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- Music: Hip-Hop
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Big Daddy Kane
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Thursday Aug 14 (7–9pm) @ Marcus Garvey Park
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Since helping to introduce hi-top fades and velour jumpsuits to the game more than two decades ago, fast-paced "Raw" rapper and former Juice Crew member... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Deprogram
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Thursday Aug 14 (10pm) @ Love
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Chris Alker and Sushi Steve, responsible for the Lower East Side's weekly Stereo-Type parties, DJ and host this new monthly jam at basement-tastic venue Love,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Blonde Redhead
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Thursday Aug 14 (7pm) @ Hudson River Park, Pier 54
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Given Blonde Redhead lead singer Kazu Makino's tragic history with horses (she once had to undergo reconstructive facial surgery after a riding accident), it's a... View details »
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Matthew Dear
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Thursday Aug 14 (10pm) @ Santos Party House
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It's no secret that Flavorpill loves Ghostly International's marquee artist Matthew Dear: readers may recall a storming DJ set at a massive museum party we... View details »
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Theresa Andersson
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Thursday Aug 14 (7:30pm) @ Union Hall
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There is no form of sound that does not inspire Swedish chanteuse Theresa Andersson's new disc, Hummingbird, Go! The New Orleans-based prodigy holed up in... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
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Superheroes
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Thursday Aug 14 (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 »
- Art
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Thursday Aug 14 (noon–10pm) @ 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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Thursday Aug 14 (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 »
- Film
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The Wackness
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Thursday Aug 14 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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BASH'd
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Thursday Aug 14 (8pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater
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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 »
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Christian Vincent
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Thursday Aug 14 (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 »
- Film
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Tell No One
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Thursday Aug 14 @ 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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Thursday Aug 14 @ 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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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Été d'Amour
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Thursday Aug 14 (8pm–4am) @ Santos Party House
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Respect, the newest entry in the deluge of summer parties, was originally founded in Paris by three Frenchmen who booked everyone from Daft Punk and... View details »
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Tetsumi Kudo
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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Arctic Hysteria
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Thursday Aug 14 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
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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 »
- Film
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Baghead
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Thursday Aug 14 @ 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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Thursday Aug 14 @ 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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Thursday Aug 14 @ 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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Max Beckmann
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Thursday Aug 14 (11am–6pm) @ Neue Galerie
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With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a different brand of expressionism.... View details »
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Artist as Publisher
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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Thursday Aug 14 (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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Thursday Aug 14 (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 »
- Film
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Elegy
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Thursday Aug 14 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
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American Teen
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Thursday Aug 14 @ 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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Thursday Aug 14 (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 »
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