Events on Tuesday, July 8
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- More Flavor: Party
- Experimental Philosophy
- @ Union Hall
- Abstracted from centuries of formal discourse, modern philosophy now seems like a self-contained vessel, a detached amalgam of heady precepts that... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Crystal Antlers
- @ The Mercury Lounge
- Pitchfork-anointed hot new things Crystal Antlers take a free-form, orchestral approach, layering sizzling rockers with trippy, space-obsessed interludes. Taking a brief... View details »
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- Wet Hot American Summer
- @ McCarren Park Pool
- Written by The State and Stella alumni David Wain and Michael Showalter, Wet Hot American Summer appropriately kicks off the L... View details »
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- Reading
- A Chill Evening with DailyCandy
- @ McNally Robinson Booksellers
- Whether it's to express the inexpressible or just to be witty, everyone makes up words every once in a while. The... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film: Festival
- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Festival
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- @ Barbès
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- Art: Photography
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Crop Rotation
- @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
- Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- @ APT
- Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance... 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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- 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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- The Main Event
- @ Schroeder Romero Gallery
- Heeding George Orwell's declaration that sport "is war minus the shooting," the curators of The Main Event explore how love, death,... 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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- More Flavor: Fashion
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Taylor Mac
- @ HERE Arts Center
- As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- The Magic Lantern
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Entertainment technologies move forward mercilessly, pulling our imaginations along from one medium to the next like freights of raw ore. For... 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: Workshop
- Amma
- @ Manhattan Center
- Granted, pop culture has found a way to make "hugging it out" trendy — not to mention bro-tastic — but the... 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- I Won't Grow Up
- @ 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... 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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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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