All events on Saturday July 19

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Music: Festival
Siren Festival
Saturday July 19 (noon–9pm) @ Coney Island
Free
For one special day each summer, the Village Voice cordially transforms the bizarro-Poseidean freak show that is Coney Island into something just as strange, but... View details »
Siren Festival
More Flavor: Party
Warm Up feat. Danton Eepron
Saturday July 19 (3–9pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
This week's Warm Up provides yet another reason to hop a tugboat to Long Island City (as if you needed one). Curated by style-for-the-people outpost... View details »
Warm Up feat. Danton Eepron
Music: Rock/Pop
Tigercity w/ Murder Mystery
Saturday July 19 (9pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
Giveaway
Assuming you aren't entirely wiped from a day spent staked on Coney Island asphalt (going home is so not rock 'n roll!), head to the... View details »
Tigercity w/ Murder Mystery
Music: Electronic
Matmos
Saturday July 19 (7pm) @ (le) poisson rouge
Matmos are sort of like the high schooler that wiggles in a plastic bag to convey the intricacies of Hamlet. Since 1998's quasi-objects LP,... View details »
Matmos
More Flavor: Party
Carmina Soul Part Two feat. Wunmi
Saturday July 19 (11pm) @ Old American Can Factory
If you didn't get out of town for the weekend, no worries — the Afrokinetics crew bring their exotic broken-beat soul train to the courtyard... View details »
Carmina Soul Part Two feat. Wunmi
More Flavor: Party
Backyard Couture Garden Party
Saturday July 19 (5–11pm) @ Harriet's Alter Ego
Free
If you and your friends have backyard beer-pong BBQs, like, every weekend, it might be time to change things up. Fresh-to-death Flatbush boutique Harriet's Alter... View details »
Backyard Couture Garden Party
Music: DJ
The Black Ghosts
Saturday July 19 (10pm) @ Studio B
If Simon Lord's voice sounds familiar, it's because the soulful Brit, before leading the Black Ghosts, held down vocal duties in the earliest incarnation of... View details »
The Black Ghosts
Performing Arts: Theatre
What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
Saturday July 19 (8pm) @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
Giveaway
The strange but affecting comedy What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends captures the awkward reality of relationships through surreal actions and interactions.... View details »
What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Saturday July 19 (2 & 8pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday July 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Saturday July 19 (7 & 10pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Saturday July 19 (2, 5 & 8pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
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 »
Jump
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Saturday July 19 (3 & 8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
Adding Machine
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Saturday July 19 (2 & 8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
In the Heights
Art
Louise Bourgeois
Saturday July 19 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
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 »
Louise Bourgeois
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Saturday July 19 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Superheroes
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Saturday July 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times »
The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Film
Savage Grace
Saturday July 19 @ IFC Center More times »
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 »
Savage Grace
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Saturday July 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
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 »
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Saturday July 19 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House More times »
Free
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 »
Recent Icelandic Art
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Saturday July 19 @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph
Art: Photography
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Saturday July 19 (noon–6pm) @ Danziger Projects More times »
Free
During his nearly 15-year tenure at Look magazine, Paul Fusco developed an acute eye for human pathos. He documented the hard-up lives of Latinos in... View details »
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Saturday July 19 (10am–6pm) @ International Center of Photography More times »
Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese cultural norms. Riffing on... View details »
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Saturday July 19 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Saturday July 19 (2 & 8pm) @ Longacre Theatre More times »
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying spectacle — and, miraculously,... View details »
Boeing Boeing
Art: Photography
Architecture of Authority
Saturday July 19 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
Free
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross examines everything from a... View details »
Architecture of Authority
Art
After Nature
Saturday July 19 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
The After Nature exhibition evokes a nightmare/fantasy of humankind's impending self-destruction and its aftermath. Sculptor Maurizio Cattelan imagines a horse's deadly collision with the museum... View details »
After Nature
Art
Playing the Building
Saturday July 19 (noon–6pm) @ Battery Maritime Building More times »
Free
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 »
Playing the Building
Art
Zhang Huan
Saturday July 19 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
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 »
Zhang Huan
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hospital 2008
Saturday July 19 (8pm) @ Axis Theatre More times »
For the ninth year running, Axis Company presents its fascinating serial drama Hospital, which annually explores the thoughts of a different man in a terminal... View details »
Hospital 2008
Film
The Wackness
Saturday July 19 @ Various locations More times »
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 »
The Wackness
Film
My Winnipeg
Saturday July 19 @ IFC Center More times »
Giveaway
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 »
My Winnipeg
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stitching
Saturday July 19 (2 & 8pm) @ Wild Project More times »
On the verge of a messy breakup, Abby finds herself pregnant. She and her boyfriend Stu proceed to hash out the myriad choices they must... View details »
Stitching
Performing Arts: Theatre
BASH'd
Saturday July 19 (8pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater More times »
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 »
BASH'd
Art
Christian Vincent
Saturday July 19 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery More times »
Free
... 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 »
Christian Vincent
Art: Photography
Click!
Saturday July 19 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Click!
Film: Documentary
Encounters at the End of the World
Saturday July 19 @ Film Forum More times »
Giveaway
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly) sidesteps the hot topic... View details »
Encounters at the End of the World
Film
Tell No One
Saturday July 19 @ Various locations More times »
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 »
Tell No One
Performing Arts
Hot!
Saturday July 19 @ Dixon Place More times »
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 »
Hot!
