Events on Saturday, April 24
Saturday 4/24 @ Stepping Out Studios
We love the Dance Parade, but we're finding it tough to bide our time until May 22 for the extravaganza. Luckily,...
Saturday 4/24 @ The Green Building
We love any excuse for a fancy-dress party, and Gemini & Scorpio presents a doozy with Swing House. As its site...
The Author in the Age of the Internet
Saturday 4/24 @ Tishman Auditorium
Today's wordsmiths can no longer craft within the confines of the printed page. Instead, they must factor in digital forces when...
Saturday 4/24 @ 92YTribeca
Walter Matthau as the ultimate old money WASP—a hilarious concept, brilliantly realized—has no skills in life beyond being well-bred, so once...
Saturday 4/24 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
"The youthful quartet, who've been successfully campaigning for the title of SF's new indie rock darlings, charmed their way through their...
Saturday 4/24 @ (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...
Screaming Females / The Measure (SA) / Barrakuda McMurder / Byrds Of Paradise / Modern Hut
Saturday 4/24 @ The Mercury Lounge
Don Giovanni Records presents The Measure [sa], a punk rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey. They are Fid, Lauren, Mikey...
Saturday 4/24 @ 92YTribeca
Dyan Cannon plays a woman who learns some uncomfortable truths about her marriage when her husband goes in for minor surgery....
Saturday 4/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wax Poetics magazine, with Halcyon, and Fusicology, present I Love Vinyl - a new monthly all-vinyl oasis at the Gallery bar...
Saturday 4/24 @ 92YTribeca
Gordon Voidwell, the alter ego of Bronx-born ex-chorister turned rap geek Will Johnson, cooks up a subversive mix of pop, new...
Saturday 4/24 @ Terminal 5
In the state of Minnesota lies a small town called Owatonna with roughly twenty-two thousand inhabitants. Within that city is a...
Suspended by Silk : Tomorrow at the Rubin
Saturday 4/24 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum of Art presents a night of visually stunning, interactive performance, Stellarum Opifice--an aerial, theater and musical performance based...
Tribute to Roy Ayers feat. Pete Rock and Robert Glasper
Saturday 4/24 @ Harlem Stage
Revive Music Group's tribute to the legendary jazz musician Roy Ayers features an amazing lineup of music pioneers including legendary hip...
Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow)
Saturday 4/24 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Tobacco sometimes runs with a group called Black Moth Super Rainbow. On Fucked Up Friends, his latest mission, he works alone....
Saturday 4/24 @ The Bowery Presents
Until now, American audiences have had to make do with mere glimpses of the brilliant career of one of Italy’s most...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Florence Gould Hall
A season's worth of Dance on a Shoestring sneak peeks goes public! These Signatures personify the company's commitment to classics deemed...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Joyce Soho
Unlike other duets, '95's September Sonnet portrays a mature, challenged relationship. Far less serious is A Short Lecture and Demonstration on...
Saturday 4/24 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ New York Live Arts
Crammed full of cultural images and references, bobrauschenbergamerica gleefully layers the high-brow (Walt Whitman) with the low-brow (chicken jokes). This theatrical...
Saturday 4/24 @ George Billis Gallery
If this exhibition was your first introduction to Derek Buckner's paintings, you'd be forgiven for branding him a classicist, even a...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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,...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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....
Saturday 4/24 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Saturday 4/24 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Midtown Theater
Leslie Jordan, the 4'11'' 55-year-old character actor best known for his portrayal of Beverley Leslie on Will and Grace, is a...
Saturday 4/24 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Speyer Hall
Bennyroyce Productions isn't an entertainment conglomerate. It's the calling card of dancer/choreographer/producer dynamo Bennyroyce Royan. Next month Atlanta Ballet is performing...
Saturday 4/24 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 4/24 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Saturday 4/24 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Saturday 4/24 @ Film Forum
Once upon a time, newspaper men and women — in all their wisecracking, get-the-story glory — could often be found performing...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 4/24 @ 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,...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Wild Project
The game of artistic telephone is on. This year the Synesthesia fortune cookie was opened by a lyricist/songwriter team, who created...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
The Young@Heart chorus joyfully proves that age is just a number, breathing new life into classics by Lou Reed, Neil Young,...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Saturday 4/24 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Singer/songwriter Adam Green is most known for his stint with the Moldy Peaches, but in the new millennium he also did...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
A Proposition by Miwon Kwon: Ends of the Earth (and Back)
Saturday 4/24 @ New Museum
Miwon Kwon's proposition Ends of the Earth (and Back) is a work-in-progress report on the exhibition "Ends of the Earth: Land...
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Saturday 4/24 @ BAM
Cinema’s consummate humanist and one of its greatest artists, Jean Renoir directed over 40 films that explore enduring themes...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
LE BINGO! with Murray Hill & Linda Simpson
Saturday 4/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ Performance Space 122
"What beauty there is in Mr. Farrington's work." - Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times "a MARVELOUS TECHINCAL FEAT"...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Saturday 4/24 @ 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: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Saturday Night Ballroom / Summer Ballroom
Saturday 4/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Step out of the streets and into one of NYC's most beautiful social dance ballrooms for an evening of waltz, tango,...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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 4/24 @ 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—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Saturday 4/24 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Saturday 4/24 @ 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
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Saturday 4/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Step out of the streets and into one of NYC's most beautiful social dance ballrooms for an evening of waltz, tango,...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 4/24 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Saturday 4/24 @ 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,...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Saturday 4/24 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
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