Events on Sunday, April 4
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Sunday 4/ 4 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
All weekend, take 30% off all books, movies, and music!
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
It never fails to amaze me how swiftly a moment of fortune can so easily become a noose round the neck....
Sunday 4/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
After working with experimental group, Nurse With Wound, Thirlwell started making his own records in 1980, initially releasing them on his...
Anita Tijoux w/ Pacha Massive , Maluca and Rebel Diaz
Sunday 4/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Born Anamaria Tijoux in Lille, France in 1977, daughter to a French mother and a Chilean father while in political exile...
The Smith Westerns / Male Bonding / The Gaming Commission
Sunday 4/ 4 @ The Mercury Lounge
The Smith Westerns are from Chicago, and as far as we can tell are either named after a tourist trinket manufacturer...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Spinning a heady, eclectic mix of psychedelic rock, electro, new wave, dub, techno, hip-hop and future/primitive sounds; Future Hunter DJs are a live...
Ongoing Events
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Sunday 4/ 4 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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."...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Various locations
Twenty years ago, this venerable series included Days of Being Wild in its round up of new films by...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Theatre 80
The Amoralists Theatre Company celebrates their season opening and new home at Theatre 80 St. Marks with the world premiere of...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ HERE Arts Center
Alice (Amy Kim Waschke) fell through a hole alright — the one connecting Earth and hell opened by horny drunken teenagers...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
For season six, Previously on Lost will host weekly gatherings at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn including show screenings, recap performances...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Sunday 4/ 4 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ BAM
Actor, playwright, novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker: Bill Gunn was a boundless artist. His premature death in 1989 denied audiences of...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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,...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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....
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
