Events on Wednesday, June 11
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- Reading
- Exile Cinema
- @ KGB Bar
- Following the mass exodus of the Village Voice's film writers in 2006, longtime critic Michael Atkinson rallied his departed colleagues to... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Rejection Show
- @ Comix
- Even if you don't want to admit it, it's always fun to laugh at losers. (Just look at the current Apatowian... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- [SOLD OUT] Swervedriver
- @ The Bowery Ballroom
- Of all the Creation Records bands, Swervedriver most resemble the aggro-sensitive mold that actually impacted the charts during the early '90s.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Party
- Spooning Magazine Launch Party
- @ Monkey Town
- Despite the global food crisis, a worldwide movement has emerged in recent years, encouraging consumers to regard food not merely as... 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cinephilia
- @ The Studio at Theatre Row
- In Cinephilia, Johnny and Arden have spent four years having sex, avoiding commitment, and quoting movies at each other, and it's... View details »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- When Did You Last See Your Father?
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father?... 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 »
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- New Italian Cinema
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- The concept behind the Open Roads showcase of new Italian films probably doesn't jibe with the country's direction under recently reinstated... 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Dance by Neil Greenberg
- @ Dance Theater Workshop
- For the world premiere of Really Queer Dance with Harps at the Dance Theatre Workshop, prolific choreographer Neil Greenberg takes videotaped... View details »
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- 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 »
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- The Go-Getter
- @ Quad Cinema
- Like many road-trip movies, The Go-Getter is part spontaneous adventure and part journey to self-discovery. Writer/director Martin Hynes' story follows Mercer... 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 »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- @ Riverside Park South
- Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown... 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Art: Photography
- It's Fun to Do Bad Things
- @ Moeller Snow Gallery
- Sure, Scandinavian metalheads, Klansmen, and inner-city gang members have violent ideologies, wear weird costumes, and are considered by most to be... View details »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Cedar Lake
- @ Cedar Lake Theater
- Cedar Lake is a vibrant contemporary ballet company housed in the former studio of famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The group is... 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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 »
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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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- oph3lia
- @ HERE Arts Center
- For the first offering in its new space, HERE presents Aya Ogawa's chilling, modern evocation of Hamlet's victimized lover. The three-tiered... 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 »
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- Film: Documentary
- Encounters at the End of the World
- @ Film Forum
- In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)... 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
- @ Fuse Gallery
- Jason D'Aquino pulls from 13th-century illuminated manuscripts of Persian poetry and 18th-century England's enamel-on-ivory portraiture for his steadfastly contemporary, teensy-tiny drawings... 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 »
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- Natsuki Uruma
- @ Rivington Arms
- Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Vincent River
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- British import Vincent River, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, has impressive credentials — and lives up... 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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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 »
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- Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
- @ Honey Space
- Straying from the austere, white-washed norm, Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson's Portrait of Sylvia Elena leads gallery patrons to subterranean levels... View details »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Perfect Couple
- @ DR2 Theatre
- Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into... View details »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- All About Eve
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Winner of six Oscars, All About Eve is one of those timeless classics; it will never go out of style, and... 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 »
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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 »
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- Film
- Newfest
- @ Various locations
- Ideally, all independent cinema would be queer — in the sense that it would all live outside the status quo, challenging... 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- The French Collection
- @ The Joyce Theater
- As part of the French Collection dance festival, three of France's most prominent companies grace the Joyce stage. Heddy Maalem Company's... 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Art: Photography
- RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
- @ Danziger Projects
- During his nearly 15-year tenure at Look magazine, Paul Fusco developed an acute eye for human pathos. He documented the hard-up... View details »
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- What My Dad Gave Me
- @ Rockefeller Center
- In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector... 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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- Laleh Khorramian
- @ Salon 94 Freemans
- I Without End, the title piece of Laleh Khorramian's second solo show at Salon 94 Freemans, is a three-channel video projection... 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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