Events on Tuesday, July 29

<em>Kind Hearts and Coronets </em>(1949)

Film

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Tuesday 7/29 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked Kind Hearts and Coronets as the sixth best British film, placing director Robert Hamer... 

<em>Filter</em> magazine presents <em>What It Is: What It Is</em>

Books: Reading

What It Is: What It Is

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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.... 

Wordless Music and LPR present Max Richter w/ Kathleen Supove and Jennifer Choi

Music: Classical

Max Richter

Tuesday 7/29 @ (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... 

ARMS (Record Release Party) w/ Ford & Fitzroy and Motel Motel

Music

ARMS

Tuesday 7/29 @ Union Pool

Toeing the line between upbeat emoting and ukulele-soaked rambles, ARMS (better known as Harlem Shakes guitarist, Flavorpill copy editor, and onstage... 

Special Event

Ignite NYC

Tuesday 7/29 @ M1-5

Geeks rule the world, and these days, it seems like everyone is trying to be one, getting all Asperger's on everything... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

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

Art

Francisco de Goya

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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>Crop Rotation </em>

Art

Crop Rotation

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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>The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac</em> and <em>The Young Ladies of...</em>

Performing Arts

Taylor Mac

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

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

Art

Os Gemeos

Tuesday 7/29 @ Deitch Projects

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

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 7/29 @ Paragraph

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

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

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

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

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 7/29 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

Bill Owens

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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>What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends</em>

Theatre

What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Tuesday 7/29 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Tuesday 7/29 @ Longacre Theatre

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

Good Wood 2008

Art

Good Wood 2008

Tuesday 7/29 @ 3rd Ward

Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its... 

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

Art

The World's Smallest Art Fair

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Tuesday 7/29 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

Christian Vincent

Tuesday 7/29 @ Mike Weiss Gallery

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

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

Film: Documentary

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<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

Tuesday 7/29 @ Bellwether Gallery

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

Battleworks Dance Company

Dance

Battleworks Dance Company

Tuesday 7/29 @ The Joyce Theater

Battleworks Dance Company's fifth-anniversary program would be exhausting for anyone other than Battleworks' remarkable dancers. Helmed by choreographer Robert Battle (who... 

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

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

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

Art

Recent Icelandic Art

Tuesday 7/29 @ Scandinavia House

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

<em>Twelve Ophelias</em>

Theatre

Twelve Ophelias

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture

Performing Arts

Hot!

Tuesday 7/29 @ Dixon Place

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

Afrika Bambaataa

Music: DJ

Afrika Bambaataa

Tuesday 7/29 @ APT

Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance... 

<em>JACK*%SS</em>

Art

JACK*%SS

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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,... 

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Theatre

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Tuesday 7/29 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

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

Art

Painting Now & Forever Part II

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

J.M.W. Turner

Art

J.M.W. Turner

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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>Constraction </em>

Art

Constraction

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Tuesday 7/29 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

I Won't Grow Up

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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,... 

Tetsumi Kudo

Art

Tetsumi Kudo

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Tuesday 7/29 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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... 

Gerald Dearing: <em>Indivisible</em>

Art: Photography

Gerald Dearing

Tuesday 7/29 @ Gallery Nine5

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

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Tuesday 7/29 @ 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....