Events on Saturday, August 7
Saturday 8/ 7 @ MoMA PS1
We're told that this week's Warm Up is one of the highlights of the season. The lineup of DFA artists is...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ South Street Seaport
Mad Decent's legendary block party is on tour and coming to New York. Diplo's Mad Decent teams up with Diesel and...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ The Mercury Lounge
With a distinct sound uniting hook-soaked pop and blues-drenched rock and roll, Hollis Brown is a throwback to an era when...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Singles and couples of all ages and levels welcome. A group lesson is held during the first hour of each party....
David Binney Quartet ft Brian Blade
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most...
Out of Doors- Free: Family Day
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls Summer Revue
Chris Annibell presents: The Afrokinetic 7 Year Anniversary at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 8/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Afrokinetic is back at it again, celebrating it’s 7 Year Anniversary in NYC!!! Founder and resident DJ Chris Annibell is in...
Lydia - "The Lydia Finale: A Goodbye & Farewell Tour"
Saturday 8/ 7 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Performing with: Brian Bonz & The Dog Hongs / Analog Rebellion / River City Extension. In the commotion of the ever-changing...
Hank & Cupcakes with Navegante at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 8/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Hank & Cupcakes, Brooklyn’s buzz worthy drum and bass duo, rock out on its new self-titled EP with four rhythmically dense...
Hip Hop Karaoke at Brooklyn Bowl
Saturday 8/ 7 @ The Bowery Presents
Hip Hop Karaoke was designed for the inner Big Daddy Kane in all of us. It’s truly your chance to rhyme...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ The Mercury Lounge
Julia is an NYC based musician and songwriter who likes rooftops and cornfields and all the people in between. She plays...
Local Natives @ The Beach @ Governors Island
Saturday 8/ 7 @ The Bowery Presents
Local Natives are a Southern California act preparing to release their debut full length. Upon first listen though, it seems as...
Me'shell Ndegeocello at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 8/ 7 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Canonized, marginalized or just scrutinized, Meshell Ndegeocello has given up trying to explain herself. After 20 years, this fierce bassist,...
Maroon 5 w/ special guest Owl City / VV Brown @ CMAC (Canandiagua, NY)
Saturday 8/ 7 @ The Bowery Presents
Capturing their first of two Grammys as Best New Artist of 2005, and going on to sell more than ten million...
Out of Doors: Balkan Beat Box and Mucca Pazza
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
The globetrotting brainchild of drummer/producer Tamir Muskat, sax monarch Ori Kaplan, and dynamic MC Tomer Yosef, Balkan Beat Box transforms equal...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
Taj Weekes & Adowa present a brand new experience in "classic roots reggae for the conscious mind."...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Joe's Pub
You might know actor/singer-songwriter Alicia Witt from her current work on Friday Night...
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 92YTribeca
Guest judge Geoff Klock joins hosts Jay Stern and Victor Varnado for the Iron Mule Short Comedy Screening Series. It was...
Out of Doors- Free: Family Day
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
Puppet Pageant: Pride and Prejudice and New York Real Estate (World Premiere)
Pupp eteers’ Cooperative with Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ IFC Center
Sleepless wondering what happened to the Jordan family from the film Happiness? Filmmaker Todd Solondz obviously has been, because he came...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ The Triad Theater
Yes, it has come to this: hopeful New York singles can now put their romantic destiny in the hands of a...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ Cinema Village
It's tempting to look for the dark humor in any movie about an illicit gay romance between European skinheads, and indeed,...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Saturday 8/ 7 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 Disappearance of Alice Creed
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ Park Avenue
A great reason for an early start on August Saturdays: the Department of Transportation's Summer Streets, which runs the 7th, 14th,...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ BLT Gallery
Françoise Gilot is best known perhaps as the lover and muse to Pablo Picasso and the mother of his children, Claude...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Go Figure: Five Contemporary Videos
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Out of Doors- Free: Asphalt Orchestra
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
An iconoclastic 12-piece marching band conceived
by Bang on a Can, the Asphalt Orchestra performs
ambitious processional music from...
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalayas
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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...
Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato at Mostly Mozart Festival
Saturday 8/ 7 @ Lincoln Center
Mark Morris returns to the Mostly Mozart Festival to present one of his definitive works, a dance filled with theatricality and...
Final Weekend! Remember That You Will Die
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Last Chance—American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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
Saturday 8/ 7 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
AsiaStore Designer Sample Sale and Summer Sale!
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Last Chance—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 8/ 7 @ 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...
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