All events on Thursday August 21
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- Being There
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Brooklyn Bridge Park
- Free
- Being There, director Hal Ashby's odd stab at political satire, revived Peter Sellers' curious career before his death. The plot orbits around an innocent gardener... View details »
- Reading
- In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Happy Ending
- Free
- Former Village Voice "lusty lady" Rachel Kramer Bussel hosts this popular monthly series in an equally racy setting: Happy Ending, a former "massage parlor." Literary... View details »
- Film: Shorts
- Art and Music in Popular Culture
- Thursday Aug 21 (6pm) @ MoMA
- Tonight's experimental-film program feels like an hour-long look into the wrong end of a telescope, as visual experiments hit the eye in dazzling and disorienting... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Maysles Cinema, Harlem More times »
- Giveaway
- Harlem's Rucker Park is a holy land for basketball pilgrims everywhere, not to mention the end-of-argument reference on any streetballer's resume. Two years ago, the... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Oxford Collapse
- Thursday Aug 21 (9pm) @ Glasslands Gallery
- After a few albums of post-punk manqué, Brooklyn trio Oxford Collapse shattered expectations with 2006's Remember the Night Parties. Sounding more Chapel Hill circa '95... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Let It Roll
- Thursday Aug 21 (10pm) @ Sullivan Room
- Drum 'n bass DJ Place42, the mastermind behind the well-curated Secret Night of Science parties at Love, has parlayed his success into another monthly throwdown,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- AM Gold
- Thursday Aug 21 (10pm) @ Coney Island Museum
- The Coney Island Museum's Burlesque at the Beach series continues with steamy, no-holds-barred renditions of your parents' favorite yacht-rock gems. And don't worry, the event... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Big Terrific
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Sound Fix More times »
- Free
- If the giggles elicited by clowning around with your friends aren't evidence enough, Big Terrific proves that hearty laughs can be had outside of comedy... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Thursday Aug 21 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Thursday Aug 21 (7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- Thursday Aug 21 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- 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
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Thursday Aug 21 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times »
- The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
- Art
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Thursday Aug 21 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Paragraph More times »
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Thursday Aug 21 (10am–6pm) @ International Center of Photography More times »
- Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese cultural norms. Riffing on... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Thursday Aug 21 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Longacre Theatre More times »
- It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying spectacle — and, miraculously,... View details »
- Art
- After Nature
- Thursday Aug 21 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- 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 »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations More times »
- 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
- BASH'd
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater More times »
- 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 »
- Film
- Tell No One
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations More times »
- 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 »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations More times »
- For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Hot!
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Dixon Place More times »
- 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
- J.M.W. Turner
- Thursday Aug 21 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
- Free
- Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Été d'Amour
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm–4am) @ Santos Party House More times »
- Giveaway
- 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 »
- Art
- Dalí: Painting and Film
- Thursday Aug 21 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- 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 »
- Art
- Arctic Hysteria
- Thursday Aug 21 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ice Factory
- Thursday Aug 21 (7pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
- Giveaway
- Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance works go up over... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- Thursday Aug 21 @ IFC Center More times »
- Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially segregated Mardi Gras tradition... View details »
- Film
- Baghead
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations More times »
- 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
- Sixty Six
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations More times »
- 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
- Bottle Shock
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations More times »
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Twelve Ophelias
- Thursday Aug 21 @ McCarren Park Pool More times »
- Free
- Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to overcome the past and... View details »
- Art
- Max Beckmann
- Thursday Aug 21 (11am–6pm) @ Neue Galerie More times »
- 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
- Artist as Publisher
- Thursday Aug 21 (10–6pm) @ Center for Book Arts More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Apple Sisters
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ The People's Improv Theater More times »
- Fireside chats ain't got nothing on the Apple Sisters. Spoofing WWII-era radio programs, the Apple girls sing and dance their way through a boisterous variety... View details »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Thursday Aug 21 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center More times »
- 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- Thursday Aug 21 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- Thursday Aug 21 @ 37 Arts More times »
- Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right notes. Jones, whose acclaimed... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- NY International Fringe Festival
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years, and Bash'd are among... View details »
- Art
- Kehinde Wiley
- Thursday Aug 21 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem More times »
- 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
- Hair
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Delacorte Theater More times »
- Free
- 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
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations More times »
- Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
- Film
- Elegy
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations More times »
- 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 »
- Music: DJ
- Deprogram
- Thursday Aug 21 (10pm) @ Love More times »
- 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 »
- Film
- Lindsay Anderson
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Misalliance
- Thursday Aug 21 (7pm) @ Central Park More times »
- Free
- With its roving outdoor staging, lack of sets, and mobile audience, New York Classical Theatre creates anything but traditional productions. This season, Nobel- and Oscar-winning... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Vice Photo Show
- Thursday Aug 21 (3–7pm) @ Vice Gallery More times »
- Free
- In addition to its publications on the newstands and booksheves, its web TV channel, and record label — Vice now unleashes the 2008 Vice Photo... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Copier
- Thursday Aug 21 (7 & 8pm) @ Cedar Lake Theater More times »
- Cedar Lake Dance continues to change the way dance is viewed with its new production, The Copier. For this performance, all seating is removed, and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Day in Dig Nation
- Thursday Aug 21 (8:30pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
- Flying Carpet Theatre's A Day in Dig Nation is the type of genre-defying show that is supposed to be thriving in New York City, but... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
- Thursday Aug 21 (8pm) @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
- Giveaway
- The strange but affecting comedy What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends captures the awkward reality of relationships through surreal actions and interactions.... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- Thursday Aug 21 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Sports
- 2008 US Open Qualifying Tournament
- Thursday Aug 21 (11am) @ USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center More times »
- Free
- Cash-strapped tennis fans can catch the first week of the US Open for free. Over the course of four days, hundreds of men and women... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet
- Thursday Aug 21 (1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
- American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra gets the documentary treatment in Maria Anna Tappeiner's film Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet. Serra is known best for... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- Thursday Aug 21 @ Various locations More times »
- 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 »
- Art
- Tickle the Shitstem
- Thursday Aug 21 (10am–6pm) @ Zach Feuer Gallery More times »
- Free
- Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a Diminishing Deep Down Thirst,... View details »
- Art
- I Won't Grow Up
- Thursday Aug 21 (10am–6pm) @ Cheim & Read More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- Thursday Aug 21 (4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
- Free
- Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- Thursday Aug 21 (8:45pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
- This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a shopping mall, Spiegelworld's old... View details »
