Events on Sunday, August 24
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- Music: DJ
- Joakim
- @ The BKLYN Yard
- Clubgoers are probably most familiar with Joakim through his oddball (and awesomely danceable) remixes for Cut Copy, Tiga, and Simian Mobile... View details »
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- Music: Festival
- Roots of American Music Festival
- @ Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Patti Smith will forever be known as "punk rock's poet laureate" for crashing the gates with her unlikely combination of Arthur... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Cof Cof w/ Culture Prophet
- @ The Annex
- Valencia, Spain's Cof Cof sound like the hopeful lovechildren of Hot Chip and HEARTSREVOLUTION, moving effortlessly between electro beats, 8-bit bloops,... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Yo La Tengo
- @ McCarren Park Pool
- Sports and indie rock are pretty wary companions, but, in the case of Hoboken's Yo La Tengo, action is everything (mimicking... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Finntroll
- @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
- While a jolly band of Finnish metalheads singing about trolls and beer may not be for everyone, neither are rainbows, puppies,... View details »
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- Art
- After Nature
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Wackness
- @ Various locations
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... View details »
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- J.M.W. Turner
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hair
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Dreamland Roller Rink
- @ Dreamland Roller Rink
- Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this... View details »
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- Performing Arts
- Hot!
- @ Dixon Place
- Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- South Pacific
- @ 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... View details »
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- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Film
- Baghead
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- @ 37 Arts
- Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- @ Minetta Lane Theatre
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Louise Bourgeois
- @ Guggenheim Museum
- After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... View details »
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- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Artists and Fleas
- @ Artists and Fleas
- The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... View details »
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- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Summergarden
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Two of the city's blue-chip performing arts titans — the Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center — join forces for... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- ASSSSCAT 3000
- @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
- Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from... View details »
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- Art
- Kehinde Wiley
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
- @ Maysles Cinema
- 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.... View details »
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- Max Beckmann
- @ Neue Galerie
- With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- @ 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... View details »
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- Dalí: Painting and Film
- @ 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... View details »
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- Bottle Shock
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- @ Union Square Theatre
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- GreenFlea Market
- @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School
- As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Trouble the Water
- @ IFC Center
- Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts... View details »
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- @ Lyceum Theatre
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... View details »
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- Maximum Perception
- @ English Kills
- In addition to showcasing photos and videos of Brooklyn-spawned happenings, English Kills hosts performances for the duration of Maximum Perception. Tonight,... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- @ 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... View details »
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- Arctic Hysteria
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tell No One
- @ Various locations
- Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- @ Spiegelworld
- This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Misalliance
- @ Central Park
- With its roving outdoor staging, lack of sets, and mobile audience, New York Classical Theatre creates anything but traditional productions. This... View details »
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- The Science Barge
- @ 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... View details »
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- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- @ 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... View details »
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- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- @ 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... View details »
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- Sixty Six
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- @ 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... View details »
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- Hamlet 2
- @ Various locations
- With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- @ Longacre Theatre
- It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet
- @ Film Forum
- American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra gets the documentary treatment in Maria Anna Tappeiner's film Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet. Serra... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- @ 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... View details »
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- Elegy
- @ Various locations
- Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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