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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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