All events on Tuesday July 29

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Film
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Tuesday July 29 (6:50 & 9:15pm) @ BAM Rose Cinemas
In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked Kind Hearts and Coronets as the sixth best British film, placing director Robert Hamer alongside the elite likes... View details »
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Performing Arts: Dance
Battleworks Dance Company
Tuesday July 29 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
Battleworks Dance Company's fifth-anniversary program would be exhausting for anyone other than Battleworks' remarkable dancers. Helmed by choreographer Robert Battle (who got his start with... View details »
Battleworks Dance Company
Music: Rock/Pop
ARMS
Tuesday July 29 (9pm) @ Union Pool
Toeing the line between upbeat emoting and ukulele-soaked rambles, ARMS (better known as Harlem Shakes guitarist, Flavorpill copy editor, and onstage "O"-face aficionado Todd Goldstein)... View details »
ARMS
Music: Classical
Max Richter
Tuesday July 29 (7pm) @ (le) poisson rouge
German-born, UK-raised composer Max Richter makes "postclassical" music. Uniting piano and strings with electronic sounds and field recordings, his pop-length arrangements are both melancholy and... View details »
Max Richter
More Flavor: Discussion
Ignite NYC
Tuesday July 29 (7:30pm) @ M1-5
Free
Geeks rule the world, and these days, it seems like everyone is trying to be one, getting all Asperger's on everything from geopolitics to cupcakes.... View details »
Reading
What It Is: What It Is
Tuesday July 29 (8pm) @ The Delancey
Filter magazine and Write Bloody publishing house present this off-the-walls party for the launch of What It Is: What It Is. The book — part... View details »
What It Is: What It Is

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Tuesday July 29 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Tuesday July 29 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
Fuerzabruta
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday July 29 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
Slavic Soul Party!
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Tuesday July 29 (8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
Adding Machine
Music: DJ
Afrika Bambaataa
Tuesday July 29 (10pm) @ APT More times »
Giveaway
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
Afrika Bambaataa
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Tuesday July 29 (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
In the Heights
Art
Louise Bourgeois
Tuesday July 29 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
Louise Bourgeois
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Tuesday July 29 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume and clothing. Superheroes delves... View details »
Superheroes
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Tuesday July 29 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times »
The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Tuesday July 29 (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
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Tuesday July 29 @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Tuesday July 29 (10am–6pm) @ International Center of Photography More times »
Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese cultural norms. Riffing on... View details »
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Tuesday July 29 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Tuesday July 29 (7pm) @ Longacre Theatre More times »
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying spectacle — and, miraculously,... View details »
Boeing Boeing
Film
The Wackness
Tuesday July 29 @ Various locations More times »
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
The Wackness
Art
Christian Vincent
Tuesday July 29 (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
Film
Tell No One
Tuesday July 29 @ Various locations More times »
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
Tell No One
Film
Brideshead Revisited
Tuesday July 29 @ Various locations More times »
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
Brideshead Revisited
Performing Arts
Hot!
Tuesday July 29 @ Dixon Place More times »
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque, and comedy. It also... View details »
Hot!
Art
Francisco de Goya
Tuesday July 29 (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
Tuesday July 29 (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
Tuesday July 29 (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
Art
J.M.W. Turner
Tuesday July 29 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective of J.M.W.... View details »
J.M.W. Turner
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Tuesday July 29 @ 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
Tuesday July 29 (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
Tuesday July 29 (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
Tuesday July 29 (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
Os Gemeos
Tuesday July 29 (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
Film: Documentary
The Order of Myths
Tuesday July 29 @ IFC Center More times »
Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially segregated Mardi Gras tradition... View details »
The Order of Myths
Film
Baghead
Tuesday July 29 @ Various locations More times »
Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie about a pair of... View details »
Baghead
Film: Documentary
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Tuesday July 29 @ Quad Cinema More times »
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974), but to many... View details »
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Performing Arts: Theatre
Twelve Ophelias
Tuesday July 29 @ 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
Tuesday July 29 (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
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Taylor Mac
Tuesday July 29 (7:30pm) @ HERE Arts Center More times »
As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes up residence at HERE,... View details »
Taylor Mac
More Flavor: Discussion
Comic Book Club
Tuesday July 29 (8pm) @ The People's Improv Theater More times »
Giveaway
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily, the Comic Book Club... View details »
Comic Book Club
Art
Good Wood 2008
Tuesday July 29 @ 3rd Ward More times »
Free
Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its own unscuffed moment. Good... View details »
Good Wood 2008
Art
Constraction
Tuesday July 29 (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
Tuesday July 29 (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
Tuesday July 29 (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
Tuesday July 29 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Tuesday July 29 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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Performing Arts: Theatre
What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
Tuesday July 29 (8pm) @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
Giveaway
The strange but affecting comedy What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends captures the awkward reality of relationships through surreal actions and interactions.... View details »
What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Tuesday July 29 (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
Film: Documentary
American Teen
Tuesday July 29 @ Various locations More times »
The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana.... View details »
American Teen
Art
I Won't Grow Up
Tuesday July 29 (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
Tuesday July 29 (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