Art
Francisco de Goya
Saturday July 19 (11am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho More times »
Free
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 »
Francisco de Goya
Art
JACK*%SS
Saturday July 19 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
JACK*%SS
Performing Arts: Dance
Pilobolus
Saturday July 19 (2 & 8pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
It wouldn't be a sultry summer in the city without Pilobolus emoting some high heat from the Joyce stage. The much-anticipated new season from the... View details »
Pilobolus
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
Saturday July 19 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Bill Owens
Art
J.M.W. Turner
Saturday July 19 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
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 »
J.M.W. Turner
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Saturday July 19 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
Free
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Art
Tetsumi Kudo
Saturday July 19 (10am–6pm) @ Andrea Rosen Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Tetsumi Kudo
Art
The World's Smallest Art Fair
Saturday July 19 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Kustera Gallery More times »
Free
When art imitates art fairs, the layers of irony are just too rich. Anna Kustera has converted her spacious gallery into an information center designed... View details »
The World's Smallest Art Fair
Art
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Saturday July 19 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
Free
So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows. Bellwether exhibits remembrances of... View details »
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Art
Unreal City
Saturday July 19 (noon–6pm) @ Gallery Satori More times »
Free
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 »
Unreal City
Art
Dalí: Painting and Film
Saturday July 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
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 »
Dalí: Painting and Film
Art
Arctic Hysteria
Saturday July 19 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
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 »
Arctic Hysteria
Performing Arts: Dance
Nélida Tirado
Saturday July 19 (8pm) @ Joyce Soho More times »
Duende, the spirit of flamenco, is rarely bestowed upon dancers lacking a Spanish birthright. But the powers that be made an exception for Bronx-born Nélida... View details »
Nélida Tirado
Art
Os Gemeos
Saturday July 19 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Os Gemeos
Performing Arts: Theatre
Ice Factory
Saturday July 19 (7pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance works go up over... View details »
Ice Factory
Film
The Exiles
Saturday July 19 @ IFC Center More times »
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 »
The Exiles
Film: Documentary
A Man Named Pearl
Saturday July 19 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
In 1976, when black factory worker Pearl Fryar moved to all-white Bishopville, South Carolina, his neighbors didn't disguise their trepidation: "Black people don't keep up... View details »
A Man Named Pearl
Film: Documentary
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Saturday July 19 @ Quad Cinema More times »
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974), but to many... View details »
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Film
Take
Saturday July 19 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
Take begins with two close-ups: that of Ana (Minnie Driver), her face drawn and mouth grim; and Saul (Jeremy Renner), wearing handcuffs, his eyes clouded.... View details »
Take
Film
Felon
Saturday July 19 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
Muscular and smart, Felon takes a long, hard look at many men's worst fear — incarceration — and actually comes up with something new to... View details »
Performing Arts: Theatre
Neal Medlyn
Saturday July 19 (8 & 11pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
Giveaway
In Neal Medlyn's fourth musical parody, an off-kilter androgynous romp arranged by Obie-winner Kenny Mellman, the performer channels the artist formerly known as "The Artist... View details »
Neal Medlyn
Performing Arts: Theatre
Twelve Ophelias
Saturday July 19 @ McCarren Park Pool More times »
Free
Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to overcome the past and... View details »
Twelve Ophelias
Film
The World of David Gordon Green
Saturday July 19 @ BAM More times »
David Gordon Green's talent for creating moody, coming-of-age dramas has drawn universal acclaim since his feature-length debut George Washington (2000). To date, the young director... View details »
The World of David Gordon Green
Performing Arts: Theatre
Can I Help You?
Saturday July 19 (8pm) @ The Bushwick Starr More times »
In Can I Help You?, theatre group Exploding Moment has created a fascinating new dramatic structure, and the results are completely chilling. Two actors sit... View details »
Can I Help You?
Art
Artist as Publisher
Saturday July 19 (10–4pm) @ Center for Book Arts More times »
Free
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 »
Artist as Publisher
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Taylor Mac
Saturday July 19 (7:30pm) @ HERE Arts Center More times »
As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes up residence at HERE,... View details »
Taylor Mac
Art
What My Dad Gave Me
Saturday July 19 @ Rockefeller Center More times »
Free
In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector Set, a box of... View details »
What My Dad Gave Me
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Saturday July 19 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center More times »
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 »
Sol LeWitt
Performing Arts: Dance
Dance Out!
Saturday July 19 @ Parks throughout NYC More times »
Free
The Joyce Theater teams up with City Parks Foundation for the Dance Out! festival, as the city's green space provides rich terrain for three international... View details »
Art
Constraction
Saturday July 19 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Constraction
Art: Photography
Gerald Dearing
Saturday July 19 (11am–7pm) @ Gallery Nine5 More times »
Free
The recently opened Gallery Nine5 in Nolita presents photographs by Gerald Dearing, who was born in Normandy as WWII raged around him. He immigrated to... View details »
Gerald Dearing
Art
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Saturday July 19 (10am–6pm) @ Greene Naftali More times »
Free
A return to good old-fashioned painting, this 42-artist group exhibition is a welcome respite from the predictable deluge of overly conceptual art. Merlin Carpenter's Gallows... View details »
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Art
Kehinde Wiley
Saturday July 19 (10am–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem More times »
Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
Kehinde Wiley
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Saturday July 19 (3 & 8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
[title of show]
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Saturday July 19 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
Free
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 »
Eminent Domain
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Saturday July 19 (noon, 1, 3 & 4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
Free
Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
The Science Barge