Events on Saturday, January 9

Michael Leonhart
 

Music

Michael Leonhart  

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Joe's Pub

Born into a musical family, Michael Leonhart has developed into one of the most imaginative musicians of his time, sought throughout... 

Passion Pit
 

Music

Passion Pit  

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Terminal 5

Redemption. Paranoia. Guilt. And brief glimpses of a better tomorrow, all cloaked in pop hooks that truly help the medicine go... 

Mondo Mundo Festival

Music: Global

Mondo Mundo Festival

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Hiro Ballroom

For world music lovers on a budget who maybe can't shell out the money for globalFEST, Mondo Mundo has your fix.... 

An Evening with Jeff Bridges

Film

An Evening with Jeff Bridges

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Dudes, we've abided long enough. The Film Society welcomes the new decade with the one-and-only Jeff Bridges, unplugged and in support... 

The Rural Alberta Advantage

Music

The Rural Alberta Advantage

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Mercury Lounge

The Rural Alberta Advantage have been building a growing following since the release of their 2006 self-titled EP. RAA's sparse, acoustic-based... 

Music

Hot Buttered Rum  

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Bowery Presents

Brooklyn Bowl
http://www.brooklynbowl.com
61 Wythe Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 963-3369   The continued expansion of... 

Erick Hawkins Centennial Celebration—Master Class

Dance

Erick Hawkins Centennial Celebration—Master Class

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Poet, philosopher and modern dance pioneer Erick Hawkins developed an integrated life-art philosophy far ahead of his time. Join Hawkins's followers... 

Special Event

Erick Hawkins Centennial Celebration—Symposium Panel I

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Poet, philosopher and modern dance pioneer Erick Hawkins developed an integrated life-art philosophy far ahead of his time. Join Hawkins's followers... 

Lyrics & Lyricists™—Babalu: The American Songbook Goes Latin

Music

Lyrics & Lyricists™—Babalu: The American Songbook Goes Latin

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Lucie Arnaz, artistic director, host & vocals

South-of-the-border rhythms captivated songwriters from... 

Charisma Artist Agency presents: The Two Man Gentlemen Band, Sxip Shirey, Christabel and the Jons and More

Festival: Music

Charisma Artist Agency presents: The Two Man Gentlemen Band, Sxip Shirey, Christabel and the Jons and More

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92YTribeca

Representing some of the finest artists specializing in a broad array of Americana, World, Roots, Bluegrass, Indie, Rockabilly, Swing, Avant Garde... 

2010 Winter Jazzfest

Music

2010 Winter Jazzfest

Saturday 1/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Saturday 01.09.10
2010 Winter
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Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny

Performing Arts: Puppetry

Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Symphony Space

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia (the company behind the black light puppet production of The Very Hungry Caterpillar) returns with its... 

Music

Prefuse73

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Performing with: Gaslamp Killer / Voices Voices Prefuse 73 is the alias of Scott Herren, an experimental hip-hop producer whose material... 

Half-Life

Film

Half-Life

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92YTribeca

Director Jennifer Phang in person for Q&A.

"An absorbing, often mesmerizing pre-apocalyptic... 

Dance

Erick Hawkins Centennial Celebration—Reception

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Poet, philosopher and modern dance pioneer Erick Hawkins developed an integrated life-art philosophy far ahead of his time. Join Hawkins's followers... 

Sundays at Three: Shemy Curates

Dance

Sundays at Three: Shemy Curates

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Israeli choreographer Deganit Shemy brings together a group of colleagues for an afternoon of solos and an excerpt of Shemy's recent... 

Lyrics & Lyricists™—Babalu: The American Songbook Goes Latin

Music

Lyrics & Lyricists™—Babalu: The American Songbook Goes Latin

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Lucie Arnaz, artistic director, host & vocals
... 

Vagabond Opera with special guest Lady Rizo

Performing Arts

Vagabond Opera with special guest Lady Rizo

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Joe's Pub

"A Vagabond Opera show is a chance to time-travel. Specifically, to 1920s Paris. On a riverboat. With a glass of absinthe... 

