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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Beth Orton
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Saturday July 12 (7:30pm) @ Prospect Park Bandshell
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While Beth Orton's fusion of electronic beats and indie folk earned her early accolades, her recently sparser productions have ushered in a new era of... View details »
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Sakuran
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Saturday July 12 (8:30pm) @ Japan Society
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Mika Ninagawa's debut feature, Sakuran plays like a rock 'n roll Memoirs of a Geisha with a bigger wardrobe budget. The film's certainly guilty of... View details »
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Last Year at Marienbad
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Saturday July 12 (2, 4:30, 6:50 & 9:15pm) @ BAM Rose Cinemas
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Director Alain Resnais' interrogations of time and memory compelled his reinvention of narrative, culminating in the legendarily enigmatic Last Year in Marienbad. An unnamed man... View details »
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Night of the Living Dead
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Saturday July 12 (8pm) @ Coney Island Museum
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George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) launched a thousand shambling, brain-devouring imitations and still remains a paragon of the zombie-apocalypse subgenre. Though the... View details »
- Music: DJ
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The Beach Party
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Saturday July 12 (8pm–3am) @ Water Taxi Beach
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Water — and plenty of it — is a major theme in NYC this summer. Water Taxi Beach takes advantage of its prime location and... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
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Saturday July 12 (4–8pm) @ Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park
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The fourth-annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival comes correct, with a lineup repping the old school and the new school, the East Coast and the West Coast.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Jump
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Saturday July 12 (2, 5 & 8pm) @ Union Square Theatre
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After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
- Art
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© MURAKAMI
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Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
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The Fall
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Saturday July 12 @ Landmark Sunshine
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In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
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Louise Bourgeois
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Saturday July 12 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum
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After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
- More Flavor: Fashion
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Superheroes
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Saturday July 12 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume and clothing. Superheroes delves... View details »
- Film
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Savage Grace
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Saturday July 12 @ IFC Center
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Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic... View details »
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
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Saturday July 12 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
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Stuck
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Saturday July 12 @ Angelika Film Center
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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 rather than a full-length... View details »
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Recent Icelandic Art
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Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House
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Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia House hosts work by... View details »
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Saturday July 12 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
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Playing the Building
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Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ Battery Maritime Building
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From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David Byrne creates a monumental... View details »
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Zhang Huan
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Saturday July 12 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein
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For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric Western world — must... View details »
- Film
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The Wackness
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Saturday July 12 @ Various locations
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
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My Winnipeg
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Saturday July 12 @ IFC Center
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In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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BASH'd
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Saturday July 12 (8pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater
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The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005, especially in Alberta. Responding... View details »
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Christian Vincent
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Saturday July 12 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery
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... e realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they seem to be parts... View details »
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Laleh Khorramian
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Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ Salon 94 Freemans
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I Without End, the title piece of Laleh Khorramian's second solo show at Salon 94 Freemans, is a three-channel video projection that reads like a... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Click!
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Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Photography has always been both celebrated and suspect for its popularity with so-called amateurs. The rise of do-it-yourself shutterbugs has given us vital, world-changing information... View details »
- Film
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Tell No One
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Saturday July 12 @ Various locations
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Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
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BAST
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Saturday July 12 (1–7pm) @ Brooklynite Gallery
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BAST is an elusive street artist whose presence is only confirmed by his work — created in the dark, and revealed in the light. For... View details »
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Poets of the Paste
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Saturday July 12 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art
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Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and takes an occasional swipe... View details »
- Performing Arts
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Hot!
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Saturday July 12 @ Dixon Place
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Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque, and comedy. It also... View details »
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Francisco de Goya
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Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho
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Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series of small etchings titled... View details »
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JACK*%SS
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Saturday July 12 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery
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When bug-eyed boys mace each other on MTV, they're jackasses, but when Chris Burden's studio assistant shoots him in the arm, it's art. The distinction... View details »
- Film: Festival
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JAPAN CUTS
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Saturday July 12 @ Japan Society
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The biggest festival of contemporary Japanese film in North America, JAPAN CUTS has a diverse lineup that reflects the country's struggle to form a cultural... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Bill Owens
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Saturday July 12 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery
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Famous for his eviscerating depiction of middle-class suburbia, photographer Bill Owens ventures out into America's proverbial backyard. Owens tours the churches, amusement parks, roadside vistas,... View details »
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J.M.W. Turner
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Saturday July 12 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective of J.M.W.... View details »
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Tetsumi Kudo
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Saturday July 12 (10am–6pm) @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
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The first US gallery exhibition of Tetsumi Kudo's bright but morbid sculptures introduces American audiences to one of contemporary art's lesser-known forerunners. Working in Japan... View details »
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Unreal City
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Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ Gallery Satori
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With the UN forecasting that 50% of the world's population will reside in mega-cities by 2050, Gallery Satori's inaugural exhibition, Unreal City, presents 12 artists... View details »
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Dalí: Painting and Film
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Saturday July 12 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For Dalí, film not only... View details »
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Arctic Hysteria
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Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
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In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage landscape serves as the... View details »
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Os Gemeos
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Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects
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Os Gemeos (the Twins) turn the walls of the world into sprawling krylon villages, incorporating whimsical imagery from their native São Paulo and Coney Island's... View details »
- Film
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The Exiles
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Saturday July 12 @ IFC Center
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Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the last four decades. In... View details »
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Eight Miles High
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Saturday July 12 @ Cinema Village
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German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — sleeping her way through a variety of scenes after running away... View details »
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Artist as Publisher
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Saturday July 12 (10–4pm) @ Center for Book Arts
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In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to publishing as a means... View details »
- Getaway
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Sol LeWitt
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Saturday July 12 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center
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In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
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Constraction
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Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects
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Steel your stomach for a dose of kinetic op-art before entering Constraction, an exhibition devoted to new modernist technique. Tauba Auerbach's 50/50 black-and-white tile sets... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Eminent Domain
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Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library
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When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
