Events on Sunday, October 3
Thalia Kids' Book Club: Sara Pennypacker and Marla Frazee's Clementine series
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Symphony Space
The author and illustrator team behind the popular Clementine-a funny, independent third-grader who has taken her place alongside such beloved book...
InDigest 1207 Reading Series Arthur Phillips and Sasha Fletcher
Sunday 10/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis in 1969 and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician,...
FALL IN with Justin Bond featuring Musical Director Lance Horne & special guests The Ones
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Joe's Pub
Recently described as "A bar of gold in the new depression" by Hilton Als in the New Yorker, singer, songwriter and...
The Music of Julia Wolfe w/ JACK Quartet
Sunday 10/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Julia Wolfe, cofounder of Bang on a Can, comes to LPR with three passionate works for 8 double basses, string quartet,...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Also Performing: Glasser Featuring Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and members of Solid Gold, Bon Iver, The Rosebuds, Megafaun and more....
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Joe's Pub
Eric Andersen first came to prominence as a performer in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and immediately became part...
The Village Gate's "Old Fashioned Piano Party" w/ host Kevin Michael Murphy and Caleb Hoyer
Sunday 10/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
This brand new weekly open mic night is highly recommended for show-tune lovers, Broadway enthusiasts, "Gleeks", fans of Charles Nelson Reilly,...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 10/ 3 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
It seems like the city's been a flurry of artwork, all dealing with process. Whether we're viewing the installation of an...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Botanica Bar
We love this bar. It's our home away from home, our office away from office. You simply can't find nicer bartenders...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ 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 10/ 3 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Playwright Florencia Lozano revisits her childhood home and the psychological state of her 13-year-old self, in underneathmybed. Escaping Argentina's "Dirty War"...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ 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 10/ 3 @ Various Locations Along the BQE
Designed to look like a large-scale guerilla marketing campaign, this project, which began as a critique of the appropriation of art...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Various locations
If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Various Downtown locations
This is it. The glut. The cornucopia. The land of plenty. Lower Manhattan Arts League has brought together an astounding array...
Another American: Asking and Telling
Sunday 10/ 3 @ DR2 Theatre
Marc Wolf's performance in his one-man show Another American: Asking and Telling is revelatory. As he inhabits the voices of dozens...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ BAM Harvey Theater
We're hard-pressed to think of a better opener to BAM's annual Next Wave Festival than local legend Laurie Anderson. Whether playing...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
An early giant of new American photography, Friedlander's iconic project of photographing the nation's roads from behind the wheel of a...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Barrow Street Theater
Milo, a Serbian astrophysicist who escaped the Balkan war by moving to Japan to teach English, is refusing to leave his...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ 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 10/ 3 @ Various locations in Litchfield
Just a two-hour drive from the city, Litchfield, Connecticut is a great escape for stressed-out city dwellers. Home to a stellar...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Various locations
Fincher isn't a Facebook man, nor is writer Aaron Sorkin, which is probably what makes The Social Network succeed. A tightly...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Cinema Village
Journalist Ruth Gruber received a PhD at age 20, interviewed Virginia Woolf in the 1930s, witnessed Hitler's rise to power, reported...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ St. James Theater
Full-throttle punk (or Green Day's poppy spin on the genre) surges through the Great White Way in American Idiot, the Broadway...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Despite Lincoln Center's construction and recent staff changes at the Film Society, there's one thing that continues to run like clockwork,...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Multiple venues throughout Brooklyn
If you're curious about the artwork that's going down in Greenpoint, this is the weekend to check it out. Greenpoint Open...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Under St. Marks
We don't know if Robert J. Gibbs was bullied, but his Donnie and the Monsters, or The Sock Puppet Play is...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ multiple venues throughout New York City
While we know New Yorker Festival tickets generally seem to sell out before they're even on sale — how does that...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Dead or Alive features completely organic work. That is, all of the art was once alive, as a plant or animal....
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Flea Theater
Replace the '70s references in A.R. Gurney's Office Hours and it could take place today. The questions raised in this passionate...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ 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 10/ 3 @ Discovery Times Square Exposition
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
After an acclaimed run off-Broadway, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ New York City Center
City Center's popular two-week dance inventory has a local feel this year. Two participants have long associations with the venue: as...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Angelika Film Center
It seems an unusual and challenging choice for an adaptation, but with the help of an arsenal of award-winning documentarians (Spurlock,...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ 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 10/ 3 @ Madison Square Park
Take the unique and seasonal design, homeware, and jewelry offerings you find at the Union Square Holiday Market, and combine it...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Actors' Temple Theatre
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...
La Mama Presents: Ritter, Dene, Voss
Sunday 10/ 3 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) was one of the most controversial literary figures of post-war Austria. He had a penchant...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ 372 Ten Eyck St
According to Superchief, this is the "biggest, baddest, most Brooklyn party" New Yorkers have seen. Beginning Saturday morning at 4am, at...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Various locations in Baltimore
For many, Baltimore conjures up visions of the gritty city and abandoned harbor-side warehouses depicted in The Wire. But for those...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ 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 10/ 3 @ Various locations
If you've read Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, then you know what this film is about. If you haven't,...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
We fell in love with Hannibal Buress after watching his hilarious treatise on the absurdity of fire department SUVs; our comedic...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Talk about Nothing video contest
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum is asking Laurie Anderson, Ken Burns, Sandra Bernhard and Eve Ensler what 'nothing' means to them. Now they...
Monthly 30% off Sale! All Day October 2nd and 3rd.
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Enjoy 30% off all books, movies, and music all weekend.
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In excerpts from a 1988 archival recording, photographer Leon Levinstein talks about his work and the experience of photographing in the...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond marks the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine...
The Sullivan Project presents Graham & Frost
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Performance Space 122
Friends, neighbors, countrymen: can they really co-exist? Three men from very different walks of life set about reopening an abandoned restaurant...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Don’t miss this opportunity to see Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop the site-specific installation created for...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, the Met opened a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will be...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Asia Society and Museum
Experience the world of internationally renowned Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Through drawings, paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations, this landmark exhibition links...
The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
First discovered in 1996 during construction on the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway in Lod, Israel, this large and impressive mosaic floor depicting...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ 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 10/ 3 @ BAM
The New York Korean Film Festival returns to BAMcinématek Oct 1-3 with a selection of the best new films from Korea,...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Performance Space 122
With its overlapping of Joseph Roth's novel, reality, and contemporary history, HOTEL SAVOY opens up a world between dream and reality...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shortly after the Met acquired two Viennese silver wine coolers in 2002 from the Sachsen-Teschen Service, the core of the surviving...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography. Drawn almost entirely from the Met’s collection, Between Here and...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Confused by those 40-armed deities? Let Gateway to Himalayan Art break it down for you. In this new introductory exhibition, you'll...
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Don’t miss this major international loan exhibition! The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, on view at...
Sunday 10/ 3 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 10/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Anne Strauss talks to Doug and Mike Starn about their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You...
