Events on Saturday, June 28
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[Date Changed] Afro-Punk Festival
Saturday 6/28 @ Various locations
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Saturday 6/28 @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Linked by Spike Lee movie soundtracks (Crooklyn and Clockers), conscious hip-hop, and Brooklyn loyalty, the Crooklyn Dodgers reunite for today's parkside...
Saturday 6/28 @ East River Amphitheater
Say what you will about ambitious New Jersey quintet Titus Andronicus — they make a helluva racket. The band's recently released...
Saturday 6/28 @ Anthology Film Archives
While the Lumières documented the quotidian proceedings of the Belle Époque, Georges Méliès made out-of-this-world shorts about space, Arabia, time travel,...
Saturday 6/28 @ Southpaw
Neo-psychers the Black Angels plumb a pretty wide range of obscurist depths, cozying up to everyone from Spacemen 3 and My...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/28 @ Deitch Projects
Steel your stomach for a dose of kinetic op-art before entering Constraction, an exhibition devoted to new modernist technique. Tauba Auerbach's...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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,...
Saturday 6/28 @ DR2 Theatre
Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into...
Saturday 6/28 @ Ad Hoc Art
Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Saturday 6/28 @ 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?...
Saturday 6/28 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 6/28 @ Rivington Arms
Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a...
Saturday 6/28 @ Various locations
Booming and busting economies, political upheaval, and a newfound global influence has created no shortage of Asian filmmakers. This year, Chinese...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ Rockefeller Center
In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ IFC Center
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life...
Saturday 6/28 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Saturday 6/28 @ Aperture Gallery
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross...
Saturday 6/28 @ Landmark Sunshine
In his recent onscreen roles, Matthew Broderick bears the stunned expression of a former teen idol gone to pot. He shines...
Saturday 6/28 @ Solar One
Solar One has plenty of panel discussions and workshops to help you shrink your carbon footprint, but the real highlight here...
Saturday 6/28 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery...
Saturday 6/28 @ Landmark Sunshine
The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck), but this extraordinary documentary about...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ Axis Theatre
For the ninth year running, Axis Company presents its fascinating serial drama Hospital, which annually explores the thoughts of a different...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ Battery Maritime Building
From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David...
Saturday 6/28 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
Saturday 6/28 @ IFC Center
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur...
Saturday 6/28 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Saturday 6/28 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ Governors Island
FIGMENT is a nonprofit, ad-free festival set in the wild landscape of Governors Island, located just 800 yards off the southern...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday 6/28 @ 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,...
Saturday 6/28 @ IFC Center
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...
Saturday 6/28 @ Ohio Theatre
Summerworks 2008, Clubbed Thumb's 13th annual festival of new plays, starts with the raucous Constitutional Convention on June 4, a free...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ Angelika Film Center
Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,...
The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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,...
Encounters at the End of the World
Saturday 6/28 @ Film Forum
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...
Saturday 6/28 @ 59E59 Theaters
British import Vincent River, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, has impressive credentials — and lives up...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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....
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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...
