Events on Wednesday, July 16
Wednesday 7/16 @ Bryant Park
Michael Ian Black, comedian and self-proclaimed cable-television "fundit," can now add author to his list of credits. Today, as part of...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Terminal 5
As a songwriter, Vince Clarke was the driving force behind Depeche Mode's early seminal singles and would later write ebullient camp...
Who Really Chooses the President?
Wednesday 7/16 @ Museum of the City of New York
Even the most altruistic among us has a nagging cynic in back of his head, reminding him that power brokers, lobbyists,...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Highline Ballroom
The appeal of folkie Jay Brannan's brazen, over-the-top emoting is somewhat inexplicable, because despite the slick packaging, the singer's unapologetic embrace...
Wednesday 7/16 @ BAM
Although F.W. Murnau's moody silent-film masterpiece Sunrise received multiple Academy Awards, it was released only days before the opening of Warner...
Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar
Wednesday 7/16 @ Drom
The alternately frenzied and melancholic gypsy brass music of the Balkans has become increasingly popular in the past few years, influencing...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Cinema Village
German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — sleeping her way through a variety of...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Ohio Theatre
Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Angelika Film Center
Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Wednesday 7/16 @ Bellwether Gallery
So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows....
Wednesday 7/16 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Anna Kustera Gallery
When art imitates art fairs, the layers of irony are just too rich. Anna Kustera has converted her spacious gallery into...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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,...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Rockefeller Center
In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ IFC Center
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ IFC Center
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur...
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Wednesday 7/16 @ Quad Cinema
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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,...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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?...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Imperial Theatre
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Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ WaMu Theater at MSG
It's true that comedy doesn't always survive its trips overseas (Coupling, anyone?), but before Steve Carell stepped into the awkward 'n...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ IFC Center
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize...
Wednesday 7/16 @ IFC Center
Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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,...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Parks throughout NYC
The Joyce Theater teams up with City Parks Foundation for the Dance Out! festival, as the city's green space provides rich...
Wednesday 7/16 @ HERE Arts Center
As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Aperture Gallery
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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,...
Encounters at the End of the World
Wednesday 7/16 @ Film Forum
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...
