ Angelika Film Center
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ IFC Center
After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Sunday 9/13 @ Linda Gross Theater
Hard-hitting playwright David Mamet adopts a lighter touch with School and Keep Your Pantheon, the two one-acts that make up this...
Sunday 9/13 @ Governors Island
Four hundred years after Henry Hudson explored our waterways under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company, the Netherlands conquers...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Sunday 9/13 @ York Theatre Company (619 Lexington Ave, 212.935.5824)
Blind Lemon Blues shines brightest when the writers let classics by Blind Lemon, Led Belly, and others take center stage. Three...
Sunday 9/13 @ 171 E 121st St
It's an all-too-rare occasion when we view New York from a new angle. In The Provenance of Beauty, that perspective is...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Kutsher's Country Club
The schizophrenic lineup the Flaming Lips have curated for 2009's All Tomorrow's Parties fest could only have been dreamed up by...
Sunday 9/13 @ Governors Island
The Second Annual Governors Island Art Fair, curated by the 4heads Collective, launches September 5, presenting a selection of work by...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Sunday 9/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Sunday 9/13 @ Various locations
With more 200 shows in 17 days, even the most hardcore theatergoer can only see a fraction of Fringe NYC's offerings....
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Various locations
FIAF's yearly, interdisciplinary festival Crossing the Line presents a three-week slate of exciting new works by artists from New York and...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Sunday 9/13 @ Film Forum
American Casino is nothing new under the Wall Street sun: those Captains of Intemperance lent like there was no tomorrow, resulting...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sunday 9/13 @ 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
Sunday 9/13 @ 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— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Sunday 9/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage to Manhattan from...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Sunday 9/13 @ 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
Sunday 9/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Sunday 9/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Sunday 9/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s Director Thomas P. Campbell narrates this audio tour of the exhibition Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid, with commentary from exhibition...
Sunday 9/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
A parent or responsible adult must accompany the child in the water at all times. Children have a positive first experience...
Sunday 9/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Tiny Tumblers is now specially priced to introduce your child to tumbling. Learn age-appropriate, skill-oriented progressions that provide a positive movement...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Sunday 9/13 @ 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
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Sunday 9/13 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Did you know that the musical heritage of China is one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back...
Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs
Sunday 9/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Israeliness™ is an Israeli-style, bi-weekly program for families with young children, focusing on Israeli culture and conducted entirely in Hebrew. Moms,...
AsiaStore SALE Event: Scholars' Rocks
Sunday 9/13 @ Asia Society and Museum
Experience the power of 'spirit stones' at AsiaStore's special SALE event: Scholars' Rocks! From the collection of Kemin Hu, these stones...
The 5th Annual NYC Shorts Festival Sep 10-13, 2009
Sunday 9/13 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is happy to host this year’s NYC Shorts Festival. Screenings will...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Sunday 9/13 @ 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,...
Sunday 9/13 @ 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....
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Sunday 9/13 @ 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
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Sunday 9/13 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Sunday 9/13 @ 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...
Sunday 9/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
A parent or responsible adult must accompany the child in the water at all times. Children have a positive first experience...
