All events on Sunday October 19
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- NeoHooDoo
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The sculptors and mixed-media artists... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Yura Yura Teikoku
- Sunday Oct 19 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- Tokyo's Yura Yura Teikoku are the most pop-minded band to ever emerge from the legendary PSF records, a label usually associated with the darker edges... View details »
- Reading
- Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
- Sunday Oct 19 (7pm) @ KGB Bar
- Free
- Irish-born, Netherlands-bred novelist Joseph O'Neill recently garnered stellar reviews for his third novel Netherland; it's been touted as The Great Gatsby of our time by... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Roc C and IMAKEMADBEATS
- Sunday Oct 19 (9:30pm) @ Southpaw
- Giveaway
- IMAKEMADBEATS and Roc C got together a few months ago to start working on upcoming album Transcontinental, but neither is new to the game. According... View details »
- Art: Festival
- National Design Week
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Cooper-Hewitt More times »
- Free
- The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum opens its doors to the public for an entire week of free admission and programs. Peruse two to-scale-sized rooms... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Sunday Oct 19 (7pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Sunday Oct 19 (2pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
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- Brooklyn Flea
- Sunday Oct 19 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School More times »
- Free
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. This Sunday, the folks behind the Brownstoner blog... View details »
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- Paragraph
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Paragraph More times »
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Sunday Oct 19 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Sunday Oct 19 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center More times »
- In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- Sunday Oct 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
- Art
- Kehinde Wiley
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem More times »
- Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Various locations More times »
- Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
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- Dreamland Roller Rink
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–9pm) @ Dreamland Roller Rink More times »
- Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this weekend. With some initial... View details »
- Art
- Blek Le Rat
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
- Free
- French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints. In 1981, Blek took... View details »
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- Artists and Fleas
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–8pm) @ Artists and Fleas More times »
- Free
- The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to the accompaniment of an... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Sunday Oct 19 (3 & 7:30pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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- GreenFlea Market
- Sunday Oct 19 (10am–6pm) @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School More times »
- Free
- As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big event. Outside, farmers from... View details »
- Art
- Street Art, Street Life
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–6pm) @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts More times »
- Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator Lydia Yee of the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Glass Cage
- Sunday Oct 19 (2pm) @ The Mint Theater More times »
- The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that are enjoyed on the... View details »
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- Brooklyn Indie Market
- Sunday Oct 19 (11am–7pm) @ Brooklyn Indie Market More times »
- Free
- The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty brunch spots, the collective... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- ASSSSCAT 3000
- Sunday Oct 19 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre More times »
- Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from The Daily Show, Saturday... View details »
- Film
- Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
- Sunday Oct 19 @ MoMA More times »
- As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's movie scene in the... View details »
- Film
- Burn After Reading
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Various locations More times »
- After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift both their tone and... View details »
- Film
- Rachel Getting Married
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Various locations More times »
- The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand up for her sister... View details »
- Film
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but he truly excels when... View details »
- Film
- Humboldt County
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Various locations More times »
- Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest communities whose sole source... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Seagull
- Sunday Oct 19 (3pm) @ Walter Kerr Theatre More times »
- Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully realized performance as Arkadina... View details »
- Art
- We Burn, We Shiver
- Sunday Oct 19 (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
- In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–5pm) @ Brooklyn Historical Society More times »
- From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many faces. With help from... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fifty Words
- Sunday Oct 19 (3pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
- In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic night alone soon sours:... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Rudy Burckhardt
- Sunday Oct 19 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped with an outsider's eye... View details »
- Art
- Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
- Sunday Oct 19 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- 1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived — but also deeply influential... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Various locations More times »
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's famous Speaker's Corner, and... View details »
- Art
- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- Sunday Oct 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time when his thick impasto... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
- Sunday Oct 19 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Arts and Design More times »
- To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items — buttons, keepsakes, bits... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Sunday Oct 19 (2pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims of its leader. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- Sunday Oct 19 (4 & 7pm) @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker More times »
- Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells an engaging and very... View details »
- Film
- Choke
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all her wonderful fangs), and... View details »
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- Amazing Maize Maze
- Sunday Oct 19 (11am–4:30pm) @ Queens County Farm Museum More times »
- If you don't mind the trek, the Queens County Farm Museum's Amazing Maize Maze is one of fall's finest (and strangest) pleasures. The three-acre stretch... View details »
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- Ear to the Earth Festival
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical beauty. Francisco López's Trilogy... View details »
- Art
- Daisy Bell
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
- Free
- In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God. The exhibit's titular song... View details »
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- I Kiffe NY
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Various locations More times »
- The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past few years. But what... View details »
- Film
- Ashes of Time Redux
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai was never fully... View details »
- Film
- Filth and Wisdom
- Sunday Oct 19 @ IFC Center More times »
- The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna? Euro Madonna? Blond Ambition... View details »
- Film
- Lola Montes
- Sunday Oct 19 (1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
- With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes, netted a touch-up. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Free Night of Theater 2008
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in cities across the country.... View details »
- Art
- Gilbert & George
- Sunday Oct 19 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
- The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In 1970, the pair painted... View details »
- Art
- Hiroshi Shafer
- Sunday Oct 19 (1–7pm) @ English Kills More times »
- Free
- Scattered around English Kills, Bushwick's DIY living/exhibition space, new sculptures from Brooklyn-based artist Hiroshi Shafer reinterpret and poke fun at male-female power struggles. His grotesque,... View details »
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- Fall Furniture Festival
- Sunday Oct 19 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School More times »
- Free
- Every Sunday in October, vintage mavens Brooklyn Flea team up with eco-designers Greenjeans to showcase young, local, and sustainable furniture makers such as Uhuru —... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Wig Out!
- Sunday Oct 19 (3pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
- Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The colorful story moves through... View details »
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- The Science Barge
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon, 1, 3 & 4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
- Free
- Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
- Art
- Sun K Kwak
- Sunday Oct 19 (11am–7pm) @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art More times »
- Free
- Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and galleries in New York... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Black Watch
- Sunday Oct 19 (2 & 7pm) @ St. Ann's Warehouse More times »
- If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based on the true stories... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Chekhov Lizardbrain
- Sunday Oct 19 (3pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
- This dance/clown/theatre ensemble has received lots of awards since forming in 1995, but you can't attribute its success to any one member: Pig Iron tours,... View details »
- Art
- The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill More times »
- Free
- Banksy, the art world's man of mystery (and controversy), continues to play the role of provocateur at The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill. Cages... View details »
- Art
- '80s Babies
- Sunday Oct 19 (1–6pm) @ Leo Kesting Gallery More times »
- Free
- With his graphic style and street-wise influence, Jason Douglas Griffin gives us 80's Babies. These portraits of twentysomethings include paintings on canvas, board, and scraps... View details »
- Art
- Elizabeth Peyton
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits feature an array of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- If You See Something Say Something
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Joe's Pub More times »
- We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded terror alerts and arbitrary... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Beachwood Drive
- Sunday Oct 19 (2pm) @ June Havoc Theatre More times »
- Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a world of prostitution and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- Sunday Oct 19 (8pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
- This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a shopping mall, Spiegelworld's old... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Blasted
- Sunday Oct 19 (7:30pm) @ Soho Rep. More times »
- It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production makes up for the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Streamers
- Sunday Oct 19 (2pm) @ Laura Pels Theatre More times »
- Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's 1976 play is neither... View details »
