All events on Tuesday August 05
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- Sam Sparro
- Tuesday Aug 5 (7pm) @ Santos Party House
- Canceled!
- Birds have a long history in pop music: there's "Rockin' Robin," the Eagles, Cindy Birdsong, and now Sam Sparro. He may style himself as an... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Glow in the Dark Tour
- Tuesday Aug 5 (7:30pm) @ Madison Square Garden More times »
- Just because he performs with a marching band and likes to go on crazy rants at awards shows, doesn't mean Kanye West is a mere... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Reading
- Lauren R. Weinstein
- Tuesday Aug 5 (7–8:30pm) @ The Strand
- Free
- Graphic novelist Lauren R. Weinstein's latest, Goddess of War, is a sophisticated comic-book synthesis of Norse mythology, history, and contemporary angst that's both artfully crafted... View details »
- Music: Classical
- Naumburg Orchestra
- Tuesday Aug 5 (7:30pm) @ Naumburg Bandshell
- Free
- For this evening's performance by Central Park's Naumburg Orchestra, international composer arrange classical compositions for orchestra and saxophone. The show features 26-year-old concert saxophonist Ashu,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Tuesday Aug 5 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Art
- Louise Bourgeois
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Tuesday Aug 5 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House More times »
- Free
- Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia House hosts work by... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Art
- Christian Vincent
- Tuesday Aug 5 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery More times »
- Free
- ... e realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they seem to be parts... View details »
- Film
- Tell No One
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts
- Hot!
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Bill Owens
- Tuesday Aug 5 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery More times »
- Free
- Famous for his eviscerating depiction of middle-class suburbia, photographer Bill Owens ventures out into America's proverbial backyard. Owens tours the churches, amusement parks, roadside vistas,... View details »
- Art
- J.M.W. Turner
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Art
- Tetsumi Kudo
- Tuesday Aug 5 (10am–6pm) @ Andrea Rosen Gallery More times »
- Free
- The first US gallery exhibition of Tetsumi Kudo's bright but morbid sculptures introduces American audiences to one of contemporary art's lesser-known forerunners. Working in Japan... View details »
- Art
- If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
- Tuesday Aug 5 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
- Free
- So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows. Bellwether exhibits remembrances of... View details »
- Art
- Os Gemeos
- Tuesday Aug 5 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
- Free
- Os Gemeos (the Twins) turn the walls of the world into sprawling krylon villages, incorporating whimsical imagery from their native São Paulo and Coney Island's... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Film
- Baghead
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ Quad Cinema More times »
- Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974), but to many... View details »
- Film
- Sixty Six
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Twelve Ophelias
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ McCarren Park Pool More times »
- Free
- Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to overcome the past and... View details »
- Art
- Artist as Publisher
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Comic Book Club
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Art
- Good Wood 2008
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 3rd Ward More times »
- Free
- Though skateboard designers get bonus points for allowing their work to be defaced on handrails and curbs, deck art deserves its own unscuffed moment. Good... View details »
- Art
- Constraction
- Tuesday Aug 5 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
- Free
- Steel your stomach for a dose of kinetic op-art before entering Constraction, an exhibition devoted to new modernist technique. Tauba Auerbach's 50/50 black-and-white tile sets... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Improvised Shakespeare
- Tuesday Aug 5 (8pm) @ Hudson Guild Theater More times »
- If this summer's production of Hamlet at the Delacorte Theater left you craving more Elizabethan melodrama, the Improvised Shakespeare Company has a bagful of iambic... View details »
- Art
- Crop Rotation
- Tuesday Aug 5 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
- Free
- Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize waste, be it theoretical... View details »
- Art
- Painting Now & Forever Part II
- Tuesday Aug 5 (10am–6pm) @ Greene Naftali More times »
- Free
- A return to good old-fashioned painting, this 42-artist group exhibition is a welcome respite from the predictable deluge of overly conceptual art. Merlin Carpenter's Gallows... View details »
- Art
- Beautiful Burnout
- Tuesday Aug 5 (10am–6pm) @ Jacobson Howard Gallery More times »
- Free
- Underworld have always had a strong visual presence, from Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's mesmerizing live shows to their packaging design, videos, and multimedia installations.... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Vice Photo Show
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
- Tuesday Aug 5 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- The Windy City keeps sending its fine artistic representatives our way. After the phenomenal success of Steppenwolf Theatre's August: Osage County, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
- Tuesday Aug 5 (8pm) @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
- Giveaway
- The strange but affecting comedy What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends captures the awkward reality of relationships through surreal actions and interactions.... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- Tuesday Aug 5 @ 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 »
- Art
- I Won't Grow Up
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- Tuesday Aug 5 (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 »
