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More Flavor: Festival
BFF2008
Wednesday May 28 @ Various locations More times»
During the eighth-annual Bicycle Film Festival, musicians and artists show love to their two-wheeled friends. Prior to the Studio B dance party that kicks off... View details »
BFF2008
Music: Rock/Pop
Dark Meat
Wednesday May 28 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg in Williamsburg
Giveaway
While Dark Meat generally promise a stage setup of at least 17 pieces, the Athens, GA, collective is known to convene even more epic assemblies... View details »
Dark Meat
Music: Rock/Pop
Efterklang
Wednesday May 28 (7pm) @ Knitting Factory
Giveaway
Copenhagen's Efterklang often swell to ten players to better wow audiences with their earthshaking live shows. As with Sigur Rós and Rachel's, this orchestral pop... View details »
Efterklang
More Flavor: Discussion
On the Waterfront
Wednesday May 28 (6:30pm) @ 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 a boxer-turned-longshoreman who becomes... View details »
On the Waterfront
More Flavor: Festival
World Science Festival
Wednesday May 28 @ Various locations More times»
With rock stars turning to astrophysics and environmentalism reaching a fever pitch, science has never been cooler. The World Science Fair casts away the tired... View details »
World Science Festival
Performing Arts: Opera
Il Matrimonio Segreto
Wednesday May 28 (7:30pm) @ BAM Harvey Theater in Bklyn More times»
Domenico Cimmarosa's comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto is a tawdry soap-fest, filled with romance, deceit, and characters running in farcical circles, declaring their feelings with... View details »
Il Matrimonio Segreto

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Wednesday May 28 (2 & 7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York 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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (8pm) @ 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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (8pm) @ 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
Wednesday May 28 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art in Bklyn 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
Cai Guo-Qiang
Wednesday May 28 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times»
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with rays of light, it... View details »
Cai Guo-Qiang
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (8pm) @ 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
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Wednesday May 28 @ 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 »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Wednesday May 28 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
Wednesday May 28 (2 & 8pm) @ 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 »
Sunday in the Park with George
Film
The Fall
Wednesday May 28 @ 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
Art
Kanishka Raja
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ Envoy Gallery More times»
Free
Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from an idyllic British colonial... View details »
Kanishka Raja
Film
Redbelt
Wednesday May 28 @ Various locations More times»
Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the martial art's principles. But... View details »
Redbelt
Art
Ralph Bakshi
Wednesday May 28 (10am–7pm) @ Animazing Gallery More times»
Free
With his controversial adult animation, Ralph Bakshi paved the way for Ren & Stimpy and South Park. Throughout his career, Bakshi's worked with comix demigod... View details »
Ralph Bakshi
Art
Paul Chan
Wednesday May 28 (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
Art
Walton Ford
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times»
Free
Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In Dying Words, Ford plays... View details »
Walton Ford
Film
Noise
Wednesday May 28 @ Various locations More times»
With Noise, writer/director Henry Bean has made a feature about urban sound pollution that doesn't grate on its viewers. It's no small feat, especially given... View details »
Noise
Film
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Wednesday May 28 @ 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
Film
Poultrygeist
Wednesday May 28 @ Village East Cinema More times»
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of sex and dismemberment alive.... View details »
Poultrygeist
Film
The Children of Huang Shi
Wednesday May 28 @ Various locations More times»
In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell) saved Chinese... View details »
The Children of Huang Shi
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Art
Robert Therrien
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times»
Free
Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized chairs lean propped against... View details »
Robert Therrien
Film
Son of Rambow
Wednesday May 28 @ Angelika Film Center More times»
Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
Son of Rambow
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Wednesday May 28 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Sound and the Fury
Wednesday May 28 (8pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop in New York More times»
Elevator Repair Service's inventive adaptation of the opening chapter of The Sound and the Fury delivers the soul of Faulkner's novel without summarizing or paraphrasing.... View details »
The Sound and the Fury
Art
The New Normal
Wednesday May 28 (2–8pm) @ Artists Space More times»
Free
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public — has inspired ample... View details »
