Events on Sunday, July 25
Sunday 7/25 @ Brooklyn Fireproof
House-heads storm Brooklyn Fireproof's courtyard for today's installment of Sunday Best. The reason? A set from UK pioneer Ashley Beedle. Be...
Rock Your Own Face Rouge! Sunday Night Karaoke w/ DJ RickAlert @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sunday 7/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Free well vodka 8-9 p.m. to anyone who signs up for karaoke within that hour. After 9 p.m., there will be...
Sunday 7/25 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Die Antwoord formed in 2009, consisting of performers Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er, and DJ Hi-Tek. It's debut album, $O$, was made available as a...
Trapper's Greatest Hits Jr: Volume 2
Sunday 7/25 @ Joe's Pub
Trapper just turned the city of NY on its side for a week...
Broadway Impact's Summer Series at Joe's Pub
Sunday 7/25 @ Joe's Pub
Broadway Impact is overjoyed to present a night of music with members of the Tony nominated cast...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Landmark Sunshine
Viral video junkies and Found Film Festival fans: here's a documentary for you. Filmmaker Ben Steinhauer found an industrial video back...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ IFC Center
Sleepless wondering what happened to the Jordan family from the film Happiness? Filmmaker Todd Solondz obviously has been, because he came...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ Village 7
Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) is hoping her latest film, The Kids Are All Right, proves she's ready for...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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:...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel
Sunday 7/25 @ Surreal Estate
Playwright Bertold Brecht was a ladies' man, but none was more important to him than wife Helene Weigel. This formidable muse/actress/director/manager/activist...
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Chui Chai at Lincoln Center Festival
Sunday 7/25 @ Lincoln Center
Pichet Klunchun returns to the New York stage after receiving rave reviews for his work with Jérôme Bel in Pichet Klunchun...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Sunday 7/25 @ 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....
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Sunday 7/25 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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....
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Symphony Space
A young, wealthy playgirl comes to a small California town to pursue a man and ends up trapped in the nightmare...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Sunday 7/25 @ 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,...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX
Sunday 7/25 @ New Museum
“Museum as Hub: In and Out Of Context” marks a new development in the activity of the Museum as Hub. It...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Sunday 7/25 @ 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 7/25 @ Symphony Space
Poorly received when it first came out, it is now hailed as a masterpiece. One of five "lost" Hitchcock films that...
Sunday 7/25 @ 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,...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Sunday 7/25 @ Symphony Space
A disciple of Keaton and Chaplin and a precursor to Mr. Bean, Jacques Tati created his own, gently bumbling character. In...
Summer Fiction Sale! 30% off all of July!
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 7/25 @ 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...
