Events on Tuesday, June 23
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Patrick Wolf
- @ Highline Ballroom
- After getting arrested and narrowly escaping assault at the hands of SF cops (which, of course, was all tweeted), glammy pop... View details »
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- Négritude
- @ Exit Art
- An ambitious multimedia exhibition in several parts, Négritude contemplates the inception, evolution, and contemporary international influence of a seminal 20th-century black... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- New York Asian Film Festival 2009
- @ IFC Center
- For whatever reason, Asian cinema has become synonymous with violence, sex, and cyborgs, and the New York Asian Film Festival does... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hair
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- God of Carnage
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Stunning
- @ 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... 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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- More Flavor: Competition
- Sputnik Chess Knights
- @ Sputnik
- Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Waiting for Godot
- @ Studio 54
- Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Frogs: A Chorus of Colors
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Billy Elliot
- @ Imperial Theatre
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 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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- Art
- Huang Yong Ping
- @ Gladstone Gallery
- Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Norman Conquests
- @ 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... View details »
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- Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Shafrika, the White Girl
- @ Vineyard Theatre
- The Brady Bunch meets The Bill Cosby Show in the age of Obama in Anika Larsen's autobiographical new musical Shafrika, the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- West Side Story
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Things of Dry Hours
- @ 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... View details »
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- Spencer Finch
- @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage
- Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- Hola Mexico Film Festival
- @ Quad Cinema
- To the common channel-flipper, Mexico onscreen is either some "aye-dios-mio" melodrama or an epic starring a few trim Zapata moustaches. Founded... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling
- @ The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
- As we anxiously wait for the Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, this exhibition at... View details »
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- DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- With its almighty title, The Birth of a Nation (1915) proclaimed a novel directive for then-nascent cinema: let there be narrative.... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- @ Barbès
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Behind the Screen: Video Game Technology
- @ Museum of the Moving Image
- Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But... View details »
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- Film
- Whatever Works
- @ Various locations
- Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Keigwin + Company
- @ The Joyce Theater
- Besides the vigorous choreography, it's obvious that Larry Keigwin is having a blast with his work. His cheeky pieces have included... View details »
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- \'flō\: art, text, new media
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Antidepressant Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Jessica Stockholder
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Festival
- BAMcinemaFEST
- @ BAM Rose Cinemas
- BAMcinemaFEST replaces the popular Sundance at BAM season with a slightly smaller but still impressive lineup of New York premieres including... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sweet Storm
- @ 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... View details »
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- Brighton Rock and 10 Rillington Place
- @ Film Forum
- Best known for directing the Oscar-winning Gandhi, Sir Richard Attenborough has a resume of playing epic characters with unpeaceful tendencies. Film... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Coraline
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Sixties: Yanks in Britain
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- The pop troupers of the British Invasion weren't the 1960s' only across-the-pond transplants. In fact, several famous American studio directors —... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- The Roots
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Creating the Modern Stage
- @ The Morgan Library
- If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- A Clearing in the Streets
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- Comic Book Club
- @ The People's Improv Theater
- Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Our Town
- @ 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... View details »
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- David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Avedon Fashion 1944–2000
- @ 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... View details »
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- Sadie Benning: Play Pause
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist Sadie Benning is known for her experimental video narratives, which she started making in the late 1980s. First shown here... View details »
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- The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum first opened its doors in October 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda was filled with... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich.... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the newly restored Frank Lloyd Wright-designed landmark—the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The anniversary year opens... View details »
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- Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
- @ 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... View details »
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- Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Ancient Afghanistan—at the crossroads of major trade routes and the focus of invasions... View details »
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- Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- When Esoteric Buddhism was introduced to Japan from mainland China in the 9th century, it forever changed the visual landscape of... View details »
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- Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
- @ 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... View details »
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- Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- The final installment in a three-part series taking a closer look at photography in the Whitney’s collection, this exhibition focuses on... View details »
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- Intervals
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Intervals is a new contemporary art series designed to reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative practices. Conceived to take place... View details »
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- The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Learn By Doing
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- In conjunction with Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, the Sackler Center for Arts Education presents Learning By Doing, an exhibition... View details »
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- Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- One of the most innovative artists of the postwar period, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) is best known for sculptures and drawings... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- A Year with Children 2009
- @ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- A Year with Children 2009 showcases art by students participating in Learning Through Art (LTA), an artist-in-residence program of the Solomon... View details »
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- Lutz Bacher: MY SECRET LIFE
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present MY SECRET LIFE, Lutz Bacher's first museum survey exhibition, which spans several decades... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
- @ 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... View details »
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- Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- See the exhibition before it closes on Monday, September 7! Do you remember your first painting? Michelangelo’s biographers wrote that his... View details »
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