Events on Saturday, April 17
Saturday 4/17 @ Various locations
It's no secret that we heart independent record stores here at Flavorpill. From Other Music to Sound Fix, Etherea to Academy:...
Saturday 4/17 @ Various locations
After a slow-poke trip through MoMA last fall, Slow Art Day returns, around the world and here in NYC. Instead of...
Saturday 4/17 @ powerHouse Arena
Legos: they aren't just for kids. Author and illustrator Christoph Niemann proves this in his whimsical and lovely book, I Lego...
Saturday 4/17 @ The Bowery Presents
Future Rock is electronic sensory overload. The trie has steadily been touring the US, electrifying audiences and developing a dedicated following...
Saturday 4/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
DJ Sickrock & Uncle Chip spin funk, soul, hip hop, house and reggae. Special guest this month, the 3rd Elite Camp...
The Abrams Brothers / Chris Brown and Kate Fenner
Saturday 4/17 @ 92YTribeca
Fourth-generation musicians with musical roots reaching back to their great-grandparents, The Abrams Brothers grew up playing music in an atmosphere where...
Saturday 4/17 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Aloha follows the acclaimed LP Some Echoes (2006) and acoustic EP Light Works (2007) with a powerful record that shows the...
Saturday 4/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Spring Standards are an energetic force of three-oart harmony circling over a rock 'n' roll sound with an old country...
Saturday 4/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
As part of Louis Andriessen's 70th burthday celebration and yearlong Composer-in-Residence chair at Carnegie Hall, LPR is proud to partner with...
The Abrams Brothers / Chris Brown and Kate Fenner
Saturday 4/17 @ 92YTribeca
Fourth-generation musicians with musical roots reaching back to their great-grandparents, The Abrams Brothers grew up playing music in an atmosphere where...
The Ex Caminos w/ The Al Street Excursion
Saturday 4/17 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Ex Caminos are an 8-piece modern soul, funk, & R&B band that focuses on original compositions written in the old...
The Art of Pilgrimage: Journeys of Faith and Discovery
Saturday 4/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
Join a daylong multi-disciplinary symposium exploring the traditional and contemporary practices of pilgrimage in Asia. Speakers include: Diana Eck, Harvard (keynote);...
Saturday 4/17 @ The Mercury Lounge
Surprise Me Mr. Davis is an electro-folk band consisting of folksinger Nathan Moore, the members of avant-rock band The Slip and...
Saturday 4/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
HAYDN: Sonata in A-flat Major, H.XVI:46
SCHOENBERG: Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19
MENDELSSOHN: Lied ohne Worte in A-flat major,...
Saturday 4/17 @ 92YTribeca
Introduced by The New Yorker's Richard Brody. Part of the series Not Coming to a Theater Near You, presented by the...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/17 @ 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,...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
Tennessee Williams produced some of the greatest American plays of the 20th century, but Obie Award-winning theatre ensemble Target Margin has...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
We love Ingmar Bergman as much as the next cinephile, but there really is much more to Swedish cinema. Broaden your...
Saturday 4/17 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
In back of a small-town cafe, two thirty-something men ponder their existence — or rather, hang out with nothing to do....
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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...
Saturday 4/17 @ MF Gallery
OK this is just all kinds of f*cked up — and we mean that in the absolute best way possible. The...
Saturday 4/17 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ Joshua Liner Gallery
Incredible (and international) public art heads indoors for an explosive exhibit at Joshua Liner. The Barnstormers are a collective spanning the...
The Wooster Group's Booty Call Avant-Garde-Arama!
Saturday 4/17 @ Performance Space 122
If rough language, nudity, or the remotely psychedelic/farcical may offend you: don't come to Avant-Garde-Arama. Also: you may not want to...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Saturday 4/17 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Messy love entanglements unfold and grow exponentially throughout Franco Zeffirelli's bold production of Giuseppe Verdi's enduring classic, La Traviata. It's easy...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Saturday 4/17 @ 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....
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Saturday 4/17 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Saturday 4/17 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Saturday 4/17 @ IFC Center
Under normal circumstances, most Americans over 30 wouldn't rush to see the latest independent quasi-documentary feature about a bunch of city...
Saturday 4/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Saturday 4/17 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War
Saturday 4/17 @ The Brick Theater
Experimental theater collective the Mad Ones concoct an engrossing alternative universe with Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of The Robot...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join us for a fun-filled night of swing dancing to live music from the '30s, '40s and '50s, hosted by Myrna...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Saturday 4/17 @ 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,...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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....
Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett: Whispering Pines 10
Saturday 4/17 @ The Kitchen
In her celebrated video art serial, Whispering Pines, Shana Moulton tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Saturday 4/17 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Saturday 4/17 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Saturday 4/17 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Saturday 4/17 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Parents and kids: Come in your PJ's to a Shabbat good-bye party! Smell the spices, watch the candle shine, sing with...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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
Saturday 4/17 @ 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
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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...
Saturday 4/17 @ Symphony Space
Underground tap-dance icon Roxane Butterfly is joined by a stellar cast of tap artists, including French Guiana native and Urban Tap...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Saturday 4/17 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
LE BINGO! with Murray Hill & Linda Simpson
Saturday 4/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Saturday 4/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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...
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