Events on Friday, September 5
Poetry Reading Fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Friday 9/ 5 @ KGB Bar
According to popular sentiment, poets live in ivory towers where, far from the hoi poloi, they can shoehorn words like "hippogriff"...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Aperture Gallery
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and...
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 5 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 5 @ Film Forum
In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen...
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 9/ 5 @ Longacre Theatre
It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying...
New York Clown Theatre Festival
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
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Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Various locations
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has...
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Comix
Kristen Schaal steps out from the shadow of Flight of the Conchords and The Daily Show and hits the stage with...
Friday 9/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ IFC Center
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...
