Events on Sunday, August 3
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- America Eats!
- @ Freebird Books
- Pat Willard's new book America Eats! chronicles the way we ate during the Great Depression. "America Eats" was originally a... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Black Lips
- @ McCarren Park Pool
- In 1971, Lester Bangs published an essay called "James Taylor Marked for Death," in which he heralded the Troggs as the... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Jamie Lidell
- @ Central Park SummerStage
- Jamie Lidell has arrived. In his performances since 2005's fantastically received, surprisingly soulful Multiply, the demi-founder of the now-defunct IDM outfit... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Rock the Bells
- @ Jones Beach Amphitheater
- Rock the Bells brings together the best of the old-school and classic rappers: De la Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Rakim,... View details »
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- DJ Harvey
- @ Paddlewheel Queen
- While many DJs treat their obscure record collections as ends unto themselves, the UK's DJ Harvey uses his esoteric knowledge to... View details »
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- Playing the Building
- @ Battery Maritime Building
- From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David... 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
- Twelve Ophelias
- @ 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... 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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- 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: 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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- 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Click!
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Photography has always been both celebrated and suspect for its popularity with so-called amateurs. The rise of do-it-yourself shutterbugs has given... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- @ 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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- 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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- 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
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
- @ Quad Cinema
- Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown... 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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- Good Wood 2008
- @ 3rd Ward
- Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its... 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: Spectacle
- 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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- 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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- 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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- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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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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- 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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- 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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- What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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