Events on Friday, August 22

Regeneration Tour feat. the Human League w/ A Flock of Seagulls, Belinda Carlisle, and Naked Eyes

Music

Human League

Friday 8/22 @ Jones Beach Amphitheater

While the Bowies, Iggys, and Enos were hogging the late-'70s stage, the Human League were waiting quietly in the wings, Korg... 

Poor Sellout presents Char Johnson w/ Iyaxia

Music: Electronic

Char Johnson

Friday 8/22 @ Monkey Town

Char Johnson, responsible for the provocative vocals on Simian Mobile Disco's "Hustler," performs tonight at Williamsburg's classy-yet-affordable restaurant and performance space,... 

Seaport Music presents Grand Archives w/ Violens

Music

Grand Archives

Friday 8/22 @ South Street Seaport

Grand Archives sound like summer (the drowsy front-porch afternoons, not the oppressively hot dog days). The Seattle five blend sunny, multi-part... 

Professor Murder w/ Free Blood

Music

Professor Murder

Friday 8/22 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Most professors drop knowledge, but Professor Murder drop beats – the NYC-based dance-punk quartet mashes funk grooves, Jamaican dancehall, and '80s... 

Ongoing Events

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Friday 8/22 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Friday 8/22 @ Guggenheim Museum

After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

Cedar Lake Dance: <em>The Copier</em>

Dance

The Copier

Friday 8/22 @ Cedar Lake Theater

Cedar Lake Dance continues to change the way dance is viewed with its new production, The Copier. For this performance, all... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>After Nature</em>

Art

After Nature

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Friday 8/22 @ Various locations

Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

Max Beckmann: <em>Self-Portrait with Horn</em>

Art

Max Beckmann

Friday 8/22 @ Neue Galerie

With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a... 

<em>Sixty Six</em>

Film

Sixty Six

Friday 8/22 @ Various locations

It's the summer of '66 and all of England is agog about the World Cup. That is, all except for 12-year-old,... 

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Friday 8/22 @ Longacre Theatre

It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... 

<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Friday 8/22 @ IFC Center

Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts... 

<em>Misalliance</em>

Theatre

Misalliance

Friday 8/22 @ Central Park

With its roving outdoor staging, lack of sets, and mobile audience, New York Classical Theatre creates anything but traditional productions. This... 

<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>

Fashion/Style

Superheroes

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 8/22 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Friday 8/22 @ Spiegelworld

This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture

Performing Arts

Hot!

Friday 8/22 @ Dixon Place

Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 8/22 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Friday 8/22 @ 37 Arts

Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... 

<em>What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends</em>

Theatre

What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

Phoebe Washburn: <em>Tickle the Shitstem</em>

Art

Tickle the Shitstem

Friday 8/22 @ Zach Feuer Gallery

Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a... 

<em>Elegy</em>

Film

Elegy

Friday 8/22 @ Various locations

Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip... 

Ice Factory 2008

Theatre

Ice Factory

Friday 8/22 @ Ohio Theatre

Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance... 

J.M.W. Turner

Art

J.M.W. Turner

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet </em>(2005)<em>
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Film: Documentary

Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet

Friday 8/22 @ Film Forum

American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra gets the documentary treatment in Maria Anna Tappeiner's film Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet. Serra... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Friday 8/22 @ Various locations

The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... 

Shakespeare in the Park presents <em>Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical</em>

Theatre

Hair

Friday 8/22 @ Delacorte Theater

As you sing Hair's infectious songs on your way out of Central Park, you'll encounter other ecstatic fans. Impromptu dance sessions... 

2008 US Open Qualifying Tournament

Sports

2008 US Open Qualifying Tournament

Friday 8/22 @ USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center

Cash-strapped tennis fans can catch the first week of the US Open for free. Over the course of four days, hundreds... 

<em>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Friday 8/22 @ Various locations

Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Friday 8/22 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... 

<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Friday 8/22 @ Various locations

With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... 

<em>BASH'd </em>

Theatre

BASH'd

Friday 8/22 @ Zipper Factory Theater

The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005,... 

<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise

Special Event

Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Twelve Ophelias</em>

Theatre

Twelve Ophelias

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Friday 8/22 @ 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.... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Friday 8/22 @ 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,... 

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Friday 8/22 @ Various locations

In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including... 

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Theatre

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Friday 8/22 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

<em>I Won't Grow Up</em>

Art

I Won't Grow Up

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Friday 8/22 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink

City Gems

Dreamland Roller Rink

Friday 8/22 @ Dreamland Roller Rink

Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>2008 Vice </em><em>Photo Show</em>

Art: Photography

Vice Photo Show

Friday 8/22 @ Vice Gallery

In addition to its publications on the newstands and booksheves, its web TV channel, and record label — Vice now unleashes... 

Bushwick Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Bushwick Film Festival

Friday 8/22 @ Various locations in Bushwick

Before the sight-and-sound marathon known as the New York Film Festival begins, cinephiles can warm up their senses at the second... 

<em>A Day in Dig Nation</em>

Theatre

A Day in Dig Nation

Friday 8/22 @ P.S. 122

Flying Carpet Theatre's A Day in Dig Nation is the type of genre-defying show that is supposed to be thriving in... 

<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Friday 8/22 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Friday 8/22 @ 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... 

New York International Fringe Festival

Theatre

NY International Fringe Festival

Friday 8/22 @ Various locations

With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,...