Events on Friday, June 12

An Evening with Harold Ramis feat. David Cross

Special Event

Harold Ramis and David Cross

Friday 6/12 @ The Times Center

As the genius behind such genre-redefining comedies as Caddyshack, Animal House, Groundhog Day, and of course, Ghostbusters, Harold Ramis probably has... 

City Gems

Yoga Soundscape

Friday 6/12 @ YogaWorks Soho

Recently, the experience of yoga in NYC has been particularly creative, with legions of New Yorkers moving through classes at the... 

Air Sex World Championship

Special Event

Air Sex World Championship

Friday 6/12 @ Highline Ballroom

Finally, the perfect competition for those of us who find no day complete without a proper air-hump. Austin's Air Sex Championship... 

Ongoing Events

Art

Claes Oldenburg

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jessica Stockholder

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 6/12 @ Paragraph

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

Open Tables

Workshop/Class

Open Tables

Friday 6/12 @ Sputnik

Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about... 

Art

Stuart Semple

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Friday 6/12 @ 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>Exit the King</em>

Theatre

Exit the King

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Friday 6/12 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>The Amish Project</em>

Theatre

The Amish Project

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Film

Staunch! Grey Gardens Fest

Friday 6/12 @ Maysles Cinema

Fans have been daft about Big and Little Edie Beale — cloistered aunt and cousin of Jackie O. — ever since... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Art

\'flō\: art, text, new media

Friday 6/12 @ 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

Jonathan Horowitz

Friday 6/12 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video... 

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

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Art

KRAZY!

Friday 6/12 @ Japan Society

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

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Friday 6/12 @ 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.... 

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Friday 6/12 @ Studio 54

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

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

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Friday 6/12 @ 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>The L </em>Magazine<em> </em>presents the Northside Music and Arts Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Northside Music and Arts Festival

Friday 6/12 @ Various locations

CMJ better watch its back. The L magazine launches the inaugural Northside Festival this week, featuring the best in NYC —... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Friday 6/12 @ 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>Shafrika, the White Girl</em>

Theatre

Shafrika, the White Girl

Friday 6/12 @ Vineyard Theatre

The Brady Bunch meets The Bill Cosby Show in the age of Obama in Anika Larsen's autobiographical new musical Shafrika, the... 

Theatre

Next Fall

Friday 6/12 @ 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,"... 

Huang Yong Ping

Art

Huang Yong Ping

Friday 6/12 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

The Putting Lot

Sports

The Putting Lot

Friday 6/12 @ The Putting Lot

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

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

Art

Négritude

Friday 6/12 @ Exit Art

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

Theatre

God of Carnage

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

FIGMENT

Festival: Performing Arts

FIGMENT

Friday 6/12 @ Governors Island

Back for its third year, the massive community-art playground that is FIGMENT takes over Governors Island with a free weekend of... 

Theatre

Things of Dry Hours

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Friday 6/12 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 6/12 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Theatre

Stunning

Friday 6/12 @ The Duke Theater

David Adjmi's off-Broadway debut is a striking, and yes, stunning black satire of the insular Syrian-Jewish community in Midwood, Brooklyn. Teenage... 

Art

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

Friday 6/12 @ 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>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Theatre

machineX7

Friday 6/12 @ 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

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Friday 6/12 @ 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>Coraline</em>

Theatre

Coraline

Friday 6/12 @ 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>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Friday 6/12 @ 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,... 

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

<em>Sweet Storm</em>

Theatre

Sweet Storm

Friday 6/12 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row

Two southern newlyweds are the only characters present in Sweet Storm, but there is more than enough drama stemming from this... 

The Works' 35th Anniversary Season

Dance

Jennifer Muller/The Works

Friday 6/12 @ 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

Richard III: An Arab Tragedy

Friday 6/12 @ BAM Harvey Theater

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

Art

Malcolm Morley

Friday 6/12 @ Sperone Westwater

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

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Friday 6/12 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts... 

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

Art

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Art

Klaus Moje

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Friday 6/12 @ 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

Our House

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

The Brick presents the Antidepressant Festival

Comedy

The Antidepressant Festival

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Festival: Performing Arts

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Friday 6/12 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

For 20 years now, this festival has tirelessly recited those three little words: justice for all. This year's edition features dozens... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Friday 6/12 @ 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

Friday 6/12 @ 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.... 

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

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

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

Friday 6/12 @ 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

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Friday 6/12 @ 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... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Friday 6/12 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Friday 6/12 @ 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...