Events on Sunday, January 1
Avant-Brunch w/ Julianna Barwick
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Manhattan Inn
Kick off the New Year in grand style with an intimate concert by Julianna Barwick and a prix fixe brunch. Barwick's...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Standard, New York
We loved the Standard's update on both swimming (Le Bain) and ice skating, so we're keen to see how they turn...
Warby Parker Holiday Spectacle Bazaar
Sunday 1/ 1 @ 45 Grand Street
Warby Parker, a socially conscious startup online prescription eyewear company known for its affordable fashion-forward frames, has turned a 4,000 square-foot...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Various Brooklyn locations
One block away from the Brooklyn Museum of Art, six store front windows display Jell-O, frosted cakes, and candies of all...
Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Broadhurst Theatre
This show makes you wonder if he looks in the mirror each day and realizes he is ruining everything for all...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14
Writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman defy the sophomore slump with Juno follow-up Young Adult, an unconventional homecoming dramedy starring...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Brooklyn Museum
The exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties presents the work of 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored...
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Symphony Space
One of the best "feel-good" documentaries of 2011, Being Elmo pulls back the curtain on Kevin Clash, the man who invented...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ New York City Center
David Hyde Pierce and Rosie Perez each play themselves, to an extent, in Leigh Silverman's (Chinglish) production of Close Up Space....
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Barneys New York 660 Madison Avenue 5th Floor New York NY 10065
Move over Santa, there's a new head elf in town and she goes by "Gaga." With the help of her fashion...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
It's that time of year when MoMA looks into its crystal ball and forecasts the upcoming film awards season. Always a...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Rawson Projects
Rawson Projects inaugurates its Greenpoint gallery space with an exhibition of new photographs by visual artist Lyndsy Welgos. Welgos works in...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Brunch w/ Music by Michael Leviton
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Manhattan Inn
The Manhattan Inn is known for pairing its meals with live piano music. It's one of the reasons we go back...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Film Forum
Iran's entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar and winner of Berlin's Golden Bear, A Separation is a complex family drama that...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ IndieScreen
Werner Herzog and his charming German accent are back again with Into the Abyss, a documentary that uses a triple homicide...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Sunday 1/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See works from Diego Rivera's first NYC exhibition, which took place at the MoMA back in 1931. Yes, sketches and designs...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Landmark Sunshine
Sex addiction in New York City is laid bare in award-winning artist-turned-feature-filmmaker Steve McQueen's Shame. Michael Fassbender, who teamed with McQueen...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ AMC Loews Village 7
We were starting to worry about Gary Oldman. The actor we loved in Sid and Nancy and Prick Up Your Ears...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ RHV Fine Art
Jerry Walden's multi-colored formalist striped compositions bring to mind everything from Frank Stella to optical art. This new series of paintings...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Clic Gallery
The artist K-NARF might exhibit his "photograffiti" installations in an old cinema, a functioning plant, or an abandoned garage. But he's...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Momenta Art
Taking as its starting point ruptures in domestic spaces, Momenta Art presents the group show Broken Homes with work by artists...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Openhouse Gallery
Dodge the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with a play date at Park Here, Nolita's very own indoor park, plush with grass...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ IFC Center
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The HIDE/SEEK exhibition is known best for the controversy it caused in Washington, DC when it opened in October 2010 at...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
Fast-moving and frequently hilarious, Standing on Ceremony is a staged reading of nine ten-minute plays focusing on gay marriage, with proceeds...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ IFC Center
Werner Herzog and his charming German accent are back again with Into the Abyss, a documentary that uses a triple homicide...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Jewish Museum
NYC Weights and Measures is filmmaker Jem Cohen's observational portrait of New York City, a document of Cohen's wanderlust as he...
Gary Petersen, Halsey Hathaway, & Rob de Oude
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Storefront Bushwick
Storefront Bushwick, a tiny pristine gallery occupying a storefront—as most young galleries in Bushwick do—presents an eye-catching assortment of new work...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Skylight One Hanson
During the colder months, Brooklyn Flea retreats indoors to Skylight One Hanson — but this is no hibernation. Within, you'll still...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Frick Collection
White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain will feature approximately seventy of Henry Arnhold's promised gift of 131...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Soho Playhouse
Baba Brinkman's (Rap Guide to Evolution) The Canterbury Tales Remixed brings Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless Canterbury Tales to vivid life in an entertaining...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 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...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You may remember the Lewis Chessmen from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. These chess pieces, dating from the twelfth century...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Cinema Village
We're glad that writer/director Kenneth Lonergan and Fox Searchlight finally let Margaret come out to play theatrically. In the can since...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Brooklyn Winery
It's wine season, and you need go no further than Brooklyn to experience the joys of wine-making. At 2pm, 3pm, and...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Classic Stage Company
Have things changed so much since Anton Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard in 1904? Flighty, ridiculous Lubov (Dianne Wiest) and her...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
For over 30 years, Sherrie Levine has been lifting artwork from other artists in a sly attempt to undermine generally accepted...
