Events on Saturday, October 1
Saturday 10/ 1 @ K1X
K1X has been in the street-wear game (with an emphasis on basketball) since 1993, but the brand finally sees its Soho...
Meditation Flash Mob NYC @ Occupy Wall St
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Occupy Wall Street
Bring some peace to an often turbulent scene today with Meditation Flash Mob as they head to Occupy Wall Street. Lend...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park
This weekend sees the culmination of Justin Tellan's vision of photographing dreamers across the world. He has taken historical group photos...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Ferry Landing
Brooklyn lights up on the first day of the month along with cities around the world, in celebration of international art...
Supermachine Fall 2011 Reading
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Outpost
Supermachine, the exciting Brooklyn-based journal/publishing company/reading series holds its first reading of the Fall 2011 season with Julia Cohen, Dan Boehl,...
BAMcinématek presents Meet Me in St. Louis
Saturday 10/ 1 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
For the fun alone of watching Judy Garland sing "The Trolley Song," Meet Me in St Louis is worth a trip...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Celebrating all things spicy, the Chile Festival returns for a day of music, hot treats and contests. Partake in chocolate debauchery...
Bring to Light: Nuit Blanche New York
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Various locations
It's been a decade since the Nuit Blanche (literally, "White Night") tradition kicked off in Paris, but NYC is relatively new...
Monster Island Requiem: Autumnal Unamplified Acoustic BBQ
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 128 River St (outside) between Metropolitan Ave and N3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
The end is nigh for Monster Island, a colorfully adorned commercial building sitting near the Williamsburg Waterfront that houses a number...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 3rd Ward
Being a Photo Assistant is a unique opportunity to gain invaluable professional experience on set with top photographers, clients and subjects....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Symphony Space
Everything the Story Pirates perform is based on a story written by an elementary school student - from the shame of...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Who knew Bingo could be so much kooky fun? Every Saturday, Le Poisson Rouge welcomes NYC's favorite wisecracking Bingo lady...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Terminal 5
“I’ve never made a record that was such a timeline,” says Ben Harper of his new album, Give Till It’s Gone....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
A celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984). Widely revered as one of the leading...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Symphony Space
Using stories submitted by children, the Story Pirates create outladishly funny sketches and mini-musicals that leave kids and their parents howling...
More Than Enough w/ special guests KJ Butta , Kevlove and Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip
Saturday 10/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
10pm // $5 21+ FREE w/ RSVP, email morethanenoughnyc@gmail.com to RSVP $5 General admission without RSVP More Than Enough:...
Suphala and John Hadfield's 'Electrocussion
Saturday 10/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Suphala: Suphala is one of the most versatile young tabla artists making music today. A protégé of the great tabla masters...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Let's go on an adventure! See new sights and scale new heights! During this day packed with activities, listen to tales...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Named "Africa's premiere diva" by Time magazine, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter performs traditional folk songs from her native Benin with fellow...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Derrick Carter w/ Sleepy & Boo Chris Love Nick Jagger AB Logic Chicago’s storied house music tradition is loaded with...
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 92YTribeca
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Screening Series was founded in April 2002 under the name First Sundays at the Chicago City...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/ 1 @ BAM
Celebrate ten years of the Next Wave Art fest by ushering in a new group of groundbreaking Brooklyn artists. Curated by...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Westside Theatre
You would swear that musical instruments are being played, but the only sounds in this show are coming out of the...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Radio City Music Hall
Cirque de Soleil's latest endeavor seamlessly blends acrobatics and rock music. Following the story of Zark, a magician who has lost...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ New World Stages
Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ MoMA PS1
Responding to the sense that 9/11 is underrepresented in the cultural discourse, MoMA PS1 presents September 11, a group show that...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Workshop Theater (312 West 36th St)
In the 1950s, an aspiring British diplomat moves to New York to work at the UN on establishing a peacekeeping force....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Achangel
While we'll never understand folks who want to go hunting with the Nuge, we admit: we booked this fishing trip with...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Gagosian Gallery
Since at least the Sensation exhibit, which caused a stir at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999, Jenny Saville's nudes...
