Events on Saturday, September 5
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Posters for the Future
Saturday 9/ 5 @ New Museum
Saturday 9/ 5 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Yayhoos are an Americana supergroup, made up of some of the best musicians in American music. The four members bring...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ The Mercury Lounge
Benjy Ferree is a singer/songwriter from Prince George’s County, Maryland. Though his songs are reminiscent of American Roots Music, Ferree’s influences...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ New Museum
Warp Films presents a series of free screenings at the New Museum as part of Warp20. For a detailed listing please...
Light Up The Night w/ Tackleberry, Mike McGill, Daniel Auster
Saturday 9/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tackleberry & Mike McGill of WNYU’s A Downtown Affair have teamed up with Daniel...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Musicians often head to New York, it‘s a familiar...
Enyenison Enkama feat Dr. Ivor Miller, Roman Diaz, Angel Guerrero, Pedro Martinez
Saturday 9/ 5 @ Joe's Pub
Following in the footsteps of...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ Joe's Pub
"Innocence and cynicism, sly humor and deep melancholy, chastity and passion, the ancient and the modern, all...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Frequenting late-night jazz shows at the strange Broker Inn...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Landmark Sunshine
After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word...
Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz
Saturday 9/ 5 @ Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (Broadway at 60th St, 5th fl, 212.258.9595)
Brazilian jazz collective Trio da Paz pack a whole lot of punch. These seasoned musicians have played with everyone from Gato Barbieri to...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ IFC Center
Grease 2 may have ruined the rock musical for you, but Spike Lee's film version of Passing Strange should renew your...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Film Forum
American Casino is nothing new under the Wall Street sun: those Captains of Intemperance lent like there was no tomorrow, resulting...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Film Forum
In Carol Reed's brooding noir, all of 1947 Belfast is on the lookout for IRA leader James Mason. With a bullet...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ IFC Center
Over ten years in the making, We Live in Public documents the life of Internet visionary and "Warhol of the Web"...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:...
Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 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....
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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,...
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Blue Ribbon Full Menu Now DELICIOUSLY available!
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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 9/ 5 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Singles and couples of all ages and levels welcome. A group lesson is held during the first hour of each party....
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Saturday 9/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on...
Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Saturday 9/ 5 @ 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...
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
Saturday 9/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:...
