Events on Sunday, January 29
Sunday 1/29 @ Spike Hill
Bushwick via New Zealand musician Samuel Saffery teamed up with local Erik Meier to explore and expand on the folk sounds...
Sunday 1/29 @ Sara D. Roosevelt Park
The big Manhattan Chinatown parade — tourists, drums, dragons, and all — hits the streets today. Wending its way through the Little...
Sunday 1/29 @ Chelsea Market
Experience the endorphin-boosting powers of chili peppers at the second edition of this annual food fete hosted by Chelsea Market, the...
Sympho + MAYA Ensemble performs the Green Lama
Sunday 1/29 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The visionary composer Paul Haas has created a synchronized work to accompany the panels of the 1940s cult comic book hero The Green Lama, in...
James Jackson, Jr...and other lies
Sunday 1/29 @ Joe's Pub
Performing artist James Jackson Jr presents a concert of gender defying songs, ramblings from the pages of his diary and an evening like...
Winter Workspace: The Community Still Life Project with Adam Parker Smith
Sunday 1/29 @ Wave Hill
In this series of fun, community-based collaborative activities, participants work alongside Adam Parker Smith to create colorful paintings of large plants...
Orange Mountain Music and Le Poisson Rouge celebrate Philip Glass's 75th Birthday
Sunday 1/29 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Orange Mountain Music and Le Poisson Rouge celebrate one of the most creative composers of our time, Philip Glass, who will...
Sunday 1/29 @ Brooklyn Bowl
These Southern accents ain't just for show. The Gold Magnolias have roots in Texas and Louisiana. But It's here in New...
Quiet Loudly, Team Genius and GunFight!
Sunday 1/29 @ Brooklyn Bowl
"Quiet Loudly will melt faces and hearts with their passionate "soul-gaze". Come indulge as the trio's dreamy-yet-angular guitar lines snake their...
Ongoing Events
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ The Secret Theatre
Amelia hires a private investigator because she suspects her husband Bill, a former astronaut who was on the first manned mission...
La Table Exquise Sunday Brunch
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Sunday 1/29 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
Sunday 1/29 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Sunday 1/29 @ Symphony Space
One of the best "feel-good" documentaries of 2011, Being Elmo pulls back the curtain on Kevin Clash, the man who invented...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ P.S. 122
"And now for something completely different," is the best way to segue into this annual festival organized by renowned contemporary performance...
Sunday 1/29 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Fall to Earth, Deborah Hedwall gives a nearly flawless performance as Fay, a mother who has traveled across the...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Sunday 1/29 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Sunday 1/29 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
How I learned To Drive is not a feel-good story, a tender tale of the loss of teen innocence. It is...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Svetlana Mircheva: Possible Exhibitions
Sunday 1/29 @ NURTUREart Gallery
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Possible Exhibitions, Svetlana Mircheva presents a handful of diminutive dioramas from an...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Allen Glatter: Trots and Bonnie
Sunday 1/29 @ Rawson Projects
With his solo show, Trots and Bonnie, Allen Glatter presents two sculptures of powder-coated aluminum and a selection of related drawings...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ Various Locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's Winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Sunday 1/29 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ Cinema Village
Cinema is alive and well in Turkey. In addition to churning out its domestic blockbusters, the Muslim nation has a flourishing...
Sunday 1/29 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Nils Karsten: 1969, 1970, 1971
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ Kaufman Center
A celebration of the instrument that virtuoso classical musician Andre Segovia described as "the easiest instrument to play, and the hardest...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Sunday 1/29 @ Brooklyn Museum
The exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties presents the work of 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Gary Petersen, Halsey Hathaway, & Rob de Oude
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ IFC Center
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Brunch w/ Music by Michael Leviton
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ Blackston Gallery
This group show features five young Brooklyn artists, who all reference simultanéisme, a term coined in the early 20th century by...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Sunday 1/29 @ 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:...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Sunday 1/29 @ 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,...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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 Paper Bag Players Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Sunday 1/29 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Sunday 1/29 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Sunday 1/29 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Sunday 1/29 @ 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,...
Sunday 1/29 @ 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
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely Rocks the house
Sunday 1/29 @ 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...