The New Normal
Performing Arts: Theatre
Prisoner of the Crown
Wednesday May 28 (3 & 8pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Oedipus Loves You
Wednesday May 28 (8pm) @ P.S. 122 More times»
The barrier-breaking, Dublin-based Pan Pan Theatre reinvents a classic Freudian tale in Oedipus Loves You. This innovative stab at the plays of Sophocles and Seneca... View details »
Oedipus Loves You
Performing Arts: Dance
MOMIX: Lunar Sea
Wednesday May 28 (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 »
MOMIX: Lunar Sea
Performing Arts: Theatre
E.S.T. Marathon
Wednesday May 28 @ 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 »
E.S.T. Marathon
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Wednesday May 28 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House More times»
Free
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia House hosts work by... View details »
Recent Icelandic Art
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Wednesday May 28 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Wednesday May 28 (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 »
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Art
Neo Rauch
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times»
Free
Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding art-world buzz and a... View details »
Neo Rauch
Performing Arts: Theatre
Port Authority
Wednesday May 28 (8pm) @ 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 »
Port Authority
Art
GlassLab
Wednesday May 28 (10am–5pm) @ Cooper-Hewitt More times»
The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its annual series GlassLab. Working... View details »
GlassLab
Art
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Wednesday May 28 (10am–5pm) @ NYCAMS More times»
Free
Two years ago, Brooklyn College's MFA thesis exhibition became a First Amendment cause célèbre, after city officials closed the show because certain works weren't "appropriate... View details »
Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Art
Cameron Hayes
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ Ronald Feldman Gallery More times»
Free
For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with an absurdist sense of... View details »
Cameron Hayes
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (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
The Edge of Heaven
Wednesday May 28 (1, 3:30, 7:15 & 9:40pm) @ Film Forum More times»
Giveaway
Fatih Akin's last feature, the much-touted Head-On (2004), packed a punch so punk rock that it injected raw adrenaline directly into your system. His latest,... View details »
The Edge of Heaven
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Wednesday May 28 (2 & 7pm) @ 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
Wednesday May 28 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
Top Girls
Wednesday May 28 (2 & 8pm) @ 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 »
Top Girls
Art: Photography
Architecture of Authority
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times»
Free
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross examines everything from a... View details »
Architecture of Authority
Art
Adolph Gottlieb
Wednesday May 28 (9:30am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times»
Free
Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and European contemporaries — he... View details »
Adolph Gottlieb
Art
Zhang Huan
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times»
Free
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric Western world — must... View details »
Zhang Huan
Art
Telectroscope
Wednesday May 28 @ Fulton Ferry Landing in DUMBO 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 »
Telectroscope
Performing Arts: Theatre
Toy Theater Festival
Wednesday May 28 @ St. Ann's Warehouse in DUMBO More times»
Theatre company Great Small Works proves that tiny can be just as powerful as massive. For just over a week, little theatre takes over the... View details »
Toy Theater Festival
Film: Documentary
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Wednesday May 28 @ Clearview Cinema More times»
Heavy-metal rebelliousness is one of the many luxuries that US freedom affords us. In Baghdad, on the other hand, it's just plain reckless. Long hair... View details »
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Art
Bill Shannon
Wednesday May 28 (noon–7pm) @ 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 »
Bill Shannon
Art
Christian Vincent
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery More times»
Free
... e realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they seem to be parts... View details »
Christian Vincent
Art
Purvis Young
Wednesday May 28 (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 »
Purvis Young
Art
Tom Sachs
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ Sperone Westwater More times»
Free
In one of his two latest exhibitions, high-profile craftsman Tom Sachs (and his basement factory of art-elves) transform a Chelsea gallery into a ten-room menagerie... View details »
Tom Sachs
Art
Francisco de Goya
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho More times»
Free
Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series of small etchings titled... View details »
Francisco de Goya
Art
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery More times»
Free
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, bu­t you can still see it, sort of. American gallery owner Gavin Brown and... View details »
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hamlet
Wednesday May 28 (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 »