All events on Friday August 08
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Bottle Shock
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Friday Aug 8 @ Various locations
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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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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Summer of Love
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Friday Aug 8 (7:30pm) @ Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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After too long an absence, punk choreographer Karole Armitage returns to the NYC dance scene for one night only. Represented on Broadway with Passing Strange... View details »
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Michael Pollan
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Friday Aug 8 (7pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
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Michael Pollan spends a lot of time empathizing with plants. The slow-food poster boy, best known for The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Turntables on the Hudson
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Friday Aug 8 @ Water Taxi Beach
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The Turntables on the Hudson party turns ten this summer, securing its spot as an NYC mainstay. Tonight, DJs Mariano and Nickodemus — accompanied by... View details »
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Elegy
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Friday Aug 8 @ Various locations
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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 »
- Music: Electronic
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808 '08
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Friday Aug 8 (8:08pm) @ The Tank
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To paraphrase the Beastie Boys, nothing sounds quite like a Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer. This evening, the Tank pays tribute to the world's most fetishized... View details »
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Louise Bourgeois
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Friday Aug 8 (10am–7:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum
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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
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Superheroes
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Friday Aug 8 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 »
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
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Friday Aug 8 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA
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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 »
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Recent Icelandic Art
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Friday Aug 8 (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House
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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 »
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Friday Aug 8 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 »
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After Nature
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Friday Aug 8 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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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 »
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Playing the Building
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Friday Aug 8 (noon–6pm) @ Battery Maritime Building
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From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David Byrne creates a monumental... View details »
- Film
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The Wackness
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Friday Aug 8 @ Various locations
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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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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BASH'd
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Friday Aug 8 (7:30 & 10pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater
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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 »
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Christian Vincent
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Friday Aug 8 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery
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... 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Click!
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Friday Aug 8 (11am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
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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 »
- Film
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Tell No One
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Friday Aug 8 @ Various locations
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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 »
- Performing Arts
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Hot!
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Friday Aug 8 @ Dixon Place
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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
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Bill Owens
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Friday Aug 8 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery
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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 »
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J.M.W. Turner
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Friday Aug 8 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 »
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Tetsumi Kudo
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Friday Aug 8 (10am–6pm) @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
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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 »
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Dalí: Painting and Film
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Friday Aug 8 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA
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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 »
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Arctic Hysteria
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Friday Aug 8 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
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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 »
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Os Gemeos
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Friday Aug 8 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects
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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
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Baghead
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Friday Aug 8 @ Various locations
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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 »
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Sixty Six
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Friday Aug 8 @ Various locations
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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 »
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Max Beckmann
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Friday Aug 8 (11am–9pm) @ Neue Galerie
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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 »
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Artist as Publisher
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Friday Aug 8 (10–6pm) @ Center for Book Arts
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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 »
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Good Wood 2008
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Friday Aug 8 @ 3rd Ward
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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 »
- Getaway
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Sol LeWitt
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Friday Aug 8 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center
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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 »
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Constraction
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Friday Aug 8 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects
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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 »
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Crop Rotation
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Friday Aug 8 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
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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 »
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Kehinde Wiley
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Friday Aug 8 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem
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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 »
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Beautiful Burnout
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Friday Aug 8 (10am–6pm) @ Jacobson Howard Gallery
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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 »
- Film: Documentary
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American Teen
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Friday Aug 8 @ Various locations
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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 »
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I Won't Grow Up
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Friday Aug 8 (10am–6pm) @ Cheim & Read
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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 »
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