Events on Saturday, September 11
Never Forget feat. the DeathSet
Saturday 9/11 @ Rock Yard
DIY concert producers Bikes in the Kitchen celebrate 5 years of staying alive with Never Forget, a concert produced in conjunction...
Solar-Powered Film Series Kicks Off
Saturday 9/11 @ Solar One
Rooftop Films, now in its 14th year, kicks off this year's Solar-Powered Film Series with a screening of Gasland. This special...
Saturday 9/11 @ TBA w/ RSVP
In Phytoremediation plants are used to pull pollutants from the environment and make them innocuous. One way of doing this is...
Saturday 9/11 @ W------
We know there's a lot going on tonight with Fashion Week, LitCrawl and all. But we find that the more we...
Saturday 9/11 @ The Cell Theatre
A good time for a good cause, Art for Life is hoping to raise $5,000 to provide clean drinking water (care...
Saturday 9/11 @ Various locations
Writers in bars. Like websites that capitalize on already extant Internet memes, Litquake is passing this off as a new idea....
Saturday 9/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Bollywood Disco DJ Rekha 9.11.10 $10 advance | $15 at door 11:00 PM | 21+ DJ Rekha Critically acclaimed...
Saturday 9/11 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Celebrate the sweetness of the New Year with a night of dancing and fun. Sat, Sep 11, 8:45pm, $15 at door...
Saturday 9/11 @ Joe's Pub
If there is one word to describe Miz Metro, it's Unlimited. Hailing from New York City, Miz Metro grew up playing...
Panda Bear @ The Beach at Governors Island
Saturday 9/11 @ The Bowery Presents
Instinctively nomadic and musically inquisitive, Panda Bear (Noah) has always been searching the land for inspiration and meaning. As a teenager...
Saturday 9/11 @ 92YTribeca
Three chronologies hypnotically overlap in James Benning's American Dreams: the span of champion home-run hitter Hank Aaron's major league career, summarized...
Vinylcentric) -ONE NATION- (Planet ONE) w/ Oja
Saturday 9/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Vinylcentric) -ONE NATION- (Planet ONE) w/ Oja 9.11.10 $5 10:00 PM | 21+ (Vinylcentric) -ONE NATION- (Planet ONE) The...
The Dynamites Featuring Charles Walker @ Brooklyn Bowl
Saturday 9/11 @ The Bowery Presents
"The Dynamites are 10 pieces of straight-up, badass deep funk and super soul! The band has quickly become a sensation in...
Airborne Toxic Event featuring The Calder Quartet @ Town Hall
Saturday 9/11 @ The Bowery Presents
Formed in 2006, The Airborne Toxic Event has quickly become the darling of its native Los Angeles. The five-piece indie rock...
Man in Black Burlesque: Because You're Mine, I Bump 'n' Grind
Saturday 9/11 @ Joe's Pub
Casino O'Fortune Cookie Productions, the minds behind hit shows like Royale With Cheese: Pulp Fiction Burlesque and This Year's Girls:...
LE BINGO! w/ host Murray Hill and Linda Simpson
Saturday 9/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LE BINGO! w/ host Murray Hill and Linda Simpson 9.11.10 FREE 7:00 PM | 21+ LE BINGO! PERK UP...
Landlady, The Relatives and Capillary Action
Saturday 9/11 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Landlady, The Relatives and Capillary Action 9.11.10 $10 6:00 PM | 18+ Landlady, The Relatives and Capillary Action ...
Saturday 9/11 @ The Mercury Lounge
The sons of sheep farmers, Mennonites, rail workers and Olympians, BLACK TAXI channel their diverse histories into a barn-yard stomp that...
Saturday 9/11 @ Terminal 5
Dirty Projectors have been a part of my life since I heard their first album. At the time, I knew nothing...
Airborne Toxic Event @ Town Hall
Saturday 9/11 @ The Bowery Presents
Featuring The Calder Quartet Formed in 2006, The Airborne Toxic Event has quickly become the darling of its native Los Angeles....
