All events on Sunday June 15
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- Damon and Naomi
- Sunday June 15 (7:30–10:30pm) @ (le) poisson rouge
- Giveaway
- Since the breakup of Galaxie 500 in 1991, members Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang have released six well-received albums under the guise of Damon and... View details »
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- James Joyce's Ulysses
- Sunday June 15 @ McNally Robinson Booksellers
- Free
- Bloomsday is Dublin's yearly celebration of Ulysses, native son James Joyce's monumental tome that takes place entirely on June 16, 1904. NYC's McNally Robinson kicks... View details »
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- Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival
- Sunday June 15 (noon–4pm) @ Museum at Eldridge Street
- Free
- As you cruise past the LES knish shops and Chinatown fruit stands this afternoon, stop by the Eldridge Street block party to celebrate the fusion... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Nicky Siano
- Sunday June 15 (10pm) @ Santos Party House
- Tonight, seminal NYC club kid Nicky Siano takes the helm at one of the city's newest (and best) venues. A DJ since the age of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday June 15 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday June 15 (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 15 (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 15 (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 15 (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 15 (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 15 (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 15 (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 15 @ 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 15 (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 »
- Film
- The Fall
- Sunday June 15 @ 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 15 (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 »
- Art
- Paul Chan
- Sunday June 15 (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
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Sunday June 15 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- Sunday June 15 (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 15 (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 15 (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 15 (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
- Savage Grace
- Sunday June 15 @ 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 15 (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 »
- Film
- Stuck
- Sunday June 15 @ 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 15 (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
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Sunday June 15 @ 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 15 @ 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 15 (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: Dance
- Cedar Lake
- Sunday June 15 @ Cedar Lake Theater More times »
- Cedar Lake is a vibrant contemporary ballet company housed in the former studio of famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The group is known for its efforts... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Sunday June 15 (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
- The Affordable Art Fair
- Sunday June 15 (noon–5pm) @ Altman Building More times »
- Giveaway
- We know how long you were saving up your pennies and nickels in order to nab that Francis Bacon triptych at the auction. You bid... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Sunday June 15 (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 15 (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
- When Did You Last See Your Father?
- Sunday June 15 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father? tackles potentially maudlin material... View details »
- Film
- Beauty in Trouble
- Sunday June 15 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather, and her husband has... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Sunday June 15 (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 15 (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 15 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Miss America
- Sunday June 15 (2:30pm) @ La MaMa E.T.C. More times »
- In the world premiere of Miss America, ever-funny feminist/lesbian theatre company Split Britches upends the beloved convention of ladies' beauty pageants. Their latest offering at... View details »
- Art
- Playing the Building
- Sunday June 15 (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 15 @ 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 »
- Film
- My Winnipeg
- Sunday June 15 @ IFC Center More times »
- Giveaway
- In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
- Sunday June 15 @ 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 »
- Art
- Bill Shannon
- Sunday June 15 (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: Theatre
- Vincent River
- Sunday June 15 (3:15 & 7:15pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
- British import Vincent River, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, has impressive credentials — and lives up to them. Philip Ridley's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks
- Sunday June 15 (8pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
- Summerworks 2008, Clubbed Thumb's 13th annual festival of new plays, starts with the raucous Constitutional Convention on June 4, a free opening-night bash at which... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- Sunday June 15 (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 15 (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 15 (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 »
- Film
- Monsieur Verdoux
- Sunday June 15 (2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30pm) @ Film Forum More times »
- The initial response to Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux was notoriously mixed. James Agee's superlative-laced review was the exception, as most American critics of 1947 panned... View details »
- Film
- Newfest
- Sunday June 15 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- Ideally, all independent cinema would be queer — in the sense that it would all live outside the status quo, challenging cultural norms by its... View details »
- Film
- Red River
- Sunday June 15 (6pm) @ Anthology Film Archives More times »
- In Howard Hawks' Red River, which was adapted from a Saturday Evening Post story, John Wayne plays a proud, self-made cattleman who drives his herd... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Encounters at the End of the World
- Sunday June 15 @ Film Forum More times »
- Giveaway
- In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly) sidesteps the hot topic... View details »
- Art: Fair
- Renegade Craft Fair
- Sunday June 15 (11am–7pm) @ McCarren Park Pool More times »
- Free
- Since 2003, Chicago-based store Renegade Handmade has stretched its DIY tentacles into San Francisco and New York via the Renegade Craft Fair. This year, the... View details »
- Film
- Human Rights Watch Film Festival
- Sunday June 15 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
- Let's face it: in the US cultural landscape, aesthetic value and social conscience coexist in cinema about as easily as Church and State do —... View details »
- Art
- Poets of the Paste
- Sunday June 15 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
- Free
- Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and takes an occasional swipe... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- The French Collection
- Sunday June 15 (2 & 7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- As part of the French Collection dance festival, three of France's most prominent companies grace the Joyce stage. Heddy Maalem Company's 14 African dancers perform... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Three on a Couch
- Sunday June 15 (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 »
- Film
- Quid Pro Quo
- Sunday June 15 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Radio reporter Isaac Knot (Nick Stahl) was rendered a paraplegic in a car accident that killed both of his parents when he was eight. When... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cinephilia
- Sunday June 15 (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
- Crother Spyglass and The Resistible Rise of Fatlinda Paloka
- Sunday June 15 (3pm) @ Theater for the New City More times »
- Beneath the surface of the off-kilter narrative of The Resistible Rise of Fatlinda Paloka is a clever parable about culture clash and resistance to change.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hamlet
- Sunday June 15 (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 »
- Art
- Arctic Hysteria
- Sunday June 15 (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 »
- Art
- What My Dad Gave Me
- Sunday June 15 @ Rockefeller Center More times »
- Free
- In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector Set, a box of... View details »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Sunday June 15 (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 »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- Sunday June 15 (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 »
