Events on Saturday, June 7
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Lucky Dragons
- @ East River Amphitheater
- In spite of mounting art-world credentials (including a rave in Artforum and a coveted slot at the past Whitney Biennial), Lucky... View details »
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- Choose GOOD Farmers' Fair
- @ Solar One
- We've always been fans of GOOD magazine, and events like this one make us love 'em even more. The progressive mag... View details »
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- Alan Braxe
- @ Studio B
- For the latest installment of JDH and Dave P's FIXED shindig, the party troubadours usher in French electro icons Alan Braxe... View details »
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- More Flavor: Sports
- Wiimbledon
- @ Barcade
- New Yorkers have an exhaustive imagination when it comes to dreaming up new sports. The Idiotarod? Dodgeball? Wiimbledon trumps them both.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Shopping
- Brooklyn Flea
- @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. Every Saturday in Fort... View details »
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- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- MoCCA Art Festival
- @ Puck Building Ballroom
- The Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art's annual Art Festival is a hot-ticket fundraiser for the pioneering museum and its featured... View details »
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- Land of the Pharaohs
- @ Anthology Film Archives
- As a director, Howard Hawks was a jack of all trades, making everything from romantic comedies to Westerns, and in the... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Paul Chan
- @ 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... View details »
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- Newfest
- @ Various locations
- Ideally, all independent cinema would be queer — in the sense that it would all live outside the status quo, challenging... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Prisoner of the Crown
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Three on a Couch
- @ Soho Playhouse
- Though Carl Djerassi spent most of his career in a lab coat — as one of the chemists behind the first... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- The Actor's Nightmare and The Real Inspector Hound
- @ 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... View details »
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- Arctic Hysteria
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- © MURAKAMI
- @ 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... View details »
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- Little Fugitive
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Little Fugitive captures the step-right-up rush of a trip to Coney Island in 1952. The film follows seven-year-old Joey during a... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Come Out & Play
- @ Various locations
- Competitive Picnicking. Pigeon Piñata Pummel. Manhattan Megaputt. If these events sound appealing even if you don't know what they are, you... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Birthright
- @ 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... View details »
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- Newlife Raw Food and Yoga Expo
- @ The New Yorker Hotel
- While many have indulged in the occasional undercooked hamburger, this weekend's raw extravaganza (of the vegan variety) is something else entirely.... View details »
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- 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 »
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- ShowDown
- @ Joe's Pub
- Known for its heady, subversive blend of vaudeville camp and modern dance, David Parker and the Bang Group's ShowDown reinvents Irving... View details »
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- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- @ 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,... View details »
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- The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
- @ 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... View details »
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- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Playing the Building
- @ Battery Maritime Building
- From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David... View details »
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- Hospital 2008
- @ Axis Theatre
- For the ninth year running, Axis Company presents its fascinating serial drama Hospital, which annually explores the thoughts of a different... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Jump
- @ Union Square Theatre
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Big Apple Barbecue Block Party
- @ Madison Square Park
- The world is frought with conflict. But none so contentious as the questions plaguing the BBQ community: Sugar or vinegar? Kansas... View details »
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- Hearsay
- @ DNA
- Choreographer Amanda Selwyn uses gesture, narrative, and character to move her dances beyond pure bodies in motion and into social commentary... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- When Did You Last See Your Father?
- @ 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?... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- New Italian Cinema
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- The concept behind the Open Roads showcase of new Italian films probably doesn't jibe with the country's direction under recently reinstated... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Darina Karpov
- @ Pierogi
- Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting... View details »
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- The Go-Getter
- @ Quad Cinema
- Like many road-trip movies, The Go-Getter is part spontaneous adventure and part journey to self-discovery. Writer/director Martin Hynes' story follows Mercer... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Dancing Across Cultural Borders
- @ 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... View details »
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- Olafur Eliasson
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
- @ 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... View details »
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- Johannes Wieland
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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