All events on Saturday August 16
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- Performing Arts: Dance
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Fräulein Maria
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Saturday Aug 16 (3 & 7:30pm) @ Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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Doug Elkins' Fräulein Maria moves uptown from Joe's Pub to Lincoln Center Out of Doors, with an expanded version of its dance-oriented riff on The... View details »
- Film
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Carmen Jones (1954)
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Saturday Aug 16 (2pm) @ Countee Cullen Branch, New York Public Library
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Otto Preminger's film version of Oscar Hammerstein II's Broadway reinterpretation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen was a milestone in African-American history. Set in a World... View details »
- Music: Experimental
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Battles
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Saturday Aug 16 (3–7pm) @ Central Park SummerStage
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Steeped in complex rhythms and esoteric asides, Battles are destined to strike the world as difficult. Featuring an all-star lineup of math-rock vets (including John... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Gaslight Anthem
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Saturday Aug 16 (7pm) @ Knitting Factory
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Playing hearty pop-punk transposed from the pre-emo age, Jerseyites the Gaslight Anthem draw as much from boot-clad badasses like the Dropkick Murphys as they do... View details »
- More Flavor: Tour
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Hey, I'm Walkin' Here!
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Saturday Aug 16 (6pm) @ 242nd St-Van Cortlandt Park 1 Station
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Hey, I'm Walkin' Here! invites like-minded bipeds to explore New York en masse for both entertainment and exercise. Tonight is the Bronx-Manhattan segment of the... View details »
- Art
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Maximum Perception
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Saturday Aug 16 (5–9pm) @ English Kills
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In addition to showcasing photos and videos of Brooklyn-spawned happenings, English Kills hosts performances for the duration of Maximum Perception. Tonight, festivities begin with a... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
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Backyard Couture Party
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Saturday Aug 16 (5–11pm) @ Harriet's Alter Ego
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In its final summer installment, Flatbush boutique Harriet's Alter Ego throws its funkiest soiree yet. In addition to snatching your very own rainbow-printed Obama shirt... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Jump
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Saturday Aug 16 (2, 5 & 8pm) @ Union Square Theatre
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After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
- Art
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Louise Bourgeois
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Saturday Aug 16 (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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Saturday Aug 16 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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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Saturday Aug 16 (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 »
- Art
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Saturday Aug 16 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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 »
- Art
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After Nature
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Saturday Aug 16 (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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Saturday Aug 16 (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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Saturday Aug 16 @ 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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Saturday Aug 16 (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 »
- Art
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Christian Vincent
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Saturday Aug 16 (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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Saturday Aug 16 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts
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Hot!
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Saturday Aug 16 @ 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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Saturday Aug 16 (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 »
- Art
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J.M.W. Turner
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Saturday Aug 16 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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 »
- Art
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Dalí: Painting and Film
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Saturday Aug 16 (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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Saturday Aug 16 (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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Saturday Aug 16 @ 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 »
- Film
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Sixty Six
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Saturday Aug 16 @ 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 »
- Film
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Bottle Shock
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Saturday Aug 16 @ 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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Saturday Aug 16 (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 »
- Art
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Artist as Publisher
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Saturday Aug 16 (10–4pm) @ 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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Saturday Aug 16 (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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Kehinde Wiley
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Saturday Aug 16 (10am–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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Hair
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Saturday Aug 16 (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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Saturday Aug 16 @ 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
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Le Cercle Rouge
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Saturday Aug 16 (1, 3:50, 6:40 & 9:30pm) @ Film Forum
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The Americanization of French culture has long been a point of contention. Jean-Pierre Melville (née Grumbach; he modified it to express his affection for the... View details »
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Lindsay Anderson
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Saturday Aug 16 @ Walter Reade Theater
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The bedrock figure of Britain's influential Free Cinema movement, director Lindsay Anderson clinched his fame with the anarchic end to If. . .: an armed... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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American Teen
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Saturday Aug 16 @ 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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