Events on Sunday, May 23
Marc Ribot: live score for Charles Chaplin's The Kid
Sunday 5/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Perhaps you remember Marc Ribot's solitary, dissonant instrumental at the opening of Jim Jarmusch's film Down by Law. Or Ribot's more...
Sunday 5/23 @ SOB's
Vallenato virtuosos Very Be Careful celebrate the recent release of their sixth studio album, Escape Room, on Barbès Records. The brainchild...
Assertiveness Training: Say What You Mean
Sunday 5/23 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Ellen Calmenson, LCSW
Does it feel like others roll right over you?...
Crash Kings w/ Reckless Sons / Blackbells / River City Extension
Sunday 5/23 @ The Mercury Lounge
Tony and Michael Beliveau, two brothers from Boston, were already making music together their whole lives before crisscrossing the country in...
Sunday 5/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
We started playing together at the beginning of 2008. through a monthly residency at rockwood music hall in manhattan, we quickly...
Jean Erdman Dance: Chronology and Mythology (A Sundays at Three program)
Sunday 5/23 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Journey into Erdman’s world of dance and myth as her celebrated dances emerge from and dissolve into a visual environment created...
The Benenson Lecture: Campbell Brown and Dan Senor: Work, Family and Their World
Sunday 5/23 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Veteran broadcaster Campbell Brown is one of the most respected and recognizable faces in American news. She won an Emmy for...
Family Music, Ages 6+ Songs and Spectacles: The Life and Music of Schubert
Sunday 5/23 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Sunday, May 23, 2010, 3pm
Steven Isserlis, artistic director and cello
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Richard Yongjae...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Dr. Knock, Or The Triumph Of Medicine
Sunday 5/23 @ The Mint Theater
Even though Dr. Knock was written in 1923, the issues that lie at the heart of this play — what constitutes...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
The Talking Band's New Islands Archipelago takes its audience on a cruise aboard the SS Azure — one of 3LD's performing...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Discovery Times Square Exposition
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Sunday 5/23 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
It seems like the city's been a flurry of artwork, all dealing with process. Whether we're viewing the installation of an...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ The Irondale Center
Sarah Ruhl — who is up for a Tony Award for her latest play, In the Next Room, (or the vibrator...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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....
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ powerHouse Arena
The artists in Collective League of Talent (a.k.a. C.L.O.T.), a new group show, explore a multitude of questions and ideas relating...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
The Glass House is an apt metaphor for a brilliant man who created...
Sunday 5/23 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Dead or Alive features completely organic work. That is, all of the art was once alive, as a plant or animal....
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 303 Bond Street
Le Cirque Feerique is a slew of beautiful illustrations brought to life. Company XIV's latest show is an extended look into...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ St. Mark's Church
In the final play of its Americana Trilogy, the deceptively congenial Debate Society lays out incongruities that, at first glance, look...
Sunday 5/23 @ Park Avenue Armory
No Man's Land is art writ large. Very large. Filling the Park Avenue Armory as part of Christian Boltanski's exhibit is:...
Sunday 5/23 @ Various locations
Hopefully you've been riding your bike all month (or year, of course) long, as May is Bike Month in NYC. But...
Sunday 5/23 @ Studio 54
Despite being one of the most recognizable names in musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim has kept his personal life mostly under wraps...
Sunday 5/23 @ Cherry Lane Theatre
The premise of Oliver Parker is morbid — Jasper is an aged, down-and-out alcoholic. His caretaker is Oliver Parker — a...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 5/23 @ Deluxx Fluxx
Street-art and graphics duo Faile team up with fellow collagist Bäst to open Deluxx Fluxx NYC, the New York edition of...
Sunday 5/23 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Red Hook Ball Fields
Foodies, rejoice! The dozen-plus vendors lining the Red Hook soccer fields are open for business! They're selling all manner of authentic...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Sunday 5/23 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Free Comedy at KFBK Every Sunday hosted by Hannibal Buress
Sunday 5/23 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Free Comedy at KFBK Every Sunday hosted by Hannibal Buress | 21 and over New York Magazine: "Hannibal Buress was...
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons
Sunday 5/23 @ New Museum
"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the...
Attn writers! Deadly essay contest
Sunday 5/23 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Killing the Buddha and Obit Mag have teamed up with the Rubin for this deadly essay contest inspired by the exhibition,...
Prehistoric Special Effects: The Art of Charles R. Knight
Sunday 5/23 @ BAM
Brooklyn-born Charles R. Knight's remarkable renderings of prehistoric beasts had a profound impact on early
Sunday 5/23 @ Asia Society and Museum
Explore the art inspired by centuries of Buddhist pilgrimage. Through more than 90 sacred objects, including textiles, sculpture and paintings, this...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Sunday 5/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view through August 15, is the...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Asia Society and Museum
A staged concert to benefit Asia Society
A small-time Chinese fortune hunter dreams of making it big as...
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From The Diaphragm
Sunday 5/23 @ Performance Space 122
Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From The Diaphragm, a performance piece that dissects the hey day of 1970s American daytime television chat...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 5/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Don’t miss this opportunity to see Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop the site-specific installation created for...
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
The Diploma Program Deadline - MAY 24, 2010
Sunday 5/23 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy Diploma Program is a self-directed, atelier-style learning experience designed for the serious art student to support their personal...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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
Sunday 5/23 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 5/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Anne Strauss talks to Doug and Mike Starn about their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Bach & Friends: Screening and LIVE performances
Sunday 5/23 @ Symphony Space
Today’s finest musicians share their innermost thoughts and personal reflections on the most influential composer in history. Featuring interviews and performances...
LOST: The Final Season - A weekly therapy session
Sunday 5/23 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
For season six, Previously on Lost will host weekly gatherings at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn including show screenings, recap performances...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Sunday 5/23 @ 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
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sunday 5/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 300 works...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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....
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Sunday 5/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition presents 70 extraordinary works by masters of the 16th through 18th centuries, from one of the outstanding collections of...
They Came to Play: Screening, Q&A and LIVE performances
Sunday 5/23 @ Symphony Space
2009. Alex Rotaru. 91 min. USA. Color May 16: Short performance and Q&A by Van Cliburn competitors Henri-Robert Delbeau* following the...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ Terminal 5
The King of Disco-Punk. The Godfather of the Remix. The Supreme Eminent Archon of Dance. I don't know who any of...
Final Weekend For: 2-for-1 admission to 7 NYC museums
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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,...
