Events on Sunday, March 21
Performing Arts Sale: All day 3/20 and 3/21
Sunday 3/21 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
We don't have much to add, except a warning to get there early to have plenty of time to dig through...
Housing Works Playhouse presents: Jeremy Plays Guitar
Sunday 3/21 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Jeremy Plays Guitar is a high-energy, fun kid’s band with music that secretly gives kids words to navigate their world. Led...
JapanNite: Red Bacteria Vacuum / Omodaka / JinnnyOops! / Okamato's
Sunday 3/21 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Red Bacterial Vacuum was formed in Osaka in 1998. They live in Tokyo. They released their 2nd album Roller Coster from...
Claire Evans speaks on life in outer space at the Rubin
Sunday 3/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Rock musician Claire Evans, one half of the indie band Yacht, tackles this age-old question with physicist Fred C. Adams, author...
Jay Banerjee & The Heartthrobs w/ The Roulette Sisters / The Debutante Hour / Schwervon!
Sunday 3/21 @ The Mercury Lounge
"The indie world has traveled awfully far in the direction of highbrow nerdism lately—falsetto uh-oh’s, timpani rhythms, vaguely elfin-sounding obscure words....
Gaida & Levantine Indulgence @ (le) poisson rouge
Sunday 3/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Album Release Show and Arabic Mother’s Day Special!
Vocalist Gaida is known for her original and highly personal...
Sunday 3/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
A professor emeritus of physics at the University of Oregon's Institute of Theoretical Science, Amit Goswami is one of a growing...
Lyrics & Lyricists™— Fred and Ginger in So Many Words: The Astaire-Rogers Songbook
Sunday 3/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Deborah Grace Winer, artistic director & host
John Oddo, music director &...
Sunday 3/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
A professor emeritus of physics at the University of Oregon's Institute of Theoretical Science, Amit Goswami is one of a growing...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 3/21 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Sunday 3/21 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Belles Heures (1405-1408/9) of Jean de Berry is one of the most...
Sunday 3/21 @ New York City Center
Bill Cain's fascinating new play gives us a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of Shakespeare and his acting company, the King's...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Sunday 3/21 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
North Atlantic is experimental theater ensemble The Wooster Group’s decidedly downtown answer to the ever-lush musical South Pacific: think of a...
Sunday 3/21 @ Film Forum
Film Forum says: Writer-director Gianni Di Gregorio (co-writer of Gomorrah) also stars in this charming tale of a middle-aged man...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Sunday 3/21 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ BAM
All eyes have been on IFC for its curatorial excellence. This series offers a peek at the international titles that'll fill...
Sunday 3/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin's annual festival for the inquisitive brings together artists, scientists, and even a Tibetan lama to explore the ways of...
Sunday 3/21 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Marielle Heller adapts and stars in this raw and powerful take on Phoebe Gloeckner's autobiographical graphic novel. Diary centers on 15-year-old...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ Film Forum
Film Forum says: “I’m not any worse than anyone else,” protests Van Heflin’s uniformed cop Webb Garwood (“as gabby and depraved...
Sunday 3/21 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Architectural Digest Home Design Show
Sunday 3/21 @ Pier 94
Whether amping up a home theater or finally committing to that Airstream, anyone aiming for a little spring spruce-up should head...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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,...
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
Sunday 3/21 @ Symphony Space
A collective of incredibly brave, anonymous journalists (the VJs of the title aren't your average MTV talking cliche, don't worry), risked...
Sunday 3/21 @ Guggenheim Museum
It's been eight-plus decades since the six arresting paintings in this exhibition have been shown together. Their emphatic use of color...
Sunday 3/21 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 3/21 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Sunday 3/21 @ Symphony Space
Hero or traitor? Such is the debate that has taken place over Daniel Ellsburg's decision to leak thousands of pages of...
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010
Sunday 3/21 @ Various
This popular fest has a reputation of bringing the best of French cinema to our urban backyards. This year's many highlights...
Sunday 3/21 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Sunday 3/21 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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."...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!
Sunday 3/21 @ BAM
The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Sunday 3/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
South African artist William Kentridge paints stark images of apartheid, colonialism, and totalitarianism. Through a wash of pastel and charcoal, he...
Sunday 3/21 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
Legendary British drag rabble-rouser Bette Bourne has 70 years worth of biographical finery to parade about the stage and the skilled...
