Events on Wednesday, June 11

<em>Spooning</em> Magazine Launch Party

Party

Spooning Magazine Launch Party

Wednesday 6/11 @ Monkey Town

Despite the global food crisis, a worldwide movement has emerged in recent years, encouraging consumers to regard food not merely as... 

[SOLD OUT] Swervedriver w/ Dirty on Purpose and Terra Diablo

Music

[SOLD OUT] Swervedriver

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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.... 

<em>Exile Cinema</em><em>: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood</em>

Books: Reading

Exile Cinema

Wednesday 6/11 @ KGB Bar

Following the mass exodus of the Village Voice's film writers in 2006, longtime critic Michael Atkinson rallied his departed colleagues to... 

<em>The Rejection Show</em>

Comedy

The Rejection Show

Wednesday 6/11 @ Comix

Even if you don't want to admit it, it's always fun to laugh at losers. (Just look at the current Apatowian... 

Ongoing Events

Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>

Art

Purvis Young

Wednesday 6/11 @ GalleryBar

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

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

Art

Christian Vincent

Wednesday 6/11 @ Mike Weiss Gallery

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

Chris Burden: <em>What My Dad Gave Me</em>

Art

What My Dad Gave Me

Wednesday 6/11 @ Rockefeller Center

In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector... 

<em>Cinephilia</em>

Theatre

Cinephilia

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Paul Fusco: <em>RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered</em>

Art: Photography

RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

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

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Wednesday 6/11 @ Union Square Theatre

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

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Wednesday 6/11 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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>Stuck</em>

Film

Stuck

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Vincent River</em>

Theatre

Vincent River

Wednesday 6/11 @ 59E59 Theaters

British import Vincent River, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, has impressive credentials — and lives up... 

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Wednesday 6/11 @ Longacre Theatre

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

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

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Newfest: LGBT Film Festival

Film

Newfest

Wednesday 6/11 @ Various locations

Ideally, all independent cinema would be queer — in the sense that it would all live outside the status quo, challenging... 

<em>Port Authority</em>

Theatre

Port Authority

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

Recent Icelandic Art

Wednesday 6/11 @ Scandinavia House

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

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

Art

Francisco de Goya

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Theatre

oph3lia

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Max Snow: <em>It's Fun to Do Bad Things</em>

Art: Photography

It's Fun to Do Bad Things

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

Adolph Gottlieb

Wednesday 6/11 @ PaceWildenstein

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

<em>Prisoner of the Crown</em>

Theatre

Prisoner of the Crown

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Wednesday 6/11 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

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

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Robert Therrien

Art

Robert Therrien

Wednesday 6/11 @ Gagosian Gallery

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

Cedar Lake Spring Season<em> </em>

Dance

Cedar Lake

Wednesday 6/11 @ Cedar Lake Theater

Cedar Lake is a vibrant contemporary ballet company housed in the former studio of famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The group is... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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>All About Eve</em> (1950)

Film

All About Eve

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Zhang Huan: <em>Blessings</em>

Art

Zhang Huan

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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 Go-Getter</em>

Film

The Go-Getter

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Three on a Couch</em>

Theatre

Three on a Couch

Wednesday 6/11 @ Soho Playhouse

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

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

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?

Wednesday 6/11 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery

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

The French Collection

Dance

The French Collection

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson: <em>Portrait of Sylvia Elena</em>

Art

Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival

Theatre

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Savage Grace </em>

Film

Savage Grace

Wednesday 6/11 @ IFC Center

Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life... 

<em>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>

Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Cameron Hayes

Art

Cameron Hayes

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema

Film

New Italian Cinema

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>

Theatre

Jollyship the Whiz Bang

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

Paul Chan

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Tom Sachs:  <em>ANIMALS</em>

Art

Tom Sachs

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Theatre

Hamlet

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Natsuki Uruma

Art

Natsuki Uruma

Wednesday 6/11 @ Rivington Arms

Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a... 

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

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Wednesday 6/11 @ Broadhurst Theatre

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

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Wednesday 6/11 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Walton Ford

Art

Walton Ford

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

E.S.T. Marathon 2008

Theatre

E.S.T. Marathon

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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>Top Girls </em>

Theatre

Top Girls

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Architecture of Authority

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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>Encounters at the End of the World</em>

Film: Documentary

Encounters at the End of the World

Wednesday 6/11 @ Film Forum

In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)... 

<em>A Perfect Couple</em>

Theatre

A Perfect Couple

Wednesday 6/11 @ DR2 Theatre

Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into... 

Bill Shannon: <em>WORK</em>

Art

Bill Shannon

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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>JACK*%SS</em>

Art

JACK*%SS

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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,... 

Dance by Neil Greenberg: <em>Really Queer Dance with Harps</em> and <em>Quartet with Three Gay Men</em>

Dance

Dance by Neil Greenberg

Wednesday 6/11 @ Dance Theater Workshop

For the world premiere of Really Queer Dance with Harps at the Dance Theatre Workshop, prolific choreographer Neil Greenberg takes videotaped... 

Laleh Khorramian: <em>I Without End</em>

Art

Laleh Khorramian

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Telectroscope</em>

Art

Telectroscope

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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>Delicate Execution: The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino </em>

Art

The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>

Film

Sangre de Mi Sangre

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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>The New Normal </em>

Art

The New Normal

Wednesday 6/11 @ Artists Space

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

Neo Rauch

Art

Neo Rauch

Wednesday 6/11 @ David Zwirner

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

<em>When Did You Last See Your Father?</em>

Film

When Did You Last See Your Father?

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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?... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Wednesday 6/11 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

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