Events on Friday, August 1
Friday 8/ 1 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Highlighting music, film, and performance art, Africanísimo! is an opportunity to situate and celebrate the cultural contributions of Africa within a...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Terminal 5
Wolf Parade's 2005 full-length debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, marked the arrival of a compelling new force in indie rock...
Friday 8/ 1 @ South Street Seaport
Part of the Rhymesayers collective, Brother Ali comes from a solid hip-hop family that includes Atmosphere and MF DOOM. He's slowly...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Automotive High School
The Rooftop Films series continues with Lynn Shelton's elegiac ode to the complexities of male friendship, My Effortless Brilliance (2008)....
Friday 8/ 1 @ Monkey Town
Williamsburg's preeminent multimedia restaurant, MonkeyTown, reopens tonight after nearly two months of renovations. To celebrate its grand re-opening, MT is partnering...
Ongoing Events
Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
Friday 8/ 1 @ North Cove Marina
With ever-increasing skyscrapers and gridlock traffic, it's easy to forget that we are surrounded by water. Get into the island-living mindset...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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,...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Jacobson Howard Gallery
Underworld have always had a strong visual presence, from Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's mesmerizing live shows to their packaging design,...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Anna Kustera Gallery
When art imitates art fairs, the layers of irony are just too rich. Anna Kustera has converted her spacious gallery into...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ The Joyce Theater
Never mind the well-trod theme of Larry Keigwin's latest dance opus, elements — the choreographer's work is anything but conventional. The...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Friday 8/ 1 @ HERE Arts Center
As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Vice Gallery
In addition to its publications on the newstands and booksheves, its web TV channel, and record label — Vice now unleashes...
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Friday 8/ 1 @ Bellwether Gallery
So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows....
Friday 8/ 1 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
The After Nature exhibition evokes a nightmare/fantasy of humankind's impending self-destruction and its aftermath. Sculptor Maurizio Cattelan imagines a horse's deadly...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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....
Friday 8/ 1 @ Ohio Theatre
Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Battery Maritime Building
From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David...
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Studio Museum in Harlem
Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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,...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 3rd Ward
Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its...
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Friday 8/ 1 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Central Park
With its roving outdoor staging, lack of sets, and mobile audience, New York Classical Theatre creates anything but traditional productions. This...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Friday 8/ 1 @ Quad Cinema
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Neue Galerie
With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a...
Friday 8/ 1 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Friday 8/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of...
Friday 8/ 1 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
