Events on Saturday, January 28
Saturday 1/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Bryan Scary brings back the glee of glam, evoking Bowie in his well-crafted songs about fantastical adventures. His energy is unmistakable,...
Saturday 1/28 @ TBD
It's time again for our favorite wintertime street race involving people strapped to shopping carts wearing outlandish costumes. Modeled after the...
Saturday 1/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
At the Gallery: Perk up your weekend with Le Bingo! Who knew Bingo could be so much kooky fun? Every Saturday,...
Lenny Kravitz at Radio City Music Hall
Saturday 1/28 @ Live Nation
Black and White America Tour. Featuring Lenny Kravitz with very special guest Raphael Saadiq
Saturday 1/28 @ 3rd Ward
Learn how to draw and illustrate your ideas – fast and creatively using your hands and a pencil (or pen)....
Basic NYC presents: Mark Farina w/ Sleepy & Boo + more
Saturday 1/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
After an amazing LPR debut in January, San Francisco's MARK FARINA is back to rock the decks for Basic NYC once...
Saturday 1/28 @ The Bowery Presents
In her hit single “Baggage Claim,” Miranda Lambert sings about the kind of luggage you wish would get lost. “I have...
Saturday 1/28 @ Wave Hill
Thriving beehives exist in community gardens, backyards and on rooftops throughout New York City. Share the joys and challenges of urban...
I Love Vinyl w/ DJ Scribe, Amir, The Twilite Tone + more
Saturday 1/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
At the Gallery: Founded in the Summer of 2009, and without a doubt one of the best underground parties in...
Saturday 1/28 @ 92YTribeca
You’ve gotta laugh a little, cry a little, and where better to do it than our Beaches Sing and Cry Along!...
Fundraising Pitch Coaching Workshop
Saturday 1/28 @ General Assembly
Crafting an effective venture pitch is one of the most important yet challenging tasks for a startup CEO. In this intensive...
Ryan Montbleau Band with Sarah Borges
Saturday 1/28 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Averaging over 200 gigs per year for the past few years, Ryan Montbleau Band has generated the kind of buzz that...
Saturday 1/28 @ 3rd Ward
Make your pet as stylish as you! In this class you will learn how to make a coat for your pet, use...
Saturday 1/28 @ Brooklyn Bowl
The Remix Artist Collective (RAC) is an agency of international members who create re-interpretative rock/electronica/dance remixes for musical artists. RAC strives...
Saturday 1/28 @ General Assembly
Games aren’t just for the kids anymore. Great games have a unique ability to captivate and engage. Join us to learn...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/28 @ 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....
Saturday 1/28 @ The Clurman at Theater Row
A one-man virtuoso acrobatic performance that cleverly skews the audience's perspective on gravity, LEO is a showcase for the effortlessly talented...
Saturday 1/28 @ A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front Street, #228, Brooklyn, NY
As part of its second Currents biennial exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery invited artist and writer Emily Roysdon to curate a show. The...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Saturday 1/28 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
Saturday 1/28 @ Mary Boone Gallery 541 West 24th St New York, NY 10001
Sunflower Seeds, the installation by internationally renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei, is on view for the first time in New...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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 1/28 @ The Secret Theatre (4402 23rd Street, Long Island City)
Amelia hires a private investigator because she suspects her husband Bill, a former astronaut who was on the first manned mission...
Saturday 1/28 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Saturday 1/28 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ The McKittrick Hotel 530 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001
Don't let the extraordinary experience that is Sleep No More pass you by. Dubbed immersive theatre by its parents, the award-winning...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Saturday 1/28 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Saturday 1/28 @ Storefront for Art and Architecture
To the naked eye, Allard van Hoorn's 007_Urban_Songline looks like a room filled with strings; a child-like maze for visitors to...
Saturday 1/28 @ Kaufman Center
A celebration of the instrument that virtuoso classical musician Andre Segovia described as "the easiest instrument to play, and the hardest...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ The Front Room
Each of the artists in this exhibition IN-HABITAT interprets the concept of habitat, and the meaning of inhabiting this world in...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Svetlana Mircheva: Possible Exhibitions
Saturday 1/28 @ NURTUREart Gallery
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Possible Exhibitions, Svetlana Mircheva presents a handful of diminutive dioramas from an...
Saturday 1/28 @ Skylight One Hanson
During the colder months, Brooklyn Flea retreats indoors to Skylight One Hanson — but this is no hibernation. Within, you'll still...
Saturday 1/28 @ HERE Arts Center
A winter highlight, Culturemart both previews and celebrates works-in-progress from HARP, HERE's artist residency program. The lineup includes five works by...
Saturday 1/28 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later
Saturday 1/28 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
During a recent stand-up bit at UCB, Daniel Kitson slipped in that he'd never received a bad review. He was making...
Saturday 1/28 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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 1/28 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Like New Group's previous Burning, Russian Transport is another seriocomic, well-written depiction of a dysfunctional family perfomed by a cast that is belivable...
Saturday 1/28 @ Brooklyn Museum
The exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties presents the work of 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored...
