Events on Wednesday, June 10

Poetic City: A Celebration of Poets House

Books: Reading

Poetic City

Wednesday 6/10 @ Rockefeller Park

The Poets House, an insanely comprehensive library and literary event center, is about to move down to Battery Park City. To... 

Chandler Burr: <em>You or Someone Like You</em>

Books: Reading

Chandler Burr

Wednesday 6/10 @ McNally Jackson Booksellers

Chandler Burr's You or Someone Like You is a playful parody that tackles the role of literature in pop culture. The... 

Flavorpill at the Thrillist Loft feat. Duane Harriott

Party

Flavorpill at the Thrillist Loft

Wednesday 6/10 @ Thrillist Loft

Tonight we bro down with our dudely neighbors at Thrillist. They've secured a sweet loft just down the street from Flavorpill... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Wednesday 6/10 @ Barrow Street Theater

David Comer's justly praised production (he took home the '09 Obie for Outstanding Director, the play won the Lucille Lortel Award... 

<em>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Wednesday 6/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Bracketed by those historic "falls" in nearby Berlin (of the city itself and, later, its Wall), the Polish Poster School's expressionistic,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Wednesday 6/10 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Exit the King</em>

Theatre

Exit the King

Wednesday 6/10 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

400-year-old King Berenger (Geoffrey Rush) doesn't know he has only 90 minutes left to live at the beginning of Ionesco's rarely... 

Art

\'flō\: art, text, new media

Wednesday 6/10 @ Center for Book Arts

A motley collection of works by 30 artists makes up the \'flō\: art, text, new media exhibition, which examines the use... 

Art

KRAZY!

Wednesday 6/10 @ Japan Society

For all the otaku and hikikomori out there, this exhibition needs no further explanation — but for anyone curious about how... 

<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Wednesday 6/10 @ American Museum of Natural History

What eats fish, fowl, snails, fruit, crawfish, and frogs? Frogs do. The neckless, tailless charmers of class Amphibia count some voracious... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Wednesday 6/10 @ 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 Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Wednesday 6/10 @ Circle in the Square Theatre

Norman's plan for a "dirty weekend" with his sister-in-law Annie turns into a couple days of chaos with the whole family... 

<em>Coraline</em>

Theatre

Coraline

Wednesday 6/10 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

It's no fluke that beloved songwriter Stephin Merritt chose to set Neil Gaiman's book-turned-movie Coraline to music. The darkly droll circumstances... 

<em>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Wednesday 6/10 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Thirty-odd years after reintroducing Gustave Caillebotte to American audiences, the Brooklyn Museum offers another marvelous paean to a figure whose posthumous... 

The Putting Lot

Sports

The Putting Lot

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Putting Lot

To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them... 

Huang Yong Ping

Art

Huang Yong Ping

Wednesday 6/10 @ Gladstone Gallery

Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation... 

Art

Stuart Semple

Wednesday 6/10 @ Anna Kustera Gallery

The toast of London's contemporary art world, Stuart Semple brings a warped progression on Pop Art to New York. Everlasting, Nothing... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Pictures Generation pulls the curtain on the young laboratory of the New York art scene in the '70s and '80s.... 

Theatre

Our House

Wednesday 6/10 @ Playwrights Horizons

Whip-smart playwright Theresa Rebeck's newest play, Our House, is a dark send-up of television and how the news and reality TV... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Wednesday 6/10 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

Theatre

Richard III: An Arab Tragedy

Wednesday 6/10 @ BAM Harvey Theater

Merciless warlords, political spin, and religious foment render the Shakespearean canon rich terrain for mining contemporary global unrest. Enter Kuwaiti director... 

<em>Tangled Alphabets</em>: Le&oacute;n Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Art

Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Wednesday 6/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

For all its fundamental utility, language can also warp into an abstract whatsit — at least in the artful hands of... 

The Works' 35th Anniversary Season

Dance

Jennifer Muller/The Works

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Joyce Theater

Jennifer Muller has had her company with its great, to-the-point name for 35 years. The influential choreographer's signature technique is rooted... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Wednesday 6/10 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

A playground altercation between two preteen boys escalates to full-on war when their parents get involved in French playwright Yasmina Reza's... 

<em>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Wednesday 6/10 @ International Center of Photography

By August 1944, France had been liberated from the clutch of the Vichy regime, but war had left its proud-as-a-peacock couture... 

Jessica Stockholder: <em>Swiss Cheese Field</em>

Art

Jessica Stockholder

Wednesday 6/10 @ Senior & Shopmaker Gallery

Jessica Stockholder gets wild with layered compositions of paint blobs, handmade paper, laser-cut textiles (some furry, some shiny), and other collaged... 