Sunday 3/21 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Sunday 3/21 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ Landmark Sunshine
The pains of being pure at heart are many in Bradley Rust Gray's The Exploding Girl, a moody, osmotic character study that...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ Landmark Sunshine
This is the second Neil Young film by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense). It captures...
Radiohole: Whatever, Heaven Allows
Sunday 3/21 @ Performance Space 122
A limited number of $1.22 tickets are available
Sunday 3/21 @ Eastern District
Eastern District's group show East Williamsburg addresses that nasty "g word" ("gentrification") with new works by prominent street artists BANK$Y (neé...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ Anthology Film Archives
There are few auteurs who compare to Andrei Tarkovsky in terms of pure rapture: the Russian had an angle to transformative...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Sunday 3/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is one of the finest college or university collections in...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Sunday 3/21 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Sunday 3/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Your ticket to two-for-one admission to the Rubin Museum and six other NYC museum gems. Print it, cut it, and keep...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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....
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Sunday 3/21 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs
Sunday 3/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Israeliness™ is an Israeli-style, bi-weekly program for families with young children, focusing on Israeli culture and conducted entirely in Hebrew. Moms,...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks
Sunday 3/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Always unruly, always virtuosic, Yoshiko Chuma together with lighting designer Rie Ono, choreographer Ursula Eagly, and choreographer Jon Kinzel (who last...
Sunday 3/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Come see photographer Tom Wool's awe-inspiring black and white images of life in the Rongbuk Valley. Wool's sensitive images capture the...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Sunday 3/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 1860s and 1870s, long before collage techniques were being used by avant–garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Sunday 3/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach talks to composer Bruce Adolphe about how he translated the art and ideas of Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572)—whose...
The Human Scale written & performed by Lawrence Wright, directed by Oskar Eustis
Sunday 3/21 @ Joe's Pub
Following up on his essay "Captives" published in the November 9th issue of The New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright...
Sunday 3/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Buried near his tomb in around 1327 B.C., remains from the mummification and funeral of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun were...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Sunday 3/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In this fascinating exhibition, the Tibetan Buddhist belief that death provides an important opportunity for spiritual enlightenment is explored. Upon the...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Lyrics & Lyricists™— Fred and Ginger in So Many Words: The Astaire-Rogers Songbook
Sunday 3/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Deborah Grace Winer, artistic director & host
John Oddo, music director &...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 3/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Ian Wardropper discusses the Met’s recent acquisition of its first work by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783), the Austrian sculptor best...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Sunday 3/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon provides an opportunity for the unprecedented loan of the alabaster mourner figures...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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...
AsiaStore SALE Event: Scholars' Rocks
Sunday 3/21 @ Asia Society and Museum
AsiaStore presents a newly acquired collection from Kemin Hu. Experience the power of scholars' rocks or "spirit stones"—cherished by the Chinese...
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
FAMILY MATTERS: Groove-cation!
Sunday 3/21 @ New York Live Arts
Can’t wait for Spring? Enjoy a much needed escape with Family Matters’ Groove-cation! a soul filled get away with wild dancing,...
Sunday 3/21 @ Asia Society and Museum
Asia Week New York is the city's largest and most diverse series of cultural events focusing on Asian art from India,...
iPassport Raffle: Win an Apple ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport
Sunday 3/21 @ Performance Space 122
Be automatically entered to win a brand new ipod touch with the purchase of a PS122 Passport between now and March...
LOST: The Final Season - A weekly therapy session
Sunday 3/21 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
For season six, Previously on Lost will host weekly gatherings at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn including show screenings, recap performances...
Opera in HD: Wagner's Siegfried
Sunday 3/21 @ Symphony Space
Performed at the Palau de les Arts, "Reina Sofía", Valencia, Spain Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Director: Carlus Padrissa and La Fura...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Sunday 3/21 @ Asia Society and Museum
Presented for the first time to U.S. audiences, this remarkable exhibition brings together more than one hundred extraordinary objects from ten...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Sunday 3/21 @ 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...
Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks
Sunday 3/21 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Always unruly, always virtuosic, Yoshiko Chuma together with lighting designer Rie Ono, choreographer Ursula Eagly, and choreographer Jon Kinzel (who last...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Sunday 3/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
See the eerily beautiful and grotesque images from the Tibetan Buddhist and Christian European traditions in the form of paintings, sculptures,...
