Events on Saturday, July 31
Saturday 7/31 @ Electric Windows
Take a drive up the Hudson today for a day of art and music in Beacon. This artistic outpost unveils Electric...
Saturday 7/31 @ 3rd Ward
This is either your last blowout before the playa, or a pretty decent replacement, if you can't make it to Burning...
Saturday 7/31 @ Symphony Space
See this New York City classic on the big screen as part of Symphony Space's Summer Blockbuster series — for just...
Saturday 7/31 @ Joe's Pub
Roxane Butterfly comes back to New York with a brand new collaboration featuring the music of pianist Frederique Trunk, to offer...
Saturday 7/31 @ Joe's Pub
On Saturday, July 31st, Joe's Pub proudly presents Andy Suzuki & The Method for their first headlining show at the Public...
Out of Doors- Free: Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, ? & the Mysterians, The Gories, Death
Saturday 7/31 @ Lincoln Center
Detroit rock icons of the first tier, garage rockers
Mitch Ryder and Question Mark presided over
America’s rock &...
Saturday 7/31 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The Cat Empire's message, on stage and in the studio, has always been...
Out of Doors--27th Annual Roots of American Music Ponderosa Stomp: The Detroit Breakdown
Saturday 7/31 @ Lincoln Center
The Detroit Breakdown showcases the spiritual continuum and musical progression that has long served as the hallmark of a true artistic...
Saturday 7/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
House music all night long provided by Joe Pompeo, Mike Stefan
Saturday 7/31 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Zee Avi is just 23 years old, but she’s an old soul. A huge talent in a petite frame, Avi brings...
Saturday 7/31 @ 92YTribeca
The most stunning and accessible work in Rivette's Les Filles du Feu (Girls of Fire) series of films: A battle between...
Saturday 7/31 @ The Bowery Presents
The Lubriphonic sound is full of precision orchestrations made up of blazing guitars,...
Strings Live in NYC @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 7/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Strings is an internationally acclaimed Pakistani pop band comprising two members. The band was formed when four college students—Bilal Maqsood, Faisal...
Saturday 7/31 @ The Mercury Lounge
Also Performing: Delicate Steve & Plus late night Machinedrum DJ Set! Even in a scene as vibrant as the current one...
Saturday 7/31 @ 92YTribeca
For Jacques Rivette, life and directing are games. When he couldn't find funding for a 35mm film in this period (his...
Le Bingo! with Murray Hill and Linda Simpson @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 7/31 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
After several years of hosting wildly successful Bingo nights at various venues in the East Village, Linda Simpson and Murray...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 7/31 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 Last Dreams of Helene Weigel
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ IFC Center
Sleepless wondering what happened to the Jordan family from the film Happiness? Filmmaker Todd Solondz obviously has been, because he came...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Cinema Village
Long before Lindsay Lohan was a twinkle in her father's eye, Ron "paparazzi extraordinaire" Galella was figuring out devious ways to shoot...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Saturday 7/31 @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street
Watching two adult naked men contort their private parts into such amazing "installations" as "The Slowly-Emerging Crustacean," "The Sombrero" and "The...
Saturday 7/31 @ Morrison Hotel Gallery
Though the album was announced in spring 2009, Dark Night of the Soul, a unique collaboration by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ IFC Center
If you want to be fully prepared come Oscar-pool time, we recommend checking out DocuWeek's smorgasbord of non-fiction fare. Now in...
Saturday 7/31 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
There are a few more days left to catch 83-year-old British cinematic contrarian Ken Russell in-person at Russellmania, a hit parade...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
Questioning the notion of beauty, German photographer Martin Schoeller takes pictures of female bodybuilders, whose feminine heads seem grafted to muscular...
Saturday 7/31 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 7/31 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Saturday 7/31 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Saturday 7/31 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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...
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Saturday 7/31 @ 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....
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Saturday 7/31 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Confused by those 40-armed deities? Let Gateway to Himalayan Art break it down for you. In this new introductory exhibition, you'll...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Symphony Space
A disciple of Keaton and Chaplin and a precursor to Mr. Bean, Jacques Tati created his own, gently bumbling character, Monsieur Hulot....
Saturday 7/31 @ 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,...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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...
Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Saturday 7/31 @ Symphony Space
Arguably his finest film, it was not available for years until Hitchcock's estate was resolved in 1983, when it was re-released....
Summer Fiction Sale! 30% off all of July!
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Saturday 7/31 @ 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...
