Events on Thursday, September 4
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Army Navy
- @ Union Pool
- Beatles-worshiping beach-pop purveyors Army Navy are as Cali-bred as they come. The band's sweet-toothed, straight-laced set is rife with warm, fuzzy... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Ellen Allien
- @ Highline Ballroom
- The Berlin invasion rolls through town tonight courtesy of FIXED, bringing doe-eyed techno doyenne Ellen Allien and party monsters Modeselektor to... View details »
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- More Flavor: Lecture
- David Wolfe
- @ Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors
- In case you missed last week's crunchy activities, scientist and raw-food pioneer David "Avocado" Wolfe swings through CotSM tonight for a... View details »
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- Spindrift
- @ Cake Shop
- Spaghetti-Western psych-rockers Spindrift were born for a gig in the back-room saloon in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (or... View details »
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- Art
- Tickle the Shitstem
- @ 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... View details »
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- Traitor
- @ Various locations
- Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hair
- @ 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... View details »
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- J.M.W. Turner
- @ 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... View details »
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- Shoot the Piano Player
- @ Film Forum
- In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- The Wackness
- @ Various locations
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... View details »
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- More Flavor: Shopping
- Housing Works Fall Preview Sales
- @ 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... View details »
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- Brideshead Revisited
- @ 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.... View details »
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- The Pool
- @ Film Forum
- A portrait of class disparities and seemingly unattainable aspirations, The Pool — the latest from Chris Smith (American Movie) — follows... View details »
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- Arctic Hysteria
- @ 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... View details »
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- Baghead
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Deprogram
- @ Love
- Chris Alker and Sushi Steve, responsible for the Lower East Side's weekly Stereo-Type parties, DJ and host this new monthly jam... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- South Pacific
- @ 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... View details »
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- Dalí: Painting and Film
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- @ 37 Arts
- Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- @ Longacre Theatre
- It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Trouble the Water
- @ IFC Center
- Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts... View details »
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- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- @ 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... View details »
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- Elegy
- @ Various locations
- Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Lady
- @ 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... View details »
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- Mister Foe
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Glass Cage
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tell No One
- @ Various locations
- Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Acrobatics
- New York Clown Theatre Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- After Nature
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- @ 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... View details »
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- Artist as Publisher
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Été d'Amour
- @ Santos Party House
- Respect, the newest entry in the deluge of summer parties, was originally founded in Paris by three Frenchmen who booked everyone... View details »
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- Sol LeWitt
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Bottle Shock
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- @ 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... View details »
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- Hamlet 2
- @ Various locations
- With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... View details »
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- Derek Buckner
- @ 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... View details »
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- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- @ 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... View details »
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- @ Lyceum Theatre
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Invasion 68: Prague
- @ Aperture Gallery
- For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- @ 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... View details »
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- A Great Place to be From
- @ Kraine Theater
- In A Great Place To Be From, a heatwave in Milwaukee has driven some of the town's citizens to extremes. Against... View details »
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- Year of the Fish
- @ Angelika Film Center
- Year of the Fish could be called an adult fairy tale — but really, it exposes the phrase as an oxymoron.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- @ 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... View details »
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- A Secret
- @ 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... View details »
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- Kehinde Wiley
- @ 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... View details »
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- Sixty Six
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- @ Spiegelworld
- This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... View details »
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- In the Heights
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- @ 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... View details »
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- I Served the King of England
- @ Various locations
- How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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