Events on Saturday, July 17
Saturday 7/17 @ Central Park SummerStage
We love the folks at Giant Step; they're responsible for some of the biggest and best hip-hop and soul shows in...
Saturday 7/17 @ 92YTribeca
Admit it: you sing along to this every time you watch it anyway. Might as well join the chorus at 92Y...
Saturday 7/17 @ Times Square Arts Center
If you can't make it to Burning Man this year, Disorient's Compressor party is the next best thing. While a fundraiser...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Coney Island
There might be a ginormous music festival over on the Third Coast this weekend — sponsored by a certain musical critique...
Reverend Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir
Saturday 7/17 @ 92YTribeca
Reverend Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir bring their ritualistic brand of performance art-like demonstration to 92Y Tribeca in...
Indian Folk Art Market (Day 3)
Saturday 7/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
Celebrate the traditional arts of India at Asia Society’s dynamic Indian Folk Art Market, where master artisans will be on hand...
Saturday 7/17 @ Joe's Pub
A virtuosic approach to the guitar has made Diblo Dibala one of the top instrumentalists of modern...
Le Bingo! with Murray Hill and Linda Simpson @ (le) poisson rouge
Saturday 7/17 @ (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...
Gallery Talk: Picasso's Influence on American Modernism
Saturday 7/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This talk examines the influence of Pablo Picasso's early work on a generation of American artists and the ways in which...
Saturday 7/17 @ Symphony Space
More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking...
More Than Enough @ (le) poisson rouge
Saturday 7/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
DJ Sickrock & Unkle Chip spin: Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, House & Reggae. For more information, please visit us here.
Saturday 7/17 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Not Coming to a Theater Near You, presented by the film blog of the same name.
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Harlem Renaissance Orchestra with special guest Frank Wess at Midsummer Night Swing
Saturday 7/17 @ Lincoln Center
“A mean boogie-woogie.” – New York Amsterdam News The patron saints of the night are two late legends: tenor sax star...
Kids Dance at Midsummer Night Swing
Saturday 7/17 @ Lincoln Center
Pierre Dulaine, Founding Director of Dancing Classrooms, teaches the basics of Ballroom, Tango, and Swing. Dancing Classrooms reached 50,000 children in...
Saturday 7/17 @ The Mercury Lounge
Also Performing: Kristoff Krane & Educated Consumers After a five year break exploring new sounds and building their personal repertoires, the...
Saturday 7/17 @ Joe's Pub
ANGELA DI CARLO: Just to be Polite. Comedic downtown songstress Angela Di Carlo delivers an up-beat, high energy...
Vatican Commandos w/ Up Front / Ed Gein's Car / Loud Youth
Saturday 7/17 @ The Mercury Lounge
Vatican Commandos were a hardcore punk band formed in Darien, Connecticut. The band featured members James Spadaccini, John Farnsworth, Lindsey Anderson,...
Saturday 7/17 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn-based indie rock trio We Are Scientists formed in 2000 around the talents of guitarist/lead vocalist Keith Murray, bass player Chris...
Saturday 7/17 @ The Bowery Presents
A quintessential late-bloomer to music, Kearney didn’t write his first song until midway through college. Raised by hippie parents in Oregon,...
Konbit Pou Ayiti – Harlem Stage Unites for Haiti
Saturday 7/17 @ Harlem Stage
Gates open: 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm (performances start at 5:00 pm)...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 7/17 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
Saturday 7/17 @ Performance Space 122
underground zero's festival program covers a great deal of ground. Here are a few highlights. Underground pop art deity Andy Warhol...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Landmark Sunshine
Viral video junkies and Found Film Festival fans: here's a documentary for you. Filmmaker Ben Steinhauer found an industrial video back...
Saturday 7/17 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 7/17 @ Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
The Spiegeltent at Bard's annual SummerScape boasts an interior design that would make any Upper East Side apartment-dweller swoon with jealousy:...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
In the movie business, summer is about franchises, which means it's the perfect time to celebrate the king of the recurring...
Saturday 7/17 @ The Duke Theater
Entirely earnest, See Rock City is a far cry from pushing any musical-theatre boundaries, but the show creates its fair share...
Saturday 7/17 @ Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
Questioning the notion of beauty, German photographer Martin Schoeller takes pictures of female bodybuilders, whose feminine heads seem grafted to muscular...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Saturday 7/17 @ Various locations in Baltimore
For many, Baltimore conjures up visions of the gritty city and abandoned harbor-side warehouses depicted in The Wire. But for those...
Saturday 7/17 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
While this may not be Brazil's year for football, MoMA is betting on the country's filmmaking with the return of Premiere...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Village 7
Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) is hoping her latest film, The Kids Are All Right, proves she's ready for...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Morrison Hotel Gallery
Though the album was announced in spring 2009, Dark Night of the Soul, a unique collaboration by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and...
Stairway to Heaven: Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, James Welling 1970-1976
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The MoMA's film collection may not be as old as the Declaration of Independence but it does embody similar principles. Perhaps...
Saturday 7/17 @ Giant Robot New York
Giant Robot's Printed Matter series has established itself as the place to hunt for great original artwork by up-and-coming artists on...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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....
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Saturday 7/17 @ 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....
Saturday 7/17 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
A Disappearing Number at Lincoln Center Festival
Saturday 7/17 @ Lincoln Center
Complicite:Conceived and directed by Simon McBurney “It's sometimes hard to remember that there was a theatrical BC: a time before Complicite.”...
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas
Saturday 7/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
The Himalayas are home to some of the world's most magnificent peaks and largest glaciers, which supply crucial seasonal flows to...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Saturday 7/17 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Saturday 7/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, the Met opened a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will be...
WDA Global Dance Event: In Time Together: Viewing and Reviewing Contemporary Dance Practice
Saturday 7/17 @ New York Live Arts
Discounted Tickets available for Members The World Dance Alliance is an organization whose primary goal is to be an advocate for...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Saturday 7/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography. Drawn almost entirely from the Met’s collection, Between Here and...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
Summer Fiction Sale! 30% off all of July!
Saturday 7/17 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Whether you’re on the beach or the B-Train, you need some hot summer reads. That’s why all fiction is 30% off...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Saturday 7/17 @ 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,...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
Teorema at Lincoln Center Festival
Saturday 7/17 @ Lincoln Center
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Director Ivo van Hove
“The whole is infused with a trance-like atmosphere, an otherworldly chill that...
Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos
Saturday 7/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
This exhibition presents the varied approaches of five contemporary artists to the medium of single-channel video. The simplicity of this video...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday 7/17 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Saturday 7/17 @ 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 7/17 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Saturday 7/17 @ 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...
