Events on Saturday, August 9

2008 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Music: Electronic
2008 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
@ The BKLYN Yard
The Yard's rapidly becoming the go-to venue for summer ragers — this afternoon, it plays host to a grip of live...  View details »
Warm Up feat. Mungolian Jet Set, Strange Fruit, and UFO!
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
More Flavor: Party
Warm Up feat. Mungolian Jet Set
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Now in its tenth year, P.S.1's Warm Up summer dance series has begun to reach well beyond the techno set, corralling...  View details »
Rotate NYC presents Holger Zilske
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Music: DJ
Holger Zilske
@ Bar 13
Holger Zilske has spent the last decade churning out a seemingly endless stream of crisp percussion, detuned synths, and massive bass...  View details »
2008 International Yo-Yo Open & New York State Yo-Yo Contest
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
More Flavor: Sports
Yo-Yo Open
@ South Street Seaport
Thought to be of Chinese origin, the yo-yo has honed the hand-eye coordination of children the world over for thousands of...  View details »
Free

Ongoing Events

Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Month_08 Saturday Day_09
More Flavor: Party
Make Love, Not War
@ Black Betty
During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Dance
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
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 »
Ongoing
<em>After Nature</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Shakespeare in the Park presents <em>Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hair
@ Delacorte Theater
As you sing Hair's infectious songs on your way out of Central Park, you'll encounter other ecstatic fans. Impromptu dance sessions...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Os Gemeos: <em>Too Far Too Close</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
Os Gemeos
@ Deitch Projects
Os Gemeos (the Twins) turn the walls of the world into sprawling krylon villages, incorporating whimsical imagery from their native São...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Sixty Six</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
Ice Factory 2008
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Ice Factory
@ Ohio Theatre
Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance...  View details »
Ongoing
Tetsumi Kudo
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
Tetsumi Kudo
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>[title of show]</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
[title of show]
@ 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 »
Ongoing
Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
More Flavor: City Gem
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 »
Ongoing
Good Wood 2008
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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New York International Fringe Festival
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
NY International Fringe Festival
@ Various locations
With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Beautiful Burnout: The Art Jam of Underworld</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
Beautiful Burnout
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>August: Osage County</i>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as...  View details »
Ongoing
Sol LeWitt at Storm King
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Artist as Publisher</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
Artist as Publisher
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
J.M.W. Turner
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>El Mar</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Dance
El Mar
@ Theatre 80
Spanish troupe Noche Flamenca makes its annual voyage to Theatre 80 with El Mar, an adaption of Henrik Ibsen's play The...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Tell No One</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
@ Scandinavia House
Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>BASH'd </em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
BASH'd
@ Zipper Factory Theater
The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
Bill Owens
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Adding Machine</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Constraction </em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
Constraction
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Twelve Ophelias</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
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 »
Ongoing
The Science Barge
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Tenth Annual Del Close Marathon
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
Del Close Marathon
@ UCB Theatre
The Upright Citizens Brigade honors Del Close with a weekend of nonstop comedy. Close was one of the founding fathers of...  View details »
Ongoing
Max Beckmann: <em>Self-Portrait with Horn</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>American Teen</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Boeing Boeing </em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
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 »
Ongoing
<em>The Wackness </em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Absinthe</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Absinthe
@ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...  View details »
Ongoing
Summer Streets
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
More Flavor: City Gem
Summer Streets
@ Various locations
Mayor Bloomberg gives the city a reason to wake up early on Saturday morning: a 6.9-mile car-free route from Central Park...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Artists and Fleas
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Hot!: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Performing Arts
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 »
Ongoing
David Byrne: <em>Playing the Building</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Baghead</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Film
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 »
Ongoing
Brownstoner's Brooklyn Flea
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Flea
@ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. Every Saturday in Fort...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
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 »
Ongoing
Christian Vincent: <em>Runyon Canyon</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
Christian Vincent
@ Mike Weiss Gallery
  The realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Misalliance</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
Free
All Points West
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Music: Festival
All Points West
@ Liberty State Park
With Coachella established as the only US festival capable of rivaling its European counterparts, it was only a matter of time...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Bottle Shock</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Film
Bottle Shock
@ Various locations
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Painting Now & Forever Part II </em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art
Painting Now & Forever Part II
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
<em>2008 Vice </em><em>Photo Show</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Art: Photography
Vice Photo Show
@ Vice Gallery
In addition to its publications on the newstands and booksheves, its web TV channel, and record label — Vice now unleashes...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fela!</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
@ 37 Arts
Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition </em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Elegy</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
Film
Elegy
@ Various locations
Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Jump</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
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 »
Ongoing
Paragraph
Month_08 Sunday Day_10
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 »
Ongoing
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_08 Saturday Day_09
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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Ongoing
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