Events on Thursday, July 24
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- Music: DJ
- Diplo
- @ Le Royale
- Flavorpill's love affair with Diplo began years ago, when we had the baile-funk boy spin at our other museum party. Well,... View details »
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- Music: Folk/Country
- Akron/Family
- @ Castle Clinton
- Akron/Family, a trio of ethereal, hirsute fellows from Pennsylvania via Brooklyn, play crackling alt-folk punctuated by surprising acoustic interludes — a... View details »
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- Music: Soul/R&B
- Smokey Robinson
- @ Asser Levy Park Amphitheater
- Rod Stewart owes him his phrasing. Boy bands owe him their steps. And thanks to Smokey's "Quiet Storm" phase, some of... View details »
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- I Won't Grow Up
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- @ Union Square Theatre
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... View details »
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- Max Beckmann
- @ Neue Galerie
- With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a... View details »
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- Artist as Publisher
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- @ 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... View details »
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- Recent Icelandic Art
- @ Scandinavia House
- Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Twelve Ophelias
- @ 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... View details »
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- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- BASH'd
- @ Zipper Factory Theater
- The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005,... View details »
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- After Nature
- @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
- 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Encounters at the End of the World
- @ Film Forum
- In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)... View details »
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- Francisco de Goya
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Can I Help You?
- @ The Bushwick Starr
- In Can I Help You?, theatre group Exploding Moment has created a fascinating new dramatic structure, and the results are completely... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
- @ 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... View details »
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- Hot!
- @ Dixon Place
- Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,... View details »
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- The Main Event
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Baghead
- @ Various locations
- Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie... View details »
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- Tetsumi Kudo
- @ 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... View details »
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- @ Lyceum Theatre
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Click!
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- @ Various locations
- The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school... View details »
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- Painting Now & Forever Part II
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Taylor Mac
- @ HERE Arts Center
- As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- @ 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... View details »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Wackness
- @ Various locations
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... View details »
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- Dalí: Painting and Film
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- @ Longacre Theatre
- It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... View details »
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- Constraction
- @ 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... View details »
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- Christian Vincent
- @ Mike Weiss Gallery
- The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Été d'Amour
- @ Santos Party House
- Respect, the newest entry in the deluge of summer parties, was originally founded in Paris by three Frenchmen who booked everyone... View details »
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- Kehinde Wiley
- @ Studio Museum in Harlem
- Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood... View details »
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- Brideshead Revisited
- @ Various locations
- For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format.... View details »
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- Unreal City
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- A Man Named Pearl
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Bill Owens
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Laurie Anderson
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- BAM Animation
- @ BAM Rose Cinemas
- With Pixar's Wall-E pushing for a Best Picture Oscar bid this year, animation is really getting its spot in the sun.... View details »
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- Crop Rotation
- @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
- Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize... View details »
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- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ice Factory
- @ Ohio Theatre
- Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance... View details »
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- Sol LeWitt
- @ 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,... View details »
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- South Pacific
- @ 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... View details »
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- J.M.W. Turner
- @ 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... View details »
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- Os Gemeos
- @ Deitch Projects
- Os Gemeos (the Twins) turn the walls of the world into sprawling krylon villages, incorporating whimsical imagery from their native São... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- @ Minetta Lane Theatre
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... View details »
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- Zhang Huan
- @ PaceWildenstein
- For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Pilobolus
- @ The Joyce Theater
- It wouldn't be a sultry summer in the city without Pilobolus emoting some high heat from the Joyce stage. The much-anticipated... View details »
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- Arctic Hysteria
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage... View details »
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- Tell No One
- @ Various locations
- Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... View details »
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- JACK*%SS
- @ Susan Inglett Gallery
- When bug-eyed boys mace each other on MTV, they're jackasses, but when Chris Burden's studio assistant shoots him in the arm,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Apple Sisters
- @ The People's Improv Theater
- Fireside chats ain't got nothing on the Apple Sisters. Spoofing WWII-era radio programs, the Apple girls sing and dance their way... View details »
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- The World's Smallest Art Fair
- @ Anna Kustera Gallery
- When art imitates art fairs, the layers of irony are just too rich. Anna Kustera has converted her spacious gallery into... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- @ IFC Center
- Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially... View details »
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- Gerald Dearing
- @ Gallery Nine5
- The recently opened Gallery Nine5 in Nolita presents photographs by Gerald Dearing, who was born in Normandy as WWII raged around... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
- @ Quad Cinema
- Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown... View details »
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- If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
- @ Bellwether Gallery
- So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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