All events on Thursday August 07

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Black Keys
Thursday Aug 7 (6:30pm) @ McCarren Park Pool
Gnarls Barkley producer Danger Mouse initially enlisted Akron blues-rock duo the Black Keys to write the music and lyrics for an album to be sung... View details »
The Black Keys
Music: Rock/Pop
The Police
Thursday Aug 7 (8pm) @ Madison Square Garden
One year after selling out stadiums across the country, the Police are back to close out the tour that nobody thought would come to pass.... View details »
The Police
Music: DJ
CX Kidtronik
Thursday Aug 7 (11pm) @ APT
Free
DJ and drum machinist CX Kidtronik is best known for pounding out the futuristic beats behind Saul Williams' rapid-fire spoken word. His tour with Williams... View details »
CX Kidtronik
Reading
Hilton Als and Richard Foreman
Thursday Aug 7 (7:30pm) @ Solas
Free
New Yorker theatre critic Hilton Als joins Richard Foreman, founder and art director of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, for a roundtable discussion on New York drama.... View details »
Hilton Als and Richard Foreman
Music: Rock/Pop
Liza Minnelli
Thursday Aug 7 (7:30pm) @ Asser Levy Park Amphitheater
Free
While she's better known as Lucille 2 these days, Liza Minnelli is nothing short of a Hollywood legend. Minnelli's storied, 40-year career is one of... View details »
Liza Minnelli
Music: DJ
The Martinez Brothers
Thursday Aug 7 (10pm) @ Santos Party House
Giveaway
Last year, two teen wunderkinds came out of nowhere (OK, the Bronx) and dropped a seven-minute house masterpiece. The Martinez Brothers were just 15 and... View details »
The Martinez Brothers
Music: DJ
Gilles Peterson
Thursday Aug 7 (10pm) @ Cielo
Gilles Peterson is a tastemaker of the hightest order. Behind the desk as an A&R, Peterson has brought us the Brand New Heavies, Jamiroquai, Incognito,... View details »
Gilles Peterson
Reading
Varsity Reading Series
Thursday Aug 7 (8pm) @ Happy Ending
Free
As the founder of FootballOutsiders.com, Aaron Schatz knows way more about professional football than most. If you want to know what effect the Jeremy Shockey... View details »
Varsity Reading Series

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Thursday Aug 7 (7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
Jump
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Thursday Aug 7 (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
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Thursday Aug 7 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
Recent Icelandic Art
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Thursday Aug 7 (8pm) @ 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
Art
After Nature
Thursday Aug 7 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
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 collision with the museum... View details »
After Nature
Film
The Wackness
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
BASH'd
Thursday Aug 7 (8pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater More times »
The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005, especially in Alberta. Responding... View details »
BASH'd
Art
Christian Vincent
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
Christian Vincent
Art: Photography
Click!
Thursday Aug 7 (11am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
Photography has always been both celebrated and suspect for its popularity with so-called amateurs. The rise of do-it-yourself shutterbugs has given us vital, world-changing information... View details »
Click!
Film
Tell No One
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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!
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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: Photography
Bill Owens
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
Bill Owens
Art
J.M.W. Turner
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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
Music: DJ
Été d'Amour
Thursday Aug 7 (8pm–4am) @ Santos Party House More times »
Giveaway
Respect, the newest entry in the deluge of summer parties, was originally founded in Paris by three Frenchmen who booked everyone from Daft Punk and... View details »
Été d'Amour
Art
Tetsumi Kudo
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
Tetsumi Kudo
Art
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Art
Dalí: Painting and Film
Thursday Aug 7 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For Dalí, film not only... View details »
Dalí: Painting and Film
Art
Arctic Hysteria
Thursday Aug 7 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage landscape serves as the... View details »
Arctic Hysteria
Art
Os Gemeos
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
Os Gemeos
Performing Arts: Theatre
Ice Factory
Thursday Aug 7 (7pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance works go up over... View details »
Ice Factory
Film: Documentary
The Order of Myths
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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: Documentary
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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 »
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Film
Sixty Six
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Twelve Ophelias
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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 »
Twelve Ophelias
Art
Max Beckmann
Thursday Aug 7 (11am–6pm) @ Neue Galerie More times »
With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a different brand of expressionism.... View details »
Max Beckmann
Art
Artist as Publisher
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Performing Arts: Comedy
The Apple Sisters
Thursday Aug 7 (8pm) @ The People's Improv Theater More times »
Fireside chats ain't got nothing on the Apple Sisters. Spoofing WWII-era radio programs, the Apple girls sing and dance their way through a boisterous variety... View details »
The Apple Sisters
Art
Good Wood 2008
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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 »
Good Wood 2008
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Thursday Aug 7 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center More times »
In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
Sol LeWitt
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
Thursday Aug 7 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
Home Delivery
Art
Constraction
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
Constraction
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
Improvised Shakespeare
Thursday Aug 7 (9:30pm) @ 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 »
Improvised Shakespeare
Art
Crop Rotation
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
Crop Rotation
Art
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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!
Art
Kehinde Wiley
Thursday Aug 7 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem More times »
Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
Kehinde Wiley
Art
Beautiful Burnout
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
Beautiful Burnout
Performing Arts: Theatre
Misalliance
Thursday Aug 7 (7pm) @ Central Park More times »
Free
With its roving outdoor staging, lack of sets, and mobile audience, New York Classical Theatre creates anything but traditional productions. This season, Nobel- and Oscar-winning... View details »
Misalliance
Art: Photography
Vice Photo Show
Thursday Aug 7 (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: Dance
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Thursday Aug 7 (8pm) @ 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 »
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Thursday Aug 7 (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]
Performing Arts: Theatre
What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
Thursday Aug 7 (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 »
What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Thursday Aug 7 (11am–6pm) @ 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
American Teen
Thursday Aug 7 @ 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
I Won't Grow Up
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Thursday Aug 7 (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
Thursday Aug 7 (8:45pm) @ 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