Events on Wednesday, May 28

Dark Meat
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Music: Rock/Pop
Dark Meat
@ Music Hall of Williamsburg
While Dark Meat generally promise a stage setup of at least 17 pieces, the Athens, GA, collective is known to convene...  View details »
<em>On the Waterfront</em> and the Catholic Labor Priests
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
More Flavor: Discussion
On the Waterfront
@ Museum of the City of New York
On the Waterfront is a gritty look at New York's mafia-controlled ports of the 1940s. The film, starring Marlon Brando as...  View details »
Efterklang w/ Slaraffenland
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Music: Rock/Pop
Efterklang
@ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Copenhagen's Efterklang often swell to ten players to better wow audiences with their earthshaking live shows. As with Sigur Rós and...  View details »
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Francisco de Goya: <em>Los Desastres de la Guerra</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Francisco de Goya
@ Peter Blum Gallery Soho
Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>August: Osage County</i>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
@ American Folk Art Museum
The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and...  View details »
Ongoing
World Science Festival
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
More Flavor: Festival
World Science Festival
@ Various locations
With rock stars turning to astrophysics and environmentalism reaching a fever pitch, science has never been cooler. The World Science Fair...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
@ American Airlines Theater
Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its...  View details »
Ongoing
Whitney Biennial 2008
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Art
Whitney Biennial
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
For its 74th installment, the Whitney Biennial expands its exhibition space and (lightly) trims its list of contributors. Through March, the...  View details »
Ongoing
Kanishka Raja: <em>Indian Yellow</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Kanishka Raja
@ Envoy Gallery
Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
@ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...  View details »
Ongoing
Robert Therrien
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Robert Therrien
@ Gagosian Gallery
Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Oedipus Loves You</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Oedipus Loves You
@ P.S. 122
The barrier-breaking, Dublin-based Pan Pan Theatre reinvents a classic Freudian tale in Oedipus Loves You. This innovative stab at the plays...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Edge of Heaven</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Film
The Edge of Heaven
@ Film Forum
Fatih Akin's last feature, the much-touted Head-On (2004), packed a punch so punk rock that it injected raw adrenaline directly into...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Redbelt</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Film
Redbelt
@ Various locations
Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the...  View details »
Ongoing
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
@ NYCAMS
Two years ago, Brooklyn College's MFA thesis exhibition became a First Amendment cause célèbre, after city officials closed the show because...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hamlet
@ Delacorte Theater
Shakespeare's tale of murder and madness hasn't been staged at the Delacorte Theater since 1975, when Sam Waterston played the title...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
@ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Film
Sangre de Mi Sangre
@ IFC Center
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...  View details »
Ongoing
Sol LeWitt at Storm King
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
@ Storm King Art Center
In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Son of Rambow</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Film
Son of Rambow
@ Angelika Film Center
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...  View details »
Ongoing
Richard Ross: <em>Architecture of Authority</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art: Photography
Architecture of Authority
@ Aperture Gallery
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Jump</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
@ Union Square Theatre
After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its...  View details »
Ongoing
Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and...  View details »
Ongoing
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Eighth International Toy Theater Festival
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Toy Theater Festival
@ St. Ann's Warehouse
Theatre company Great Small Works proves that tiny can be just as powerful as massive. For just over a week, little...  View details »
Ongoing
Tom Sachs:  <em>ANIMALS</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Tom Sachs
@ Sperone Westwater
In one of his two latest exhibitions, high-profile craftsman Tom Sachs (and his basement factory of art-elves) transform a Chelsea gallery...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Passing Strange</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
@ The Belasco Theatre
The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The New Normal </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
The New Normal
@ Artists Space
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Paragraph
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
@ Paragraph
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing...  View details »
Ongoing
Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
@ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
@ Richard Rodgers Theatre
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Fall</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Film
The Fall
@ Landmark Sunshine
In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone....  View details »
Ongoing
Walton Ford
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Walton Ford
@ Paul Kasmin Gallery
Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Sound and The Fury (April Seventh, 1928)</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Sound and the Fury
