Events on Sunday, January 17
Richard Belzer w/ Martin Short
Sunday 1/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
We're not quite sure what they're going to talk about, but put these two guys in a room together and something...
Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Showalter: A Jury of Her Peers—On American Woman Writers
Sunday 1/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
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A discussion between longtime friends and colleagues about Elaine Showalter's A Jury of
Matt the Electrician / Jess Klein
Sunday 1/17 @ Joe's Pub
Once upon a time, there was a young man named Matt Sever. He lived in...
Inon Barnatan, piano and Controllar
Sunday 1/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Bruce Bruno de Mesquita: The Predictioneer’s Game
Sunday 1/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Bruce Bruno de Mesquita is the Julius Silver Professor of Politics at NYU, and the director of the NYU’s Alexander Hamilton...
Carpe Diem String Quartet at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sunday 1/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Vampire Weekend @ United Palace
Sunday 1/17 @ The Bowery Presents
United Palace Theater www.revike.org 4140 Broadway New York, NY 10033-3701 (212) 568-6703 With Special Guests! Mandatory will call for all orchestra...
Sunday 1/17 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Although always as loud as god, it was easy to convince yourself the music of Dinosuar Jr was far more passive...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/17 @ BAM
On May 30 of last year, Brooklyn-based artist Penelope Umbrico keyed "sunset" into Flickr's search engine and received 5,537,594 matches. The...
Sunday 1/17 @ American Airlines Theater
Nicholas Martin's madcap revival of Present Laughter scores some big laughs, even if the subtlety of Noel Coward's original wit becomes...
Sunday 1/17 @ New York Public Library
On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers...
Sunday 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ August Wilson Theatre
Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Sunday 1/17 @ City Hall Park
Peter Coffin, the artist who flew a UFO over the Baltic Sea in summer 2008, takes over City Hall Park with a...
Sunday 1/17 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Sunday 1/17 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The title of this Rubin exhibition cites the "churning" sea of Hinduism's creation belief and the West's for-science explorations of the...
Sunday 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ Linda Gross Theater
Sam Shepard's new one-act two-hander flows effortlessly and ends too quickly, humorously highlighting the fleeting nature of life. After being thrown...
Sunday 1/17 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
TEMPORARY DISTORTION: Americana Kamikaze
Sunday 1/17 @ Performance Space 122
Experimental theatre group Temporary Distortion's Americana Kamikaze deserves the multimedia moniker that so many performances covet. Set in a simple box...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Sunday 1/17 @ IFC Center
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Sunday 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ Various locations
For the sixth year, Under the Radar producer Mark Russell rounds up a frenetic 12 days of emerging works, fanning out...
Sunday 1/17 @ Irish Repertory Theatre
The delightful cast of Ernest in Love doesn't let a weak score get in the way of this whimsical story about...
Sunday 1/17 @ Film Forum
Herding sheep is no easy business. With the furry creatures running every which way across Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth mountains and horses that...
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Sunday 1/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The most comprehensive Bauhaus exhibition ever comes to MoMA this fall after its debut in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall,...
Sunday 1/17 @ Cort Theatre
Arthur Miller's modern tragedy A View from the Bridge could easily veer into melodrama in less skilled hands, but Gregory Mosher's...
Sunday 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A typographic manual and manifesto, Jan Tschichold's 1928 The New Typography heralded a "see" change in how the printed page was...
Sunday 1/17 @ 65 Spring Street
2009 was the year of the pop-up shop, and the temporary retail boutique trend shows no sign of slowing as the...
Sunday 1/17 @ 303 Bond Street
Snow White is the last and tastiest slice of Company XIV's Apple Trilogy (Le Serpent Rouge and The Judgment of Paris...
Sunday 1/17 @ DUMBO Arts Center
The pair collaborates à la a game of Exquisite Corpse, aware of the other's involvement but blind to specific compositional details,...
Sunday 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sunday 1/17 @ Medicine Show Theatre
Famous Elizabethan dramatists include Shakespeare, Marlowe... and John Fletcher? Aye! Fletcher and Shakespeare were both playwrights for the King's Men and...
Sunday 1/17 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
"Give it a sweet melody" was the aesthetic must for Vestie Davis, a painter who froze mid-century New York in winsome,...
Sunday 1/17 @ Film Forum
Ahead of Akira Kurosawa's centenary on March 23, Film Forum more or less runs through the auteur's consummate filmography (on queue:...
Sunday 1/17 @ Playwrights Horizons
What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in...
Sunday 1/17 @ Teatro Circulo (64 E 4th St, 212.505.1808)
Like a McDonald's hamburger, Clay McLeod Chapman's Teaser Cow is made up of countless parts whose origins are hard to trace....
Sunday 1/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also...
Sunday 1/17 @ American Museum of Natural History
Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites...
Sunday 1/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 1/17 @ Atlantic Stage Two
The intricate wit of downtown darling David Greenspan has time and again charmed theatergoers who demand a strong dose of smarts...
Sunday 1/17 @ IFC Center
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Sunday 1/17 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Sunday 1/17 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Take the Whitney lift to floor five if a) you missed the past 80-or-so years of Biennials or b) your inner...
Sunday 1/17 @ Walter Kerr Theatre
Stephen Sondheim's melancholic farce receives a stirring revival due to Trevor Nunn's expertly delicate touch. Nunn elicits several nuanced performances from...
Sunday 1/17 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Emma Rice's inventive adaptation of Noel Coward's Still Life and its 1945 David Lean film charms before the curtain even rises:...
Sunday 1/17 @ Village Vanguard
Fred Hersch has an unusually light touch. His hands glide across the keys with precision, crafting original pieces that are well-constructed...
