Events on Saturday, July 5
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- Shanghai Vice
- @ Montauk Club
- The underground-party deviants of Dances of Vice return to their gothic, stained-glass Park Slope haunt tonight for their latest round of... View details »
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- Warm Up feat. Nublu Orchestra w/ So Percussion
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- This afternoon, Warm Up (a summer institution for the dance-music inclined) finally kicks off its first installment, curated by Nublu —... View details »
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- Passing Through
- @ BAM Rose Cinemas
- 1977 was the debut year of two underground LA classics, Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep and Larry Clark's Passing Through. Rediscovered... View details »
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- Music: Global
- Dengue Fever
- @ Central Park SummerStage
- Get ready for the best possible kind of culture shock as LA's Dengue Fever bring psychedelic Cambodian pop to Central Park.... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- RZA as Bobby Digital
- @ Webster Hall
- With so many professional titles — producer, actor, composer — studding his belt, you might forget that RZA is, first and... View details »
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- 9 Queens Chess Tournament
- @ Chelsea Art Museum
- Chess is often thought of as a game for the patient, strategic, and diesel-brained among us, but today's open-invitation tournament encourages... 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: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- @ American Airlines Theater
- Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its... View details »
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- Savage Grace
- @ IFC Center
- Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- It's Fun to Do Bad Things
- @ Moeller Snow Gallery
- Sure, Scandinavian metalheads, Klansmen, and inner-city gang members have violent ideologies, wear weird costumes, and are considered by most to be... View details »
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- Afro-Punk Festival
- @ Various locations
- While punk may be dead (buried beneath a pile of cheap studded belts, no doubt), Afro-punk is alive and pulsing with... View details »
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- Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
- @ Honey Space
- Straying from the austere, white-washed norm, Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson's Portrait of Sylvia Elena leads gallery patrons to subterranean levels... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Perfect Couple
- @ DR2 Theatre
- Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into... 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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- 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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- Beauty in Trouble
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,... 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: Opera
- Die Soldaten
- @ Park Avenue Armory
- German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann's original vision for Die Soldaten was to present the opera on 12 stages surrounding the audience.... 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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- Brick Lane
- @ Various locations
- With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen... 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
- 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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- 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
- Prisoner of the Crown
- @ Irish Repertory Theatre
- The Chelsea-based Irish Repertory Theatre company is devoted to Irish and Irish-American work. The New York premiere of Richard F. Stockton's... 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- @ IFC Center
- New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their... View details »
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- © MURAKAMI
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- When William Holden burst upon the screen as a violinist-turned-boxer in Golden Boy, he exhibited an alchemical quality that was nine-tenths... View details »
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- When Did You Last See Your Father?
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father?... 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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- Hospital 2008
- @ Axis Theatre
- For the ninth year running, Axis Company presents its fascinating serial drama Hospital, which annually explores the thoughts of a different... View details »
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- Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
- @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery
- The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Stitching
- @ Wild Project
- On the verge of a messy breakup, Abby finds herself pregnant. She and her boyfriend Stu proceed to hash out the... View details »
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- Getaway
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Lasanta
- @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
- Crime writer Raymond Chandler's dialogue, Mexican cantatas, and digital vaudeville all come into play in Sintroca's new production, Lasanta. In... View details »
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- 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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- Poets of the Paste
- @ Ad Hoc Art
- Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and... View details »
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- Finding Amanda
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- In his recent onscreen roles, Matthew Broderick bears the stunned expression of a former teen idol gone to pot. He shines... View details »
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- Playing the Building
- @ Battery Maritime Building
- From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David... View details »
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- Asian Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- Booming and busting economies, political upheaval, and a newfound global influence has created no shortage of Asian filmmakers. This year, Chinese... 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
- 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Trumbo
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck), but this extraordinary documentary about... View details »
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- Louise Bourgeois
- @ Guggenheim Museum
- After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- The Fall
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone.... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Stuck
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Stuck is inspired by one of those too-freakish-to-be-believed, real-life events that normally wends its way into a Law and Order episode... View details »
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- Laleh Khorramian
- @ Salon 94 Freemans
- I Without End, the title piece of Laleh Khorramian's second solo show at Salon 94 Freemans, is a three-channel video projection... View details »
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- What My Dad Gave Me
- @ Rockefeller Center
- In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector... 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
- 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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- 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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- BAST
- @ Brooklynite Gallery
- BAST is an elusive street artist whose presence is only confirmed by his work — created in the dark, and revealed... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- My Winnipeg
- @ IFC Center
- In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur... 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Shopping
- Brooklyn Flea
- @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. Every Saturday in Fort... View details »
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- The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
- @ Fuse Gallery
- Jason D'Aquino pulls from 13th-century illuminated manuscripts of Persian poetry and 18th-century England's enamel-on-ivory portraiture for his steadfastly contemporary, teensy-tiny drawings... View details »
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- Architecture of Authority
- @ Aperture Gallery
- In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross... View details »
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- Passing Strange
- @ The Belasco Theatre
- The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel... 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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- 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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- JAPAN CUTS
- @ Japan Society
- The biggest festival of contemporary Japanese film in North America, JAPAN CUTS has a diverse lineup that reflects the country's struggle... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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