Events on Sunday, January 31

Music: Classical

Guitar Marathon: Bach — Session 2

Sunday 1/31 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

 Soundcheck's John Schaefer hosts this full-day celebration of the great baroque composer featuring virtuoso lutenist Paul O'Dette, a longtime scholar and... 

The Brooklyn Taco Experiment

Food/Wine

The Brooklyn Taco Experiment

Sunday 1/31 @ The Bell House-

Former rivals and full-time cookoff enthusiasts Theo Peck and Nick Suarez go head to head to pinpoint the tastiest and most... 

Guitar Marathon: Bach — Session 1

Music: Classical

Guitar Marathon: Bach — Session 1

Sunday 1/31 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Soundcheck's John Schaefer hosts this full-day celebration of the great baroque composer featuring virtuoso lutenist Paul O'Dette, a longtime scholar and... 

Housing Works Playhouse Concert: Peter Yarrow

Special Event: Benefit

Housing Works Playhouse Concert: Peter Yarrow

Sunday 1/31 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary plays a benefit concert for children and families. Peter Yarrow’s gift
... 

Redhooker w/ Arturo en el Barco

Music: Experimental

Redhooker w/ Arturo en el Barco

Sunday 1/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Redhooker
Stephen Griesgraber is no stranger to locals who have followed this burgeoning trend: His guitar provides a
... 

Revitalizing and Reinventing Your Life

Special Event

Revitalizing and Reinventing Your Life

Sunday 1/31 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Laura Berman Fortgang, Ellen J. Langer, PhD, and Frank Lipman, MD

The... 

PRISM Quartet: 25th Anniversary Concert

Music: Classical

PRISM Quartet: 25th Anniversary Concert

Sunday 1/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Sunday 01.31.09
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An Albatross

Music

An Albatross

Sunday 1/31 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

An Albatross plus RICE, Wharton Tiers Ensemble, Marc Edwards / Weasel Walter Group   An Albatross is a psychedelic sonic orgasm;... 

Music

Luke Elliot / A Family Plot / Next Tribe / Beatbox Guitar

Sunday 1/31 @ The Mercury Lounge

Ongoing Events

Akira Kurosawa Centennial

Film

Akira Kurosawa Centennial

Sunday 1/31 @ 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:... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Sunday 1/31 @ New World Stages

After a long and successful run on Broadway, Avenue Q makes a smooth transition to its new home at New World... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 1/31 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

Tim Burton

Art

Tim Burton

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Venus in Fur</em>

Theatre

Venus in Fur

Sunday 1/31 @ Classic Stage Company

David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Sunday 1/31 @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... 

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Carmen</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Carmen

Sunday 1/31 @ Metropolitan Opera House

There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by... 

Penelope Umbrico: <em>Leonards for Leonard</em> & <em>5,537,594 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 5/30/09</em>

Art: Photography

Penelope Umbrico

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>The Myopia</em>

Performing Arts

The Myopia

Sunday 1/31 @ Atlantic Stage Two

The intricate wit of downtown darling David Greenspan has time and again charmed theatergoers who demand a strong dose of smarts... 

<em>Time Stands Still</em>

Theatre

Time Stands Still

Sunday 1/31 @ Biltmore Theater

Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of... 

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
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Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>A Little Night Music</em>

Theatre

A Little Night Music

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Black Angels Over Tuskegee</em>

Theatre

Black Angels Over Tuskegee

Sunday 1/31 @ St. Luke’s Theatre (308 West 46th Street)

Award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee addreses an overlooked part of  history: the first African-American fighter pilots in the... 

<em>Teaser Cow</em>

Theatre

Teaser Cow

Sunday 1/31 @ 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.... 

<em>Present Laughter</em>

Theatre

Present Laughter

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Smudge</em>

Theatre

Smudge

Sunday 1/31 @ Women's Project

Known for her work on The Daily Show, two-time Emmy Award-winning writer Rachel Axler transfers her talents to the stage with... 

<em>The New Typography</em>

Art

The New Typography

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>The Pride</em>

Theatre

The Pride

Sunday 1/31 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

Alexi Kaye Campbell's first play is an ambitious, time-bending exploration of gay identity with dialogue that's reminiscent of the old-school wit... 

