Events on Friday, September 12
Friday 9/12 @ Pier 1
Burning Man may be a pile of ash by now, but the fourth annual GlobeSonic festival keeps the pantheistic spirit alive...
Friday 9/12 @ Radio City Music Hall
On Seventh Tree, Goldfrapp's newest release, the sound is sweet and slow, an imaginative soundtrack to a somber summer day in...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Friday 9/12 @ Film Forum
Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
Friday 9/12 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Wickham Boyle's Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness uses the specificity of personal experience to try to better understand a pivotal moment...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
New York Clown Theatre Festival
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 9/12 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Friday 9/12 @ Center for Architecture
Flâneurs, city explorers, artists, musicians, and writers congregate this weekend to celebrate urban psychogeography. Now in its fifth year, the Conflux...
Friday 9/12 @ Dreamland Roller Rink
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Two Boots Pioneer Theater
On this anniversary of September 11, revisit the tragic events of 2001 through the lens of fiction and conspiracy theory. Able...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ 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,...
Friday 9/12 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Friday 9/12 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Friday 9/12 @ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Various locations
How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Various locations
Hot on the sparkling heels of the West Indian Day Parade and Carnival comes another celebration of culture. In its fifth...
Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
Friday 9/12 @ Deitch Studios
Street-art darling Swoon and her band of merry boat-builders — who sailed a scrap-raft flotilla dubbed the Miss Rockaway Armada up...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ The Kitchen
A divisive female figure appears on the American political scene, promising to push the nation toward her own right-wing agenda —...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ 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....
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Kraine Theater
In A Great Place To Be From, a heatwave in Milwaukee has driven some of the town's citizens to extremes. Against...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ IFC Center
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
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Friday 9/12 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Friday 9/12 @ Aperture Gallery
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and...
Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
Friday 9/12 @ North Cove Marina
With ever-increasing skyscrapers and gridlock traffic, it's easy to forget that we are surrounded by water. Get into the island-living mindset...
Friday 9/12 @ Penn Plaza Pavilion
Mutek now has some much-needed competition when it comes to North American electronic-music festivals. Created by the founders of Minimoo —...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Various locations
Contrary to popular belief, moderate beer consumption doesn't make you fat — it's the accompanying munchies and other bad dietary habits...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ Angelika Film Center
Year of the Fish could be called an adult fairy tale — but really, it exposes the phrase as an oxymoron....
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
Friday 9/12 @ David Zwirner
From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a...
Friday 9/12 @ 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,...
Friday 9/12 @ 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...
