Events on Friday, June 5

Arts in Bushwick presents Bushwick Open Studios 2009

Art: Happening

Bushwick Open Studios

Friday 6/ 5 @ Various Bushwick galleries

Yo, arthound: Go east, young man! This weekend, the 100-plus Bushwick galleries and artist-studio spaces dotting the area's warehoused landscape fling... 

<em>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Friday 6/ 5 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Thirty-odd years after reintroducing Gustave Caillebotte to American audiences, the Brooklyn Museum offers another marvelous paean to a figure whose posthumous... 

The Brick presents the Antidepressant Festival

Comedy

The Antidepressant Festival

Friday 6/ 5 @ The Brick Theater

The Brick's Antidepressant Festival doesn't promise more traditional antidepressants (of the self-medicating sort) like tubs of ice cream or scotch, but... 

Company XIV presents <em>Le Serpent Rouge: A Titillating Tragedy</em>

Dance

Le Serpent Rouge

Friday 6/ 5 @ 303 Bond Street

The original "origin" story is another glittery triumph for choreographer/director Austin McCormick and XIV. With the assistance of a demonic Ringmistress... 

<em>Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam</em>

Art

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

Friday 6/ 5 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Museum joins forces with the Met to present a well-chosen selection of art objects and manuscripts illuminating the Islamic... 

Theatre

The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success)

Friday 6/ 5 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

In her latest work, composer/singer/theatre artist Cynthia Hopkins explores when failure is actually success — and vice versa — voyaging from...