Events on Saturday, September 18
Saturday 9/18 @ The Bowery Presents
Jamie Lidell is a consummate showman. He's a fantastic and energetic performer, whose charisma is matched only by the sequins on...
Saturday 9/18 @ 3rd Ward
Celebrating the autumnal shift is a great way to forget how bummed we are that the great hot days of summer...
Saturday 9/18 @ YogaWorks Soho
Get Your Dance On adds extra flavor to the mix this month as it hosts NYC's official Earthdance celebration with a...
Saturday 9/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join Karina Zilberman and a guest musician for an engaging, inspiring service for families. Hear traditional and creative music, prayers, songs...
Sheba Presented by New African Productions
Saturday 9/18 @ Joe's Pub
What do you get when you mash up the majesty of Africa, the island vibes of the Caribbean, New York City's...
Saturday 9/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
More Than Enough 9.18.2010 FREE 10:00 | 21+ More Than Enough DJ Sickrock & Uncle Chip spin: Funk, Soul,...
Natalia Lafourcade: Part of Celebrate Mexico Now!
Saturday 9/18 @ Joe's Pub
Young Mexican pop singer Natalia Lafourcade has a clear, buoyant voice and weaves multi-layered melodies that tap bossa nova, alternative rock,...
Saturday 9/18 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Perhaps no band was more emblematic of the true spirit of American indie rock during the 1990s than Superchunk, the pride...
Trouble & Bass 4 Year Anniversary
Saturday 9/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Trouble & Bass 4 Year Anniversary w/ Bart B More , Plastician , Drop the Lime , AC Slater , Star...
Saturday 9/18 @ The Mercury Lounge
El Ten Eleven is a Los Angeles-based instrumental indie rock duo consisting of Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty. They officially formed...
Natalia Lafourcade: Part of Celebrate Mexico Now!
Saturday 9/18 @ Joe's Pub
Young Mexican pop singer Natalia Lafourcade has a clear, buoyant voice and weaves multi-layered melodies that tap bossa nova, alternative rock,...
LE BINGO! w/ host Murray Hill and Linda Simpson
Saturday 9/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LE BINGO! w/ host Murray Hill and Linda Simpson 9.18.10 FREE 7:00 PM | 21+ LE BINGO! PERK...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 9/18 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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"...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Saturday 9/18 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Saturday 9/18 @ 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....
Saturday 9/18 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Saturday 9/18 @ Various locations
If you've read Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, then you know what this film is about. If you haven't,...
Saturday 9/18 @ Ars Nova Theater
Sometimes, all we need out of theatre is an old-fashioned boy-meets-girl story. The good news is, Now Circa Then is just...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Film Forum
Grown men crying over pastry, sounds a little absurd but that's what you get in the Kings of Pastry. The latest...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Tisch School of the Arts
Anyone who has logged hours in an office knows well the high drama that ensues in everyday corporate culture. In Appointment,...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ The Flea Theater
Replace the '70s references in A.R. Gurney's Office Hours and it could take place today. The questions raised in this passionate...
Saturday 9/18 @ 303 Gallery
A mid-career survey designed to support and contextualize Williams' most recent work, Al-Qaeda Is the CIA offers a rollicking, visceral good...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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,...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 9/18 @ Quad Cinema
A refreshing and creative take on the 9/11 story, Clear Blue Tuesday follows 11 musicians and actors — all virtual unknowns,...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 9/18 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Arguably the greatest artist in the history of glass sculpture, Dale Chihuly has helped turn the craft of blowing glass into...
Saturday 9/18 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Various locations
For those of you who love comedy but can't seem to keep up with, or feel overwhelmed by, all of the...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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...
Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil
Saturday 9/18 @ New Museum
In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join Rabbi Jennifer Krause, cantorial soloist Josh Nelson and ba'al tefilah Richard Claman for a warm, dynamic and inspiring observance of...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Saturday 9/18 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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...
The Sullivan Project presents Graham & Frost
Saturday 9/18 @ Performance Space 122
Friends, neighbors, countrymen: can they really co-exist? Three men from very different walks of life set about reopening an abandoned restaurant...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Do you miss Saturday mornings filled with an endless supply of sugary cereals and quality cartoons on TV? Do you hate...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 9/18 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday 9/18 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Saturday 9/18 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 9/18 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Saturday 9/18 @ The Kitchen
San Francisco-based artist Pamela Z presents her latest solo performance for voice, electronics, and interactive video that considers “baggage” in all...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 9/18 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Saturday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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...
Raimund Hoghe with Faustin Linyekula: Sans-titre
Saturday 9/18 @ New York Live Arts
Co-presented with the French Institue Alliance Française's...
