All events on Wednesday August 13
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Wednesday Aug 13 (7pm) @ Socrates Sculpture Park
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Federico Fellini opens his kaleidoscopic self-portrait 8 ½ with a metaphor for the creation-challenged artist: alter ego Guido (a bello Marcello Mastroianni) suffocating in his... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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The Melvins
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Wednesday Aug 13 (9–11pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
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Sludge-metal pioneers and left-coast heroes the Melvins have released more than 25 albums in about as many years. Their new LP, Nude with Boots, is... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Bodies of Water
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Wednesday Aug 13 (8:30pm) @ Mercury Lounge
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LA's Bodies of Water make life-affirming indie pop, a happy-go-lucky mashup of Arcade Fire's heart-thumping arrangements, the Polyphonic Spree's communal euphoria, and the Go! Team's... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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An Homage to Joel Dorn
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Wednesday Aug 13 (7pm) @ Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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Joel Dorn's death in December of 2007 left an unfillable void in the world of adventurous music production. For this salute to a one-of-a-kind record... View details »
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Daniel Mendelsohn
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Wednesday Aug 13 (7pm) @ Barnes & Noble
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Listen up as critic and memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn (The Lost) reads from How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection... View details »
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Tommy Chong
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Wednesday Aug 13 (12:30pm) @ Bryant Park
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Thirty years after Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke (1978) codified stoner humor, the sensibility lingers — though it's now deployed more for benign camaraderie... View details »
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Louise Bourgeois
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Wednesday Aug 13 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum
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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 »
- More Flavor: Fashion
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Superheroes
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Wednesday Aug 13 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 »
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
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Wednesday Aug 13 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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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 »
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Recent Icelandic Art
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Wednesday Aug 13 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House
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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 »
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Wednesday Aug 13 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 »
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After Nature
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Wednesday Aug 13 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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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 collision with the museum... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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Hotel Pool
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Wednesday Aug 13 (8pm) @ Swimming Pool
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Philadelphia's heady Headlong Dance Theater, a collaboration between David Brick, Andrew Simonet, and Amy Smith, is known for transforming the most antiseptic locale into enchanted... View details »
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The Wackness
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Wednesday Aug 13 @ Various locations
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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 »
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Christian Vincent
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Wednesday Aug 13 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery
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... 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 »
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Tell No One
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Wednesday Aug 13 @ Various locations
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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 »
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Hot!
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Wednesday Aug 13 @ Dixon Place
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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 »
- Art: Photography
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Bill Owens
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Wednesday Aug 13 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery
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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 »
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J.M.W. Turner
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Wednesday Aug 13 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 »
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Tetsumi Kudo
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Wednesday Aug 13 (10am–6pm) @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
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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 »
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Dalí: Painting and Film
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Wednesday Aug 13 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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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 »
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Baghead
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Wednesday Aug 13 @ Various locations
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Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie about a pair of... View details »
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Sixty Six
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Wednesday Aug 13 @ Various locations
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It's the summer of '66 and all of England is agog about the World Cup. That is, all except for 12-year-old, bespectacled Bernie, who's been... View details »
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Bottle Shock
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Wednesday Aug 13 @ Various locations
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In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small... View details »
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Artist as Publisher
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Wednesday Aug 13 (10–6pm) @ Center for Book Arts
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In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to publishing as a means... View details »
- Getaway
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Sol LeWitt
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Wednesday Aug 13 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center
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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 »
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Crop Rotation
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Wednesday Aug 13 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
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Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize waste, be it theoretical... View details »
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Kehinde Wiley
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Wednesday Aug 13 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem
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Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
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Beautiful Burnout
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Wednesday Aug 13 (10am–6pm) @ Jacobson Howard Gallery
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Underworld have always had a strong visual presence, from Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's mesmerizing live shows to their packaging design, videos, and multimedia installations.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Hair
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Wednesday Aug 13 (8pm) @ Delacorte Theater
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As you sing Hair's infectious songs on your way out of Central Park, you'll encounter other ecstatic fans. Impromptu dance sessions will occur; strangers will... View details »
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Elegy
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Wednesday Aug 13 @ Various locations
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Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip Roth short story. Renowned... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Eminent Domain
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Wednesday Aug 13 (11am–7:30pm) @ New York Public Library
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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 »
- Film: Documentary
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American Teen
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Wednesday Aug 13 @ Various locations
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The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana.... View details »
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I Won't Grow Up
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Wednesday Aug 13 (10am–6pm) @ Cheim & Read
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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 a ginormous monocled Mr.... View details »