@ New York Theatre Workshop
Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Top Girls </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Top Girls
@ Biltmore Theater
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...  View details »
Ongoing
GlassLab feat. Antenna Design, Constantin & Laurene Boym, and Kid Robot
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
GlassLab
@ Cooper-Hewitt
The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Port Authority</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Port Authority
@ Linda Gross Theater
"I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A...  View details »
Ongoing
Paul Chan: <em>The 7 Lights</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Paul Chan
@ New Museum of Contemporary Art
Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Noise</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Film
Noise
@ Various locations
With Noise, writer/director Henry Bean has made a feature about urban sound pollution that doesn't grate on its viewers. It's no...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
@ LIVE from the NYPL
When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Children of Huang Shi</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Film
The Children of Huang Shi
@ Various locations
In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
@ International Center of Photography
Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Il Matrimonio Segreto</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Opera
Il Matrimonio Segreto
@ BAM Harvey Theater
Domenico Cimmarosa's comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto is a tawdry soap-fest, filled with romance, deceit, and characters running in farcical circles,...  View details »
Ongoing
Olafur Eliasson: <em>Take your time</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Olafur Eliasson
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Telectroscope</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Art
Telectroscope
@ Fulton Ferry Landing
British artist Paul St George says his great-grandfather wanted to link the US and England with a tunnel under the ocean....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Christian Vincent: <em>Runyon Canyon</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Christian Vincent
@ Mike Weiss Gallery
  The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
South Pacific
@ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater...  View details »
Ongoing
Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown: <em>Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
@ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, bu­t you can still see it, sort of. American gallery...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
@ Studio 54
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
© MURAKAMI
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Heavy Metal in Baghdad</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Film: Documentary
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
@ Clearview Cinema
Heavy-metal rebelliousness is one of the many luxuries that US freedom affords us. In Baghdad, on the other hand, it's just...  View details »
Ongoing
Adolph Gottlieb: <em>Paintings from Four Decades</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Adolph Gottlieb
@ PaceWildenstein
Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Boeing Boeing </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
@ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
@ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...  View details »
Ongoing
Ralph Bakshi
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Ralph Bakshi
@ Animazing Gallery
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Adding Machine</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
@ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...  View details »
Ongoing
Neo Rauch
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Neo Rauch
@ David Zwirner
Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
@ Ars Nova Theater
Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain...  View details »
Ongoing
Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Purvis Young
@ GalleryBar
After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Bicycle Film Festival 2008
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
More Flavor: Festival
BFF2008
@ Various locations
During the eighth-annual Bicycle Film Festival, musicians and artists show love to their two-wheeled friends. Prior to the Studio B dance...  View details »
Ongoing
Cameron Hayes
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Cameron Hayes
@ Ronald Feldman Gallery
For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
MOMIX: <em>Lunar Sea</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Dance
MOMIX: Lunar Sea
@ The Joyce Theater
Moses Pendleton's acrobatic dance company MOMIX brings its classic Lunar Sea to the second half of the Joyce's month-long season. In...  View details »
Ongoing
Bill Shannon: <em>WORK</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Bill Shannon
@ Douz and Mille
Outside the world of visual arts, Bill Shannon is best known as the breakdancer (and sometime-skater) deftly balanced on a pair...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Film
Poultrygeist
@ Village East Cinema
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,...  View details »
Ongoing
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E.S.T. Marathon 2008
Month_05 Thursday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
E.S.T. Marathon
@ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually...  View details »
Ongoing
Zhang Huan: <em>Blessings</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Art
Zhang Huan
@ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Prisoner of the Crown</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
Performing Arts: Theatre
Prisoner of the Crown
@ Irish Repertory Theatre
The Chelsea-based Irish Repertory Theatre company is devoted to Irish and Irish-American work. The New York premiere of Richard F. Stockton's...  View details »
Ongoing
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_05 Wednesday Day_28
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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