Events on Thursday, June 5

Salman Rushdie: <em>The Enchantress of Florence</em>

Books: Reading

Salman Rushdie

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Barnes & Noble

The Enchantress of Florence shows that Salman Rushdie's tabloid popularity hasn't hurt his literary prowess. The Indian-born author spent nearly a... 

Mixel Pixel Record Release feat. Violens w/ Chairlift and Project Jenny, Project Jan

Music

Mixel Pixel

Thursday 6/ 5 @ The Mercury Lounge

With a new record featuring skewed pop songs like "Favorite Sweatshirt On" and "So Regal (Tigershark Kiss)," Mixel Pixel remain as... 

[SOLD OUT] The Presets w/ Walter Meego

Music: Electronic

[SOLD OUT] The Presets

Thursday 6/ 5 @ The Bowery Ballroom

The Sydney-based Presets lug their drums and keyboards halfway around the world to show off the follow-up to their 2005 electro-dance... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Maltese Falcon </em>(1941)

Film

The Maltese Falcon

Thursday 6/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

An unflinching private eye. A priceless object. A mysterious woman. An inexplicable murder. These are the quintessential elements of a classic... 

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

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Newfest: LGBT Film Festival

Film

Newfest

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Various locations

Ideally, all independent cinema would be queer — in the sense that it would all live outside the status quo, challenging... 

<em>Port Authority</em>

Theatre

Port Authority

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Bill Shannon: <em>WORK</em>

Art

Bill Shannon

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Francisco de Goya

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Hospital 2008

Theatre

Hospital 2008

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Axis Theatre

For the ninth year running, Axis Company presents its fascinating serial drama Hospital, which annually explores the thoughts of a different... 

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

Art

Laleh Khorramian

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Adolph Gottlieb

Thursday 6/ 5 @ PaceWildenstein

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

<em>Cinephilia</em>

Theatre

Cinephilia

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

<em>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Dancing Across Cultural Borders

Dance

Dancing Across Cultural Borders

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Hudson Guild Theater

This isn't your typical end-of-the-year dance recital. Rather than bunnies in tutus, Dancing Across Cultural Borders features court and folk dances... 

Robert Therrien

Art

Robert Therrien

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>Stuck</em>

Film

Stuck

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>Prisoner of the Crown</em>

Theatre

Prisoner of the Crown

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Paul Chan: <em>The 7 Lights</em>

Art

Paul Chan

Thursday 6/ 5 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift... 

Zhang Huan: <em>Blessings</em>

Art

Zhang Huan

Thursday 6/ 5 @ PaceWildenstein

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

<em>Top Girls </em>

Theatre

Top Girls

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery

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

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre

Dance

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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,... 

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival

Theatre

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>&copy; MURAKAMI</em>

Art

© MURAKAMI

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Film

Poultrygeist

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

<em>Passing Strange</em>

Theatre

Passing Strange

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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 Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Cameron Hayes

Art

Cameron Hayes

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>

Theatre

Jollyship the Whiz Bang

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art</em>

Art

Recent Icelandic Art

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Scandinavia House

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

Tom Sachs:  <em>ANIMALS</em>

Art

Tom Sachs

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Johannes Wieland presents <em>newyou: I think you might be in deep denial.</em>

Dance

Johannes Wieland

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios

Choreographer Johannes Wieland returns to New York with the premiere of newyou: I think you might be in deep denial. A... 

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

Art: Photography

It's Fun to Do Bad Things

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>Three on a Couch</em>

Theatre

Three on a Couch

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Soho Playhouse

Though Carl Djerassi spent most of his career in a lab coat — as one of the chemists behind the first... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>Take your time</em>

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>Les Liaisons Dangereuses </em>

Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Walton Ford

Art

Walton Ford

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>Savage Grace </em>

Film

Savage Grace

Thursday 6/ 5 @ IFC Center

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

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

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>

Art

Purvis Young

Thursday 6/ 5 @ GalleryBar

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

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

Art: Photography

Architecture of Authority

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Longacre Theatre

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

<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

<em>JACK*%SS</em>

Art

JACK*%SS

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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,... 

Durang's <em>The Actor's Nightmare</em> and Stoppard's <em>The Real Inspector Hound</em>

Theatre

The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound

Thursday 6/ 5 @ T. Schreiber Studio

The succinct comedies in this theatrical two-fer from Christopher Durang and Tom Stoppard both investigate the nature of bad dreams. Durang's... 

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

Art

Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>Telectroscope</em>

Art

Telectroscope

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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.... 

Theatre

Hamlet

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

<em>Land of the Pharaohs</em> (1955)

Film

Land of the Pharaohs

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Anthology Film Archives

As a director, Howard Hawks was a jack of all trades, making everything from romantic comedies to Westerns, and in the... 

Neo Rauch

Art

Neo Rauch

Thursday 6/ 5 @ David Zwirner

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

E.S.T. Marathon 2008

Theatre

E.S.T. Marathon

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

MOMIX: <em>Lunar Sea</em>

Dance

MOMIX: Lunar Sea

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>The New Normal </em>

Art

The New Normal

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Artists Space

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

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

Art

Christian Vincent

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Mike Weiss Gallery

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

New York City Gay Men's Chorus: Vibrate

Music

Vibrate

Thursday 6/ 5 @ FIT Haft Auditorium

The 250-member New York City Gay Men's Chorus ushers in Pride month with Vibrate, a booty-shaking, hand-clapping, foot-tapping celebration for the... 

Natsuki Uruma

Art

Natsuki Uruma

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Rivington Arms

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

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

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

Amanda Selwyn: <em>Hearsay</em>

Dance

Hearsay

Thursday 6/ 5 @ DNA

Choreographer Amanda Selwyn uses gesture, narrative, and character to move her dances beyond pure bodies in motion and into social commentary... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Birthright</em>

Theatre

Birthright

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

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

Art

Kanishka Raja

Thursday 6/ 5 @ 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>The Children of Huang Shi</em>

Film

The Children of Huang Shi

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Various locations

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

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Thursday 6/ 5 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

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