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Sunday 1/31 @ 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,... 

The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast

Art

The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast

Sunday 1/31 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator Carmen Bambach discusses the life and work of the painter, draftsman, teacher, and poet Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572) on the... 

<em>Daddy</em>

Theatre

Daddy

Sunday 1/31 @ TBG Theatre

Dan Via's Daddy is about the relationship between columnist Colin (Gerald McCullouch) and law professor Stew (Via). These successful, middle-aged gay... 

<em>Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris</em>

Art: Photography

Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris

Sunday 1/31 @ International Center of Photography

Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for... 

Nivi Alroy and Shirley Shor: <em>PIXELVILLE</em>

Art

PIXELVILLE

Sunday 1/31 @ 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,... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 1/31 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 1/31 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

NYC Restaurant Week, Winter 2010

Food/Wine

Restaurant Week

Sunday 1/31 @ Various locations

NYC Restaurant Week is back for those whose delicate palates suffer the need to choose frugality over taste. From the fashionably... 

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Art

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Sunday 1/31 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)

After last season's successful run on Off-Broadway, Fela! takes its rightful place on the Great White Way. Choreographer Bill T. Jones'... 

<em>Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves</em>

Art

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves

Sunday 1/31 @ The Morgan Library

Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off... 

<em>Ages of the Moon</em>

Theatre

Ages of the Moon

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Sunday 1/31 @ Barrow Street Theater

David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... 

<em>The White Ribbon</em>

Film

The White Ribbon

Sunday 1/31 @ Film Forum

In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 1/31 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

The Bridge Project: <em>As You Like It</em>

Theatre

The Bridge Project: As You Like It

Sunday 1/31 @ BAM

Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Rififi</em> (1955)

Film

Rififi

Sunday 1/31 @ IFC Center

After he was blacklisted, American crime master Jules Dassin booked a one-way trip across the Atlantic. He stopped first in London... 

<em>Vestie Davis' New York</em>

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Sunday 1/31 @ 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,... 

<em>Safe Home</em>

Theatre

Safe Home

Sunday 1/31 @ Women's Interart Center

Actor Sean Cullen spent 16 years writing this debut play and the extensive incubation has clearly paid off. Inspired... 

<em>Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey</em>

Art

Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey

Sunday 1/31 @ Museum of Arts and Design

Although she produced art in many mediums, from painting to photography, Viola Frey's lasting imprint can be found in ceramics. As... 

Theatre

A View From the Bridge

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Mr. and Mrs. Fitch</em>

Theatre

Mr. and Mrs. Fitch

Sunday 1/31 @ Second Stage Theatre

Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Missed Connections NYC</em>: From the Pages of Craigslist to the Ars Nova Stage

Theatre

Missed Connections NYC

Sunday 1/31 @ Ars Nova Theater

Ripped straight from the online pages of Craigslist, this evening of theatre and music delves into those brief encounters with amusingly... 

<em>A Lie of the Mind</em>

Theatre

A Lie of the Mind

Sunday 1/31 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row

Ethan Hawke revives Sam Shepard's 1985 play about an act of violence that sets off a strange series of events. This... 

<em>The Jackie Look</em>

Special Event

The Jackie Look

Sunday 1/31 @ Laurie Beechman Theater

Book editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir. It's appropriate, then, that Karen Finley begins The Jackie Look with a... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Word Is Out</em> (1977)

Film: Documentary

Word Is Out

Sunday 1/31 @ Anthology Film Archives

Made in 1977 by the ad hoc Mariposa Film Group, this seminal record of LGBT life in America plaits together 26... 

<em>Race</em>

Theatre

Race

Sunday 1/31 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

David Mamet gets his teeth back in this fast-paced and highly entertaining new play. The all-star cast handle Mametese with aplomb... 

hotINK 2010 International Festival of Play Readings

Theatre

hotINK 2010

Sunday 1/31 @ Tisch School of the Arts

Each year, hotINK scours the world to put forth powerful new plays, and this year rounds up promising works from Uganda,... 

