All events on Friday September 12
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- Towelhead
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various locations More times »
- It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded in the Texas suburbs... View details »
- Music: Global
- GlobeSonic
- Friday Sep 12 (7–11pm) @ Pier 1
- Free
- Burning Man may be a pile of ash by now, but the fourth annual GlobeSonic festival keeps the pantheistic spirit alive with a late-summer celebration... View details »
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- Minitek
- Friday Sep 12 @ Penn Plaza Pavilion More times »
- Mutek now has some much-needed competition when it comes to North American electronic-music festivals. Created by the founders of Minimoo — a series of techno-oriented... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Goldfrapp
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ Radio City Music Hall
- Giveaway
- On Seventh Tree, Goldfrapp's newest release, the sound is sweet and slow, an imaginative soundtrack to a somber summer day in the '70s. Lush, simple... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ La MaMa E.T.C. More times »
- Wickham Boyle's Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness uses the specificity of personal experience to try to better understand a pivotal moment in history. The moving... View details »
- Reading: Poetry
- EARSHOT
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ The Lucky Cat
- Giveaway
- Tonight, the coffeehouse-cum-lounge Lucky Cat sets up the lectern for another installment of EARSHOT, a boffo Williamsburg reading series. Since 2005, the prose-and-poetry program has... View details »
- Film
- The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
- Friday Sep 12 @ Film Forum More times »
- Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Meiko
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ Canal Room
- A fave of ubiquitous Morning Becomes Eclectic host Nic Harcourt (not to mention viewers of a certain prime-time ABC show), LA folkie Meiko toes the... View details »
- Film
- Burn After Reading
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various locations More times »
- After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift both their tone and... View details »
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- Craft Beer Week
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various locations More times »
- Contrary to popular belief, moderate beer consumption doesn't make you fat — it's the accompanying munchies and other bad dietary habits that lead to beer... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims of its leader. In... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Friday Sep 12 (8 & 10:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Friday Sep 12 (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
- Friday Sep 12 (10am–7:45pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Friday Sep 12 (10:30am–7:30pm) @ 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 »
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- Paragraph
- Friday Sep 12 @ 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
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Friday Sep 12 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Mister Foe
- Friday Sep 12 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous Scottish estate, spying on... View details »
- Art
- After Nature
- Friday Sep 12 (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 »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Friday Sep 12 @ 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 »
- Film
- Year of the Fish
- Friday Sep 12 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Year of the Fish could be called an adult fairy tale — but really, it exposes the phrase as an oxymoron. Ye Xian is sent... View details »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Friday Sep 12 @ 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 »
- Art
- J.M.W. Turner
- Friday Sep 12 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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 »
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- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Friday Sep 12 @ 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
- Dalí: Painting and Film
- Friday Sep 12 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Arctic Hysteria
- Friday Sep 12 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- Friday Sep 12 @ 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
- Friday Sep 12 @ 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
- Sixty Six
- Friday Sep 12 @ 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 »
- Film
- Bottle Shock
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various locations More times »
- 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 »
- Art
- Artist as Publisher
- Friday Sep 12 (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 »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Friday Sep 12 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Conflux Festival
- Friday Sep 12 @ Center for Architecture More times »
- Flâneurs, city explorers, artists, musicians, and writers congregate this weekend to celebrate urban psychogeography. Now in its fifth year, the Conflux Festival hosts a series... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- Friday Sep 12 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- Friday Sep 12 @ 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 »
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- Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
- Friday Sep 12 (5:30–7pm) @ North Cove Marina More times »
- With ever-increasing skyscrapers and gridlock traffic, it's easy to forget that we are surrounded by water. Get into the island-living mindset by climbing aboard an... View details »
- Art
- Kehinde Wiley
- Friday Sep 12 (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 »
- Film
- I Served the King of England
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various locations More times »
- How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy has everything to do... View details »
- Film
- Hamlet 2
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various locations More times »
- With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Trouble the Water
- Friday Sep 12 @ IFC Center More times »
- Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts many Americans, especially while... View details »
- Film
- Traitor
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various locations More times »
- Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist bomber Samir (Don Cheadle)... View details »
- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various locations More times »
- Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Dreamland Roller Rink
- Friday Sep 12 (7pm–midnight) @ Dreamland Roller Rink More times »
- Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this weekend. With some initial... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Invasion 68: Prague
- Friday Sep 12 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
- Free
- For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies... View details »
- Performing Arts: Festival
- Celebrate México Now
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various locations More times »
- Hot on the sparkling heels of the West Indian Day Parade and Carnival comes another celebration of culture. In its fifth year, Celebrate México Now... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- [title of show]
- Friday Sep 12 (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
- 1965UU
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ The Chocolate Factory More times »
- On the planetoid 1965UU, memory is forbidden and words mutate in meaning (i.e., you never know when a vine might become a rhinoceros). This makes... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- Friday Sep 12 @ 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 »
- Film
- Able Danger
- Friday Sep 12 (9pm) @ Two Boots Pioneer Theater More times »
- On this anniversary of September 11, revisit the tragic events of 2001 through the lens of fiction and conspiracy theory. Able Danger was, according to... View details »
- Performing Arts: Acrobatics
- New York Clown Theatre Festival
- Friday Sep 12 @ The Brick Theater More times »
- The Brick Theater Inc.'s third annual New York Clown Theatre Festival descends upon Williamsburg this September, proving that there's more to modern-day clowning than red... View details »
- Art
- Tickle the Shitstem
- Friday Sep 12 (10am–6pm) @ Zach Feuer Gallery More times »
- Free
- Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a Diminishing Deep Down Thirst,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Glass Cage
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ The Mint Theater More times »
- The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that are enjoyed on the... View details »
- Art
- Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ Deitch Studios More times »
- Free
- Street-art darling Swoon and her band of merry boat-builders — who sailed a scrap-raft flotilla dubbed the Miss Rockaway Armada up the Mississippi River over... View details »
- Film
- The Pool
- Friday Sep 12 @ Film Forum More times »
- A portrait of class disparities and seemingly unattainable aspirations, The Pool — the latest from Chris Smith (American Movie) — follows the story of a... View details »
- Art
- Kevin Bewersdorf
- Friday Sep 12 (noon–6pm) @ V&A More times »
- Free
- Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells himself like a televangelist... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Lady
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater More times »
- Theatrical parables about our nation's state of affairs aren't uncommon, but few draw as many subtle parallels as Lady. In the woods of Illinois, three... View details »
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- Circus Amok
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various NYC parks More times »
- Free
- After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional three-ringers. Offbeat, political, and,... View details »
- Art
- Derek Buckner
- Friday Sep 12 (10am–6pm) @ George Billis Gallery More times »
- Free
- In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings of giant piles of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Oh What War
- Friday Sep 12 (7:30pm) @ HERE Arts Center More times »
- Juggernaut Theatre Company's Oh What War is unflinching political theatre. Inspired by Joan Littlewood's 1960s musical Oh! What a Lovely War, the production features a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sa Ka La
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street More times »
- Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has been hailed as one of the world's greatest playwrights, yet few Americans had seen his work until three years ago,... View details »
- Art
- We Burn, We Shiver
- Friday Sep 12 (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
- In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
- Film
- A Secret
- Friday Sep 12 @ Various locations More times »
- This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not really about the Holocaust.... View details »
- Art
- Swirl of Swarm
- Friday Sep 12 (2–8pm) @ Cinders More times »
- Free
- Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which conveys the need for... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
- Friday Sep 12 (noon–5pm) @ Brooklyn Historical Society More times »
- From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many faces. With help from... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Anger/Nation
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ The Kitchen More times »
- A divisive female figure appears on the American political scene, promising to push the nation toward her own right-wing agenda — sound familiar? In Anger/Nation,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fifty Words
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
- In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic night alone soon sours:... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Great Place to be From
- Friday Sep 12 (7:30pm) @ Kraine Theater More times »
- In A Great Place To Be From, a heatwave in Milwaukee has driven some of the town's citizens to extremes. Against that backdrop, the four... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Number
- Friday Sep 12 (8pm) @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
- In Caryl Churchill's play A Number, a father faces the consequences of cloning his only son. As the original and the carbon copy take turns... View details »
- Art
- Daisy Bell
- Friday Sep 12 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
- Free
- In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God. The exhibit's titular song... View details »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- Friday Sep 12 (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 »
- Art
- Sue Williams
- Friday Sep 12 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
- Free
- From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a tight formal language of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- Friday Sep 12 (8:45 & 10:45pm) @ 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 »