Nils Karsten: 1969, 1970, 1971
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Bogart Salon
Walking into The Bogart Salon, you're stopped in your tracks by a haunting video of Sharon Tate standing, sitting, reading. This...
MoMA Presents: A Bittersweet Christmas Treat
Sunday 1/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Before you close the book on Christmas 2011, MoMA has one last gift to give — the US theatrical premiere of...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14
Seven years have passed since Alexander Payne's Best Director Oscar for Sideways went to Clint Eastwood. And just as he was...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
"Yummy" might be the best word to describe Rirkrit Tiravanija's current installation at MoMA. The conceptual artist's Untitled (Free/Still), which can...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ 303 Bond Street
Company XIV doesn't need extra holiday sparkle, because there is always magic at 303 Bond Street. Director/choreographer Austin McCormick has completely...
Sunday 1/ 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....
La Table Exquise Sunday Brunch
Sunday 1/ 1 @ La Table Exquise
Puff pasties are no joke to Chef Sebastien, the Parisian export who has set up his cozy shop known as La...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ P.S. 122
Judging from the rapid yearly deterioration of New York's Fringe Festival, it's no wonder it took Silence! The Musical, a 2005...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Film Forum
Assassins have always been an easy target for Hollywood. The formula usually entails a hunky actor, a sexy love interest, exotic...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Westside Theatre
You would swear that musical instruments are being played, but the only sounds in this show are coming out of the...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Crafting bizarre cinematic head-trippers for over 45 years, Jan Svankmajer is an award-winning Czech animator who has inspired several generations of...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Brooklyn Brewery
Local culinary heroes join forces with Brooklyn's finest brews for this winter addition to the Flea family, SmorgasBrewery. Every Sunday from...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 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,...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Sunday 1/ 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...
194X–9/11: American Architects and the City
Sunday 1/ 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 Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. The 15th century was certainly the first great...
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
Sunday 1/ 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...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This installation of Renaissance Venetian art from the Met Museum’s collections features 44 paintings and drawings by preeminent artists active in...
Sunday 1/ 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....
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The first exhibition in the three-part Modernist Art from India series, The Body Unbound focuses on representations of the figure and...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ El Museo del Barrio
Times of crisis are also times in which life extends into the streets. The artists in this exhibition have created gestures...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Sunday 1/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Iveković came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian...
Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler
Sunday 1/ 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...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
Sarah Sze: Infinte line is the first exhibition to focus specifically on her process. It is an exploration of line across...
"Wonder of the Age": Master Painters of India, 1100–1900
Sunday 1/ 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...
Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at the...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Characters as diverse as Mickey Mouse, the historical Buddha, Tomb Raider Lara Croft, and the Green Lama have something in common:...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party NYC is New York City's longest running weekly Friday night dance party. Recently the winner of Papermag's highly...
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)
Sunday 1/ 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...
Lisbon’s Hebrew Bible: Medieval Jewish Art in Context
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This is the second in a series of installations that focus, one at a time, on masterworks of Hebrew manuscript illumination...
Sunday 1/ 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...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Drawn from works given and bequeathed to the Met Museum during the past decade by Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe,...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Sunday 1/ 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...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than 1,000 works from the distinguished collection of the Met Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings...
Lauren Kelley: Froufrou Conclusions
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Kitchen
Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE Opening Reception: Friday, November 11, 6-8pm Employing a wry wit when commenting on...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Sunday 1/ 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...
More Than Enough w/ Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip
Sunday 1/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Unofficial Comic-Con After Party After a brief hiatus, resident Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip have returned, blessing the night...
Sunday 1/ 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...
Eames: The Artist and the Painter
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Symphony Space
2011. US. Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey. 84 min. Color. Documentary. Narrated by James Franco. Lively, gratifying...appropriately busy and abundant: full...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ El Museo del Barrio
This exhibition features works that explore the vast diversity and complexity of the Caribbean basin, as an accompaniment to El Museo’s...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Referred to during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854) remains to this day America's best-known cabinetmaker. This...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Sunday 1/ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Sunday 1/ 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...
Nature Walk: Birding Along the Hudson with Wave Hill and NYC Audubon
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Wave Hill
Explore the Hudson River's avian ecology starting at the tip of Manhattan and migrating North. Walks are led by NYC Audubon...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In early Tibetan painted portraits, founding masters of important Buddhist schools were often represented as holy personages. Using artistic conventions developed...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party NYC is New York City's longest running weekly Friday night dance party. Recently the winner of Papermag's highly...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda is internationally known for her photo-collages and assemblages constructed from books and magazines from the 1950s and...
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Public Art Fund
Like the atmospheric transformation of a cloud into rain, some works of art have the potential to change their form and meaning....
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design
Sunday 1/ 1 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design explores the rich interplay of art and design in all craft media that exploded...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For the first time in nearly a century, the Met Museum is displaying a selection from its large collection of electrotypes,...
Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from Alfred Stieglitz's collection, acquired by the Met...
Sunday 1/ 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....
Sunday 1/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of narrative painting, one that continues even today with the popular contemporary Japanese cartoon (manga)...
