Events on Saturday, May 26
Today @ City Reliquary
Brooklyn's greatest little museum takes over Havemeyer Street between Hope and Grand for a day of BBQ, contests and tons of...
Today @ Irving Plaza 17 Irving Pl New York, NY
Chino & Nacho is a Venezuelan urban contemporary duo, consisting of Jesús Alberto Miranda Perez (Chino) (born November 15, 1984) and...
Today @ The Mercury Lounge
If Virgins frontman Donald Cumming looks familiar, it may be because you've seen his bits 'n pieces gracing the walls of...
Today @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
MicWreck teams up with Direct Drive to bring some of hip hop's legendary acts to Le Poisson Rouge, celebrating the aptly...
Today @ Beacon Theatre
Pop sensation One Direction will be hitting the road for their first-ever headlining North American tour in support of their debut...
Today @ Brooklyn Bowl
Eclectic Method – featuring London natives Jonny Wilson, Ian Edgar and Geoff Gamlen – helped pioneer the emerging art of audio-visual...
Today @ Brooklyn Bowl
Rising up from the hard streets of Chinatown in 2002, The Notorious MSG are three renegade restaurant workers on a mission...
Today @ The Mercury Lounge
In a year Echosuite has released an EP titled EN.ER.GY (includes a digital release on iTunes), performed to sold out crowds...
THE BEEB - Brewskee-Ball National Championship (BBNC)
Today @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
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Le Bingo! w/ host Linda Simpson
Today @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Who knew Bingo could be so much kooky fun? Every Saturday, Le Poisson Rouge welcomes NYC's favorite wisecracking Bingo lady LINDA...
MicWreck's Golden Era Classics: Slick Rick the Ruler
Today @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
MicWreck teams up with Direct Drive to bring some of hip hop's legendary acts to Le Poisson Rouge, celebrating the aptly...
Today @ Joe's Pub
Francine Reed is just as happy down home in the juke joint as she is in the worlds finest concert halls...
I Love Vinyl - 3 Year Anniversary
Today @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
I Love Vinyl- 3 Year Anniversary w/ DJ Scribe, The Twilite Tone, OP!, Jon Oliver, and Ge-Ology. Founded in the Summer...
Mono Mono exhibition + 1 Year Anniversary Party
Today @ Gowanus Print Lab
All Ages Welcome, 21+ to drink (Ids checked at door) Free Entry with RSVP ($5 at door) RSVP by May...
Ongoing Events
Today @ Cherry Lane Theatre
Lily's would-be fiancé Phillip blows off couples therapy and Dorian, her hot young ex-boyfriend, jumps in to fill the void. When...
Today @ The Mint Theater
Stop the presses! This spring, the Mint presents the first revival of Love Goes to Press by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Today @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met's Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia...
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Today @ The Joyce Theater
Combining voluptuous physicality with classical technique created by the most provocative dance makers in the world, Cedar Lake is one of...
Today @ Second Stage Theatre
We knew this play would tip the likeability scales when we learned it featured Topher That 70's Show Grace in his...
Today @ Walter Kerr Theatre
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and London's Olivier Award for Best Play, CLYBOURNE PARK is the wickedly funny and fiercely...
Today @ BAM Harvey Theater
No doubt, your cultural calendar is brimming, but we recommend carving out two hours and 30 minutes to catch Jonathan Pryce...
Today @ Whitney Museum of American Art
It seems like just yesterday Bruce High Quality Foundation had its Cadillac hearse parked inside the Whitney, but in fact two...
Today @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
The Gerwish's Porgy and Bess now comes to Broadway in a stunning and stirring new staging, featuring such legendary songs as...
Today @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of Taryn Simon's (b. 1975, New York) photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and...
Today @ Museum of the City of New York
Manhattan’s familiar street grid is a work in progress, an evolving creation that began with a bold vision by the city’s...
Today @ Andrew Freedman Home
Our culture radar takes us to the Bronx for this unorthodox site-specific Paradise in a circa 1920s mansion. Organized by nomadic...
