Events on Thursday, June 19
Thursday 6/19 @ KGB Bar
Tonight's reading is more raucous than most, featuring Gods and Monsters author Christopher Bram reading from his most recent novels: Lives...
Thursday 6/19 @ Happy Ending
This month's installment of Rachel Kramer Bussel's In the Flesh reading series is queer-centric, but all dirty-minded page turners are welcome....
Thursday 6/19 @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Medeski, Martin & Wood know how to get down. Since making a name for themselves in early-'90s New York, the soup-funk...
Thursday 6/19 @ Studio B
Crystal Castles love small-scale blippy melodies styled after old-school video games, but their songs are always dance-floor ready, given a sensual...
Thursday 6/19 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
In the wake of Shearwater's critically acclaimed new record, Rook, Okkervil River member and ornithology expert Jonathan Meiburg recently announced plans...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 6/19 @ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...
Thursday 6/19 @ Rockefeller Center
In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector...
Thursday 6/19 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
In the world premiere of Miss America, ever-funny feminist/lesbian theatre company Split Britches upends the beloved convention of ladies' beauty pageants....
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Broadhurst Theatre
Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ DR2 Theatre
Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into...
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Soho Playhouse
Though Carl Djerassi spent most of his career in a lab coat — as one of the chemists behind the first...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 6/19 @ IFC Center
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Angelika Film Center
Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,...
Thursday 6/19 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Aperture Gallery
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross...
Thursday 6/19 @ Landmark Sunshine
Radio reporter Isaac Knot (Nick Stahl) was rendered a paraplegic in a car accident that killed both of his parents when...
Thursday 6/19 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ The Flea Theater
In a salute to aviation trailblazers like Amelia Earhart, dancers take to the air, ground, and all points in between during...
Encounters at the End of the World
Thursday 6/19 @ Film Forum
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Ad Hoc Art
Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and...
Thursday 6/19 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
Thursday 6/19 @ Axis Theatre
For the ninth year running, Axis Company presents its fascinating serial drama Hospital, which annually explores the thoughts of a different...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 59E59 Theaters
British import Vincent River, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, has impressive credentials — and lives up...
Thursday 6/19 @ Dance Theater Workshop
For the world premiere of Really Queer Dance with Harps at the Dance Theatre Workshop, prolific choreographer Neil Greenberg takes videotaped...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Thursday 6/19 @ 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?...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
Thursday 6/19 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Thursday 6/19 @ Artists Space
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ Ohio Theatre
Summerworks 2008, Clubbed Thumb's 13th annual festival of new plays, starts with the raucous Constitutional Convention on June 4, a free...
Thursday 6/19 @ Rivington Arms
Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a...
The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Thursday 6/19 @ 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,...
Thursday 6/19 @ IFC Center
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
Thursday 6/19 @ IFC Center
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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...
