All events on Saturday July 05

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Music: Hip-Hop
RZA as Bobby Digital
Saturday July 5 (7pm) @ Webster Hall
Giveaway
With so many professional titles — producer, actor, composer — studding his belt, you might forget that RZA is, first and foremost, a master MC.... View details »
RZA as Bobby Digital
Performing Arts: Opera
Die Soldaten
Saturday July 5 (8pm) @ Park Avenue Armory More times »
German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann's original vision for Die Soldaten was to present the opera on 12 stages surrounding the audience. The grandiose work called... View details »
Die Soldaten
Film
Passing Through
Saturday July 5 (6:50pm) @ BAM Rose Cinemas
Giveaway
1977 was the debut year of two underground LA classics, Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep and Larry Clark's Passing Through. Rediscovered last year, both films... View details »
Passing Through
More Flavor: Party
Warm Up feat. Nublu Orchestra w/ So Percussion
Saturday July 5 (3–9pm) @ 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 — the discrete, musically eclectic... View details »
Warm Up feat. Nublu Orchestra w/ So Percussion
More Flavor: Party
Shanghai Vice
Saturday July 5 (9pm) @ 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 decadence. This time, they... View details »
Shanghai Vice
More Flavor: Competition
9 Queens Chess Tournament
Saturday July 5 (3–6pm) @ 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 New Yorkers of all... View details »
9 Queens Chess Tournament
Music: Global
Dengue Fever
Saturday July 5 (3–7pm) @ Central Park SummerStage
Free
Get ready for the best possible kind of culture shock as LA's Dengue Fever bring psychedelic Cambodian pop to Central Park. Lead singer Chhom Nimol... View details »
Dengue Fever

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Saturday July 5 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday July 5 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Saturday July 5 (7 & 10pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Saturday July 5 (2, 5 & 8pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
Jump
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Saturday July 5 (3 & 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
Art
© MURAKAMI
Saturday July 5 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
© MURAKAMI
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Saturday July 5 (2 & 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Saturday July 5 (2 & 8pm) @ The Belasco Theatre More times »
The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel Breaker) who flees his... View details »
Passing Strange
Film
The Fall
Saturday July 5 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
The Fall
Film
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Saturday July 5 @ IFC Center More times »
New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de... View details »
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Art
Louise Bourgeois
Saturday July 5 (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
Saturday July 5 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
Saturday July 5 (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
Film
Savage Grace
Saturday July 5 @ IFC Center More times »
Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic... View details »
Savage Grace
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Saturday July 5 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Film
Stuck
Saturday July 5 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
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 rather than a full-length... View details »
Stuck
Performing Arts: Theatre
Prisoner of the Crown
Saturday July 5 (3 & 8pm) @ Irish Repertory Theatre More times »
The Chelsea-based Irish Repertory Theatre company is devoted to Irish and Irish-American work. The New York premiere of Richard F. Stockton's Prisoner of the Crown... View details »
Prisoner of the Crown
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Saturday July 5 (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
Saturday July 5 @ 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
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Saturday July 5 (noon–6pm) @ Danziger Projects More times »
Free
During his nearly 15-year tenure at Look magazine, Paul Fusco developed an acute eye for human pathos. He documented the hard-up lives of Latinos in... View details »
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Saturday July 5 (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
Saturday July 5 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
Film
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Saturday July 5 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father? tackles potentially maudlin material... View details »
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Film
Beauty in Trouble
Saturday July 5 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather, and her husband has... View details »
Beauty in Trouble
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Saturday July 5 (2 & 8pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its subsequent film adaptation, hit... View details »
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Saturday July 5 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
Art: Photography
Architecture of Authority
Saturday July 5 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
Free
In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross examines everything from a... View details »
Architecture of Authority
Art
Playing the Building
Saturday July 5 (noon–6pm) @ Battery Maritime Building More times »
Free
From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David Byrne creates a monumental... View details »
Playing the Building
Art
Zhang Huan
Saturday July 5 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric Western world — must... View details »
Zhang Huan
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hospital 2008
Saturday July 5 (8pm) @ Axis Theatre More times »
For the ninth year running, Axis Company presents its fascinating serial drama Hospital, which annually explores the thoughts of a different man in a terminal... View details »
Hospital 2008
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Perfect Couple
Saturday July 5 (8pm) @ DR2 Theatre More times »
Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into undersized apartments, and move... View details »
A Perfect Couple
Film
The Wackness
Saturday July 5 @ 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
Film
Finding Amanda
Saturday July 5 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
In his recent onscreen roles, Matthew Broderick bears the stunned expression of a former teen idol gone to pot. He shines best in films like... View details »
Finding Amanda
Film
Brick Lane
Saturday July 5 @ Various locations More times »
With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
Brick Lane
Film
My Winnipeg
Saturday July 5 @ IFC Center More times »
Giveaway
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
My Winnipeg
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stitching
Saturday July 5 (2 & 8pm) @ Wild Project More times »
On the verge of a messy breakup, Abby finds herself pregnant. She and her boyfriend Stu proceed to hash out the myriad choices they must... View details »
Stitching
Performing Arts: Theatre
BASH'd
Saturday July 5 (8pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater More times »
The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005, especially in Alberta. Responding... View details »
BASH'd
Art
Christian Vincent
Saturday July 5 (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
Asian Film Festival
Saturday July 5 @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
Booming and busting economies, political upheaval, and a newfound global influence has created no shortage of Asian filmmakers. This year, Chinese director Feng Xiaogang makes... View details »
Asian Film Festival
Art: Photography
It's Fun to Do Bad Things
Saturday July 5 (11am–7pm) @ Moeller Snow Gallery More times »
Free
Sure, Scandinavian metalheads, Klansmen, and inner-city gang members have violent ideologies, wear weird costumes, and are considered by most to be real-life monsters, but even... View details »
It's Fun to Do Bad Things
Art
Laleh Khorramian
Saturday July 5 (11am–6pm) @ Salon 94 Freemans More times »
Free
I Without End, the title piece of Laleh Khorramian's second solo show at Salon 94 Freemans, is a three-channel video projection that reads like a... View details »
Laleh Khorramian
Art
The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
Saturday July 5 (3–8pm) @ Fuse Gallery More times »
Free
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 on the inside of... View details »
The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
Art: Photography
Click!
