Events on Wednesday, September 10

The Kooks w/ Stellastarr* and Illinois

Music

The Kooks

Wednesday 9/10 @ Central Park SummerStage

Anthemic UK indie popsters the Kooks have been paying NYC repeated visits of late, and playing increasingly large venues each time... 

Mercury Rev's <em>Trip Over the Light Fantastic</em>

Music: Experimental

Mercury Rev

Wednesday 9/10 @ The Stone

Tonight, John Zorn's tiny venue the Stone hosts Mercury Rev for an experimental, improvisational performance, in which the psychedelic indie rockers... 

ASCAP presents a Benefit for Kelly Buchanan

Music

A Benefit for Kelly Buchanan

Wednesday 9/10 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

When singer/songwriter Kelly Buchanan suffered a brain injury during a street-hockey game earlier this year, it turned her life upside-down. Friends... 

NY GrandSLAM Championship: Crossing the Line

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

NY GrandSLAM Championship

Wednesday 9/10 @ Comix

Tonight, ten StorySLAM champions battle it out, linguistically speaking, to be the last storyteller standing. Each tells a story on the... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Wednesday 9/10 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

J.M.W. Turner

Art

J.M.W. Turner

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Wednesday 9/10 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>After Nature</em>

Art

After Nature

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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.... 

<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Wednesday 9/10 @ 37 Arts

Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... 

Theatre

Lady

Wednesday 9/10 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Theatrical parables about our nation's state of affairs aren't uncommon, but few draw as many subtle parallels as Lady. In the... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Wednesday 9/10 @ Guggenheim Museum

After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Wednesday 9/10 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

<em>A Great Place to be From</em>

Theatre

A Great Place to be From

Wednesday 9/10 @ Kraine Theater

In A Great Place To Be From, a heatwave in Milwaukee has driven some of the town's citizens to extremes. Against... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>Mister Foe</em>

Film

Mister Foe

Wednesday 9/10 @ Angelika Film Center

Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous... 

Pizza Walking Tour

Special Event

Pizza Walking Tour

Wednesday 9/10 @ Various locations

New York has some legendary pizza, but there's also some real crap out there; save the cash you'll waste finding the... 

<em>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>

Art

Derek Buckner

Wednesday 9/10 @ George Billis Gallery

In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings... 

<em>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Wednesday 9/10 @ Various locations

With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>Shoot the Piano Player </em>(1960)

Film

Shoot the Piano Player

Wednesday 9/10 @ Film Forum

In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen... 

<em>Fifty Words</em>

Theatre

Fifty Words

Wednesday 9/10 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic... 

<em>A Secret</em>

Film

A Secret

Wednesday 9/10 @ Various locations

This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not... 

James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>

Art: Photography

Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts

Wednesday 9/10 @ Brooklyn Historical Society

From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many... 

<em>Year of the Fish</em>

Film

Year of the Fish

Wednesday 9/10 @ Angelika Film Center

Year of the Fish could be called an adult fairy tale — but really, it exposes the phrase as an oxymoron.... 

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Wednesday 9/10 @ Spiegelworld

This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... 

Phoebe Washburn: <em>Tickle the Shitstem</em>

Art

Tickle the Shitstem

Wednesday 9/10 @ Zach Feuer Gallery

Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a... 

<em>Traitor</em>

Film

Traitor

Wednesday 9/10 @ Various locations

Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist... 

<em>Oh What War</em>

Theatre

Oh What War

Wednesday 9/10 @ HERE Arts Center

Juggernaut Theatre Company's Oh What War is unflinching political theatre. Inspired by Joan Littlewood's 1960s musical Oh! What a Lovely War,... 

Circus Amok presents <em>Sub-Prime Sublime</em>

Special Event

Circus Amok

Wednesday 9/10 @ Various NYC parks

After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional... 

Mel Kadel and Suzanne Sattler: <em>Swirl of Swarm</em>

Art

Swirl of Swarm

Wednesday 9/10 @ Cinders Gallery

Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which... 

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Wednesday 9/10 @ The Brick Theater

The Brick Theater Inc.'s third annual New York Clown Theatre Festival descends upon Williamsburg this September, proving that there's more to... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

<em>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

Wednesday 9/10 @ Various locations

How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy... 

<em>A Number</em>

Theatre

A Number

Wednesday 9/10 @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row

In Caryl Churchill's play A Number, a father faces the consequences of cloning his only son. As the original and the... 

<em>Invasion 68: Prague</em>

Art: Photography

Invasion 68: Prague

Wednesday 9/10 @ Aperture Gallery

For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and... 

Celebrate M&eacute;xico Now 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Celebrate México Now

Wednesday 9/10 @ Various locations

Hot on the sparkling heels of the West Indian Day Parade and Carnival comes another celebration of culture. In its fifth... 

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

Wednesday 9/10 @ The Mint Theater

The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that... 

<em>The Pool</em>

Film

The Pool

Wednesday 9/10 @ Film Forum

A portrait of class disparities and seemingly unattainable aspirations, The Pool — the latest from Chris Smith (American Movie) — follows... 

Kevin Bewersdorf: <em>Monuments to the INFOspirit</em>

Art

Kevin Bewersdorf

Wednesday 9/10 @ V&A

Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Wednesday 9/10 @ Various locations

The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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,... 

<em>Sixty Six</em>

Film

Sixty Six

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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,... 

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Wednesday 9/10 @ 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... 

Jennifer Steinkamp: <em>Daisy Bell</em>

Art

Daisy Bell

Wednesday 9/10 @ Lehmann Maupin

In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God.... 

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Wednesday 9/10 @ IFC Center

Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...