Events on Saturday, April 3
International Pillow Fight Day
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Union Square
Newmindspace has been throwing the best pillow fights this side of the topless sorority house for the past five years; the...
HARD NYC: Boys Noize w/ Major Lazer
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Terminal 5
"HARD" is right: tonight's a banger for sure, with the dark electro-house and remix prowess of Boys Noize matched with the...
Jewmongous' Passover Extravaganza!
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
Because we can't think of a better way to celebrate Passover than with Sean Altman and his funny/Jewwy tunes. Did you...
First Saturdays for Familes: Skin Fruit: Why Trash It?
Saturday 4/ 3 @ New Museum
Saturday 4/ 3 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Bob Schneider is not new to this game. He has built his career as a working class musician and as a...
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
The Iron Mule is proud to celebrate it's 8th Anniversary on Sat, Apr 3. The long-running monthly screening series began life...
The Soft Pack w/ Nodzzz / Male Bonding / Beaters
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Like all great stories, it begins with two friends called Matt and Matty. Matty McLoughlin played guitar obsessively, Matt Lamkin also...
The Burning Bush VS The Second Coming: The Ultimate Burlesque Showdown
Saturday 4/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
New York's biggest burlesque stars are ready for battle - and this time it's biblical, as they fight to decide which...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Calling it quits? Lovefingers apparently has finally completed his award-winning four year 999 song mix as seen/heard via his site, lovefingers.org. We're...
Le Bingo! with Murray Hill & Linda Simpson
Saturday 4/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
By popular demand, NYC's favorite gender-bending Bingo team--ladylike Linda Simpson and goodtime guy Murray Hill--is westwards ho! After several years of...
Rubblebucket / Woodhands @ Brooklyn Bowl
Saturday 4/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
Woodhands is Dan Werb and Paul Banwatt, a synth and drums duo that’s intent on injecting electro pop with a dose...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
It’s rare to find something as true and beautiful as the band Girls. Listening to their music, it’s as though Christopher...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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,...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Various locations
Twenty years ago, this venerable series included Days of Being Wild in its round up of new films by...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Landmark Sunshine
Landmark Sunshine says: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating...
OUROBOROS: The History of the Universe
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Team Gallery
Ryan McGinley needs little introduction: as a documentarian of youth — running the gamut between reckless living to unadulterated glee —...
Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios
Avichai Scher is the latest in a succession of New York City Ballet Nutcracker princes (including Eliot Feld, Peter Boal, and...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Sonja Frisell's opulent staging of Aida is the perfect anecdote for those growing weary of the Met's minimalist new productions. Giuseppe...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ The Fifth Floor Theater (111 Second Avenue)
Renewal is the running theme in this SADC showcase. A true original, Alwin Nikolais was a decentralist who combined dance with...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Symphony Space
Founded in 1998 by Artistic Director and choreographer Chris Elam, Misnomer Dance Theater creates contemporary dances about human relationships. Elam approaches...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Faye Driscoll: There is so much mad in me
Saturday 4/ 3 @ New York Live Arts
"Faye Driscoll is a startling original talent." - The New York Times “I devise multi-dimensional dance dramas that blur the lines...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
Saturday 4/ 3 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt's most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation - that...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ BAM
Actor, playwright, novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker: Bill Gunn was a boundless artist. His premature death in 1989 denied audiences of...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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...
