Events on Saturday, April 10
Saturday 4/10 @ LIU Brooklyn Campus, Arnold and Marie Schwartz Center
Combining the vicarious thrills of a contact sport with the unusual spectacle of women battling it out at high speeds on...
Haiti: Beyond Mountains There Are Mountains
Saturday 4/10 @ Art for Change Gallery
The recent devastating earthquake is only the latest obstacle Haitians had to face; decades of economic and political struggle have preceeded...
Saturday 4/10 @ The Mercury Lounge
Hypernova are an excellent rock band not at all out of place on the NYC scene. Thing is, they're from Iran,...
Saturday 4/10 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Saturday 4/10 @ The Mercury Lounge
Freezepop has always been something of an oxymoron: embraced by both hipsters and nerds; serious about irony; and retro-futuristic. A synth...
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Beethovens Last Night
Saturday 4/10 @ The Bowery Presents
On a late night in the spring of 1827 the city of Vienna is experiencing the largest lightning storm in its...
Blue October w/Stars of Track and Field / Hurricane Bells
Saturday 4/10 @ The Bowery Presents
Blue October is a Texas band headquartered in San Marcos, Texas, but is originally from Houston, Texas. Their songs are deep...
Saturday 4/10 @ Asia Society and Museum
A Tibetan film director travels from village to village looking for actors to star in a film based on the Tibetan...
Washed Out / Small Black w/ Pictureplane
Saturday 4/10 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Washed Out is Ernest Greene, a young guy from Georgia (via South Carolina) who makes bedroom synthpop that sounds blurred and...
Saturday 4/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
SOR: Morceau de Concert, Op.54
BACH: Sinfonia from Cantata No. 156, BWV 156 (trans. D. Russell)
BACH: Sinfonia in...
Saturday 4/10 @ 92YTribeca
Divorced, failed writer/junior high school English teacher Miles Raymond embarks on a weeklong road trip to Northern California's wine country with...
ExploreAsia: Lions and Dragons and Beasts, Oh My!
Saturday 4/10 @ Asia Society and Museum
Meet the fantastic creatures in the Asia Society Museum exhibition Arts of Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea and learn about...
Saturday 4/10 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Saturday 4/10 @ The Bowery Ballroom
NEEDTOBREATHE, the hardest working band in the USofA, have been on the road non-stop, touring in support of their new album,...
Saturday 4/10 @ Harlem Stage
The film is about the work of American artists, Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder who stepped forward in the 1950's...
Saturday 4/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The return of the DJ. Two turntables and a microphone. Sound system connecting live and direct to the people. Back to...
Sam Amidon - Record Release Show / Thomas Bartlett
Saturday 4/10 @ 92YTribeca
Singer-banjoist Sam Amidon's repertoire is made up of re-arranged American folk songs, a skill on which he proves himself to be...
Saturday 4/10 @ 92YTribeca
In this darkly comic road movie, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson), recently retired, finds himself at a crossroads after the death of...
Michael Joaquin Grey in Brainwave
Saturday 4/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Michael Joaquin Grey and astrobiologist Chris Impey will construct an organism and a conversation using ZOOB, a building toy designed...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Saturday 4/10 @ Ise Cultural Foundation
Multimedia artists Ali Hossaini and the Sweatshoppe Collective aim to blow your mind with an exhibition that tells the history of...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Saturday 4/10 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Saturday 4/10 @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios
Ballet Builders raises the profile of dancemakers from across the country by producing their work in Manhattan, thus guaranteeing a wider...
Saturday 4/10 @ Film Forum
"Free Tibet" may be a t-shirt catchphrase to some, but herein it's fleshed out as a lively sea of perspectives on...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Saturday 4/10 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 4/10 @ New York Theatre Ballet, The Dance Gallery
NYTB's latest Dance on a Shoestring provides a tantalizing look at three masters. Students of Ballet School NY perform Lotte Goslar's 1984...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Saturday 4/10 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 4/10 @ American Folk Art Museum
Henry Darger is famous for being an outsider artist par excellence, but, with each passing year, the custodian's life in the...
Saturday 4/10 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 4/10 @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash (534 W 26th St)
Perhaps best known in New York City for the incomparably upbeat grotesquerie of the over-sized kitty litter pan at the last...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
GenArt Film Festival presented by Acura
Saturday 4/10 @ Various locations
One highlight that separates this fest from others (and puts it ahead of the pack, in our opinion), is that each...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Music Box Theatre
A night at the opera turns into a hellishly chaotic evening in Ken Ludwig's door-slamming farce Lend Me a Tenor, receiving a...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ French Institute Alliance Francaise
It's been nearly two decades since Sami Frey so thoroughly incarnated that Theatre of Cruelty firebrand, Antonin Artaud. Now, he lends...
Saturday 4/10 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ New York Theatre Ballet, The Dance Gallery
Spread throughout its season, these NYTB evenings showcase its current projects and establish closer ties to the audience. The company's exploration...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War
Saturday 4/10 @ The Brick Theater
Experimental theater collective the Mad Ones concoct an engrossing alternative universe with Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of The Robot...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Saturday 4/10 @ BAM
St. Petersburg's Maly Drama Theatre adds luster and levity to Chekhov's enthralling work of longing and regret. The production's spare set...
Saturday 4/10 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Lexington Avenue Armory
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art might be the hidden gem of the NYC museum circuit (though not hidden to...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Saturday 4/10 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Saturday 4/10 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Saturday 4/10 @ Symphony Space
Founded in 1998 by Artistic Director and choreographer Chris Elam, Misnomer Dance Theater creates contemporary dances about human relationships. Elam approaches...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Saturday 4/10 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 4/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Episodes from the great Indian epic the Ramayana are among the themes most favored for Indian miniature painting. This classic of...
Saturday 4/10 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
LE BINGO! with Murray Hill & Linda Simpson
Saturday 4/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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
Saturday 4/10 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Saturday 4/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rick Riordan, author of the best-selling series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, talks with curator Seán Hemingway about what inspired him...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Saturday 4/10 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Saturday 4/10 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
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