<em>Ernest in Love</em>

Theatre

Ernest in Love

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Theatre

Lear

Sunday 1/31 @ Soho Rep

Young Jean Lee's irreverent, deconstructionist take on King Lear is both fascinating and frustrating. The 80-minute, intermission-less play opens midway through... 

Thomas Chambers: <em>American Marine and Landscape Painter</em>

Art

Thomas Chambers

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Clybourne Park</em>

Theatre

Clybourne Park

Sunday 1/31 @ Playwrights Horizons

Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the... 

<em>Candide</em> at 250: Scandal and Success

Special Event

Candide at 250

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>A Room and a Half</em>

Film

A Room and a Half

Sunday 1/31 @ Film Forum

There's a beautiful plasticity to Andrey Khrzhanovsky's A Room and a Half, an ode to the exiled poet Joseph Brodsky and... 

Herb Brown: <em>Paintings and Video Works from the 1960s</em>

Art

Herb Brown

Sunday 1/31 @ BLT Gallery

Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized... 

Downtown Alliance presents <em>Re:Construction</em>

Art

Re:Construction

Sunday 1/31 @ Various locations

Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried... 

<em>Miroslav Tich&yacute;</em>

Art: Photography

Miroslav Tichý

Sunday 1/31 @ International Center of Photography

"If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world."... 

<em>Collecting Biennials</em>

Art

Collecting Biennials

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Sunday 1/31 @ 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 &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Art

The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

The Drawings of Bronzino

Art

The Drawings of Bronzino

Sunday 1/31 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The exhibition The Drawings of Bronzino, on view through April 18, is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), and includes nearly... 

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Art

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia

Art

Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Art

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Art

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Mark Bittman and Danny Meyer Discuss John Sloan's “Chinese Restaurant” / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Mark Bittman and Danny Meyer Discuss John Sloan's “Chinese Restaurant” / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

H BOX

Film

H BOX

Sunday 1/31 @ New Museum

The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: A New Look at Sargent's Venice

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Tours

Art

Tours

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Art

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Art

Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition

Sunday 1/31 @ 92YTribeca

92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes.... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Two Historians of New York City’s Lower East Side Discuss George Bellows’s “Cliff Dwellers” / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Two Historians of New York City’s Lower East Side Discuss George Bellows’s “Cliff Dwellers” / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Sunday 1/31 @ 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,... 

Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection

Art

Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Art

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Sunday 1/31 @ Asia Society and Museum

... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Sunday 1/31 @ 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.... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Gabriel Orozco

Art

Gabriel Orozco

Sunday 1/31 @ 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: Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Sunday 1/31 @ 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,... 

OPERA IN HD:  Thais

Film

OPERA IN HD: Thais

Sunday 1/31 @ Symphony Space

Performed at Teatro Regio, Turin, Italy 2009

Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Director, Choreographer, Sets,
Costumes and... 

Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Art

Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Sunday 1/31 @ New Museum

Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live... 

&ldquo;Medieval Garden Enclosed&rdquo; on the Met Blog.

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Sunday 1/31 @ 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

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

OPERA IN HD: Verdi's Falstaff

Film

OPERA IN HD: Verdi's Falstaff

Sunday 1/31 @ Symphony Space

Performed at Opéra Royal De Wallonie, Liège, Belgium 2010 Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni
Director, Choreographer, Sets, Costumes and Lights: Stefano... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Velázquez Rediscovered

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Romare Bearden&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Block&rdquo;

Art

Romare Bearden’s “The Block”

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

THALIA FILM SUNDAYS: Seraphine (Winner of 7 Cesar Awards)

Film

THALIA FILM SUNDAYS: Seraphine (Winner of 7 Cesar Awards)

Sunday 1/31 @ Symphony Space

2008. Martin Provost. France. 125 min. Color

7 César Awards: Best Picture & Best Actress

... 

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Sita Sings the Blues

Film: Animation

Sita Sings the Blues

Sunday 1/31 @ Symphony Space

2007. Nina Paley. USA. 82 min. Color Berlin International Film Festival: Crystal Bear Denver International Film Festival: Emerging Filmmaker Award San...