Events on Saturday, June 26
Saturday 6/26 @ Brooklyn Fireproof
As part of the legendary French electro duo Black Strobe, Ivan Smagghe always seemed to be playing to the deeper part...
Flavorpill Northside Festival Showcase feat. Drink Up Buttercup w/ Twin Shadow
Saturday 6/26 @ Berry Park
We teamed up with our fave music PR group, Tell All Your Friends, and green record label, Green Owl, to put...
Saturday 6/26 @ Times Square
Nothing says joie de vivre quite like bubbles. And while we'd prefer the celebration take place a bit further from tourist...
Saturday 6/26 @ The Bell House-
The release party for Eric Davidson's testimonial to '90s garage rock, We Never Learn, is not only a celebration for a...
Saturday 6/26 @ Milk Studios
A deeply ambitious roving global circus featuring the artistic stylings of Interpol, Mark Ronson, Spike Jonze, and NASA debuts in New...
Northside Festival: MEN (feat. JD Samson of Le Tigre)
Saturday 6/26 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Northside Festival: MEN (feat. JD Samson of Le Tigre) No Bra CREEP Live DJ set MEN is a Brooklyn-based band...
Memory Tapes / Twin Sister / Dom / ZAZA
Saturday 6/26 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Part of the Northside Feestival / Brooklyn Vegan Showcase
Saturday 6/26 @ Joe's Pub
Will Stratton is a 23 year old songwriter and composer living in Bushwick, Brooklyn. His obliquely romantic music is...
Saturday 6/26 @ The Mercury Lounge
Also Performing: John Mulaney Eleanor was constantly ridiculed in the crudest and least interesting manner by her brother Matthew. He, for...
Leonid Fedorov, Vladimir Volkov , John Medeski , Marc Ribot and Ches Smith @ (le) poisson rouge
Saturday 6/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
$25 Advanced/ $30 Day...
THIS YEAR'S GIRLS: The Return of Elvis Costello Burlesque!
Saturday 6/26 @ Joe's Pub
Last year, Casino O'Fortune Cookie Productions brought down the roof on Joe's Pub with The Costello Show, the first-ever live music...
Saturday 6/26 @ 92YTribeca
Director John Paizs in person. Part of the series Not Coming to a Theater Near You, presented by the film blog...
LE BINGO! with Murray Hill & Linda Simpson at (le) poisson rouge
Saturday 6/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Free Admission
21+...
Blip Blip Bleep (Record Release)
Saturday 6/26 @ The Mercury Lounge
Brooklyn's indie-pop/electro act Blip Blip Bleep is the work of producer Sean Han, who started recording under the name in 2006....
Saturday 6/26 @ The Bowery Presents
$44 + $5 ferry presale advance tickets are available! Price will go up to $88! $120+$5 ferry VIP advance! Price will...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Various locations
Frankly, after the stress of gathering 10,000 people together for an evening of yoga, we really need a realignment and some...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 6/26 @ Angelika Film Center
Perfect Storm author and pub owner Sebastian Junger, and photographer Tim Hetherington, deployed to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan for Restrepo,...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Theatre 80
In the past two years, the Amoralists have become one of the most daring, complex, and original downtown theatre companies —...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Various locations
From Gramercy Park to Central Park, this city is a maze of public and private spaces. For a few weeks, New...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Various locations in Litchfield
Just a two-hour drive from the city, Litchfield, Connecticut is a great escape for stressed-out city dwellers. Home to a stellar...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Various locations
New Yorkers think they have it pretty gourmet at the movies already, with indie houses offering cappuccinos and cupcakes to go...
Saturday 6/26 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 303 Gallery
303 Gallery says: For this show, Graham approaches a full synthesis of his itinerant interests in art and music. The exhibition...
Saturday 6/26 @ Commodore Barry Park
Pretty insane lineup, folks. For three days, Afropunk takes over Fort Greene/the Navy Yard. On Friday, skaters and BMXers invade Commodore...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Walkerspace
Identity struggles are universal. In The Zero Hour, playwright Madeleine George juxtaposes Rebecca, a young woman struggling with her own sexual...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Ohio Theatre
By the end of summer, the Ohio Theatre will pass into history and become prime downtown retail space. Before that happens,...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Various locations
Alain Resnais' Wild Grass follows an irrational pair of would-be lovers through a series of unsettling, amusing, and often surreal misadventures....
Saturday 6/26 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Saturday 6/26 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Please Help Support PS122's 30th Anniversary Season!
Saturday 6/26 @ Performance Space 122
MAKE A SPLASH. Help us reach 50K by midnight TONIGHT!
We are entering a critical and momentous year at Performance...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Saturday 6/26 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Saturday 6/26 @ 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,...
Saturday 6/26 @ BAM
Presented for the first time in its complete French version, Jules Dassin's (Rififi, Night and the City) steamy, powerful potboiler unites...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday 6/26 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Saturday 6/26 @ Asia Society and Museum
Shop AsiaStore’s sale event and enjoy special savings on designer samples, select accessories, jewelry, textiles, home accents, books, and CDs. Asia Society...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Attn writers! Deadly essay contest
Saturday 6/26 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Tere O'Connor Dance: Wrought Iron Fog
Saturday 6/26 @ New York Live Arts
Dance Theater Workshop, in association with Tere O’Connor Dance, presents a return engagement of O’Connor’s Wrought Iron Fog. In a move...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Saturday 6/26 @ Performance Space 122
Is your house getting cluttered with messy gadgets and wires? Wash 'em out with Performance Space 122's first annual gadget wash....
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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,...
The Octoroon: An Adaptation of The Octoroon Based on The Octoroon
Saturday 6/26 @ Performance Space 122
What's black and white and red all over? An American playwright (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins of Neighbors at the Public) tackles nineteenth-century Irish...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
