Events on Sunday, August 22
Sunday 8/22 @ Pete's Candy Store
We first heard Nathan Reich at a series of Brooklyn house parties last fall, and now he's back in town and...
Sunday 8/22 @ Washington Square Park
In support of FringeNYC production Art of Attack, Grandmaster (no, not an emcee, a certified chess champion) Alex Lenderman is taking...
REO Speedwagon / Pat Benatar @ CMAC (Canandiagua, NY)
Sunday 8/22 @ The Bowery Presents
Tonight, the Bowery Presents hits us with its best shots: '80s rocker Pat Benatar and '70s American powerband REO Speedwagon team...
Sunday 8/22 @ East River State Park
Chromeo take the stage to sound the Pool Parties death knell this afternoon. After ongoing battles with the Open Space Alliance...
Nullsleep, Bit Shifter , Glomag and NO CARRIER @LPR
Sunday 8/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Nullsleep, Bit Shifter , Glomag and NO CARRIER 8.22.10 $10 Doors 6:30 | Show 7PM | 21+ 2 Player Productions celebrates...
Ute Lemper: The Bukowski Project
Sunday 8/22 @ Joe's Pub
A journey through the poetry of Charles Bukowski from the books The Last Night of Earth Poems, What Matters Most is...
Rock Your Face Rouge! Sunday Night Karaoke with DJ RickAlert
Sunday 8/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Free well vodka 9-10 p.m. to anyone who signs up for karaoke within that hour. There will be $5 beer, wine...
Sunday 8/22 @ The Bowery Presents
Featuring: Ciarra / Rick Ross / Kelly Rowland / Keri Hilson / J Cole / Bobby Valentino / Fat Joe /...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ The New School for Drama and Theatre
A soldier from a small American town dies in battle and becomes a hero — only to become an even bigger...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ The Flea Theater
Anna Fishbeyn begins her one-woman show with a smile that never fades, even when describing chaos. Her lively monologue (with an...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Sunday 8/22 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Abraham Lincoln was gay, George Washington owned slaves, and Thomas Jefferson slept with one — the secret history of our founding...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ IFC Center
If you're familiar with award-winning German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin's more serious offerings, Soul Kitchen serves as a nice palette cleanser. An...
Sunday 8/22 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ Landmark Sunshine
Animal Kingdom may come from Down Under, but it's certainly no Crocodile Dundee. David Michôd's debut feature is a taut, well-paced...
Kingsboro Press Presents: Nirvana Live at Reading
Sunday 8/22 @ West Street Gallery
We're B'ing our own B to this exhibit opening. And Nirvana fans should note that we're also coming for the...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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,...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Sunday 8/22 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Sunday 8/22 @ The New School for Drama and Theatre
The Glass Bandits are a theatre group based in Brooklyn who create work that is complex, decontructed, and altogether powerful. We...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Sunday 8/22 @ Landmark Sunshine
Is our government lying to us? In Amir Bar-Lev's documentary The Tillman Story, the Tillman family is unfortunately faced with this...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 8/22 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Sunday 8/22 @ Village East Cinema
Former Princess of Persia, Gemma Arterton, comes down off her throne for first-time director J Blakeson's thriller The Disappearance of Alice...
ZooFari Passport Adventure: Celebrating Asia, presented by Asia Society at The Bronx Zoo
Sunday 8/22 @ Asia Society and Museum
All Events Take Place at the Bronx Zoo Traditional Dance from India and China Chinese Theater Works will present traditional...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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...
Emotional Sloppy Manic Cinema: Films Directed and Selected by Benny and Josh Safdie
Sunday 8/22 @ BAM
The directors of two films to screen at Cannes and co-founders of the production company Red Bucket Films, Josh and Benny...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ 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...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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....
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 8/22 @ 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 8/22 @ Symphony Space
A young, wealthy playgirl comes to a small California town to pursue a man and ends up trapped in the nightmare...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil
Sunday 8/22 @ New Museum
In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of...
Nature in the Garden Discovery Walk
Sunday 8/22 @ Wave Hill
Explore Wave Hill’s woodlands and gardens and discover the world of insects, flowers, trees, birds and their fascinating habitats on these...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Sunday 8/22 @ 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....
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Sunday 8/22 @ 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...
