All events on Tuesday August 26

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Film
Rushmore
Tuesday Aug 26 (8:30pm) @ McCarren Park Pool
Free
There's no better way to watch Wes Anderson's Rushmore than with a bunch of people who look a little something like Jason Schwartzman. Tonight, Anderson... View details »
Rushmore
Music: Rock/Pop
Nada Surf
Tuesday Aug 26 (7pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
Rising to popularity with 1996's buzzing post-punk dirge "Popular," Brooklyn's Nada Surf have spent the past decade hopping labels and redefining their musical identity. Now... View details »
Nada Surf
Music: Rock/Pop
Ute Lemper
Tuesday Aug 26 (10pm) @ Spiegelworld
Giveaway
Ute Lemper sings with the precision of a classically trained chanteuse and the ferocity of a punk rocker. This range enables her to turn the... View details »
Ute Lemper
Music: Hip-Hop
Young Jeezy
Tuesday Aug 26 (8pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy
To support the release of his third album, The Recession, trapper extraordinaire Young Jeezy graces NYC with a performance at the Blender Theater. The... View details »
Young Jeezy

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Tuesday Aug 26 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday Aug 26 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
Slavic Soul Party!
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Adding Machine
Music: DJ
Afrika Bambaataa
Tuesday Aug 26 (10pm) @ APT More times »
Giveaway
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
Afrika Bambaataa
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
In the Heights
Art
Louise Bourgeois
Tuesday Aug 26 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
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 »
Louise Bourgeois
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Superheroes
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Paragraph
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Tuesday Aug 26 (7pm) @ 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 »
Boeing Boeing
Film
The Wackness
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
The Wackness
Film
Tell No One
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Tell No One
Film
Brideshead Revisited
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Brideshead Revisited
Performing Arts
Hot!
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Hot!
Art
J.M.W. Turner
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
J.M.W. Turner
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Film: Documentary
The Order of Myths
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
The Order of Myths
Film
Baghead
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Baghead
Film
Sixty Six
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Sixty Six
Film
Bottle Shock
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Bottle Shock
Art
Artist as Publisher
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Artist as Publisher
More Flavor: Discussion
Comic Book Club
Tuesday Aug 26 (8pm) @ The People's Improv Theater More times »
Giveaway
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily, the Comic Book Club... View details »
Comic Book Club
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Fela!
Film
Hamlet 2
Tuesday Aug 26 @ Various locations More times »
With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
Hamlet 2
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hair
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Hair
Film: Documentary
Trouble the Water
Tuesday Aug 26 @ IFC Center More times »
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts many Americans, especially while... View details »
Trouble the Water
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Film
Elegy
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
Elegy
Art: Photography
Vice Photo Show
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Vice Photo Show
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
[title of show]
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Tuesday Aug 26 (11am–7:30pm) @ 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 »
Eminent Domain
Film: Documentary
Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet
Film: Documentary
American Teen
Tuesday Aug 26 @ 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 »
American Teen
Art
Tickle the Shitstem
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
Tickle the Shitstem
Art
I Won't Grow Up
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
I Won't Grow Up
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Tuesday Aug 26 (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 »
The Science Barge
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Absinthe
Tuesday Aug 26 (7:30pm) @ 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 »
Absinthe