All events on Sunday June 01
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- The Last Dragon
- Sunday June 1 (8pm) @ Habana Outpost
- Free
- Produced by Motown founder Berry Gordy, cult classic The Last Dragon is stuffed with the electric sights and sounds particular to the Reagan era, alongside... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- Trampoline Hall
- Sunday June 1 (8pm) @ The Slipper Room
- The city's lack of engaging discourse can be pretty stultifying. Leave it to some quick-witted Canucks to burst into town with Trampoline Hall, a lecture... View details »
- Music: Global
- Mafrika Music Festival
- Sunday June 1 (10am–7pm) @ Marcus Garvey Park
- Free
- In the dead of winter, when your neighbor is blasting reggae as if the puke-colored slush on the ground were just irie with him, no... View details »
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- Previously on Lost
- Sunday June 1 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
- Even Lost's most dedicated viewers can't keep track of all the show's infuriatingly convoluted plot twists, connections, and mysterious occurrences. In fact, the brief recap... View details »
- Art
- Arctic Hysteria
- Sunday June 1 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage landscape serves as the... View details »
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- The Science Barge
- Sunday June 1 (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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday June 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Sunday June 1 (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
- Jump
- Sunday June 1 (3 & 7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
- Art
- © MURAKAMI
- Sunday June 1 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
- Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Sunday June 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy of meteorological description. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Sunday June 1 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Sunday June 1 @ Broadhurst Theatre More times »
- Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The weighty issues on display... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ The Belasco Theatre More times »
- The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel Breaker) who flees his... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Sunday June 1 (2pm) @ Studio 54 More times »
- Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon... View details »
- Film
- The Fall
- Sunday June 1 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
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- Brooklyn Flea
- Sunday June 1 (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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- BFF2008
- Sunday June 1 @ Various locations More times »
- During the eighth-annual Bicycle Film Festival, musicians and artists show love to their two-wheeled friends. Prior to the Studio B dance party that kicks off... View details »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Sunday June 1 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift either skyward or down... View details »
- Film
- Noise
- Sunday June 1 @ Various locations More times »
- With Noise, writer/director Henry Bean has made a feature about urban sound pollution that doesn't grate on its viewers. It's no small feat, especially given... View details »
- Film
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Sunday June 1 @ IFC Center More times »
- New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de... View details »
- Film
- Poultrygeist
- Sunday June 1 @ Village East Cinema More times »
- Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of sex and dismemberment alive.... View details »
- Film
- The Children of Huang Shi
- Sunday June 1 @ Various locations More times »
- In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell) saved Chinese... View details »
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- Superheroes
- Sunday June 1 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume and clothing. Superheroes delves... View details »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Sunday June 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times »
- The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
- Art
- Darina Karpov
- Sunday June 1 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi More times »
- Free
- Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting outward. Close attention to... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Birthright
- Sunday June 1 (4pm) @ Billie Holiday Theater More times »
- Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates themes of unemployment, incest,... View details »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Sunday June 1 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
- Film
- Savage Grace
- Sunday June 1 @ IFC Center More times »
- Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic... View details »
- Art
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Sunday June 1 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Sound and the Fury
- Sunday June 1 (2pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop More times »
- Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel without summarizing or paraphrasing.... View details »
- Film
- Stuck
- Sunday June 1 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Stuck is inspired by one of those too-freakish-to-be-believed, real-life events that normally wends its way into a Law and Order episode rather than a full-length... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Prisoner of the Crown
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Irish Repertory Theatre More times »
- The Chelsea-based Irish Repertory Theatre company is devoted to Irish and Irish-American work. The New York premiere of Richard F. Stockton's Prisoner of the Crown... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Oedipus Loves You
- Sunday June 1 (8pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
- The barrier-breaking, Dublin-based Pan Pan Theatre reinvents a classic Freudian tale in Oedipus Loves You. This innovative stab at the plays of Sophocles and Seneca... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- MOMIX: Lunar Sea
