Events on Saturday, June 19
Saturday 6/19 @ Riverside Park South
GlobeSonic brings the dance party back to the Hudson today — for free! Master DJs Derek Beres, Brill Bragin, and Fabian...
The Morning Benders w/ Freelance Whales and Wild Nothing @ The Beach at Governors Island
Saturday 6/19 @ The Bowery Presents
The Beach at Governor's Island, one of our favorite venues for live free music, kicked off its summer run successfully a...
Saturday 6/19 @ YogaWorks Soho
Flavorpill's dance-party-for-the-soul returns to YogaWorks Soho for another night of hot beats and bass, barefoot grooving, high vibe treats, and sonic...
Saturday 6/19 @ Coney Island
It's a Coney Island institution, almost as important as the Wonder Wheel itself: The Mermaid Parade returns today with hundreds of...
LE BINGO! with Murray Hill & Linda Simpson at (le) poisson rouge
Saturday 6/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
free admission
21+...
Saturday 6/19 @ Joe's Pub
Norwegian singer Hanne Hukkelberg’s 2005 debut album Little Things was a charming impression of life in Oslo, notable for its imaginative...
Frog Eyes w/ Beach Fossils / Pearly Gate Music
Saturday 6/19 @ The Mercury Lounge
Victoria, British Columbia, quartet Frog Eyes are the antithesis of their quiet Canadian village. Utilizing the carnival atmosphere of Rain Dogs-era...
Saturday Night Ballroom / Summer Ballroom
Saturday 6/19 @ 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,...
Saturday 6/19 @ 92YTribeca
Part of our Sing-Along series. Hosted by comedian Sara Benincasa.
It's about...
Saturday 6/19 @ The Bowery Presents
Sleepy Sun is an apt title for this young San Francisco sextet, as their debut record, "Embrace", is one of those...
The Canon Logic / The Upwelling
Saturday 6/19 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The Canon Logic After steadfastly perfecting their sound for the past few years this quintet from Brooklyn via Philadelphia finally unleashed...
Saturday 6/19 @ 3rd Ward
An Evening with Chris Botti - CareFusion Jazz Festival New York @ Carnegie Hall
Saturday 6/19 @ The Bowery Presents
On Thursday, September 18 and Friday, September 19, 2008, American jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, one of the world’s top-selling instrumental artists,...
Saturday 6/19 @ Joe's Pub
Bridging the gap between Traditional Haitian Music and the younger Pop audience, Mikaben blends Haitian Kompa with a taste of Reggae,...
The New Pornographers w/ The Dodos / The Dutchess and the Duke
Saturday 6/19 @ Terminal 5
For what purpose the popular song? Does the popular song have a purpose? Is it just a sequence of auditory gestures,...
Saturday 6/19 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Josiah Wolf (of Why?) plus The Chocolate Horse Ortolan Josiah Wolf, like his younger brother and WHY? bandmate Yoni, has...
Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same
Saturday 6/19 @ 92YTribeca
Brock Enright, Kirsten Deirup and filmmaker Jody Lee Lipes in person for post-screening Q&A.
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Saturday 6/19 @ Joe's Pub
Sofia Rei Koutsovitis is one of New York’s most passionate, charismatic and inventive vocalists, who brings depth and fullness of a...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 6/19 @ 303 Gallery
303 Gallery says: For this show, Graham approaches a full synthesis of his itinerant interests in art and music. The exhibition...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Saturday 6/19 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
The festival that delivers a nice big reality check returns to remind us of the atrocities occurring around the world. This...
Saturday 6/19 @ Botanica Bar
We love this bar. It's our home away from home, our office away from office. You simply can't find nicer bartenders...
Saturday 6/19 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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...
Saturday 6/19 @ BAM
There's a lot of quality, mostly indie cinema included in this year's BAMcinemaFEST, but we're particularly excited for the latest feature...
Saturday 6/19 @ The Actors' Temple Theatre
Award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee addreses an overlooked part of history: the first African-American fighter pilots in the...
Saturday 6/19 @ HERE Arts Center
Paris Syndrome is a genuine disorder experienced primarily by female Japanese tourists where their French culture shock is so great that...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ Ohio Theatre
By the end of summer, the Ohio Theatre will pass into history and become prime downtown retail space. Before that happens,...
Saturday 6/19 @ Liberty State Park
The Red Bull stunt pilots are international flight legends — legends that have performed around the world, but not here in...
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Saturday 6/19 @ Susan Inglett Gallery
As long-awaited retrospective surveys of 1970's California-based conceptual art go, Stairway to Heaven is actually quite a lively offering. Despite a...
Saturday 6/19 @ Various locations
From Gramercy Park to Central Park, this city is a maze of public and private spaces. For a few weeks, New...
Saturday 6/19 @ Various Locations Along the BQE
Designed to look like a large-scale guerilla marketing campaign, this project, which began as a critique of the appropriation of art...
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
Off-off Broadway troupe Nylon Fusion returns with a staging of Lope de Vega's rarely produced 17th-century play, Fuente Ovejuna. Ostensibly, the...
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Saturday 6/19 @ 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....
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ IFC Center
Joan Rivers lays her cards on the table in this craftily constructed year-in-the-life documentary. A self-proclaimed actress who has just been...
Saturday 6/19 @ Matcha Box
Green tea is an ancient tradition, but this Japanese staple gets a thoroughly modern update with Matcha Box, a pop-up store...
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ Ronald Feldman Gallery
Neon legwarmers, Vespa scooters, and rising from the dead. These are all things that come to mind at the utterance of...
Saturday 6/19 @ Gallery Nine5
Through collage and digital alteration of fashion and weekly magazines, artist Sali Taylor explores the intrinsic paradox in the roles women...
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Saturday 6/19 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 6/19 @ Theatre 80
In the past two years, the Amoralists have become one of the most daring, complex, and original downtown theatre companies —...
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ Clic Gallery
Before there was Patrick McMullen there was Ron Galella—celebrity photographer who sometimes donned a football helmet to get the shot. Jackie...
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 6/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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,...
Saturday 6/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
Mariko Mori is an internationally renowned Japanese artist. In her video work, Kumano, she appears as a mysterious spirit, a shaman,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Please Help Support PS122's 30th Anniversary Season!
Saturday 6/19 @ Performance Space 122
MAKE A SPLASH. Help us reach 50K by midnight TONIGHT!
We are entering a critical and momentous year at Performance...
Saturday 6/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond marks the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine...
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Attn writers! Deadly essay contest
Saturday 6/19 @ 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,...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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 “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern South Asia
Saturday 6/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
Featuring William Dalrymple, Paban Das Baul and the Bauls Of Bengal, Shah Jo Raag Fakir, Susheela Raman and Chandu Pannicker Theyyam...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
Saturday 6/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In excerpts from a 1988 archival recording, photographer Leon Levinstein talks about his work and the experience of photographing in the...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Saturday 6/19 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Saturday 6/19 @ 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 Night Ballroom / Summer Ballroom
Saturday 6/19 @ 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,...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 6/19 @ 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...
