All events on Sunday June 08
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- Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks
- Sunday June 8 (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 »
- Film: Shorts
- The Films of Christopher Maclaine
- Sunday June 8 (6pm) @ Anthology Film Archives
- Giveaway
- Christopher Maclaine's manic films reflect his short, tragic life — addicted to speed and meth, the lesser-known beat poet died at the age of 51... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- J*Davey
- Sunday June 8 (8pm) @ S.O.B.'s
- Giveaway
- Hollywood's J*Davey — the duo composed of new-wave producer Brook D'Leau and sexy, mohawked vocalist Jack Davey — are taking the future by storm, catching... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
- Trusme
- Sunday June 8 (3–9pm) @ The Yard
- It's finally the time of year for outdoor events, as packed venues and cramped house parties give way to BBQs, concerts, and dancing under the... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday June 8 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday June 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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 8 @ 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 8 (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 8 (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 8 @ 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 8 (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 8 (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 8 @ 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 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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 8 @ 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 8 (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 8 @ 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 8 (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: Dance
- MOMIX: Lunar Sea
- Sunday June 8 (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 8 @ 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 8 @ 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 8 (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 8 @ 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 8 (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: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Sunday June 8 (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 8 (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 8 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Sunday June 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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 8 @ 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: Dance
- Johannes Wieland
- Sunday June 8 (7pm) @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios More times »
- Choreographer Johannes Wieland returns to New York with the premiere of newyou: I think you might be in deep denial. A former principal dancer with... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
- Sunday June 8 @ 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 »
- Film
- New Italian Cinema
- Sunday June 8 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- The concept behind the Open Roads showcase of new Italian films probably doesn't jibe with the country's direction under recently reinstated right-wing leader Silvio Berlusconi,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Dancing Across Cultural Borders
- Sunday June 8 (3pm) @ Hudson Guild Theater More times »
- This isn't your typical end-of-the-year dance recital. Rather than bunnies in tutus, Dancing Across Cultural Borders features court and folk dances from around the world,... View details »
- Art
- Bill Shannon
- Sunday June 8 (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 »
- More Flavor: Festival
- MoCCA Art Festival
- Sunday June 8 (11am–6pm) @ Puck Building Ballroom More times »
- The Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art's annual Art Festival is a hot-ticket fundraiser for the pioneering museum and its featured medium. Now in its... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- Sunday June 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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
- Land of the Pharaohs
- Sunday June 8 (8:30pm) @ Anthology Film Archives More times »
- As a director, Howard Hawks was a jack of all trades, making everything from romantic comedies to Westerns, and in the '50s he attempted a... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Come Out & Play
- Sunday June 8 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- Competitive Picnicking. Pigeon Piñata Pummel. Manhattan Megaputt. If these events sound appealing even if you don't know what they are, you probably don't need much... View details »
- More Flavor: Fair
- Newlife Raw Food and Yoga Expo
- Sunday June 8 (11am–8pm) @ The New Yorker Hotel More times »
- While many have indulged in the occasional undercooked hamburger, this weekend's raw extravaganza (of the vegan variety) is something else entirely. The health-centered expo offers... View details »
- Film
- Newfest
- Sunday June 8 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Hearsay
- Sunday June 8 (3pm) @ DNA More times »
- Choreographer Amanda Selwyn uses gesture, narrative, and character to move her dances beyond pure bodies in motion and into social commentary and critique. Hearsay, her... View details »
- Film
- The Go-Getter
- Sunday June 8 @ Quad Cinema More times »
- Like many road-trip movies, The Go-Getter is part spontaneous adventure and part journey to self-discovery. Writer/director Martin Hynes' story follows Mercer (played by Thumbsucker's doe-eyed... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Three on a Couch
- Sunday June 8 (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 »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Big Apple Barbecue Block Party
- Sunday June 8 (noon–6pm) @ Madison Square Park More times »
- The world is frought with conflict. But none so contentious as the questions plaguing the BBQ community: Sugar or vinegar? Kansas City or Carolina? Coleslaw... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cinephilia
- Sunday June 8 (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 8 (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 8 (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 »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Sunday June 8 (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 8 (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 »
