All events on Sunday October 05

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More Flavor: Lecture
James Wood
Sunday Oct 5 (11am) @ 92nd St Y
James Wood is one of the few academics who has been able to transcend the stodgy, tedious style of writing that so often marks literary... View details »
James Wood
Film
Mafioso and Lo Scopone Scientifico
Sunday Oct 5 @ Film Forum More times »
Director Alberto Lattuada is too often the odd man out in film appreciation's musical-chairs shuffling, but the mid-century maestro's satirical gifts sing — like a... View details »
Mafioso and Lo Scopone Scientifico
Music: Rock/Pop
Tegan and Sara
Sunday Oct 5 (8pm) @ Terminal 5 More times »
These identical Canadian twins strike a balance by melding voices — one ethereal, one gutsy — with a musical diversity ranging from garage rock and... View details »
Tegan and Sara
Music: Global
Antibalas
Sunday Oct 5 (10pm) @ Spiegelworld
When Nigeria's Fela Kuti created... obeat — a fusion of jazz improvisation, blistering funk bass, and local Yoruba percussion — his firebrand lyrics landed him in... View details »
Antibalas
More Flavor: Festival
Fall Furniture Festival
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Fall Furniture Festival
More Flavor: Fair
Atlantic Antic
Sunday Oct 5 (10am–6pm) @ Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
Free
The always-hoppin' Atlantic Avenue becomes an even busier thoroughfare today. Local boutiques, craftspeople, musicians, and restaurants hawk their wares (or just give 'em away) all... View details »
Atlantic Antic

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
In the Heights
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Flea
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Brooklyn Flea
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
Paragraph
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Film
Battle in Seattle
Sunday Oct 5 @ Various locations More times »
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political agenda. Most protest films... View details »
Battle in Seattle
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Sunday Oct 5 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
Free
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Film
Towelhead
Sunday Oct 5 @ Various locations More times »
It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded in the Texas suburbs... View details »
Towelhead
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Sol LeWitt
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Home Delivery
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
Sunday Oct 5 @ 37 Arts More times »
Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right notes. Jones, whose acclaimed... View details »
Fela!
Art
Kehinde Wiley
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Kehinde Wiley
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
More Flavor: City Gem
Dreamland Roller Rink
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Dreamland Roller Rink
More Flavor: City Gem
Artists and Fleas
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Artists and Fleas
More Flavor: Festival
FIAF Fall Festival
Sunday Oct 5 @ Various locations More times »
Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking groceries; jazz is "turned... View details »
FIAF Fall Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Sunday Oct 5 (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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More Flavor: City Gem
GreenFlea Market
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
GreenFlea Market
Art
Street Art, Street Life
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Street Art, Street Life
Art
Other Options
Sunday Oct 5 @ Eyebeam More times »
Free
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails of securing support for... View details »
Other Options
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Glass Cage
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
The Glass Cage
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Indie Market
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Brooklyn Indie Market
Art
Kevin Bewersdorf
Sunday Oct 5 (noon–6pm) @ V&A More times »
Free
Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells himself like a televangelist... View details »
Kevin Bewersdorf
More Flavor: Festival
New Yorker Festival
Sunday Oct 5 @ Various locations More times »
The New Yorker Festival is back with a jam-packed weekend of readings, discussions, film screenings, and private walking tours — in other words, it's the... View details »
New Yorker Festival
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
ASSSSCAT 3000
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
ASSSSCAT 3000
Performing Arts: Dance
Break Out
Sunday Oct 5 (3 & 7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of De La Guarda. Korean... View details »
Break Out
Film
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Film
Burn After Reading
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
Burn After Reading
Film
Rachel Getting Married
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
Rachel Getting Married
Film
Humboldt County
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
Humboldt County
Film
Ballast
Sunday Oct 5 (1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew James, and James' mother,... View details »
Ballast
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Seagull
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
The Seagull
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
We Burn, We Shiver
Film
A Secret
Sunday Oct 5 @ Various locations More times »
This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not really about the Holocaust.... View details »
A Secret
Art
Swirl of Swarm
Sunday Oct 5 (noon–7pm) @ Cinders More times »
Free
Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which conveys the need for... View details »
Swirl of Swarm
Art: Photography
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fifty Words
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
  Fifty Words
Performing Arts: Festival
Crossing the Line
Sunday Oct 5 @ Various locations More times »
A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French dance festival, but after... View details »
Crossing the Line
Art: Photography
Rudy Burckhardt
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Rudy Burckhardt
Art
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Film: Documentary
Religulous
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
Religulous
Art
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Art: Architecture/Design
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
More Flavor: Sports
City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
Sunday Oct 5 (10am–5pm) @ Governors Island More times »
Free
Family vacay meets interactive art party for Figment's mini-golf open, an all-day picnic and sports competition on Governors Island. Manhattan's southern cousin is just a... View details »
City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
Film: Festival
Views from the Avant-Garde
Sunday Oct 5 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
Views from the Avant-Garde takes spectators on a sojourn to film's farthest-flung lunar landscape. The 12th edition of this NYFF showcase features both classics and... View details »
Views from the Avant-Garde
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Man for All Seasons
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
A Man for All Seasons
Film
Choke
Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
Choke
More Flavor: City Gem
Amazing Maize Maze
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Amazing Maize Maze
Art
Daisy Bell
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Daisy Bell
Art: Architecture/Design
openhousenewyork
Sunday Oct 5 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Year-round educational programs from openhousenewyork culminate this weekend with the organization's sixth-annual smorgasbord of architectural offerings — the largest event of its kind in... View details »
openhousenewyork
Music: Jazz/Blues
Gal Costa
Sunday Oct 5 (8 & 10:30pm) @ Blue Note More times »
Since joining up with Tropicalia bossa-rockers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Tom Ze in the swinging '60s, Brazilian songbird Gal Costa has been on a... View details »
Gal Costa
Art
Gilbert & George
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Gilbert & George
Art
Hiroshi Shafer
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Hiroshi Shafer
Art
The Outsiders
Sunday Oct 5 (11am–7pm) @ Lazarides Gallery NYC More times »
Free
Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla wheatpasting, collage, stencil, and... View details »
The Outsiders
Performing Arts: Dance
Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos
Sunday Oct 5 (3pm) @ Joyce Soho More times »
Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos create an intimate hour-long piece that addresses the intricacies of finding and sustaining love in the modern age. The well-trod... View details »
Performing Arts: Theatre
Wig Out!
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Wig Out!
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
The Science Barge
Performing Arts: Theatre
Chekhov Lizardbrain
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Chekhov Lizardbrain
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Absinthe
Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
Absinthe