Today @ New Amsterdam Theatre
Now in its 5th phenomenal year at the beautiful New Amsterdam Theatre on New York City's 42nd Street, MARY POPPINS has...
Today @ Various NYC Rooftops
Once again, Rooftop Films presents New Yorkers with an array of outdoor, cinematic opportunities of the finest caliber. The summerlong independent...
Foreclosed: Documents from the American Housing Crisis
Today @ Alice Austen House Museum
The exhibition includes photography by: Bruce Gilden, Lauren Greenfield, Todd Hido (not confirmed), Imara Moore, John Moore, John Francis Peters, T.J....
Today @ Governors Island
Leave the potato salad packing to someone else this Memorial Day holiday and head out to Governors Island for a Sixpoint-beer-and-blues-infused...
Today @ 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...
Today @ 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...
Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Rinpa" is a modern term that refers to a distinctive style of Japanese pictorial and applied arts that arose in the...
Today @ Apollo Theater
Blue Man Group is an organization founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. The organization produces theatrical shows and...
Today @ Playwrights Horizons
The World Premiere of a play by Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Gina Gionfriddo (Becky Shaw; After Ashley)....
Today @ Peaches
Situated at the center of Stuyvesant Heights, Peaches is a neighborhood joint that serves up Saturday brunch with regional American classics,...
Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
During the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods (ca. 4000-2650 B.C.), people living in the Nile Valley began recording their beliefs through...
Tom Sachs' Space Program: Mars
Today @ Park Avenue Armory
On surface, Tom Sachs' Space Program is a space-themed art project, but at its core, the artist and bricoleur is propagating...
Today @ 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...
Today @ The Stephen Sondheim Theatre
As the SS American heads out to sea, two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love…proving that sometimes...
Bill Bollinger: The Retrospective
Today @ SculptureCenter
SculptureCenter is pleased to host Bill Bollinger: The Retrospective. This exhibition, surveys the brief, yet historically significant career of Bill Bollinger...
Today @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
A backstory of David Rabe's poignant An Early History of Fire is that Danny (Theo Stockman) was mesmerized by heartland fires....
Today @ Ambassador Theatre
Chicago is the kiss-and-tell tale of Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who kills her lover as a career move; Billy Flynn,...
Today @ Minskoff Theatre
More than 60 million people around the world have come to discover the thrill, the majesty, the truly one-of-a-kind musical that...
Today @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Through her self portraits, Cindy Sherman has been a film noir starlet, a murderous Caravaggio muse, a centerfold, a rodeo clown,...
Today @ The Skyscraper Museum
The first chapters in New York's high-rise history were written in the 1870s through the early 1900s when the city's great...
Today @ Mishka
The Mishka folks have good eyes for great up and coming designers that they've utilized both for their own streetwear line...
Today @ 9th Space
pool (no water) is what happens when you mix creativity, camaraderie, and art with the kind of envy that rarely sees the...
Intergenerational Garden Open House & Tour
Today @ Queens Botanical Garden
Learn more about joining QBG's new Intergenerational Garden that runs from Saturday, April 21 through Saturday, November 3. First come, first served due...
Today @ American Airlines Theater
Don’t Dress for Dinner, the wildly funny comedy by Marc Camoletti (Boeing-Boeing), is coming to Roundabout Theatre Company and it’s going...
Today @ The Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall
Funded by the Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation and opened in 1991, the Rose Museum chronicles Carnegie Hall’s history. It exhibits...
Today @ Brooklyn Flea Williamsburg
Vintage clothes are great, but our favorite part of the Brooklyn Flea is the food: packaged, prepared, raw, and everything in...
Today @ 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...
Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, is a jewel among Italian museums and a haven for art lovers. Founded at the end of...
Beer Here: Brewing New York's History
Today @ New York Historical Society
New York City has a long and inebriating past as a brewing city. This exhibit not only examines the history (both...
Today @ Dizzy's Club
With this lineup, it would be difficult to argue against the notion that among colleges worldwide Juilliard boasts the best faculty-led...
