Events on Friday, July 25

Black Kids w/ Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

Music

Black Kids

Friday 7/25 @ Santos Party House

It's been a whirlwind year for Jacksonville's Black Kids: after lighting up the blogosphere on the strength of a four-song demo,... 

The Bunker feat. Dandy Jack

Music: DJ

The Bunker feat. Dandy Jack

Friday 7/25 @ Public Assembly

Leave it to Santiago to put the booty back into Berlin. Chile and Germany have shared a pretty fantastic techno-exchange program... 

Trouble & Bass feat. the Bug & Warrior Queen

Music: DJ

The Bug & Warrior Queen

Friday 7/25 @ Love

Like so much music out of the UK, Kevin Martin's projects have always shown a strong Jamaican influence. Whether recording as... 

J-Live w/  						Homeboy Sandman

Music: Hip-Hop

J-Live

Friday 7/25 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

It's an all-too-common story in the world of hip-hop: an unusually gifted MC spends years recording a debut LP, only to... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Francisco de Goya: <em>Los Desastres de la Guerra</em>

Art

Francisco de Goya

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Crop Rotation </em>

Art

Crop Rotation

Friday 7/25 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery

Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize... 

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Friday 7/25 @ Longacre Theatre

It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... 

Max Beckmann: <em>Self-Portrait with Horn</em>

Art

Max Beckmann

Friday 7/25 @ Neue Galerie

With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a... 

BAM Animation Weekend

Festival: Performing Arts

BAM Animation

Friday 7/25 @ 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.... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Friday 7/25 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Friday 7/25 @ 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.... 

<em>From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art</em>

Art

Recent Icelandic Art

Friday 7/25 @ Scandinavia House

Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia... 

<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Constraction </em>

Art

Constraction

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Bill Owens

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Friday 7/25 @ 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,... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 7/25 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

<em>The World's Smallest Art Fair</em>

Art

The World's Smallest Art Fair

Friday 7/25 @ Anna Kustera Gallery

When art imitates art fairs, the layers of irony are just too rich. Anna Kustera has converted her spacious gallery into... 

<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Laurie Anderson: <em>Homeland</em>

Music

Laurie Anderson

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Gerald Dearing: <em>Indivisible</em>

Art: Photography

Gerald Dearing

Friday 7/25 @ Gallery Nine5

The recently opened Gallery Nine5 in Nolita presents photographs by Gerald Dearing, who was born in Normandy as WWII raged around... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Friday 7/25 @ Various locations

The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... 

<em>The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac</em> and <em>The Young Ladies of...</em>

Performing Arts

Taylor Mac

Friday 7/25 @ HERE Arts Center

As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes... 

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

David Byrne: <em>Playing the Building</em>

Art

Playing the Building

Friday 7/25 @ Battery Maritime Building

From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David... 

Christian Vincent: <em>Runyon Canyon</em>

Art

Christian Vincent

Friday 7/25 @ Mike Weiss Gallery

  The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they... 

<em>Twelve Ophelias</em>

Theatre

Twelve Ophelias

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Can I Help You?</em>

Theatre

Can I Help You?

Friday 7/25 @ The Bushwick Starr

In Can I Help You?, theatre group Exploding Moment has created a fascinating new dramatic structure, and the results are completely... 

<em>Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition </em>

Art: Photography

Click!

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever</em>

Art

If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever

Friday 7/25 @ Bellwether Gallery

So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows.... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Friday 7/25 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... 

<em>The Main Event</em>

Art

The Main Event

Friday 7/25 @ 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,... 

J.M.W. Turner

Art

J.M.W. Turner

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends</em>

Theatre

What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Friday 7/25 @ Various locations

Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Friday 7/25 @ Guggenheim Museum

After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... 

<em>A Man Named Pearl</em>

Film: Documentary

A Man Named Pearl

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Os Gemeos: <em>Too Far Too Close</em>

Art

Os Gemeos

Friday 7/25 @ Deitch Projects

Os Gemeos (the Twins) turn the walls of the world into sprawling krylon villages, incorporating whimsical imagery from their native São... 

<em>JACK*%SS</em>

Art

JACK*%SS

Friday 7/25 @ 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,... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Paul Fusco: <em>RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered</em>

Art: Photography

RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Painting Now & Forever Part II </em>

Art

Painting Now & Forever Part II

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Pilobolus

Dance

Pilobolus

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Friday 7/25 @ 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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 7/25 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>BASH'd </em>

Theatre

BASH'd

Friday 7/25 @ Zipper Factory Theater

The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005,... 

<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture

Performing Arts

Hot!

Friday 7/25 @ Dixon Place

Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,... 

<em>After Nature</em>

Art

After Nature

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Zhang Huan: <em>Blessings</em>

Art

Zhang Huan

Friday 7/25 @ PaceWildenstein

For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric... 

<em>Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired</em>

Film: Documentary

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Friday 7/25 @ Quad Cinema

Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown... 

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

Tetsumi Kudo

Art

Tetsumi Kudo

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Friday 7/25 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

<em>Unreal City</em>

Art

Unreal City

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

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Theatre

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Friday 7/25 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Friday 7/25 @ 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,... 

<em>Encounters at the End of the World</em>

Film: Documentary

Encounters at the End of the World

Friday 7/25 @ Film Forum

In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly)... 

Ice Factory 2008

Theatre

Ice Factory

Friday 7/25 @ Ohio Theatre

Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance... 

<em>I Won't Grow Up</em>

Art

I Won't Grow Up

Friday 7/25 @ 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... 

<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Friday 7/25 @ 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...