Events on Sunday, September 12
Sunday 9/12 @ The Invisible Dog Art Center
While you probably won't see a tractor pull, a pig race, or a 19-pound rabbit — that would be the Iowa...
Sunday 9/12 @ The Bell House-
From the Mexicali maniacs who brought you Guactacular and Guac Roc comes an equally mouthwatering event: Salsa Slam. Today, 20 self-proclaimed...
Sunday 9/12 @ Moore St btwn White & Bogart
With summer winding down (no, it's not yet wound down darn it!) we're making the most of outdoor parties, even if...
Sunday 9/12 @ Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
No other book festival holds a candle to the Brooklyn Book Festival in terms of program variety, interest, and intimacy. With...
Exposing a Difficult Past: Housing Works sponsored panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Sunday 9/12 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A panel exploring the motivations for and process behind writing for the general public about life events most people would keep...
Sunday 9/12 @ Joe's Pub
Haviland Stillwell will celebrate the release of her album, HOW i ROLE, in her debut(ante) concert at Joe's Pub. She is...
Sunday 9/12 @ Joe's Pub
Recently described as "A bar of gold in the new depression" by Hilton Als in the New Yorker, singer, songwriter and...
Sunday 9/12 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Also Performing: Defiance, Ohio / The Great Explainer The Bouncing Souls have never been in the New Yorker. The NJ band...
Sunday 9/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Baby Loves Disco 9.12.10 $20 12:00 PM | All Ages All across the country, Baby Loves Disco is slowly...
Rock Your Face Rouge! Sunday Night Karaoke w/ DJ RickAlert
Sunday 9/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Rock Your Face Rouge! Sunday Night Karaoke w/ DJ RickAlert 9.12.10 FREE 10:00 PM | 21+ Rock Your Face...
Circles & Lines (A Night of Young Composers) w/ Music of Glatthorn and more
Sunday 9/12 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Circles & Lines (A Night of Young Composers) w/ Music of Glatthorn, Lemmon, Winslow, Silva, Faingold, Négron, Caruso 9.12.10 $10...
Stockholm Syndrome @ Brooklyn Bowl
Sunday 9/12 @ The Bowery Presents
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME are Pete Devereux and Tom Devos. Our first offering in 2010 is a remix of the forthcoming Bless Beats...
Sunday 9/12 @ Asia Society and Museum
This fall, Asia Society and New York City-based children's art studio HiArt! are teaming up to bring you the grooviest family...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Sunday 9/12 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Sunday 9/12 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Playwright Florencia Lozano revisits her childhood home and the psychological state of her 13-year-old self, in underneathmybed. Escaping Argentina's "Dirty War"...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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...
Sunday 9/12 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 9/12 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 9/12 @ Quad Cinema
A refreshing and creative take on the 9/11 story, Clear Blue Tuesday follows 11 musicians and actors — all virtual unknowns,...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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
Sunday 9/12 @ Various locations
If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Sunday 9/12 @ 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...
Another American: Asking and Telling
Sunday 9/12 @ DR2 Theatre
Marc Wolf's performance in his one-man show Another American: Asking and Telling is revelatory. As he inhabits the voices of dozens...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Sunday 9/12 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
We fell in love with Hannibal Buress after watching his hilarious treatise on the absurdity of fire department SUVs; our comedic...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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,...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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...
Sunday 9/12 @ The Brick Theater
For four weeks the Brick is hosting clowns. Some wear big red noses and others appear normal. For example, Theatre Group...
Free Reading Installation of Hetero
Sunday 9/12 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 9/12 @ 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...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Sunday 9/12 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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...
Sunday 9/12 @ Symphony Space
2009. Daniel Alfredson. Sweden/Denmark. 129 min. Color. Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin, Per Oscarsson, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson ...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 9/12 @ 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...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Sunday 9/12 @ Symphony Space
2010. Tamra Davis. US. 93 min. Color. Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize nomination Director Tamra Davis pays homage to...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Sunday 9/12 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Sunday 9/12 @ 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....
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Sunday 9/12 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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
Sunday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Sunday 9/12 @ 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...
