Events on Tuesday, July 22
Tuesday 7/22 @ Club Midway
Singer/songwriter Ed Harcourt has released multiple albums and toured with well-known artists (R.E.M., Wilco, Snow Patrol), and yet, he has still...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Riverside Park South
The most frequent complaint about musicals is that the suspension of disbelief wears off as soon as someone breaks into song....
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid: Devil's Music
Tuesday 7/22 @ World Financial Center
Wizened old New York meets fresh-faced bedsit Putney in this unlikely combination of experimental musicians. With support from Kieran Hebden, Steve...
Ongoing Events
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Tuesday 7/22 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
The Philadelphia Story and Sylvia Scarlett
Tuesday 7/22 @ Symphony Space
Symphony Space's series Davis and Hepburn: Feisty and Fabulous is a summerlong tribute to a pair of original screen sirens: Bette...
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Gallery Nine5
The recently opened Gallery Nine5 in Nolita presents photographs by Gerald Dearing, who was born in Normandy as WWII raged around...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ PaceWildenstein
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric...
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Tuesday 7/22 @ Quad Cinema
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Rose Theater, Time Warner Center
Music and performance maverick Laurie Anderson presents her most political work to date as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. Featuring...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ HERE Arts Center
As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
The World of David Gordon Green
Tuesday 7/22 @ BAM
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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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,...
Encounters at the End of the World
Tuesday 7/22 @ Film Forum
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)...
Tuesday 7/22 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Angelika Film Center
In 1976, when black factory worker Pearl Fryar moved to all-white Bishopville, South Carolina, his neighbors didn't disguise their trepidation: "Black...
What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
Tuesday 7/22 @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row
The strange but affecting comedy What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends captures the awkward reality of relationships through...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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,...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ IFC Center
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life...
Tuesday 7/22 @ APT
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Tuesday 7/22 @ Bellwether Gallery
So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows....
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Anna Kustera Gallery
When art imitates art fairs, the layers of irony are just too rich. Anna Kustera has converted her spacious gallery into...
Tuesday 7/22 @ IFC Center
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 7/22 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Tuesday 7/22 @ IFC Center
Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the...