One Sweet Morning by John Corigliano
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Avery Fisher Hall
Composer John Corigliano's association with the NYP goes back to when his father John Sr. was the orchestra's concert master. Corigliano's...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Village East Cinema
After making a killing on the festival circuit in 2010, writer-director Eli Craig's horror-comedy Tucker & Dale vs Evil is finally haunting a...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This year, MoMA's annual New Photography series expands to feature the work of six artists, with the aim of capturing the...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ West Park Presbyterian Church
The Tenant begins with a moment New Yorkers can relish: a man pays his respects to an unknown young woman, and...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ David Zwirner
For two decades, Lisa Yuskavage has been gracing canvases with her lush, cartoonish, erotic nudes. The new works presented in her...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ New World Stages
Freud's Last Session is a battle of the brains, with plenty of wit and thought-provoking dialogue. Two brilliant actors, particularly Martin Rayner...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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 10/ 1 @ MoMA PS1
Now in its sixth year, the annual NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ books, contemporary art...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)
We hestitated to lend our voices to the chorus of adoration for this show — only because we were afraid of being...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Under St. Marks
Like a stream-of-consciousness journey through one man's head and heart, Anthony Johnston's one-man show Tenderpits is an alternately hilarious and harrowing...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ New York Public Library
In celebration of its centennial, the New York Public Library is going into its archives and bringing out some items that...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Gladstone Gallery
"DJED" is Matthew Barney's first New York exhibition of the "Ancient Evenings" project. A multi-part collaboration with Jonathan Bepler, which has...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Hole
Evan Gruzis has two solo shows running simultaneously and in collaboration. Shadow Work and Exotic Beta open at Nicole Klagsbrun Project...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Cinema Village
Having just walked off with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick's latest film, The Tree of Life, which stars Brad...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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 10/ 1 @ Angelika Film Center
We've always been a fan of actor Michael Shannon, but after seeing his performance in Take Shelter, a gripping psychological thriller,...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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 10/ 1 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Hudson Guild Theater
Far ahead of its time when it was written in 1958, Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer remains a dark classic, a...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Winter Garden Theatre
Seen by over 45 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 4,000 performances in its tenth smash hit...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Gagosian Gallery
Bob Dylan's exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery, The Asia Series, has been in a minor swirl of controversy since it opened...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Abrons Arts Center
Vintage marionettes, anatomically correct puppets, and surreal stage elements are par for the course in a Basil Twist production. Arias with...
ATP America presents I'll Be Your Mirror
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Various locations in Asbury Park
Where many have failed, the Brits appear to have a decent formula when it comes to producing non-corporate festivals. Conceived by...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Pace Gallery
For Tight Spot, a new outdoor installation by David Byrne, the artist places a giant inflatable globe literally in a tight...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Museum of the Moving Image
If Sesame Street was your primary baby-sitter back when you were a kid, and you considered Kermit and Miss Piggy some...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
When a young author writes a play about a mother struggling in the inner city, he faces a dilemma: he is...
Jonas Mekas: This Side of Paradise
Saturday 10/ 1 @ agnès b. Galerie Boutique
The agnès b. Galerie Boutique presents This Side of Paradise an exhibition of rare and personal images of the Kennedy and...
Crafting Genre: Kathryn Bigelow
Saturday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow began her career as a painter and conceptual artist, studying at the San Francisco Art Institute and...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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 10/ 1 @ Various Greenwich Village locations
Expose your taste buds to the flavors of Greenwich Village in this two-hour walking tour. Break your parents' rules and start...
The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Kraine Theater
Eugene O'Neill's exacting stage directions can be interpreted as marking the beginning of great American drama (that continues to this day),...
Sol Lewitt: Structures 1965 - 2006
Saturday 10/ 1 @ City Hall Park
City Hall Park is an unlikely hotbed of great contemporary art. But if you happen to be in lower Manhattan, you...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Metro Pictures
Olaf Breuning's latest exhibit, The Art Freaks, is a smart, revealing homage to the some of the 20th-century's most revered artists....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Walkerspace
How will our current war affect our future generations? How will the war continue to affect those who have been in...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Hudson River Park, Pier 49
Living in the city, we are well aware of the effects of noise and air pollution; just walk down Broadway pretty...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Lincoln Center
Like a fine wine, the New York Film Festival appears to just get better with age. The year's 17-day program, which...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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 10/ 1 @ Gagosian Gallery
Junction (2011) and Cycle (2010) are two new sculptures by Richard Serra. Serra has produced large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban,...
Shirts & Destroy presents The Exquisite Corpse
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Cotton Candy Machine
To celebrate the opening of its new storefront location in Williamsburg, art and design collective Shirts & Destroy stages a month-long...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA kicks off the fall season with a blockbuster exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by celebrated abstract expressionist...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Seeing Place at ATA's Sargent Theatre
"Have you ever seen a heart? It looks like a fist wrapped in blood" — so says Dr. Larry to obituary writer...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Angelika Film Center
The buddy-cop genre gets an update in this deadpan comedy starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle. Gleeson, who you may recall...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Gavin Brown's enterprise
This show marks Alex Katz's first exhibition at Gavin Brown's Enterprise and his first solo show at a New York gallery...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The McKittrick Hotel
Don't let the extraordinary experience that is Sleep No More pass you by. Dubbed immersive theatre by its parents, the award-winning...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River
These days, there seems to be interest in street occupation in New York City. First there's the protest on Wall Street,...
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Saturday 10/ 1 @ El Museo del Barrio
This installation in the Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries, drawn from our Permanent Collection, features works with an urban sensibility that deploy...
Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
Saturday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Talk to Me explores the communication between people and things. All objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use...
Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness/A Centennial Tribute
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, drawing on its and collector Russell Goings’s collections, presents a retrospective of Romare...
