Events on Tuesday, June 3

The 30th Annual Museum Mile Festival

Art

The Museum Mile Festival

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

[SOLD OUT] The US Air Guitar Championships

Music

[SOLD OUT] Air Guitar Championships

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

Cameron Hayes

Art

Cameron Hayes

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Cedar Lake Spring Season<em> </em>

Dance

Cedar Lake

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Cedar Lake Theater

Cedar Lake is a vibrant contemporary ballet company housed in the former studio of famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The group is... 

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Longacre Theatre

It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... 

Tom Sachs:  <em>ANIMALS</em>

Art

Tom Sachs

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>The New Normal </em>

Art

The New Normal

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Artists Space

Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... 

Max Snow: <em>It's Fun to Do Bad Things</em>

Art: Photography

It's Fun to Do Bad Things

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Broadhurst Theatre

Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The... 

<em>Cinephilia</em>

Theatre

Cinephilia

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Robert Therrien

Art

Robert Therrien

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Gagosian Gallery

Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized... 

<em>Savage Grace </em>

Film

Savage Grace

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ IFC Center

Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life... 

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre

Dance

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Richard Ross: <em>Architecture of Authority</em>

Art: Photography

Architecture of Authority

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Aperture Gallery

In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross... 

<em>The Edge of Heaven</em>

Film

The Edge of Heaven

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>JACK*%SS</em>

Art

JACK*%SS

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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,... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

Bill Shannon: <em>WORK</em>

Art

Bill Shannon

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Telectroscope</em>

Art

Telectroscope

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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.... 

<em>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>

Theatre

Jollyship the Whiz Bang

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>

Film

Sangre de Mi Sangre

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ IFC Center

New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their... 

<em>Il Matrimonio Segreto</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Il Matrimonio Segreto

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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,... 

GlassLab feat. Antenna Design, Constantin & Laurene Boym, and Kid Robot

Art

GlassLab

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Cooper-Hewitt

The Corning Museum of Glass sets up shop in the Cooper-Hewitt garden for live demos of scalding hot design in its... 

E.S.T. Marathon 2008

Theatre

E.S.T. Marathon

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>

Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Christian Vincent: <em>Runyon Canyon</em>

Art

Christian Vincent

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Mike Weiss Gallery

  The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they... 

Laleh Khorramian: <em>I Without End</em>

Art

Laleh Khorramian

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Natsuki Uruma

Art

Natsuki Uruma

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Rivington Arms

Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Top Girls </em>

Theatre

Top Girls

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Walton Ford

Art

Walton Ford

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>The Children of Huang Shi</em>

Film

The Children of Huang Shi

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Various locations

In The Children of Huang Shi, the true story of how journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and medic Lee Pearson... 

MOMIX: <em>Lunar Sea</em>

Dance

MOMIX: Lunar Sea

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Francisco de Goya: <em>Los Desastres de la Guerra</em>

Art

Francisco de Goya

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Afrika Bambaataa

Music: DJ

Afrika Bambaataa

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ APT

Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance... 

<em>From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art</em>

Art

Recent Icelandic Art

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Scandinavia House

Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia... 

Adolph Gottlieb: <em>Paintings from Four Decades</em>

Art

Adolph Gottlieb

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ PaceWildenstein

Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and... 

<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson: <em>Portrait of Sylvia Elena</em>

Art

Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Landmark Sunshine

In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone.... 

Theatre

Hamlet

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Neo Rauch

Art

Neo Rauch

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ David Zwirner

Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding... 

<em>Stuck</em>

Film

Stuck

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Zhang Huan: <em>Blessings</em>

Art

Zhang Huan

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ PaceWildenstein

For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric... 

Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>

Art

Purvis Young

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ GalleryBar

After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and... 

Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown: <em>Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?</em>

Art

Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery

The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, bu­t you can still see it, sort of. American gallery... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival

Theatre

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Port Authority</em>

Theatre

Port Authority

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

Kanishka Raja: <em>Indian Yellow</em>

Art

Kanishka Raja

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead</em>

Film

Poultrygeist

Tuesday 6/ 3 @ 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...