Sunday 1/17 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Sunday 1/17 @ Various locations
Our winter months are glacial in every sense of the word: they are four-letter-word-shouting cold and pass unbearably slowly. But rather...
Sunday 1/17 @ Kraine Theater
Let's get this out of the way: MANSON: The Musical is not for everyone. You've got to have a pretty twisted...
Sunday 1/17 @ Film Forum
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (born in 1977) has created two new bodies of work that address the nature of the...
Sunday 1/17 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Sunday 1/17 @ American Folk Art Museum
A prolific 19th-century painter who was once considered "America's first modern" for his prepossessing, flat-color land- and seascapes, Thomas Chambers is...
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A technical examination and cleaning of one of the Met’s paintings, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, has revealed a...
Expierence Lincoln Center: $20 Tickets for 20 Days
Sunday 1/17 @ Lincoln Center
$20 Tickets for 20 Days
Now through January 26 Only!
Celebrate the opening of day-of discount tickets at the Zucker...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Sunday 1/17 @ 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...
THALIA FILM SUNDAYS: Four Seasons Lodge
Sunday 1/17 @ Symphony Space
2008. Andrew Jacobs. USA. 101 min. Color. Documentary. "Gorgeously photographed... What is heroic [about] these rowdy, cantankerous survivors is their unquenchable...
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Eric Fischl takes a fresh look at two John Singer Sargent paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday...
Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! From the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I,...
GISELE VIENNE/JONATHAN CAPDEVILLE/DENNIS COOPER: Jerk
Sunday 1/17 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival Jerk might be unbearable for some. But...
Sunday 1/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Paul Sietsema’s ethereal drawings, sculptures, and films explore combinations of color, space, and movement through subjects spanning a broad geographic and...
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Kara Walker offers her interpretation of the painting The Power of Music by William Sidney Mount, on view in the...
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This show from the Met’s permanent collection features the 1971 mural-size collage The Block by Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), as well...
Sunday 1/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photographer Robert Frank discusses his groundbreaking publication The Americans with Jeff Rosenheim, curator at the Met, and Sarah Greenough, curator at...
Sunday 1/17 @ Performance Space 122
tickets are going fast - book now and get in on the action... 14 companies. 12 days. Breathtaking performance. "How much...
What the World Needs Now: Jacob Sterling at Joe's Pub
Sunday 1/17 @ Joe's Pub
"For connoisseurs of atrocious musical theater — and/or whip-smart satire — the fictional Jacob Sterling is a godsend to be eternally...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 1/17 @ 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...
THALIA FILM SUNDAYS: The Horse Boy
Sunday 1/17 @ Symphony Space
2009. Michel Orion Scott. USA. 93 min. Color. Documentary.
“A deeply personal, highly subjective and inarguably thought-provoking story...
Sunday 1/17 @ 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....
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman savors the food shown in two Lilly Martin Spencer paintings in the...
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Elizabeth Strout, imagines the stories behind Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts and The Gale, two...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Beginning in the remote desert community of Papunya in the early 1970s, Australia's...
Sunday 1/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
LISA D'AMOUR & KATIE PEARL with EMILY JOHNSON: Terrible Things
Sunday 1/17 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening...
Sunday 1/17 @ 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. ...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 1/17 @ 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...
Sunday 1/17 @ 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...
EDGAR OLIVER: East 10th Street; Self Portrait with Empty House
Sunday 1/17 @ Performance Space 122
"I could have sat there listening to Edgar Oliver all night." - Culturebot Presented as part of COIL 2010 with Brian...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the...
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman and restaurant owner Danny Meyer discuss the painting Chinese Restaurant by John Sloan in...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Sunday 1/17 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, on view at the Met through September 6, 2010, is the first...
John Carlin & The Kids Music Underground
Sunday 1/17 @ Joe's Pub
'The Sly and the Family Stone of kids' music' - John Carlin & The Kids Music Underground...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson speaks about Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow...
THE NATIONAL THEATER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: CHAUTAUQUA!
Sunday 1/17 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival
Offsite* at The Public Theater
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Sunday 1/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In his films and photographs, Artur Zmijewski (Polish, b. 1966) investigates social norms by observing unusual or invented situations. Seeing his...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of an extraordinary portrait recently reattributed to Velázquez,...
FAMILY MATTERS: 4 Wings, 2 Legs, Ukuleles, and a Tale
Sunday 1/17 @ New York Live Arts
4 Wings, 2 Legs, Ukuleles, and a Tale is a jam packed showcase full of rock bands and family acts, animals,...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! In 1975, the Met acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works...
Sunday 1/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops...
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two historians of New York’s Lower East Side—Joyce Mendelsohn and Annie Polland—discuss Cliff Dwellers, George Bellows's 1913 depiction of the neighborhood,...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Sunday 1/17 @ New Museum
For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum, Urs Fischer has taken over all three of the New Museum’s...
Sunday 1/17 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 BEST CHOREOGRAPHER 2008 - Best of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St.Paul City Pages
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Sunday 1/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
The first solo New York museum exhibition of Japanese artist Yoshihiro Suda features a new work, inspired by pieces from Asia...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”
Sunday 1/17 @ 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...
Sunday 1/17 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Taste of RMA tours offer museum visitors an introduction to Himalayan art, exploring process, materials, iconography, religion, and cultural influence along...
RAYMOND SCANNELL & TOM CREED: Mimic
Sunday 1/17 @ Performance Space 122
Presented as part of COIL 2010 "A compelling constellation... vertiginous, playful and poignant" - Irish Theatre Magazine
Best Male Performer,...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Sunday 1/17 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 1/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of...
