Events on Wednesday, July 2
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Southpaw
After a few albums of post-punk manqué, Brooklyn trio Oxford Collapse shattered expectations with 2006's Remember the Night Parties. Sounding more...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Highline Ballroom
It would be easy to blame the language barrier for Vinicio Capossela's failure to attract a stateside audience to rival his...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
As half of anti-folk icons the Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson has spent her recording career playing indie rock with an irreverent,...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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,...
The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Various locations
Booming and busting economies, political upheaval, and a newfound global influence has created no shortage of Asian filmmakers. This year, Chinese...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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,...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Japan Society
The biggest festival of contemporary Japanese film in North America, JAPAN CUTS has a diverse lineup that reflects the country's struggle...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ DR2 Theatre
Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into...
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Landmark Sunshine
In his recent onscreen roles, Matthew Broderick bears the stunned expression of a former teen idol gone to pot. He shines...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ IFC Center
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Ad Hoc Art
Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...
Encounters at the End of the World
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Film Forum
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre
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Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Various locations
With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ Landmark Sunshine
The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck), but this extraordinary documentary about...
Wednesday 7/ 2 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
