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Music: Folk/Country
Punch Brothers
Wednesday July 23 (7pm) @ Rockefeller Park
Free
Many reviews of former Nickel Creek mandolinist Chris Thile's last solo album, How to Grow a Woman from the Ground, noted that all five of... View details »
Punch Brothers
More Flavor: Discussion
Darin Strauss and A.M. Homes
Wednesday July 23 (7pm) @ Housing Works UBC
Free
Both Darin Strauss and A.M. Homes break from their writing styles in their most recent books. Strauss' preceding novels, Chang and Eng and The Real... View details »
Darin Strauss and A.M. Homes
Reading
Joyce Carol Oates
Wednesday July 23 (12:30–1:45pm) @ Bryant Park
Free
Living lit-legend Joyce Carol Oates reads from her latest novel, My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike, in Bryant Park today. The... View details »
Joyce Carol Oates

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Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Wednesday July 23 (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
Art: Photography
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Wednesday July 23 (11am–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
Zhang Huan
Wednesday July 23 (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
Art
Christian Vincent
Wednesday July 23 (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
Francisco de Goya
Wednesday July 23 (10am–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
Wednesday July 23 (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
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
Wednesday July 23 (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
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Wednesday July 23 @ 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
Wednesday July 23 (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
Wednesday July 23 (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
Wednesday July 23 (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
Wednesday July 23 (11am–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
The Main Event
Wednesday July 23 (11am–6pm) @ Schroeder Romero Gallery More times »
Free
Heeding George Orwell's declaration that sport "is war minus the shooting," the curators of The Main Event explore how love, death, and domination are enacted... View details »
The Main Event
Art
Os Gemeos
Wednesday July 23 (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
Twelve Ophelias
Wednesday July 23 @ 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
Art
Artist as Publisher
Wednesday July 23 (10–6pm) @ 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
Art
Constraction
Wednesday July 23 (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
Wednesday July 23 (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
Crop Rotation
Wednesday July 23 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
Free
Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize waste, be it theoretical... View details »
Crop Rotation
Art
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Wednesday July 23 (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: Photography
Eminent Domain
Wednesday July 23 (11am–7:30pm) @ 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
Art
I Won't Grow Up
Wednesday July 23 (10am–6pm) @ Cheim & Read More times »
Free
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 a ginormous monocled Mr.... View details »
I Won't Grow Up
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Wednesday July 23 (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