Today @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row
Writer Susan Charlotte and Director Antony Marsellis, who brought “The Shoemaker” to sold-out audiences, team up again in “Women Of A...
Today @ The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library presents a major exhibition of works by the idiosyncratic illustrator, designer, and writer, Edward Gorey...
Today @ 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...
Today @ Schoenfeld Theater
One of the finest Broadway casts ever assembled now brings one of the most entertaining political dramas ever written to new...
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
Today @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language is a group exhibition that brings together 12 contemporary artists and artists’ groups working in all mediums...
Today @ Thalia Spanish Theatre
Bilingual world premeire of a new play by the celebrated contemporary Spanish author Jaime Solom, starring the award-winning actresses Soledad Lopez...
Today @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Today @ Neil Simon Theatre
Since its Broadway debut, this spectacular musical phenomenon has thrilled millions of theatregoers worldwide: mesmerizing them with its passion, captivating them...
Today @ 303 Bond Street
Company XIV and 303 Bond Street transform with every show: more mirrors or chandeliers, less costuming, different shades of red. But...
Today @ The Ukrainian Museum
Ukrainian Kilims: Journey of a Heritage, an exhibition of more than 30 selected kilims from The Ukrainian Museum's permanent collection, reveal...
Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, Linus Bill, and Adrien Horni: Paintings and Jugs
Today @ Swiss Institute
Curated by Gianni Jetzer
Today @ Barrow Street Theater
Nina Raine continues the "kitchen sink" tradition of British theatre with her wrenching family drama, Tribes. Billy (Russell Harvard) is the...
Patricia Watwood: Myths and Individuals
Today @ Forbes Galleries
This exhibition presents paintings by Patricia Watwood who belongs to the emerging school of Contemporary Classical artists, an international group of...
Today @ Museum of the Moving Image
In preparation for the release of Wes Anderson's latest caper, Moonrise Kingdom, the Museum of Moving Image is revisiting the filmmaker's...
Today @ Helen Hayes Theatre
Hair band devotees rejoice: The anthems of the '80s are back. The new musical features the hits of Journey, Bon Jovi,...
Today @ Brooklyn Museum
This vast, large-scale exhibit of Keith Haring's early work circa 1978-1982 boasts rarely seen sketchbooks, flyers, subway drawings, works on paper,...
The Printed Image in China, 8th-21st Century
Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
China invented both paper and printing, and this exhibition presents an outstanding survey of the art of Chinese printing from the...
Today @ Gramercy Theatre
The festival that makes chip-music fans swoon returns with more brain-zapping workshops and crazy dance parties. For those not in the...
Today @ Music Box Theatre
In One Man, Two Guvnors, James Corden stars as Francis Henshall (“One Man”). Always-famished and easily-confused, Henshall agrees to work for...
Today @ Brooklyn Flea Williamsburg
It's hard to think of anything better than casually strolling through Brooklyn's flea market along the East River. The Sunday flea...
Today @ Old School
If you hit up SPRING/BREAK Art Show during Armory Week, then the group's next endeavor shouldn't be a hard sell. Designed...
Today @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Today @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This exhibition, covering the period from 1910 to today, offers a critical reassessment of photography's role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde...
Life in Miniature: Asante Goldweights and Sculptures
Today @ The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation
The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition, Life in Miniature: Asante Goldweights and Sculptures from...
Today @ Museum of the City of New York
The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, the foundational...
New York African Film Festival
Today @ Various New York locations
The 19th New York African Film Festival follows the theme of Africans in the Diaspora: Expatriates and Homecoming, so look for...
Between Reality and Virtuality
Today @ Artgate Gallery
Mi Yuming's work blends photography and technology in a way that fully represents the hyper-connectedness of society. Harshly beautiful, her images...
Today @ Longacre Theatre
From the writer of Lombardi comes a new drama centered on basketball legends Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, committed rivals...
Today @ Lincoln Center Theater
It’s the middle of the night. Leo (Gabriel Ebert), age 21, has just arrived on the doorstep of the West Village...