Music

ALL

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Performing with Off With Their Heads / Shot Baker Milo went to college, and ALL was born. Rather than quietly lay... 

Urs Fischer’s Film Selections

Film

Urs Fischer’s Film Selections

Saturday 1/ 9 @ New Museum

In conjunction with "Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty," Urs Fischer selects a group of films to be screened in
... 

Dance

Erick Hawkins Centennial Celebration—Performance

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Join the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, directed by Katherine Duke, for an evening of re-created master works.

... 

Music

ALL

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Off With Their Heads / Shot Baker Milo went to college, and ALL was born. Rather than quietly lay down their... 

Kelly Saint Patrick

Music

Kelly Saint Patrick

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92YTribeca

Kelly Saint Patrick is a small town girl. Pittston, PA to be exact. After her run as a co-host for a... 

Special Event

Erick Hawkins Centennial Celebration—Symposium Panel II

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Poet, philosopher and modern dance pioneer Erick Hawkins developed an integrated life-art philosophy far ahead of his time. Join Hawkins's followers... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Re:Construction

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Various locations

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

Margaret de Lange: <em>Daughters</em>

Art: Photography

Margaret de Lange

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Foley Gallery

Black-and-white photographs practically bleed nostalgia, and Margaret de Lange's gorgeous chromogenic prints are no exception. Her series Daughters was shot between... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Paragraph

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

Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Art

Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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'... 

TEMPORARY DISTORTION: Americana Kamikaze

Theatre

TEMPORARY DISTORTION: Americana Kamikaze

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Theatre

A View From the Bridge

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Tim Burton

Art

Tim Burton

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project presents <em>The Two Noble Kinsmen</em>

Theatre

Two Noble Kinsmen

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Behind the Screen</em>

Special Event

Behind the Screen

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Museum of the Moving Image

Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But... 

<em>Smudge</em>

Theatre

Smudge

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Jeffrey Vallance: <em>Relics & Reliquaries</em>, Mark Dion: <em>Travels of William Bartram, Reconsidered</em>&nbsp;and <em>Strange Travelers</em>

Art

Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Jeffrey Vallance is an artist of all trades, whose prolific work often results in sculptural assemblages, installations, and conceptually based series,... 

Patti Smith and Steven Sebring: <em>Objects of Life</em>

Art

Patti Smith and Steven Sebring

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Robert Miller Gallery

Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural... 

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

Art

Vestie Davis' New York

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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,... 

Augustus Goertz: <em>Modern Archaeology</em>

Art

Augustus Goertz

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Kim Foster Gallery

Although completely abstract, New York artist Augustus Goertz' paintings are not unlike JMW Turner's 18th-century contemplation of the impending clash between... 

<em>Brief Encounter</em>

Theatre

Brief Encounter

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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:... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Akira Kurosawa Centennial

Film

Akira Kurosawa Centennial

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Theatre

Lear

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Pablo Bronstein at the Met
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Art

Pablo Bronstein at the Met  

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

PIXELVILLE

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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,... 

Under the Radar Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Under the Radar Festival

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Various locations

For the sixth year, Under the Radar producer Mark Russell rounds up a frenetic 12 days of emerging works, fanning out... 

<em>American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion</em>

Fashion/Style

American Beauty

Saturday 1/ 9 @ FIT Museum

American Beauty unveils the beauty within — within form, that is. The art of dressmaking yields great insight into the philosophy... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Art

Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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>Time Stands Still</em>

Theatre

Time Stands Still

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Biltmore Theater

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

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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,... 

<em>Ernest in Love</em>

Theatre

Ernest in Love

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Race</em>

Theatre

Race

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Saturday 1/ 9 @ New World Stages

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

Charles Dickens' <em>A Christmas Carol</em>

Special Event

A Christmas Carol

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Morgan Library

J.P. Morgan loved to purchase art from every era. This amazing eclecticism is reflected in his museum's rotating exhibition schedule, which... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Artists and Fleas

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

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

Art

Thomas Chambers

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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>The White Ribbon</em>

Film

The White Ribbon

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Film Forum

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

Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Romeo and Juliet

Performing Arts

Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Romeo and Juliet

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Kitchen

[if... 

