All events on Sunday June 29

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Hold Steady
Sunday June 29 (2–9pm) @ McCarren Park Pool
Free
While the Hold Steady's 2006 release Boys and Girls in America inspired a lot of Springsteen comparisons, no one could deny the greatness of Craig... View details »
The Hold Steady
Music: Rock/Pop
Russian Circles
Sunday June 29 (8:30pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Giveaway
In the years since Simon Reynolds coined the once-helpful term, "post-rock" has come to envelop nearly any band with rock instrumentation sans vocals playing in... View details »
Russian Circles
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Pridefest
Sunday June 29 (11am–7pm) @ Various locations
Free
2008 is a landmark year for queer rights. At least one presidential candidate, while not endorsing same-sex marriage, considers gays, lesbians, and transgender people a... View details »
Pridefest
Art
Dalí: Painting and Film
Sunday June 29 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For Dalí, film not only... View details »
Dalí: Painting and Film

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Sunday June 29 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Sunday June 29 (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
Jump
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Jump
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Adding Machine
Art
© MURAKAMI
Sunday June 29 (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 »
© MURAKAMI
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Olafur Eliasson
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Sunday June 29 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Passing Strange
Film
The Fall
Sunday June 29 @ 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 »
The Fall
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Brooklyn Flea
Sunday June 29 (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
Art
Paul Chan
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Paul Chan
Film
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Sunday June 29 @ 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 »
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Art
Louise Bourgeois
Sunday June 29 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
Louise Bourgeois
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Superheroes
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Performing Arts: Theatre
Birthright
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Birthright
Film
Savage Grace
Sunday June 29 @ 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 »
Savage Grace
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Film
Stuck
Sunday June 29 @ 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 »
Stuck
Performing Arts: Theatre
Prisoner of the Crown
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Prisoner of the Crown
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Sunday June 29 @ 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: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Sunday June 29 (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
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Sunday June 29 @ 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 »
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Film
Beauty in Trouble
Sunday June 29 @ 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 »
Beauty in Trouble
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Boeing Boeing
Performing Arts: Theatre
Miss America
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Miss America
Art
Playing the Building
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Playing the Building
Film
Finding Amanda
Sunday June 29 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
In his recent onscreen roles, Matthew Broderick bears the stunned expression of a former teen idol gone to pot. He shines best in films like... View details »
Finding Amanda
Film
Brick Lane
Sunday June 29 @ Various locations More times »
With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
Brick Lane
Film
My Winnipeg
Sunday June 29 @ 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 »
My Winnipeg
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
Sunday June 29 @ 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 »
The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
Vincent River
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Vincent River
Performing Arts: Dance
Nicholas Leichter Dance
Sunday June 29 (2pm) @ Dance Theater Workshop More times »
Giveaway
The real Spanish Wells is a fishing village on St. George's Cay in the Bahamas, whose founders made their fortunes by providing fresh water to... View details »
Nicholas Leichter Dance
Art
Natsuki Uruma
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Natsuki Uruma
Film
Asian Film Festival
Sunday June 29 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
Booming and busting economies, political upheaval, and a newfound global influence has created no shortage of Asian filmmakers. This year, Chinese director Feng Xiaogang makes... View details »
Asian Film Festival
Art: Photography
Click!
Sunday June 29 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
Photography has always been both celebrated and suspect for its popularity with so-called amateurs. The rise of do-it-yourself shutterbugs has given us vital, world-changing information... View details »
Click!
Film: Documentary
Encounters at the End of the World
Sunday June 29 @ 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 »
Encounters at the End of the World
Film: Documentary
Trumbo
Sunday June 29 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck), but this extraordinary documentary about screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's legendary... View details »
Trumbo
Art
Poets of the Paste
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Poets of the Paste
Performing Arts
Hot!
Sunday June 29 @ Dixon Place More times »
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque, and comedy. It also... View details »
Hot!
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Citysol 2008
Sunday June 29 (1–5pm) @ Solar One More times »
Free
Solar One has plenty of panel discussions and workshops to help you shrink your carbon footprint, but the real highlight here is Saturday's outdoor music... View details »
Citysol 2008
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lasanta
Sunday June 29 (8pm) @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church More times »
Crime writer Raymond Chandler's dialogue, Mexican cantatas, and digital vaudeville all come into play in Sintroca's new production, Lasanta. In keeping with the Ontological-Hysteric... View details »
Lasanta
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Sunday June 29 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hamlet
Sunday June 29 (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
Unreal City
Sunday June 29 (noon–6pm) @ Gallery Satori More times »
Free
With the UN forecasting that 50% of the world's population will reside in mega-cities by 2050, Gallery Satori's inaugural exhibition, Unreal City, presents 12 artists... View details »
Unreal City
Art
Arctic Hysteria
Sunday June 29 (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 »
Arctic Hysteria
More Flavor: Festival
FIGMENT
Sunday June 29 @ Governors Island More times »
Free
FIGMENT is a nonprofit, ad-free festival set in the wild landscape of Governors Island, located just 800 yards off the southern tip of Manhattan. The... View details »
FIGMENT
Art
What My Dad Gave Me
Sunday June 29 @ 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 »
What My Dad Gave Me
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Sunday June 29 (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
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Sunday June 29 (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