Today @ Various DUMBO locations
Modeled after European shows like PHotoEspana and Visa pour l'Image, the New York Photo Festival is a great place for enthusiasts...
Today @ 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...
Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City
Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Tomás Saraceno (born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973) will create a constellation of large, interconnected modules constructed with transparent and...
Today @ Film Forum
For his third film, Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return) pulls focus on the class divide in modern Russia. Elena, winner of the...
Today @ 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...
Today @ Laura Pels Theatre
Tony Award® nominee Moisés Kaufman (33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife) directs celebrated playwright Simon Gray's sharply comedic tale about the promises...
Florine Stettheimer: Alternative Modernist
Today @ The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library
In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "The Steins Collect," which begins February 28, the Rare Book and Manuscript...
Today @ Various locations
It's hard to believe it's been half a decade since Wes Anderson released his last live-action film. (Not that we didn't...
You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce
Today @ The Flea Theater
Given that 50% of marriages end in divorce, this is an all too familiar topic for many of us, but an...
Today @ Samuel J. Friedman Theater
Columnists are kings in midcentury America and Joseph Alsop wears the crown. Joe is beloved, feared and courted in equal measure...
Today @ Staten Island Children's Museum
Spend quality time playing, singing, drawing and listening to stories.
The Brooklyn Museum presents Playing House
Today @ Brooklyn Museum
Since our addiction to Downton Abbey has yet to abate, we're excited to see further explorations into "period." And The Brooklyn...
Today @ The New York Botanical Garden
This stunning tribute to French Impressionist Claude Monet showcases a seasonally changing interpretation of the gardens that inspired his art. In...
Today @ The Duke Theater
When someone says the word "cock," you're most likely not be thinking theatre. Get your mind out of the gutter. The...
Today @ Nederlander Theater
Disney's NEWSIES, the breakout new American musical, is now on Broadway in New York City! The musical, based on the beloved...
Today @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
One of the City's best treats makes its fifth annual return for the summer. The Brooklyn Flea takes place at Bishop...
Today @ The Morgan Library
Best known for his fluorescent light installations, Dan Flavin was also an avid draftsman. This first retrospective of his drawings will...
Today @ Scott Eder Gallery
Maybe you know Drew Friedman's Old Jewish Comedians books, or his work in such iconic irreverent magazines like High Times, MAD, or National Lampoon, or the...
Today @ Chelsea Market
Billyburg flea market institution Artists & Fleas heads to Manhattan to occupy a pop-up at Chelsea Market. Thirty artisans (some from...
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
Today @ The Frick Collection
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes is the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi,...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Today @ 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:...
Today @ The Kitchen
An exhibition from the Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Curated by denisse...
Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
Today @ The Jewish Museum
The art of Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) – a painter who began his career as a member of the Nabi group of...
Today @ Haunch of Venison
Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota will exhibit a monumental architectural installation at Haunch of Venison. She will present a new work made...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Today @ 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,...
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael’s wife Sarah were important patrons of modern art in Paris during the...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Today @ 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...
Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzhong
Today @ Asia Society and Museum
Wu Guanzhong (1919–2010) stands as one of the most important artists of twentieth-century China. Born in Jiangsu Province, Wu studied art...
Today @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Who knew Bingo could be so much kooky fun? Every Saturday, Le Poisson Rouge welcomes NYC's favorite wisecracking Bingo lady Linda...
Today @ 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....
This American Life - Things You Can't Do On The Radio
Today @ Symphony Space
WBEZ Chicago's hit radio show This American Life comes to select movie screens nationwide this May. Host Ira Glass and popular...
Today @ 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...
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video
Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Since the 1980s, a number of contemporary artists working in photography, film, and video have taken as their subject the art...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Today @ 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...
Today @ National Academy Museum
This dramatic exhibition explores the infinite properties of the color white presented in various ways and different media. Works by Stephen...
Today @ Joe's Pub
Carrie Manolakos, already positioned in the top 100 of the iTunes pop charts with her debut album “Echo”, became an internet...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Today @ 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...