- Sunday June 1 (2 & 7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- Moses Pendleton's acrobatic dance company MOMIX brings its classic Lunar Sea to the second half of the Joyce's month-long season. In typical Pendleton form, the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Sunday June 1 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times »
- Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually a mixed bag, but... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Sunday June 1 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Sunday June 1 (8pm) @ Ars Nova Theater More times »
- Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain Clamp and his shipmates... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Linda Gross Theater More times »
- "I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A lot. So do middle-aged... View details »
- Art
- GlassLab
- Sunday June 1 (noon–6pm) @ Cooper-Hewitt More times »
- The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its annual series GlassLab. Working... View details »
- Art
- Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Sunday June 1 @ NYCAMS More times »
- Free
- Two years ago, Brooklyn College's MFA thesis exhibition became a First Amendment cause célèbre, after city officials closed the show because certain works weren't "appropriate... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Sunday June 1 (10am–6pm) @ International Center of Photography More times »
- Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese cultural norms. Riffing on... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Sunday June 1 (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 »
- Film
- The Edge of Heaven
- Sunday June 1 (1, 3:30, 7:15 & 9:40pm) @ Film Forum More times »
- Giveaway
- Fatih Akin's last feature, the much-touted Head-On (2004), packed a punch so punk rock that it injected raw adrenaline directly into your system. His latest,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Sunday June 1 (2pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its subsequent film adaptation, hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Longacre Theatre More times »
- It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying spectacle — and, miraculously,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Top Girls
- Sunday June 1 (2pm) @ Biltmore Theater More times »
- Top Girls isn't what you'd call a "feel-good" play. It's more like a provocative, hard-to-digest one that will leave you thinking for days, maybe years... View details »
- Art
- Playing the Building
- Sunday June 1 (noon–6pm) @ Battery Maritime Building More times »
- Free
- From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David Byrne creates a monumental... View details »
- Art
- Telectroscope
- Sunday June 1 @ Fulton Ferry Landing More times »
- Free
- British artist Paul St George says his great-grandfather wanted to link the US and England with a tunnel under the ocean. He also claims that... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
- Sunday June 1 @ The Brick Theater More times »
- The Brick's annual festival celebrates the occasionally ornery relationship between theatre and film. The centerpiece is 72-Hour Films, for which participants start writing and shooting... View details »
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- World Science Festival
- Sunday June 1 @ Various locations More times »
- With rock stars turning to astrophysics and environmentalism reaching a fever pitch, science has never been cooler. The World Science Fair casts away the tired... View details »
- Art
- Bill Shannon
- Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm) @ Douz and Mille More times »
- Free
- Outside the world of visual arts, Bill Shannon is best known as the breakdancer (and sometime-skater) deftly balanced on a pair of crutches. Born with... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Il Matrimonio Segreto
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ BAM Harvey Theater More times »
- Domenico Cimmarosa's comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto is a tawdry soap-fest, filled with romance, deceit, and characters running in farcical circles, declaring their feelings with... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- TELL
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Collective:Unconscious More times »
- Free
- Funny, serious, and daring, TELL is a collaborative theatre work that explores the phenomenon of confession by artfully weaving together a series of vignettes. An... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ T. Schreiber Studio More times »
- The succinct comedies in this theatrical two-fer from Christopher Durang and Tom Stoppard both investigate the nature of bad dreams. Durang's The Actor's Nightmare focuses... View details »
- Art
- Natsuki Uruma
- Sunday June 1 (noon–6pm) @ Rivington Arms More times »
- Free
- Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a night of heavy drinking... View details »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Sunday June 1 (1pm–midnight) @ GalleryBar More times »
- Free
- After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and had a dream, wherein... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Three on a Couch
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Soho Playhouse More times »
- Though Carl Djerassi spent most of his career in a lab coat — as one of the chemists behind the first oral contraceptive, he could... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cinephilia
- Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ The Studio at Theatre Row More times »
- In Cinephilia, Johnny and Arden have spent four years having sex, avoiding commitment, and quoting movies at each other, and it's all about to come... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hamlet
- Sunday June 1 (8pm) @ Delacorte Theater More times »
- Free
- Shakespeare's tale of murder and madness hasn't been staged at the Delacorte Theater since 1975, when Sam Waterston played the title role, but it's been... View details »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Sunday June 1 (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 »