2010 NYC Winter Jazzfest

Festival: Music

Winter Jazzfest

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Various Village venues

Winter Jazzfest lifts the music out of stuffy, overpriced clubs and sets it in more casual Village venues such as Kenny's... 

Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World

Special Event

Traveling the Silk Road

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Saturday 1/ 9 @ IFC Center

Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematic extreme to... 

<em>Rock Garden</em>

Art

Rock Garden

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Salon 94 Freemans

The downtown outpost of uptown gallery Salon 94 presents a blissed-out group show of work based on Zen Buddhist rock gardens.... 

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

Art: Photography

Penelope Umbrico

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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> Circle Mirror Transformation</em>

Theatre

Circle Mirror Transformation

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Playwrights Horizons

What transpires onstage during Circle Mirror Transformation is heartfelt, funny, and wonderfully moving. The setting is an adult drama class in... 

Robert Williams:<em> Conceptual Realism: In the Service of the Hypothetical </em>

Art

Robert Williams

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery

Robert Williams is a legend in the mythology of lowbrow, pop surrealist, hot-rod visual art. Founder of Juxtapoz and darling of... 

Sekou (tha Misfit) and Steve Connell: <em>The Word Begins</em>

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

The Word Begins

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Public Theater

The Public Theatre's ambitious and acclaimed Under the Radar Festival brings performance and theater artists from around the world to Astor... 

<em>Present Laughter</em>

Theatre

Present Laughter

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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>Carmen</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Carmen

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Metropolitan Opera House

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

<em>The Myopia</em>

Performing Arts

The Myopia

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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>Sweetgrass</em>

Film: Documentary

Sweetgrass

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Mulchfest 2010

City Gems

Mulchfest

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Parks citywide

Don't know what to do with those pesky bits and pieces of the holiday season that seem to be lingering in... 

<em>Little Gem</em>

Theatre

Little Gem

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Flea Theater

A winner at both the 2009 Dublin and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Little Gem comes to the Flea courtesy of the Carol... 

<em>A Little Night Music</em>

Theatre

A Little Night Music

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Company XIV presents <em>The Apple Trilogy</em>: <em>Snow White</em>

Dance

Snow White

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

<em> In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) </em>

Theatre

In the Next Room

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Lyceum Theatre, 149 West 45th Street

Feminist playwright Sarah Ruhl lets us in on the "medicinal" uses of the first vibrators. Set in the late 19th-century, In... 

<em>Loaded</em>

Theatre

Loaded

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row

Patrick (Kevin Spirtas) and Jude (Scott Kerns) are in the getting-to-know-you-better stage of their relationship after meeting through the Internet and... 

<em>Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity</em>

Art

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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,... 

Jim McHugh: <em>Let's Get Lost</em>

Art: Photography

Jim McHugh

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Farmani Gallery

As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of... 

<em>My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?</em>

Film

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

Saturday 1/ 9 @ IFC Center

More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is... 

<em>The New Typography</em>

Art

The New Typography

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos: <em>A Light Conversation</em>

Dance

A Light Conversation

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Joyce Soho

Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos return to the intimate space of the Joyce Soho to present an hour-long piece that addresses... 

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

Special Event

Candide at 250

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

MEGAN V. SPRENGER/mvworks: ...within us.

Dance

MEGAN V. SPRENGER/mvworks: ...within us.

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

Presented as part of COIL 2010   "It is both striking and antiseptic. You think of office spaces, study halls, waiting... 

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Art

Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Monet's Water Lilies

Art

Monet's Water Lilies

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Pulitzer–winning Author Elizabeth Strout on Two Paintings by Winslow Homer / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Pulitzer–winning Author Elizabeth Strout on Two Paintings by Winslow Homer / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

Art

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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

WAXFACTORY: Blind.ness (Love is a Four-Letter Word)

Theatre

WAXFACTORY: Blind.ness (Love is a Four-Letter Word)

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

Presented as part of COIL 2010 Offsite* at Abrons Arts Center
"You'll go wild for this" - John Del Signore,... 

