Events on Thursday, May 29
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- 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 » View details »
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- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- @ 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 » View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- @ 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- © 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- JACK*%SS
- @ Susan Inglett Gallery
- When bug-eyed boys mace each other on MTV, they're jackasses, but when Chris Burden's studio assistant shoots him in the arm,... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- @ New York Public Library
- When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
- @ Paley Center
- If it's not obvious from song titles like "Novocaine for the Soul" and "Cancer for the Cure," Eels mastermind Mark Oliver... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Abigail Washburn
- @ Castle Clinton
- Abigail Washburn's Sparrow Quartet are stacked with ringers. As in her other group, the old-timey Uncle Earl, Washburn's clawhammer banjo and... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- TELL
- @ Collective:Unconscious
- Funny, serious, and daring, TELL is a collaborative theatre work that explores the phenomenon of confession by artfully weaving together a... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Birthright
- @ 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... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Three on a Couch
- @ Soho Playhouse
- Though Carl Djerassi spent most of his career in a lab coat — as one of the chemists behind the first... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- @ T. Schreiber Studio
- The succinct comedies in this theatrical two-fer from Christopher Durang and Tom Stoppard both investigate the nature of bad dreams. Durang's... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Eyedea and Abilities
- @ Knitting Factory
- New York's indie hip-hop fans can rejoice tonight, as Midwest duo Eyedea and Abilities kick off the "Appetite for Distraction" tour... View details » View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Jammin' On the One feat. Rob Swift w/ Just BLAZe
- @ Love
- Hearing a Rob Swift track feels like going on a supersonic journey through the mixmaster's musical history, in which he condenses... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
- @ The Brick Theater
- The Brick's annual festival celebrates the occasionally ornery relationship between theatre and film. The centerpiece is 72-Hour Films, for which participants... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Stuck
- @ Angelika Film Center
- 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... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- Savage Grace
- @ IFC Center
- Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life... View details » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
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- 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 » View details »
