Events on Saturday, March 27
Saturday 3/27 @ Meatpacking District
Extreme aesthetes know that the most artful fashion mag around is W. To toast its first-ever Shopping Issue, its experts and...
Saturday 3/27 @ YogaWorks Soho
The latest edition of Get Your Dance On kicks the dance-party-for-the-soul up a notch at YogaWorks Soho, with two floors featuring...
Nada Surf w/ Surprise Special Guests
Saturday 3/27 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Second set to follow New album ‘If I had a Hifi’ only available at shows. Nada Surf bring their trademark sense...
Saturday 3/27 @ 92YTribeca
Introduction by film writer and curator, Miriam Bale
Recently declared the best...
Saturday 3/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
INDA SIMPSON AND MURRAY HILL EXPAND BINGO EMPIRE WITH “LE BINGO!” EVERY SAT!
By popular demand, NYC’s...
Saturday 3/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Shearwater w/ Wye Oak / Hospital Ships
Saturday 3/27 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Shearwater continue to explore the beauty, menace, and fragility of the natural world and that increasingly rare species, the indivisible album...
Mike Doughty @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 3/27 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Mike Doughty is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, blogger, and photographer. He’s also the author of the collection of poetry Slanky and a...
Saturday 3/27 @ Symphony Space
With a magical party atmosphere, San Francisco's The Sippy Cups blend comic stunts, puppets, giant balloons and confetti with their imaginative...
Saturday 3/27 @ The Bowery Presents
For The Grates’ debut album Gravity Won’t Get You High (2006, Interscope Records), their signature animal was a giraffe. It was...
Saturday 3/27 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing at The Bowery Ballroom with Field Music, The Clientele are a four piece group formed in Hampshire, England in 1997....
Saturday 3/27 @ Joe's Pub
It’s futurist. It’s retro. And it’s happening right now – vocalist and songwriter Rhett Frazier and drummer and synth whiz Donny...
Saturday 3/27 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Bitch Blasted Tour 2010: BITCH plus Billie and The Violent Kids, Our Lady J, State Of, & special guest Rachel Sage...
Saturday 3/27 @ The Bowery Presents
Webster Hall www.websterhall.com 125 E 11th St. New York, NY 10003 (212) 353-1600 Miike Snow. Up to this point they’ve...
Saturday 3/27 @ New Museum
Rodney McMillian’s proposition 13 unrelated ideas asks several questions about the nature of performance and includes an original performance in collaboration...
Better than Prince with DJ Anubus and DJ Jay McElfresh at (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Saturday 3/27 @ 92YTribeca
Grant Hart Returns to 92YTribeca! Hart was only 17 when he founded iconic band Hüsker Dü in 1979 with Greg Norton...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ The Duke Theater
Legendary theatere director Peter Brook's Love Is My Sin is an English major's dream come true: an understated staging of Shakespeare's...
Saturday 3/27 @ Various locations
Twenty years ago, this venerable series included Days of Being Wild in its round up of new films by...
Saturday 3/27 @ Metropolitan Opera House
If there's a Shakespeare character who was born to sing, it's got to be Hamlet. Between his father's murder, mother's shacking...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Saturday 3/27 @ Exit Art
Like a goodwill ambassador, Mary Mattingly's floating habitat the Waterpod Project spent five months on New York's highly toxic seas, touring...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Saturday 3/27 @ St. Mark's Church
Postmodern dance legend Deborah Hay was a founding member of the radical Judson Dance Theater, and her 45-year choreographic career has...
Saturday 3/27 @ Landmark Sunshine
This is the second Neil Young film by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense). It captures...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Saturday 3/27 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Lenin’s Embalmers takes what could be a gruesome — or simply dull — topic and transforms it into a riveting dark...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Saturday 3/27 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 3/27 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Saturday 3/27 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Saturday 3/27 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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,...
Saturday 3/27 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Saturday 3/27 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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."...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Saturday 3/27 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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,...
Saturday 3/27 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 3/27 @ Film Forum
Forget Iran: Abbas Kiarostami is simply one of the world's superlative auteurs. And Close-Up, which the Tehran-born filmmaker made in between...
Saturday 3/27 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
Los Angeles painter Alex Couwenberg handles paint like a cross between an austere Minimalist and a high-end pastry chef, wielding the...
Saturday 3/27 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ Angelika Film Center
Between grief and nothing, widower and father-of-two Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) chooses grief — a perfectly Gothic response in Irish dramatist...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Saturday 3/27 @ 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,...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Saturday 3/27 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 3/27 @ 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
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Co-produced by Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are), and featuring the voices of Meryl Streep and Forest Whitaker, Higglety Pigglety...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Saturday 3/27 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Harkness Dance Festival: Molissa Fenley and Friends
Saturday 3/27 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join Molissa Fenley and a sparkling array of her colleagues for performances featuring works by Paz Tanjuaquio, Nora Chipaumire and Penny...
Muslim Voices: The Female Perspective
Saturday 3/27 @ BAM
This sequel to last year’s Muslim Voices series explores the female perspective in the Muslim world. Films include the astonishing documentary...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Saturday 3/27 @ 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
Saturday 3/27 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Saturday 3/27 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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,...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
