Events on Saturday, September 26
MoMA MiXX w/ Hercules & Love Affair
Saturday 9/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For the MoMA MiXX launch party, the first in a series of events that pairs major artists with world-renowned musicians and...
Saturday 9/26 @ Queens Museum of Art
Whose cuisine will rein supreme? Our local boys Calexico took home the gold last year (their cart is just a couple...
Showpaper Benefit feat. Shilpa Ray
Saturday 9/26 @ Kidd Yellin Gallery
Couldn't make the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Radio City show last week? Still mourning the break-up of the Harlem Shakes? Showpaper, the...
Saturday 9/26 @ Jazz at Lincoln Center
Just shy of the big eight-zero, saxophonist Ornette Coleman is one of the only surviving jazz giants. He practically invented "free...
Saturday 9/26 @ The Kitchen
Kick off the fall season with a free, family-friendly street festival featuring an afternoon of live performances alongside dozens of artist-led...
Saturday 9/26 @ The Mercury Lounge
These Arms Are Snakes. A natural force, that thunders with constant contradiction and challenge. Self-described as, “Four men with a chronic...
Saturday 9/26 @ Joe's Pub
Having toured over 400 gigs over the last 3 years including recent Counting Crows support in the...
Saturday 9/26 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Not Coming to a Theater Near You, presented by the film blog of the same name. Editors...
Saturday 9/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 09.26.09
I Love Vinyl
10pm
$5 (plus $5 well drinks b4 11pm)
Strictly 21+
This...
Lecture—Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”: Discreet Object of Desire
Saturday 9/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Johannes Vermeer’s famous painting The Milkmaid (ca. 1657–58) is currently on loan from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, to the Met through November...
Saturday 9/26 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Since early 2000, Philadelphia's BROTHERS PAST have managed to...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/26 @ powerHouse Arena
This cleverly titled one-man show turns mainstream media's perception of hip-hop on its head. Photographer Trevor Traynor notes the double entendre...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics
Saturday 9/26 @ Judson Memorial Church
Questions about psychedelics are generally met with myths and hysteria as colorful or horrifying as some of the trips themselves. It...
Saturday 9/26 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 9/26 @ Music Box Theatre
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) comes a lighter, comedic take on Midwestern life. A pot-smoking donut shop owner...
Saturday 9/26 @ Film Forum
"How'd you like to wake up in the morning and be him?" slurs delusional prizefighter Stacy Keach in this late-career tour...
Saturday 9/26 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Night Watcher, actress Charlayne Woodard passionately describes the role of Auntie that she provides to the children of family,...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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,...
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ Tilton Gallery
The German artist's second solo exhibition at the Tilton Gallery features paintings of female figures on central display. Lucas' evident confidence...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ Governors Island
The Second Annual Governors Island Art Fair, curated by the 4heads Collective, launches September 5, presenting a selection of work by...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ American Airlines Theater
Patrick Marber's (Closer) highly anticipated After Miss Julie transplants August Strindberg's 1888 classic to the eve of the British Labour Party's...
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Reviving a play from 2001 may seem hasty, but Lucy Thurber's Killers and Other Family thrives in 2009. This one-act thriller...
Saturday 9/26 @ Cinema Village
For his follow-up to In Search of Mozart, British documentarian Phil Grabsky crafts an absorbing portrait of our old friend Ludwig...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ Gagosian Gallery
Arguably Japan's best-known contemporary artist and recipient of a major retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum last summer, Takashi Murakami returns with...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Various DUMBO locations
For more than a decade, the Dumbo Arts Center has been at the forefront of the DIY and gonzo art movement,...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Legendary avant-garde filmmaker Alain Resnais opens the NYFF's strongest lineup in years with Wild Grass, which beguiled critics at Cannes. Other...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Grey Art Gallery at NYU
Thanks be to the senior Aboriginal Australian painters who gave their blessing for this superlative, uber-rare exhibition spotlighting the early work...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
With all the talk about health care, death and dying are still issues we tend to avoid as a society. The...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ The Living Theatre
A misunderstood girl like Lizzie Borden deserves nothing less than her own rock musical, and Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan...
Saturday 9/26 @ Various locations
With more 200 shows in 17 days, even the most hardcore theatergoer can only see a fraction of Fringe NYC's offerings....
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ MoMA PS1
In the post-Bush spirit of amity between France and the US, top chefs from Paris and New York gather to concoct...
Saturday 9/26 @ Marlborough Chelsea
This exhibition follows Will Ryman's popular springtime showing of The Bed at the Saatchi Gallery Project Room in London. Here, the...
Saturday 9/26 @ Groupe
Sometimes Gawker can get a bit too snarky for its own good. But Gizmodo, the gadget wing of the online publishing...
Rendez-vous with Juliette Binoche
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ New York City Center
Fall for Dance this year celebrates the centenary of Ballets Russes, the Paris-based Russians who made ballet artistically relevant. Reconstructions include...
Saturday 9/26 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Alexander Dinelaris' Still Life is a smart examination of talented thirtysomethings stuck in neutral. Carrie Ann (Sarah Paulson), a photographer who...
Saturday 9/26 @ Angelika Film Center
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Last Chance— Watteau, Music, and Theater
Saturday 9/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This is the first exhibition of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s paintings in the United States...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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....
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ New Museum
A Proposition by Kara Walker: The object of Painting is the subjugated Body. The Painter is the colonizing entity. How do...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Saturday 9/26 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is proud to announce the release of its complete menu with food by Blue Ribbon. On August 4, 2009,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 9/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Walter Liedtke discusses the unique patronage of Johannes Vermeer and its influence on the artistic and psychological aesthetic of The...
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Saturday 9/26 @ 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,...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction...
Last Chance—Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Saturday 9/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 9/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Co-curators Jeffrey Munger and Meredith Chilton discuss the details of a delightful dessert table with culinary historian Ivan Day. This table...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Cupola Bobber: Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me
Saturday 9/26 @ Performance Space 122
N.Y. PREMIERE
"What Samuel Beckett doing standup would be." - trailorpilot "A special talent for alternative performance-making of disarmingly...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Saturday 9/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
Last Chance— Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 9/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Du Paquier ceramic manufactory, founded by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in Vienna...
Saturday 9/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
This is a monthly gathering for families with special-needs children to celebrate Shabbat in an emotionally safe and welcoming environment. Starts...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 9/26 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Download a Free Audio Tour Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection is the Rubin Museum's newest exhibition and latest offering of Himalayan art and culture. ...
Looking at Music: Side 2 film series
Saturday 9/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
