All events on Friday September 26
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- Art Under the Bridge
- Friday Sep 26 @ Various DUMBO locations More times »
- Free
- For the twelfth year in a row, the galleries and artists of DUMBO open their doors for a three-day festival that spills into the surrounding... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Tropfest NY 2008
- Friday Sep 26 (5pm) @ World Financial Center
- Free
- Last year, Australia's premier short-film festival — and the world's largest gathering in the name of abbreviated cinema — occurred stateside as a popular adjunct... View details »
- Film
- Man with a Movie Camera
- Friday Sep 26 (7 & 9pm) @ Anthology Film Archives
- Giveaway
- Dziga Vertov, the wizard of agitprop, once proclaimed, "I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you." The director's landmark "documentary," Man with... View details »
- Film
- Humboldt County
- Friday Sep 26 @ Various locations More times »
- Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest communities whose sole source... View details »
- Reading: Poetry
- Slovene Poetry
- Friday Sep 26 (10pm) @ St. Mark's Church
- In a five-page diary entry, Franz Kafka ruminated on the virtues and pitfalls of authorship in undersized and overshadowed writing communities. The entry became the... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Trouble & Bass Two-Year Anniversary
- Friday Sep 26 (10pm) @ Love
- Giveaway
- Combining their powers, party rockers Drop the Lime, the Captain, Star Eyes, and Math Head formed Trouble & Bass just two years ago. The ambitious... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- An Albatross
- Friday Sep 26 (8pm) @ Death by Audio
- More than any other band, Pennsylvania's An Albatross epitomize turn-of-the-century grind punk. Anchored by prog chops and pinched-throat screamo vocals, the songs rarely last two... View details »
- Music: Experimental
- Jad Fair w/ Lumberob
- Friday Sep 26 (8pm) @ Cake Shop
- Giveaway
- The avant-garde's ultimate outsider, Half Japanese guru Jad Fair remains pretty much the the most misunderstood artist in existence. Some 20 years into his career,... View details »
- Reading: Poetry
- Carmen Valle
- Friday Sep 26 (7–8pm) @ McNally Jackson Booksellers
- Free
- The haiku poetry form has had its share of ups and downs since its origins in 17th-century Japan. At various times, haikus were scoffed at... View details »
- Film
- Choke
- Friday Sep 26 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all her wonderful fangs), and... View details »
- More Flavor: Competition
- Art Battles w/ AMIT and DJ Teen Wolf
- Friday Sep 26 (11pm) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Giveaway
- If white-walled museums and galleries make you sleepy, tonight's live-art party is a welcome relief. Hosted by new West Village venue Poisson Rouge, the quarterly... View details »
- Art
- The Outsiders
- Friday Sep 26 (11am–7pm) @ Lazarides Gallery NYC More times »
- Free
- Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla wheatpasting, collage, stencil, and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Friday Sep 26 (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
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
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- The Science Barge
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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
- Louise Bourgeois
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Art
- Kehinde Wiley
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Friday Sep 26 (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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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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: Documentary
- American Teen
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
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- Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Dreamland Roller Rink
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Film
- Bottle Shock
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Art
- Tickle the Shitstem
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Film
- Hamlet 2
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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
- Traitor
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Lady
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Film
- I Served the King of England
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Art
- Derek Buckner
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Invasion 68: Prague
- Friday Sep 26 (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: Theatre
- The Glass Cage
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Great Place to be From
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Film
- Mister Foe
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Acrobatics
- New York Clown Theatre Festival
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Film
- A Secret
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 26 (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 »
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- Circus Amok
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sa Ka La
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Number
- Friday Sep 26 (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
- Kevin Bewersdorf
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Art
- We Burn, We Shiver
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Art
- Daisy Bell
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Oh What War
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
- Friday Sep 26 (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
- Fifty Words