Saturday July 5 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
Photography has always been both celebrated and suspect for its popularity with so-called amateurs. The rise of do-it-yourself shutterbugs has given us vital, world-changing information... View details »
Click!
Film: Documentary
Encounters at the End of the World
Saturday July 5 @ Film Forum More times »
Giveaway
In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly) sidesteps the hot topic... View details »
Encounters at the End of the World
Film
Tell No One
Saturday July 5 @ 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: Documentary
Trumbo
Saturday July 5 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck), but this extraordinary documentary about screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's legendary... View details »
Trumbo
Art
BAST
Saturday July 5 (1–7pm) @ Brooklynite Gallery More times »
Free
BAST is an elusive street artist whose presence is only confirmed by his work — created in the dark, and revealed in the light. For... View details »
BAST
Art
Poets of the Paste
Saturday July 5 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
Free
Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and takes an occasional swipe... View details »
Poets of the Paste
Performing Arts
Hot!
Saturday July 5 @ 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
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
Saturday July 5 (11am–6pm) @ Honey Space More times »
Free
Straying from the austere, white-washed norm, Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson's Portrait of Sylvia Elena leads gallery patrons to subterranean levels of mourning. The ground... View details »
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
Art
Francisco de Goya
Saturday July 5 (11am–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
Saturday July 5 (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
Film: Festival
JAPAN CUTS
Saturday July 5 @ Japan Society More times »
The biggest festival of contemporary Japanese film in North America, JAPAN CUTS has a diverse lineup that reflects the country's struggle to form a cultural... View details »
JAPAN CUTS
Performing Arts: Dance
Pilobolus
Saturday July 5 (2 & 8pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
It wouldn't be a sultry summer in the city without Pilobolus emoting some high heat from the Joyce stage. The much-anticipated new season from the... View details »
Pilobolus
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
Saturday July 5 (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
Saturday July 5 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lasanta
Saturday July 5 (8pm) @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church More times »
Crime writer Raymond Chandler's dialogue, Mexican cantatas, and digital vaudeville all come into play in Sintroca's new production, Lasanta. In keeping with the Ontological-Hysteric... View details »
Lasanta
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Saturday July 5 @ 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
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Saturday July 5 (10am–6pm) @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery More times »
Free
The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, bu­t you can still see it, sort of. American gallery owner Gavin Brown and... View details »
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Art
Tetsumi Kudo
Saturday July 5 (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
Film: Festival
William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero
Saturday July 5 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
When William Holden burst upon the screen as a violinist-turned-boxer in Golden Boy, he exhibited an alchemical quality that was nine-tenths bonhomie and one-tenth brooding... View details »
William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero
Art
Unreal City
Saturday July 5 (noon–6pm) @ Gallery Satori More times »
Free
With the UN forecasting that 50% of the world's population will reside in mega-cities by 2050, Gallery Satori's inaugural exhibition, Unreal City, presents 12 artists... View details »
Unreal City
Art
Dalí: Painting and Film
Saturday July 5 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For Dalí, film not only... View details »
Dalí: Painting and Film
Art
Arctic Hysteria
Saturday July 5 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage landscape serves as the... View details »
Arctic Hysteria
Art
Os Gemeos
Saturday July 5 (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
More Flavor: Festival
Afro-Punk Festival
Saturday July 5 @ Various locations More times »
While punk may be dead (buried beneath a pile of cheap studded belts, no doubt), Afro-punk is alive and pulsing with the same rebellious, energetic... View details »
Afro-Punk Festival
Art
What My Dad Gave Me
Saturday July 5 @ Rockefeller Center More times »
Free
In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector Set, a box of... View details »
What My Dad Gave Me
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Saturday July 5 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center More times »
In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
Sol LeWitt
Art
Constraction
Saturday July 5 (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
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Saturday July 5 (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
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Saturday July 5 (11am–6pm) @ 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
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Saturday July 5 (noon, 1, 3 & 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