Saturday 1/28 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Allen Glatter: Trots and Bonnie
Saturday 1/28 @ Rawson Projects
With his solo show, Trots and Bonnie, Allen Glatter presents two sculptures of powder-coated aluminum and a selection of related drawings...
Saturday 1/28 @ 7Eleven Gallery
Alchemy, the process of turning base metals into gold, is the starting point for the group show Alchemy in the West...
Saturday 1/28 @ Cinema Village
Cinema is alive and well in Turkey. In addition to churning out its domestic blockbusters, the Muslim nation has a flourishing...
Saturday 1/28 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
Six nude female performers perform dance routines and wordlessly express themselves in Young Jean Lee's Untitled Feminist Show. Thankfully, Lee always...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Saturday 1/28 @ Openhouse Gallery
Dodge the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with a play date at Park Here, Nolita's very own indoor park, plush with grass...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Saturday 1/28 @ Queen Sofia Spanish Institute
Two fashion greats, Oscar de la Renta and Vogue's André Leon Talley, team up to bring you this seminal exhibition on...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Saturday 1/28 @ The Standard, New York
The Standard's ice rink plays host to the second-annual What the Puck?! hockey tournament, where 20 different teams face-off over five...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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 1/28 @ P.S. 122
"And now for something completely different," is the best way to segue into this annual festival organized by renowned contemporary performance...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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 1/28 @ Peaches
Situated at the center of Stuyvesant Heights, Peaches is a neighborhood joint that serves up Saturday brunch with regional American classics,...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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 1/28 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Saturday 1/28 @ Angelika Film Center
Adapted from Lionel Shirver's best-selling novel, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin places us inside the head...
Nils Karsten: 1969, 1970, 1971
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ IFC Center
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Saturday 1/28 @ Roseland Ballroom
As artists go, few have lived in their element as thoroughly as Björk. Performing since she was a child, the Icelandic...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
You may remember the Lewis Chessmen from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. These chess pieces, dating from the twelfth century...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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 1/28 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Fall to Earth, Deborah Hedwall gives a nearly flawless performance as Fay, a mother who has traveled across the...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Gary Petersen, Halsey Hathaway, & Rob de Oude
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ David Zwirner Gallery
Doug Wheeler has achieved something that defies comprehension in his illuminating large-scale installation currently housed at David Zwirner Gallery. Along with...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ Barrow Street Theater
The Nightmare Story is the calling card show from PigPen, the storytelling/music/puppet/theatre company that has raked in the Fringe Fest awards...
Saturday 1/28 @ The Journal Gallery
Artist Chris Martin curates this all-woman exhibition about which he says: "Some of these artists are old friends. Some of them...
Saturday 1/28 @ International Center of Photography
Legendary photojournalist and newspaper freelancer of the 1930s and 1940s, Weegee has made his fame capturing gruesome murder scenes and high-profile...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ Blackston Gallery
This group show features five young Brooklyn artists, who all reference simultanéisme, a term coined in the early 20th century by...
Saturday 1/28 @ Various Locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's Winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Saturday 1/28 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Saturday 1/28 @ New York Live Arts
Returning for its third New York City Season, SITI Company is proud to begin its presenting partnership with the newly formed...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Saturday 1/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Perhaps the greatest figure painter and landscapist of China’s modern period, Fu Baoshi successfully integrated Western and traditional artistic influences to...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Saturday 1/28 @ 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,...
Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely Rocks the house
Saturday 1/28 @ Joe's Pub
Toshi Reagon has been described as "a talented, versatile singer, songwriter and musician with a profound ear for sonic Americana--from folk...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Saturday 1/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than 30 of the world’s most famous chess pieces—all part of a hoard unearthed in 1831 on the Isle of...
An Evening with Martha Colburn, Sean Lennon, Greg Saunier (Mystical Weapons)
Saturday 1/28 @ The Kitchen
This New York trio of improvisers includes Martha Colburn, Sean Lennon, and Greg Saunier. Wild and hallucinatory, recent performances have featured...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art
Saturday 1/28 @ National Academy Museum
The exhibition From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art showcases new art projects from National Academy...
Saturday 1/28 @ National Academy Museum
Featuring works by over 100 artists and architects, the Annual reveals the cross-generational dialogue occurring in the art world by juxtaposing...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Saturday 1/28 @ 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:...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Saturday 1/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This third and final phase of the American Wing renovation project comprises 26 renovated and enlarged galleries for the Met Museum’s...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Saturday 1/28 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ Haunch of Venison
Haunch of Venison is pleased to present the first U.S. exhibition of Thomas Heatherwick, one of Britain’s most celebrated architect designers. <!--StartFragment-->The...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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....
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Saturday 1/28 @ 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,...
Saturday 1/28 @ 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)...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Saturday 1/28 @ 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...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Saturday 1/28 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
The Paper Bag Players Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!
Saturday 1/28 @ Symphony Space
Funny stories, thrilling paper bag sets and costumes, dances you'll get to dance and songs you'll get to sing combine into...