- Friday Sep 26 (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
- 1965UU
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Anger/Nation
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Art
- Sue Williams
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Film
- Towelhead
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Film
- The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Film
- Burn After Reading
- Friday Sep 26 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Friday Sep 26 (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 »
- Music: Festival
- The Festival of New Trumpet Music
- Friday Sep 26 @ Various locations More times »
- In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance. Starting today, the high... View details »
- Art
- Street Art, Street Life
- Friday Sep 26 (noon–8pm) @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts More times »
- Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator Lydia Yee of the... View details »
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- FIAF Fall Festival
- Friday Sep 26 @ Various locations More times »
- Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking groceries; jazz is "turned... View details »
- Performing Arts: Festival
- Crossing the Line
- Friday Sep 26 @ Various locations More times »
- A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French dance festival, but after... View details »
- Film
- Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
- Friday Sep 26 @ MoMA More times »
- As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's movie scene in the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Quickening
- Friday Sep 26 (8pm) @ Center Stage More times »
- Quickening uncovers the struggles of four women who make the choice to have abortions. Set in a Portland abortion clinic, the protagonists shed warmth and... View details »
- Art
- William Pope.L
- Friday Sep 26 (10am–6pm) @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash More times »
- Free
- In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through the city, titled The... View details »
- Art
- Mario Merz
- Friday Sep 26 (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera ("poor art"), a movement... View details »
- Art
- Other Options
- Friday Sep 26 @ Eyebeam More times »
- Free
- Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails of securing support for... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Break Out
- Friday Sep 26 (7 & 10pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
- The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of De La Guarda. Korean... View details »
- Film
- Battle in Seattle
- Friday Sep 26 @ Various locations More times »
- In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political agenda. Most protest films... View details »
- Art
- Doug Aitken
- Friday Sep 26 (10am–6pm) @ 303 Gallery More times »
- Free
- Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303 Gallery. His new show... View details »
- Art
- Signs of Change
- Friday Sep 26 (10am–8pm) @ Exit Art More times »
- Free
- The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice movements from over 40... View details »
- Art: Festival
- Democracy in America
- Friday Sep 26 @ Park Avenue Armory More times »
- Free
- Creative Time and Park Avenue Armory celebrate the election year (and their first-amendment rights) with Democracy in America: The National Campaign. The ambitious array of... View details »
- Art
- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- Friday Sep 26 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time when his thick impasto... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Rudy Burckhardt
- Friday Sep 26 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped with an outsider's eye... View details »
- Art
- Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
- Friday Sep 26 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- 1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived — but also deeply influential... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- The Bad Plus
- Friday Sep 26 (9 & 11pm) @ Village Vanguard More times »
- Three distinct musical personalities make up the Bad Plus. Drummer David King drives syncopated, rough-around-the-edges rhythms, while Ethan Iverson's piano provides a link to jazz,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- An American Rendition
- Friday Sep 26 (8pm) @ The Duke Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- Jane Comfort seamlessly blends scenes of torture and reality television in her new work, An American Rendition. Her talented company members act, sing, and dance... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Tere O'Connor Dance
- Friday Sep 26 (7 & 9pm) @ Baryshnikov Arts Center More times »
- Tere O'Connor Dance is not only inspired by contemporary architecture, but uses dance movements as shifting layers of architectural evidence — as in rammed-earth construction... View details »
- Performing Arts: Festival
- Prelude '08
- Friday Sep 26 @ Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY More times »
- Free
- The annual Prelude festival is a free sneak peek of the upcoming experimental-theatre season. Under the auspices of the CUNY Graduate Center's theatre program, a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival
- Friday Sep 26 @ Various locations More times »
- Russian-born comedian Eugene Mirman is kind of like baby-faced prankster Andy Milonakis — except he probably doesn't still get carded. Over the next few days,... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Untethered
- Friday Sep 26 (noon–6pm) @ Eyebeam More times »
- Free
- Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in which common modern-day objects... View details »
