Events on Sunday, April 11
Signal performs Philip Glass' Glassworks
Sunday 4/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Glassworks is about as populist as Philip Glass gets. Composed specifically to introduce the minimalist artist to a wider audience, the...
Sunday 4/11 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Grab your scooters and get on your bicycles! Or just drive on over to The Knitting Factory when Video Juice Box...
The Middle East: A Year of Netanyahu with Ralph Buultjens
Sunday 4/11 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
What impact has Netanyahu had on Israel and her neighbors? What is Iran’s current role? How is the Middle East...
David Levithan and John Green's Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Sunday 4/11 @ Symphony Space
Green (An Abundance of Katherines) and Levithan (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Executive Editorial Director at Scholastic) discuss their collaborative novel--in...
The Raspberry Brothers - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Sunday 4/11 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Four radioactive turtles emerge from the sewers of NYC to battle crime and eat a lot of pizza. Brooklyn's own movie-mockers,...
Sunday 4/11 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with Play Bizarro The band returned from an eight-year hiatus in early 2005 with the release of Take Fountain. This...
Sunday at the Met—Splendor of the Medieval Courts of Berry and Burgundy
Sunday 4/11 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Come enjoy a Sunday at the Met! Today's events highlight two special exhibitions now on view, The Art of Illumination: The...
Brujeria w/ Sr. Fuss / Pro-Fe-Cia @ Webster Hall
Sunday 4/11 @ The Bowery Presents
Since Roadrunner Records made their dangerous deal with this murderous crew to release of their full length cds "Matando Gueros" in...
Sunday 4/11 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Rock out with the Lemons at the famous Knitting Factory! These events have been taking Williamsburg by storm and are a...
High on Dance: The Next Generation (A Sundays at Three program)
Sunday 4/11 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Come see New York's newest dance artists for our fifth year of fresh visions in dance, featuring solo and group works...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Sunday 4/11 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Sunday 4/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA says: Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography....
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Sunday 4/11 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Lexington Avenue Armory
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art might be the hidden gem of the NYC museum circuit (though not hidden to...
Sunday 4/11 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Sunday 4/11 @ Landmark Sunshine
In the Scandinavian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars on Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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...
GenArt Film Festival presented by Acura
Sunday 4/11 @ Various locations
One highlight that separates this fest from others (and puts it ahead of the pack, in our opinion), is that each...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Sunday 4/11 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 Private Collection of Henry Darger
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Sunday 4/11 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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....
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
LOST: The Final Season - A weekly therapy session
Sunday 4/11 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
For season six, Previously on Lost will host weekly gatherings at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn including show screenings, recap performances...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Sunday 4/11 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Free Comedy at KFBK Every Sunday hosted by Hannibal Buress
Sunday 4/11 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Free Comedy at KFBK Every Sunday hosted by Hannibal Buress | 21 and over New York Magazine: "Hannibal Buress was...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Sunday 4/11 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Sunday 4/11 @ 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 Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs
Sunday 4/11 @ 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,...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Sunday 4/11 @ 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,...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Sunday 4/11 @ 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...
