Events on Friday, July 11
Friday 7/11 @ APT
For the past few years, Tanner Ross has claimed secret-weapon status. At the 2007 Winter Music Conference, the little-known DJ came...
Friday 7/11 @ Prospect Park Bandshell
For their upcoming August LP New York City, Brooklyn-based subversive electro-pop trio Brazilian Girls come clean about not being Brazilian or,...
Friday 7/11 @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
While the Zombies' slick harmonies and friendly la la la's often fit the mold of fellow Brit-invasion acts like the Beatles...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan...
Friday 7/11 @ Various locations
While punk may be dead (buried beneath a pile of cheap studded belts, no doubt), Afro-punk is alive and pulsing with...
Friday 7/11 @ Imperial Theatre
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Friday 7/11 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Angelika Film Center
Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Friday 7/11 @ Bellwether Gallery
So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows....
Friday 7/11 @ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...
Friday 7/11 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ IFC Center
Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Friday 7/11 @ 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,...
Friday 7/11 @ McCarren Park Pool
Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to...
Friday 7/11 @ HERE Arts Center
As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes...
Friday 7/11 @ Aperture Gallery
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross...
Friday 7/11 @ IFC Center
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life...
Friday 7/11 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Friday 7/11 @ 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,...
Friday 7/11 @ Landmark Sunshine
In his recent onscreen roles, Matthew Broderick bears the stunned expression of a former teen idol gone to pot. He shines...
Friday 7/11 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Friday 7/11 @ Greene Naftali
A return to good old-fashioned painting, this 42-artist group exhibition is a welcome respite from the predictable deluge of overly conceptual...
Friday 7/11 @ Landmark Sunshine
Roman Polanski opens his dad-may-be-the-devil classic with a lugubrious lullaby and a pan across Manhattan's gloomy skyline. Within a few frames,...
Friday 7/11 @ Axis Theatre
For the ninth year running, Axis Company presents its fascinating serial drama Hospital, which annually explores the thoughts of a different...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Cinema Village
German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — sleeping her way through a variety of...
Friday 7/11 @ P.S. 122
In Neal Medlyn's fourth musical parody, an off-kilter androgynous romp arranged by Obie-winner Kenny Mellman, the performer channels the artist formerly...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Friday 7/11 @ 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?...
Friday 7/11 @ Center for Book Arts
In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Encounters at the End of the World
Friday 7/11 @ Film Forum
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...
Friday 7/11 @ Anna Kustera Gallery
When art imitates art fairs, the layers of irony are just too rich. Anna Kustera has converted her spacious gallery into...
Friday 7/11 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero
Friday 7/11 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
When William Holden burst upon the screen as a violinist-turned-boxer in Golden Boy, he exhibited an alchemical quality that was nine-tenths...
Friday 7/11 @ 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,...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Cheim & Read
The solidly enjoyable summer show I Won't Grow Up presents on-the-radar artists at their most childlike. Mark Fox's video Nutzilla catches...
Friday 7/11 @ IFC Center
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...
Friday 7/11 @ Ad Hoc Art
Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and...
Friday 7/11 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize...
Friday 7/11 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
Friday 7/11 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Friday 7/11 @ Schroeder Romero Gallery
Heeding George Orwell's declaration that sport "is war minus the shooting," the curators of The Main Event explore how love, death,...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Friday 7/11 @ Quad Cinema
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown...
Friday 7/11 @ Park Avenue Armory
German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann's original vision for Die Soldaten was to present the opera on 12 stages surrounding the audience....
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Rockefeller Center
In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector...
Friday 7/11 @ Ohio Theatre
Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance...
Friday 7/11 @ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...
Friday 7/11 @ Battery Maritime Building
From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David...
Friday 7/11 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery...
Friday 7/11 @ IFC Center
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Japan Society
The biggest festival of contemporary Japanese film in North America, JAPAN CUTS has a diverse lineup that reflects the country's struggle...
Friday 7/11 @ DR2 Theatre
Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into...
