Events on Sunday, September 26
Sunday 9/26 @ Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
Long before Brooklyn became the stomping ground of the bespectacled trend set, the Atlantic Antic fall festival was attracting merry throngs...
Bored to Death Screening w/ Jonathan Ames
Sunday 9/26 @ Building on Bond
Didn't get to make it to the official premiere of the second season of HBO's Bored to Death Tuesday night? No...
Rock Your Face Rouge! Sunday Night Karaoke w/ DJ RickAlert
Sunday 9/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Rock Your Face Rouge! Sunday Night Karaoke, free well vodka from 10PM-11PM to anyone who signs up for karaoke within that...
Margot & The Nuclear So and So's
Sunday 9/26 @ The Bowery Ballroom
As with most good stories, the tale of Margot & the Nuclear So and So's begins in the depths of poverty...
They Might Be Giants - A Special Show for Families with @ Town Hall
Sunday 9/26 @ The Bowery Presents
HERE COMES SCIENCE! For alternative rock legends They Might Be Giants, rave reviews from the likes of Time Magazine, Rolling Stone,...
Little Annie with special guest Baby Dee
Sunday 9/26 @ Joe's Pub
Little Annie aka Annie Bandez, a smokey contralto, raconteur and restless spirit has spent the last 30 years creating a...
The State of the World with Ralph Buultjens
Sunday 9/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
What is the condition of global politics and economics today? Will 2011 bring major changes? Who will collapse and who will...
Engendered/ I View Film Festival
Sunday 9/26 @ Asia Society and Museum
Closing Day & Night 12:00-2:00 pm : Closing Day Shorts and Docs (Naamkoron; The Naming Ceremony; Saayey; Rato Jhilko: The Daughter...
Sunday 9/26 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Modeselektor should require very little introduction. The Berlin-based duo of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary have destroyed so many dancefloors around...
Sunday 9/26 @ Joe's Pub
In the footsteps of comic character monologists such as Lily Tomlin, John Leguizamo, and Whoopi Goldberg, acclaimed comedic performance artist Amber...
Xiu Xiu and Merzbow @ (le) poisson rouge
Sunday 9/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Xiu Xiu is an experimental art rock band originally from San Jose, California. The band is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie...
Sunday 9/26 @ Symphony Space
The mysterious author of the New York Times bestselling book The Name of This Book is Secret, as well as the...
Sunday 9/26 @ Harlem Stage
For this Uptown Nights, Carl Hancock Rux curates a raucous night of artistic tributes to Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach, inspired...
Wangari Muta Maathai with Howard Gardner
Sunday 9/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Wangari Muta Maathai discusses her book Replenishing the Earth. For decades, Maathai's work with the Green Belt Movement put her in...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
La Mama Presents: Ritter, Dene, Voss
Sunday 9/26 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) was one of the most controversial literary figures of post-war Austria. He had a penchant...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Various Downtown locations
This is it. The glut. The cornucopia. The land of plenty. Lower Manhattan Arts League has brought together an astounding array...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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,...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Film Forum
Grown men crying over pastry, sounds a little absurd but that's what you get in the Kings of Pastry. The latest...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Barrow Street Theater
Milo, a Serbian astrophysicist who escaped the Balkan war by moving to Japan to teach English, is refusing to leave his...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
After an acclaimed run off-Broadway, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by...
Sunday 9/26 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Madison Square Park
Take the unique and seasonal design, homeware, and jewelry offerings you find at the Union Square Holiday Market, and combine it...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Brooklyn Fireproof
Bushwick seems to have become the de facto land of DIY, fostering experimentalists in science and food, music, and film. These...
Sunday 9/26 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Another American: Asking and Telling
Sunday 9/26 @ 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...
Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics
Sunday 9/26 @ Judson Memorial Church
Questions about psychedelics are generally met with myths and hysteria as colorful or horrifying as some of the trips themselves. It...
Sunday 9/26 @ BAM Harvey Theater
We're hard-pressed to think of a better opener to BAM's annual Next Wave Festival than local legend Laurie Anderson. Whether playing...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Sunday 9/26 @ Various DUMBO locations
Artists open their studios this weekend at the DUMBO Arts Festival (DAF) to remind us that art is alive and well...
Sunday 9/26 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 9/26 @ The Brick Theater
For four weeks the Brick is hosting clowns. Some wear big red noses and others appear normal. For example, Theatre Group...
Sunday 9/26 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Despite Lincoln Center's construction and recent staff changes at the Film Society, there's one thing that continues to run like clockwork,...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Harlem Stage
BLOOD DAZZLER, based on Patricia Smith’s award-winning book and created by Paloma and Patricia McGregor, reexamines Hurricane Katrina's origin and impact...
Aida from the Bregenz Festival
Sunday 9/26 @ Symphony Space
Opera in Four Acts From the Bregenz Festival, Bregenz, Austria, performed Summer 2009 131 min, 1 intermission Cast King of Egypt:...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Sunday 9/26 @ 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...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Sunday 9/26 @ 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...
Sunday 9/26 @ 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...
The Sullivan Project presents Graham & Frost
Sunday 9/26 @ 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...
Sunday 9/26 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Sunday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Symphony Space
2009. Daniel Alfredson. Sweden/Denmark. 129 min. Color. Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin, Per Oscarsson, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson ...
Sunday 9/26 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Harlem was once home to the second-largest Jewish community in the U.S. Take a fascinating guided journey through the sites of...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Sunday 9/26 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Sunday 9/26 @ 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...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Sunday 9/26 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Sunday 9/26 @ 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...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Sunday 9/26 @ Symphony Space
2010. Tamra Davis. US. 93 min. Color. Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize nomination Director Tamra Davis pays homage to...
