Events on Friday, September 5

Poetry Reading and Fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society feat. David Lehman

Books: Poetry

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"... 

Flashing Lights feat. Klever w/ DJ Ayres, Nick Catchdubs, and Jubilee

Music: DJ

Klever

Friday 9/ 5 @ Public Assembly

Ah, how times change. Alt-performance mainstay Galapagos has moved to DUMBO, leaving its Williamsburg home to new owners who now call... 

Ongoing Events

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

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... 

J.M.W. Turner

Art

J.M.W. Turner

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... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

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... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Friday 9/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre

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

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

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... 

<em>After Nature</em>

Art

After Nature

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... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

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.... 

<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

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... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Friday 9/ 5 @ 37 Arts

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

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

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... 

<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>

Art: Photography

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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

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... 

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

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... 

<em>The Pool</em>

Film

The Pool

Friday 9/ 5 @ Film Forum

A portrait of class disparities and seemingly unattainable aspirations, The Pool — the latest from Chris Smith (American Movie) — follows... 

Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise

Special Event

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... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

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... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

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... 

<em>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Friday 9/ 5 @ 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>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

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... 

Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>

Art

Derek Buckner

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... 

<em>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Friday 9/ 5 @ Various locations

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

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

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... 

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

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

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... 

<em>Shoot the Piano Player </em>(1960)

Film

Shoot the Piano Player

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... 

<em>A Great Place to be From</em>

Theatre

A Great Place to be From

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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 9/ 5 @ Paragraph

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

Mel Kadel and Suzanne Sattler: <em>Swirl of Swarm</em>

Art

Swirl of Swarm

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... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

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... 

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

Art

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... 

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

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... 

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

Theatre

Hair

Friday 9/ 5 @ 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>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

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... 

<em>Traitor</em>

Film

Traitor

Friday 9/ 5 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

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... 

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

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... 

Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink

City Gems

Dreamland Roller Rink

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... 

<em>Mister Foe</em>

Film

Mister Foe

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... 

<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>

Art

Arctic Hysteria

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... 

<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

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... 

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

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... 

<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

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... 

<em>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

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... 

Theatre

Lady

Friday 9/ 5 @ 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... 

<em>Invasion 68: Prague</em>

Art: Photography

Invasion 68: Prague

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... 

<em>Elegy</em>

Film

Elegy

Friday 9/ 5 @ Various locations

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

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Theatre

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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... 

<em>A Secret</em>

Film

A Secret

Friday 9/ 5 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

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... 

<em>Year of the Fish</em>

Film

Year of the Fish

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.... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

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,... 

<em>Sixty Six</em>

Film

Sixty Six

Friday 9/ 5 @ 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,... 

Kristen Schaal & Kurt Braunohler

Comedy

Kristen Schaal

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... 

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

Art

Tickle the Shitstem

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... 

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

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...