Theatre

machineX7

Wednesday 6/10 @ HERE Arts Center

Three uniformed dimwits (Trey Lyford, Geoff Sobelle, Gabriel Quinn Bauridel) wait for the enemy. Yet the guys' nonsensical machismo is unspecific... 

Ahmed Alsoudani

Art

Ahmed Alsoudani

Wednesday 6/10 @ Goff + Rosenthal Gallery

Iraqi-born American painter Ahmed Alsoudani builds tumultuous compositions about violence, war, and human suffering, juxtaposing human and bestial figures whose violent... 

<em>The Amish Project</em>

Theatre

The Amish Project

Wednesday 6/10 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project occupies a nebulous zone between fact and fiction, billing itself as a "fictional exploration" of the... 

<em>Rashomon</em> (1950)

Film

Rashomon

Wednesday 6/10 @ Film Forum

Released in 1950, Rashomon left a seismic mark on cinema's landscape and language — not to forget lie-test graphs. Akira Kurosawa's... 

Theatre

Next Fall

Wednesday 6/10 @ Playwrights Horizons

"You don't have to believe in hell to walk around all the time feeling like you're going to burn in it,"... 

<em>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Morgan Library

If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Wednesday 6/10 @ 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... 

Art

Malcolm Morley

Wednesday 6/10 @ Sperone Westwater

Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a... 

Art

Klaus Moje

Wednesday 6/10 @ Museum of Art and Design

As a German Down Under, glass-art virtuoso Klaus Moje has single-handedly made Australia a hub for that fine art's evolution. Artist... 

Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

While the peripatetic, 20th-century artist may only have been the second most famous Francis Bacon to bless English shores, he was... 

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Wednesday 6/10 @ Studio 54

Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Wednesday 6/10 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: <em>A Clearing in the Streets</em>

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Wednesday 6/10 @ Collect Pond Park

The always awesome public-art sponsors at Public Art Fund debut a new downtown work by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith. Their... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Palace Theatre

Argentine opera singer Josephine Scaglione's magnetically angelic presence contrasts beautifully with the unforgiving world around her in Arthur Laurents' gritty revival... 

<em>Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam</em>

Art

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

Wednesday 6/10 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Museum joins forces with the Met to present a well-chosen selection of art objects and manuscripts illuminating the Islamic... 

Art

The Heart of a Woman: Harlequin Cover Art 1949-2009

Wednesday 6/10 @ Open House Gallery

Romance novels may not be taken seriously as literature, but this exhibition at Openhouse Gallery positions their covers as legitimate artwork.... 

<em>N&eacute;gritude</em>

Art

Négritude

Wednesday 6/10 @ Exit Art

An ambitious multimedia exhibition in several parts, Négritude contemplates the inception, evolution, and contemporary international influence of a seminal 20th-century black... 

The Roots present The Jam

Music: Hip-Hop

The Roots

Wednesday 6/10 @ Highline Ballroom

The Roots are many things to many people, beloved by jazzbos and hip-hop heads alike for their thought-provoking lyrics, funky hooks,... 

Art

Claes Oldenburg

Wednesday 6/10 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

With public-art dandy Claes Oldenburg, Pound's dictum seems especially true: all great art is born of the metropolis. The Whitney's Oldenburg... 

The Brick presents the Antidepressant Festival

Comedy

The Antidepressant Festival

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Brick Theater

The Brick's Antidepressant Festival doesn't promise more traditional antidepressants (of the self-medicating sort) like tubs of ice cream or scotch, but... 

Theatre

Things of Dry Hours

Wednesday 6/10 @ New York Theatre Workshop

Delroy Lindo returns to the New York stage as Tice Hogan, a black communist recruiter in depression-era Alabama whose values are... 

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Wednesday 6/10 @ International Center of Photography

For photographer Richard Avedon, the decisive moment came as a flash of mischief. Picture: two lovely femmes, their coated backs shielding... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Wednesday 6/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:... 

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

View the exhibition Napoleon III and Paris before it closes on Monday, September 7 and explore the changing shape of Paris during... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Wednesday 6/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

In recent decades "landscape" has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Wednesday 6/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Wednesday 6/10 @ Asia Society and Museum

Check out the premiere U.S. museum showing of Yang Fudong's Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest. The five-part cinematic masterpiece depicts... 

Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages

Art

Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Learn how with strokes of genius, artists in the Middle Ages explored... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Wednesday 6/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

This summer's installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture.... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Wednesday 6/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched... 

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Art

The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

Wednesday 6/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

After two years of major construction and renovation, the Met’s Charles Engelhard Court—the spectacular, light-filled pavilion along Central Park—has reopened to... 

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Art

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Wednesday 6/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, acquired by the Museum in 2005, is an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 contemporary... 

What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Art

What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Wednesday 6/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape...