Events on Friday, June 27
Friday 6/27 @ Various locations
La Vellini (Asia Argento), a 19th-century courtesan with pillowy lips and flashing eyes, is a woman ahead of her time. She...
Friday 6/27 @ Prospect Park Bandshell
It's time to celebrate Brooklyn, and what better way to party than with a free concert in the Prospect Park Bandshell!...
Friday 6/27 @ Cielo
Jake Fairley doesn't use his Fairmont alias very often, but when he does, it's almost always attached to a perfectly odd...
Friday 6/27 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Being a lo-fi, art-punk band from Ohio with a deal on Matador, Times New Viking can't help but draw comparisons to...
Friday 6/27 @ Open Road Rooftop Project
Tonight's short films, projected on the roof of the former Seward Park High School, vary from whimsical to bizarre, offering fantastical...
A Place to Bury Strangers w/ King Khan and the Shrines
Friday 6/27 @ South Street Seaport
All hail King Khan. The recent Vice Records signee and his nine-piece psychedelic garage-soul band storm into the Seaport tonight like...
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[SOLD OUT] One Step Beyond feat. Talib Kweli
Friday 6/27 @ American Museum of Natural History
To all the backpacker haters: Talib Kweli has built a successful, multi-album rap career in the face of fickle mainstream audiences....
Ongoing Events
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Friday 6/27 @ Landmark Sunshine
Radio reporter Isaac Knot (Nick Stahl) was rendered a paraplegic in a car accident that killed both of his parents when...
Friday 6/27 @ Imperial Theatre
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Friday 6/27 @ 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,...
Friday 6/27 @ Governors Island
FIGMENT is a nonprofit, ad-free festival set in the wild landscape of Governors Island, located just 800 yards off the southern...
Friday 6/27 @ Solar One
Solar One has plenty of panel discussions and workshops to help you shrink your carbon footprint, but the real highlight here...
Friday 6/27 @ Cheim & Read
The solidly enjoyable summer show I Won't Grow Up presents on-the-radar artists at their most childlike. Mark Fox's video Nutzilla catches...
Friday 6/27 @ IFC Center
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Friday 6/27 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
Friday 6/27 @ Angelika Film Center
Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,...
Friday 6/27 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Friday 6/27 @ Rivington Arms
Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a...
Friday 6/27 @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
The first US gallery exhibition of Tetsumi Kudo's bright but morbid sculptures introduces American audiences to one of contemporary art's lesser-known...
Encounters at the End of the World
Friday 6/27 @ Film Forum
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...
Friday 6/27 @ Schroeder Romero Gallery
Heeding George Orwell's declaration that sport "is war minus the shooting," the curators of The Main Event explore how love, death,...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Friday 6/27 @ Various locations
With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen...
Friday 6/27 @ Axis Theatre
For the ninth year running, Axis Company presents its fascinating serial drama Hospital, which annually explores the thoughts of a different...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
Friday 6/27 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Photography has always been both celebrated and suspect for its popularity with so-called amateurs. The rise of do-it-yourself shutterbugs has given...
Friday 6/27 @ 59E59 Theaters
British import Vincent River, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, has impressive credentials — and lives up...
Friday 6/27 @ Various locations in the East River
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Ad Hoc Art
Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and...
Friday 6/27 @ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Friday 6/27 @ 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?...
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery...
Friday 6/27 @ Various locations
Booming and busting economies, political upheaval, and a newfound global influence has created no shortage of Asian filmmakers. This year, Chinese...
Friday 6/27 @ Ohio Theatre
Summerworks 2008, Clubbed Thumb's 13th annual festival of new plays, starts with the raucous Constitutional Convention on June 4, a free...
Friday 6/27 @ Gallery Satori
With the UN forecasting that 50% of the world's population will reside in mega-cities by 2050, Gallery Satori's inaugural exhibition, Unreal...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Friday 6/27 @ 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,...
Friday 6/27 @ Rockefeller Center
In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ IFC Center
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life...
Friday 6/27 @ Battery Maritime Building
From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Landmark Sunshine
In his recent onscreen roles, Matthew Broderick bears the stunned expression of a former teen idol gone to pot. He shines...
Friday 6/27 @ 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....
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize...
Friday 6/27 @ Landmark Sunshine
The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck), but this extraordinary documentary about...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Gramercy Theatre
Peter Murphy's vampire-style moping with seminal group Bauhaus earned him the devotion of goth-rock acolytes everywhere, and his subsequent solo career...
Friday 6/27 @ Dance Theater Workshop
The real Spanish Wells is a fishing village on St. George's Cay in the Bahamas, whose founders made their fortunes by...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 6/27 @ Aperture Gallery
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ James Cohan Gallery
Famous for his eviscerating depiction of middle-class suburbia, photographer Bill Owens ventures out into America's proverbial backyard. Owens tours the churches,...
Friday 6/27 @ IFC Center
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur...
Friday 6/27 @ DR2 Theatre
Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into...