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Art

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia

Art

Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Art

Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture    

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Kitchen

This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and... 

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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Tours

Art

Tours

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Artist Kara Walker Discusses "The Power of Music" / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Artist Kara Walker Discusses "The Power of Music" / American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Art

Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

LISA D'AMOUR & KATIE PEARL with EMILY JOHNSON: Terrible Things

Theatre

LISA D'AMOUR & KATIE PEARL with EMILY JOHNSON: Terrible Things

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

RAYMOND SCANNELL & TOM CREED:  Mimic

Theatre

RAYMOND SCANNELL & TOM CREED: Mimic

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

Presented as part of COIL 2010 "A compelling constellation... vertiginous, playful and poignant" - Irish Theatre Magazine
Best Male Performer,... 

Bauhaus Lounge

Art

Bauhaus Lounge

Saturday 1/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


See also Bauhaus Lab
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops... 

Careful

Film

Careful

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 92YTribeca

Part of the Guy Maddin series.

Guy Maddin's early masterpiece takes place... 

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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Celebrating 50 Years - Exhibit at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Lincoln Center

FREE Exhibition Now - January... 

Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Velázquez Rediscovered

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Art

Mandala: The Perfect Circle now open

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator Mike Hearn takes us inside the extraordinary world of Luo Ping, discussing the range and brilliance of the artist's vision.... 

New Photography 2009

Art: Photography

New Photography 2009

Saturday 1/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of... 

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Art

Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

GISELE VIENNE/JONATHAN CAPDEVILLE/DENNIS COOPER: Jerk

Performing Arts: Puppetry

GISELE VIENNE/JONATHAN CAPDEVILLE/DENNIS COOPER: Jerk

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival   Jerk might be unbearable for some. But... 

Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Art

Last Chance—American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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,... 

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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Art

Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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: 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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

ROTOZAZA & ANT HAMPTON: GuruGuru

Special Event

ROTOZAZA & ANT HAMPTON: GuruGuru

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

You have been told what to do every moment of the day, for years on end. The voice in your headphones... 

The &ldquo;Young Archer&rdquo; Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast

Art

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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Paul Sietsema

Art

Paul Sietsema

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

MORGAN THORSON & LOW: Heaven

Dance

MORGAN THORSON & LOW: Heaven

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

Presented as part of COIL 2010   BEST CHOREOGRAPHER 2008 - Best of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St.Paul City Pages
... 

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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Gabriel Orozco

Art

Gabriel Orozco

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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: Vermeer's Masterpiece “The Milkmaid”

Art

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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Art

Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX

Saturday 1/ 9 @ New Museum

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

THE NATIONAL THEATER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: CHAUTAUQUA!

Theatre

THE NATIONAL THEATER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: CHAUTAUQUA!

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

Presented as part of COIL 2010 in association with Under The Radar Festival
Offsite* at The Public Theater
... 

COIL 2010

Festival

COIL 2010

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

tickets are going fast - book now and get in on the action... 14 companies. 12 days. Breathtaking performance.  "How much... 

Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Art

Last Chance—Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Now on view at the Met is the most extraordinary and comprehensive exhibition... 

Victorious Ones Now Open

Art

Victorious Ones Now Open

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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.  ... 

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Art

Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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: Velázquez Rediscovered

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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,... 

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

Art

“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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... 

EDGAR OLIVER: East 10th Street; Self Portrait with Empty House

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

EDGAR OLIVER: East 10th Street; Self Portrait with Empty House

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

"I could have sat there listening to Edgar Oliver all night." - Culturebot Presented as part of COIL 2010 with Brian... 

LEESAAR THE COMPANY: Prima

Dance

LEESAAR THE COMPANY: Prima

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Performance Space 122

Presented as part of COIL 2010 Offsite* at the Jewish Community Center "LeeSaar's dances always require unwavering attention" - Jennifer Dunning,... 

Last Chance—Eccentric  Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Art

Last Chance—Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)

Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The first comprehensive exhibition of Luo Ping’s paintings ever presented in America, Eccentric... 

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

Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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,... 

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Art

Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes

Saturday 1/ 9 @ Asia Society and Museum

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