Events on Tuesday, August 5
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ The Strand
Graphic novelist Lauren R. Weinstein's latest, Goddess of War, is a sophisticated comic-book synthesis of Norse mythology, history, and contemporary angst...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Santos Party House
Birds have a long history in pop music: there's "Rockin' Robin," the Eagles, Cindy Birdsong, and now Sam Sparro. He may...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Naumburg Bandshell
For this evening's performance by Central Park's Naumburg Orchestra, international composer arrange classical compositions for orchestra and saxophone. The show features...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Mike Weiss Gallery
The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Hudson Guild Theater
If this summer's production of Hamlet at the Delacorte Theater left you craving more Elizabethan melodrama, the Improvised Shakespeare Company has...
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Greene Naftali
A return to good old-fashioned painting, this 42-artist group exhibition is a welcome respite from the predictable deluge of overly conceptual...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ The Joyce Theater
The Windy City keeps sending its fine artistic representatives our way. After the phenomenal success of Steppenwolf Theatre's August: Osage County,...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 3rd Ward
Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Dixon Place
Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
The first US gallery exhibition of Tetsumi Kudo's bright but morbid sculptures introduces American audiences to one of contemporary art's lesser-known...
What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Deitch Projects
Steel your stomach for a dose of kinetic op-art before entering Constraction, an exhibition devoted to new modernist technique. Tauba Auerbach's...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ APT
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Madison Square Garden
Just because he performs with a marching band and likes to go on crazy rants at awards shows, doesn't mean Kanye...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Vice Gallery
In addition to its publications on the newstands and booksheves, its web TV channel, and record label — Vice now unleashes...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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....
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Quad Cinema
Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ James Cohan Gallery
Famous for his eviscerating depiction of middle-class suburbia, photographer Bill Owens ventures out into America's proverbial backyard. Owens tours the churches,...
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Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Jacobson Howard Gallery
Underworld have always had a strong visual presence, from Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's mesmerizing live shows to their packaging design,...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Bellwether Gallery
So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows....
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre
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Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
