Events on Monday, June 16
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- Reading
- William Gibson
- @ Barnes & Noble
- Most sci-fi geeks know William Gibson as a digital-age visionary and the father of cyberpunk, but those who don't know his... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Venetian Snares
- @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
- In the world of glitchy electronic experimentalism, Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, and Autechre tend to garner the lion's share of accolades.... 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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- Film
- My Winnipeg
- @ IFC Center
- In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur... View details »
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- Art
- 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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- Film
- Human Rights Watch Film Festival
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Let's face it: in the US cultural landscape, aesthetic value and social conscience coexist in cinema about as easily as Church... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Monsieur Verdoux
- @ Film Forum
- The initial response to Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux was notoriously mixed. James Agee's superlative-laced review was the exception, as most American... View details »
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- Beauty in Trouble
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,... View details »
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- Arctic Hysteria
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage... 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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- 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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- Quid Pro Quo
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Radio reporter Isaac Knot (Nick Stahl) was rendered a paraplegic in a car accident that killed both of his parents when... 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- BASH'd
- @ Zipper Factory Theater
- The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005,... 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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- Art
- Darina Karpov
- @ Pierogi
- Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting... 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
- 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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- 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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- BAST
- @ Brooklynite Gallery
- BAST is an elusive street artist whose presence is only confirmed by his work — created in the dark, and revealed... View details »
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- NYC Food Film Festival
- @ Water Taxi Beach
- The Food Film Festival takes up residence at Water Taxi Beach for its second-annual celebration. The multi-sensory affair features six days... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks
- @ Ohio Theatre
- Summerworks 2008, Clubbed Thumb's 13th annual festival of new plays, starts with the raucous Constitutional Convention on June 4, a free... 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 »
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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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- 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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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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