Events on Sunday, August 1
Sunday 8/ 1 @ Lincoln Center
Shakespeare turns baadasssss thanks to Melvin Van Peebles, who performs Shel Silverstein's "street" (aka rap) retelling of the Danish play, presented...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ Glasslands Gallery
Our favorite proof that print ain't dead, BOMB mag throws itself a little summer soirée this evening at Glasslands. Title TK,...
Out of Doors- Free: 27th Annual Roots of American Music Dig: Their Royal Hipness
Sunday 8/ 1 @ Lincoln Center
Asylum Street Sp ankers
Los Straitjackets
The World Famous
Pontani Sisters
Etran Finatawa
The Asylum...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ Joe's Pub
Imagine a whimsical collision course between ragtime, two-step parlor dances, jazz, vaudeville, off-color blues, hip-hop swagger, country and western, and you...
Rock Your Own Face Rouge! Sunday Night Karaoke w/ DJ RickAlert @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sunday 8/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Doors 10PM | Show 10PM | 21+ Free well vodka 8-9 p.m. to anyone who signs up for karaoke within...
David Crowell Ensemble and Jerseyband @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sunday 8/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
In 2009, Innova Recordings (American Composers Forum) released Spectrum, the David Crowell Ensemble’s debut CD, where David fuses notated composition with...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ Joe's Pub
Hailing from Portland, Vagabond Opera pumps life into opera with the bellows of an untamed Romanian accordion, re-invents it, and accomplishes...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ IFC Center
Sleepless wondering what happened to the Jordan family from the film Happiness? Filmmaker Todd Solondz obviously has been, because he came...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 Private Collection of Henry Darger
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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:...
The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ Symphony Space
Hitchcock clearly enjoys conjuring the Autumn look and feel of the story, and he establishes an important, first-time alliance with composer...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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....
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Symphony Space
A story of espionage in high places based on Leon Uris' best-selling novel. Full of intrigue, suspense and excitement, warm-blooded men...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Sunday 8/ 1 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Symphony Space
1972. UK. Alfred Hitchcock. 116 min. Technicolor. Starring Michael Bates, John Boxer (II), Bernard Cribbins, Jon Finch, Barry Foster. Rating: R...
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
