Events on Tuesday, June 3

The 30th Annual Museum Mile Festival
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
The Museum Mile Festival
@ 5th Ave btwn 82nd & 105th Sts
This evening, the crowds pouring onto Fifth Avenue aren't here for the humdrum street fair, the fresh-squeezed lemonade, or the ten-pack...  View details »
Free
[SOLD OUT] The US Air Guitar Championships
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Air Guitar Championships
@ The Bowery Ballroom
William Ocean. C-Diddy. Rockness Monster. Björn Türoque. These are the imposing rawkers who have already gone down in the air annals...  View details »
Sold Out!
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Ongoing Events

<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Adding Machine</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
@ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...  View details »
Ongoing
Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Paragraph
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
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 »
Ongoing
Christian Vincent: <em>Runyon Canyon</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Christian Vincent
@ Mike Weiss Gallery
  The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Port Authority</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Port Authority
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
@ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
Film
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 »
Ongoing
Natsuki Uruma
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Natsuki Uruma
@ Rivington Arms
Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Savage Grace </em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>JACK*%SS</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
JACK*%SS
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hamlet
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Cedar Lake Spring Season<em> </em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
Performing Arts: Dance
Cedar Lake
@ Cedar Lake Theater
Cedar Lake is a vibrant contemporary ballet company housed in the former studio of famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The group is...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Il Matrimonio Segreto</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Opera
Il Matrimonio Segreto
@ BAM Harvey Theater
Domenico Cimmarosa's comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto is a tawdry soap-fest, filled with romance, deceit, and characters running in farcical circles,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Robert Therrien
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Robert Therrien
@ Gagosian Gallery
Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Afrika Bambaataa
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Music: DJ
Afrika Bambaataa
@ APT
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Edge of Heaven</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Film
The Edge of Heaven
@ Film Forum
Fatih Akin's last feature, the much-touted Head-On (2004), packed a punch so punk rock that it injected raw adrenaline directly into...  View details »
Ongoing
Cameron Hayes
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Cameron Hayes
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Passing Strange</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Zhang Huan: <em>Blessings</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Zhang Huan
@ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
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 »
Ongoing
<em>The New Normal </em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
The New Normal
@ Artists Space
Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Fall</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>The Children of Huang Shi</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
Film
The Children of Huang Shi
@ Various locations
In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson...  View details »
Ongoing
Francisco de Goya: <em>Los Desastres de la Guerra</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Francisco de Goya
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Cinephilia</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cinephilia
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson: <em>Portrait of Sylvia Elena</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
E.S.T. Marathon 2008
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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MOMIX: <em>Lunar Sea</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Dance
MOMIX: Lunar Sea
@ The Joyce Theater
Moses Pendleton's acrobatic dance company MOMIX brings its classic Lunar Sea to the second half of the Joyce's month-long season. In...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
South Pacific
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Walton Ford
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Walton Ford
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
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 »
Ongoing
The Science Barge
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
GlassLab feat. Antenna Design, Constantin & Laurene Boym, and Kid Robot
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
GlassLab
@ Cooper-Hewitt
The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Richard Ross: <em>Architecture of Authority</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art: Photography
Architecture of Authority
@ Aperture Gallery
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Laleh Khorramian: <em>I Without End</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Laleh Khorramian
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
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 »
Ongoing
Tom Sachs:  <em>ANIMALS</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Tom Sachs
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Top Girls </em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Top Girls
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Bill Shannon: <em>WORK</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Bill Shannon
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
Film
Poultrygeist
@ Village East Cinema
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of...  View details »
Ongoing
Max Snow: <em>It's Fun to Do Bad Things</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Stuck</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
Film
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 »
Ongoing
Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown: <em>Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
@ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, bu­t you can still see it, sort of. American gallery...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>August: Osage County</i>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Telectroscope</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_04
Art
Telectroscope
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Adolph Gottlieb: <em>Paintings from Four Decades</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Adolph Gottlieb
@ PaceWildenstein
Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Dance
Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre
@ Skirball Center NYU
Pascal Rioult's modern-dance troupe presents a world premiere and two old favorites. For his as-yet-unnamed new dance, set to J.S. Bach's...  View details »
Ongoing
Kanishka Raja: <em>Indian Yellow</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Kanishka Raja
@ Envoy Gallery
Kanishka Raja's immersive installation Indian Yellow, which tackles India's Gujarat carnage of 2002, greets viewers at the door with figures from...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Boeing Boeing </em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
@ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...  View details »
Ongoing
Neo Rauch
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Art
Neo Rauch
@ David Zwirner
Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Slavic Soul Party!
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
@ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...  View details »
Ongoing
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_06 Tuesday Day_03
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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Ongoing
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