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)
Saturday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Galvanized by the international student protest movement of the late 1960s, Harun Farocki has developed an experimental documentary style, integrating his...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ National Academy Museum
A salon-style installation of approximately 120 paintings from the museum’s collection, An American Collection spans the period 1820-1970 and reflects the...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and subsequent conquest of China by semi-nomadic Manchu tribesmen from northeast of the Great...
Fiber Futures: Japan's Textile Pioneers
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Japan Society
Japan’s extreme textile-making lands in NYC. Coaxed from materials as age-old as hemp and newly developed as microfilaments, more than 35...
Exhibition Joe Winter: The Stars Below
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Kitchen
In this new series of sculptures Joe Winter juxtaposes conventions of information display against ways of reimagining and representing extended notions...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition features a selection of early 20th-century reproductions of now-famous works of art from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of...
Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Days
Saturday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa conceived Sum of Days as an environmental and participatory sound installation—a monumental, voluminous construction made of soft,...
Stephen Burks: Are You A Hybrid?
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Works by the industrial designer Stephen Burks and 20 other mostly contemporary designers and artists are showcased in this exhibition that...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ El Museo del Barrio
This show features imagery by a number of artists that share an affinity for illustration and the narrative force of images....
Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met Museum holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666), whose...
Parabolas to Post-Modern: Selections of Architecture from the Collection
Saturday 10/ 1 @ National Academy Museum
Parabolas to Post-Modern: Selections of Architecture from the Collection is a brief survey of post-war architecture by National Academicians (NAs) and...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major international loan exhibition challenges conventional perceptions of African art. Bringing together more than 100 masterpieces drawn from collections in...
The Vimalakirti Sutra: Public Rehearsals
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Vimalakirti Sutra dates from the First Century AD, a watershed moment in Buddhist history that brought sacred teachings out of...
Rabindranath Tagore: the Last Harvest
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is beloved around the world as a poet and writer, yet few outside his native India...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Northern Manhattan Arts Allicance
Saturday 10/ 1 @ El Museo del Barrio
This exhibition focuses more specifically on local graffiti writers and their newer "canvases," focusing on artists of various generations and their...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924)—considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation, and a key figure in...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Malcolm X: A Search for Truth will provide the general public an opportunity to examine materials from the Malcolm X collection....
Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In India, the Goddess (Devi) is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom. Devi in her myriad forms—benign, maternal, empowering, and...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ National Academy Museum
In the first New York retrospective of the artist’s work, Will Barnet at 100 will explore the dialogue between figuration and...
Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons and Anish Kapoor are some of the 20th century's...
Contemporary Selections: Aligning Abstraction
Saturday 10/ 1 @ National Academy Museum
Aligning Abstraction will bring together a selection of recent diploma presentations by newly admitted members. Each year the National Academy receives...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ National Academy Museum
Each semester the National Academy School presents its Faculty Exhibition which highlights recent work by the members of the faculty. The...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Saturday 10/ 1 @ El Museo del Barrio
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 is El Museo del Barrio's sixth and largest biennial, showcasing 75 artists at seven...
Documentary Film Series: Visions of a New China
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
China is undergoing the fastest economic growth and social transformation known in human history. In urban centers, a booming economy, an...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Haunch of Venison
Haunch of Venison is delighted to present Boundaries Obscured, a group exhibition that will mark the gallery’s inaugural exhibition in its...
194X–9/11: American Architects and the City
Saturday 10/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This year marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11, an event that ushered in a new era of architectural anticipation and uncertainty,...
The Artist Revealed: A Panorama of Great Artist Portraits
Saturday 10/ 1 @ National Academy Museum
Highlights from the National Academy’s extensive collection of artist portraits from the early 19th century to today will be on view...
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the...
The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
Explore the magnificent sculptural art of Gandhara, a once primarily Buddhist region that thrived where present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan are located. ...
Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Public Art Fund
Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was one of America’s most inventive, prolific, and influential artists. He created significant bodies of work...
Exhibition Jennie C. Jones: Absorb / Diffuse
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Kitchen
Curated by Matthew Lyons Jennie C. Jones re-contextualizes the material output of sound recording in order to explore how we listen and...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Public Art Fund
Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York's enduring cultural icons, is installed...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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....
Dance Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey with Jonathan Bepler: TOOL IS LOOT
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Kitchen
TOOL IS LOOT is a one-year process of disorientation resulting in a duet. Working apart, in the U.S. and France respectively, Wally...
Flora and Fauna, MAD about Nature
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Insects, birds, flowers, trees. Spring blooms inside MAD with the exhibition of works from our permanent collection. It's a captivating peek...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt was designed by artist Faith Ringgold and constructed in collaboration with New York City students aged...
National Academicians: Then and Now
Saturday 10/ 1 @ National Academy Museum
National Academicians: Then and Now will trace the work of four artists and one architect by pairing diploma presentations – the...
"Wonder of the Age": Master Painters of India, 1100–1900
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major loan exhibition is devoted to the connoisseurship of Indian painting, with some 220 works selected according to identifiable hands...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
For his first solo New York museum exhibition, artist U-Ram Choe (b. 1970, Korea) has created a new work inspired by...
