Events on Friday, May 16

New York Photo Festival

Art: Photography

New York Photo Festival

Friday 5/16 @ Various DUMBO locations

As March's art fairs fade from memory, fans of contemporary photography have carved out an event all to themselves. For five... 

No Fun Fest

Music

No Fun Fest

Friday 5/16 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

A cyclotron built to study the science and execution of noise, No Fun Fest enters its fifth year with a move... 

<em>Birthright</em>

Theatre

Birthright

Friday 5/16 @ Billie Holiday Theater

Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates... 

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Art

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Friday 5/16 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order... 

Dine on Design

Art

Dine on Design

Friday 5/16 @ Monkey Town

More than ever, food represents our values, culture, and identities just as much as painting, literature, or film. Tonight, Monkey Town... 

<em>The Judgment of Paris</em>

Dance

The Judgment of Paris

Friday 5/16 @ 303 Bond Street

Young gun (and award-winning choreographer) Austin McCormick's Judgment of Paris uniquely fuses 17th-century Baroque dance technique (ballet's precursor) with contemporary choreography... 

David Ford: <em>White Like Me</em>

Art

White Like Me

Friday 5/16 @ Jack the Pelican

David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his... 

<em>Endgame</em>

Theatre

Endgame

Friday 5/16 @ BAM

In Beckett's Endgame, the past is contained in garbage cans, the future is crippled, and the present is blind — but...