Events on Thursday, May 29

<em>Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives</em>

Film

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

Thursday 5/29 @ Paley Center

If it's not obvious from song titles like "Novocaine for the Soul" and "Cancer for the Cure," Eels mastermind Mark Oliver... 

Jammin' On the One feat. Rob Swift w/ Just BLAZe

Music: DJ

Jammin' On the One feat. Rob Swift w/ Just BLAZe

Thursday 5/29 @ Love

Hearing a Rob Swift track feels like going on a supersonic journey through the mixmaster's musical history, in which he condenses... 

River to River presents Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet feat. B&eacute;la Fleck w/ Mirah and Spectratone International

Music

Abigail Washburn

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Eyedea and Abilities w/ Educated Consumers

Music: Hip-Hop

Eyedea and Abilities

Thursday 5/29 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

New York's indie hip-hop fans can rejoice tonight, as Midwest duo Eyedea and Abilities kick off the "Appetite for Distraction" tour... 

Ongoing Events

Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>

Art

Purvis Young

Thursday 5/29 @ GalleryBar

After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and... 

<em>JACK*%SS</em>

Art

JACK*%SS

Thursday 5/29 @ 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,... 

<em>Heavy Metal in Baghdad</em>

Film: Documentary

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Paul Chan: <em>The 7 Lights</em>

Art

Paul Chan

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Adolph Gottlieb: <em>Paintings from Four Decades</em>

Art

Adolph Gottlieb

Thursday 5/29 @ PaceWildenstein

Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and... 

<em>Oedipus Loves You</em>

Theatre

Oedipus Loves You

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Eighth International Toy Theater Festival

Theatre

Toy Theater Festival

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Top Girls </em>

Theatre

Top Girls

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Neo Rauch

Art

Neo Rauch

Thursday 5/29 @ David Zwirner

Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding... 

Bicycle Film Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

BFF2008

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Thursday 5/29 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

Christian Vincent: <em>Runyon Canyon</em>

Art

Christian Vincent

Thursday 5/29 @ Mike Weiss Gallery

  The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they... 

<em>Son of Rambow</em>

Film

Son of Rambow

Thursday 5/29 @ Angelika Film Center

Young Will lives in a religious cult that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>The New Normal </em>

Art

The New Normal

Thursday 5/29 @ Artists Space

Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public... 

<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Thursday 5/29 @ 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,... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>

Theatre

Jollyship the Whiz Bang

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Kanishka Raja: <em>Indian Yellow</em>

Art

Kanishka Raja

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Thursday 5/29 @ Broadhurst Theatre

Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The... 

<em>Three on a Couch</em>

Theatre

Three on a Couch

Thursday 5/29 @ Soho Playhouse

Though Carl Djerassi spent most of his career in a lab coat — as one of the chemists behind the first... 

Cameron Hayes

Art

Cameron Hayes

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>

Film

Sangre de Mi Sangre

Thursday 5/29 @ IFC Center

New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their... 

<em>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>

Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Francisco de Goya: <em>Los Desastres de la Guerra</em>

Art

Francisco de Goya

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

World Science Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

World Science Festival

Thursday 5/29 @ Various locations

With rock stars turning to astrophysics and environmentalism reaching a fever pitch, science has never been cooler. The World Science Fair... 

<em>Birthright</em>

Theatre

Birthright

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Bill Shannon: <em>WORK</em>

Art

Bill Shannon

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Prisoner of the Crown</em>

Theatre

Prisoner of the Crown

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>Take your time</em>

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Thursday 5/29 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Thursday 5/29 @ Longacre Theatre

It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... 

Robert Therrien

Art

Robert Therrien

Thursday 5/29 @ Gagosian Gallery

Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized... 

<em>Redbelt</em>

Film

Redbelt

Thursday 5/29 @ Various locations

Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the... 

<em>Il Matrimonio Segreto</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Il Matrimonio Segreto

Thursday 5/29 @ 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,... 

Zhang Huan: <em>Blessings</em>

Art

Zhang Huan

Thursday 5/29 @ PaceWildenstein

For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric... 

<em>The Children of Huang Shi</em>

Film

The Children of Huang Shi

Thursday 5/29 @ Various locations

In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>The Edge of Heaven</em>

Film

The Edge of Heaven

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown: <em>Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?</em>

Art

Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?

Thursday 5/29 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery

The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, bu­t you can still see it, sort of. American gallery... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Thursday 5/29 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... 

<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

MOMIX: <em>Lunar Sea</em>

Dance

MOMIX: Lunar Sea

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Whitney Biennial 2008

Art

Whitney Biennial

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Durang's <em>The Actor's Nightmare</em> and Stoppard's <em>The Real Inspector Hound</em>

Theatre

The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition

Art

Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition

Thursday 5/29 @ NYCAMS

Two years ago, Brooklyn College's MFA thesis exhibition became a First Amendment cause célèbre, after city officials closed the show because... 

<em>Noise</em>

Film

Noise

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Thursday 5/29 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

Tom Sachs:  <em>ANIMALS</em>

Art

Tom Sachs

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

E.S.T. Marathon 2008

Theatre

E.S.T. Marathon

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Thursday 5/29 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

<em>From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art</em>

Art

Recent Icelandic Art

Thursday 5/29 @ Scandinavia House

Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia... 

GlassLab feat. Antenna Design, Constantin & Laurene Boym, and Kid Robot

Art

GlassLab

Thursday 5/29 @ Cooper-Hewitt

The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its... 

<em>The Sound and The Fury (April Seventh, 1928)</em>

Theatre

The Sound and the Fury

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Thursday 5/29 @ 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,... 

<em>Telectroscope</em>

Art

Telectroscope

Thursday 5/29 @ 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.... 

<em>Port Authority</em>

Theatre

Port Authority

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Walton Ford

Art

Walton Ford

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

<em>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Thursday 5/29 @ Landmark Sunshine

In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone.... 

Theatre

TELL

Thursday 5/29 @ Collective:Unconscious

Funny, serious, and daring, TELL is a collaborative theatre work that explores the phenomenon of confession by artfully weaving together a... 

Richard Ross: <em>Architecture of Authority</em>

Art: Photography

Architecture of Authority

Thursday 5/29 @ Aperture Gallery

In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross... 

<em>Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead</em>

Film

Poultrygeist

Thursday 5/29 @ 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... 

Theatre

Hamlet

Thursday 5/29 @ 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...