Saturday 9/11 @ Joe's Pub
JohnnySwim, aka Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano-Ramirez, create a compelling amalgam of soul, folk, pop, and blues that is rooted in...
Pre-Hysteria // A Fundraiser to help save Rubulad from certain oblivion!
Saturday 9/11 @ 3rd Ward
After years of sending Brooklyn's most adventurous party-goers into all-night wonderlands of art and celebration, Rubulad is now in danger of...
Saturday 9/11 @ 92YTribeca
Completed a year before the 1996 centennial of Utah's statehood—and titled after the Mormons' original, rejected name for the state—James Benning's...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery
Luhring Augustine is pleased to present Heroes of Birth, an exhibition of new work by Pipilotti Rist. This is Rist's third...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Saturday 9/11 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Saturday 9/11 @ The Chocolate Factory
At first glance, Selective Memory seems easy enough to grasp. A woman stands plainly on a stage, obscured from the neck...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
An early giant of new American photography, Friedlander's iconic project of photographing the nation's roads from behind the wheel of a...
Saturday 9/11 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Art Since the Summer of '69
The interns of New York's toniest museums and galleries are, surprise, artists in their own right. Come check out what these...
Saturday 9/11 @ Angelika Film Center
Mesrine: Killer Instinct is the first part in a two-part series based on the memoir of notorious French gangster Mesrine. During...
Saturday 9/11 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Saturday 9/11 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 9/11 @ Quad Cinema
A refreshing and creative take on the 9/11 story, Clear Blue Tuesday follows 11 musicians and actors — all virtual unknowns,...
Saturday 9/11 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Art and terrorism make a gruesome twosome in this contemporary noir drama of intrigue and roadkill. A modern-day undercover agent with...
Saturday 9/11 @ Visual Arts Gallery
Some say that Iran hasn't seen protests this size since the 1979 revolution. These green movement protests began as a response...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Saturday 9/11 @ Various locations
If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red...
Saturday 9/11 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ IFC Center
Actor Romain Duris displays his charming versatility in Heartbreaker, a clever romantic-comedy from first-time French feature-filmmaker Pascal Chaumeil. Duris is Alex...
Saturday 9/11 @ Abrons Arts Center
Though an eye disorder is the prevailing malady in Christina Masciotti's engrossing Vision Disturbance, just about every sense endures a distortion....
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Saturday 9/11 @ The Cherry Pit
Nothing comes easy in Nick Starr's The Awesome Dance. This moving play for four actors is divided into four scenes, each...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Saturday 9/11 @ French Institute Alliance Francaise
"Crossing the Line" lives up to its name with these two site-specific presentations — though attendees won't know the exact details...
Saturday 9/11 @ The Brick Theater
For four weeks the Brick is hosting clowns. Some wear big red noses and others appear normal. For example, Theatre Group...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
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DanceNOW [NYC]: Festival Twenty Twelve
Saturday 9/11 @ New York Live Arts
DanceNOW [NYC] challenges and supports the creative process of hundreds of innovative dance makers, encouraging artists to create...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Saturday 9/11 @ 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....
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Saturday 9/11 @ 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
Saturday 9/11 @ 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...
Saturday 9/11 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Do you miss Saturday mornings filled with an endless supply of sugary cereals and quality cartoons on TV? Do you hate...
Free Reading Installation of Hetero
Saturday 9/11 @ Performance Space 122
In Hetero by Arthur Nauzyciel, an all-male cast struggles with concepts of gender in modern society. Humorous and cynical, Hetero is...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ 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...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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...
Saturday 9/11 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Create and submit your own prayer flag in celebration of the International Day of Non-Violence. The completed flags will be strung...
Saturday 9/11 @ Asia Society and Museum
Experience the world of internationally renowned Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Through drawings, paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations, this landmark exhibition links...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Saturday 9/11 @ 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 9/11 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Saturday 9/11 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday 9/11 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 9/11 @ 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...
Saturday 9/11 @ 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....
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 9/11 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 9/11 @ 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...
