Events on Tuesday, September 2

Lou Reed w/ John Zorn

Music

Lou Reed

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ (le) poisson rouge

Glam rocker, junkie, and avant-garde noise artist Lou Reed has lived countless musical lifetimes, and it seems he's got many more... 

Ongoing Events

Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>

Art

Derek Buckner

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

J.M.W. Turner

Art

J.M.W. Turner

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Spiegelworld

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

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Traitor</em>

Film

Traitor

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Various locations

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

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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>Elegy</em>

Film

Elegy

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Various locations

Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip... 

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

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Various locations

Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... 

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Theatre

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Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

<em>Sixty Six</em>

Film

Sixty Six

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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,... 

Housing Works Fall Preview Sales

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Housing Works Fall Preview Sales

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Housing Works Thrift Shops

A change of season is a perfect excuse for a change of wardrobe — especially when it's easy on your weathered... 

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Paragraph

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

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ The People's Improv Theater

Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... 

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 37 Arts

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

<em>Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet </em>(2005)<em>
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Film: Documentary

Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Film Forum

American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra gets the documentary treatment in Maria Anna Tappeiner's film Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet. Serra... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Tickle the Shitstem

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

Afrika Bambaataa

Music: DJ

Afrika Bambaataa

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ APT

Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance... 

<em>Year of the Fish</em>

Film

Year of the Fish

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Angelika Film Center

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

Shakespeare in the Park presents <em>Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical</em>

Theatre

Hair

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Longacre Theatre

It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... 

<em>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Various locations

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