Events on Tuesday, June 23

Patrick Wolf w/ Living Things, Plastiscines, and Jaguar Love

Music

Patrick Wolf

Tuesday 6/23 @ Highline Ballroom

After getting arrested and narrowly escaping assault at the hands of SF cops (which, of course, was all tweeted), glammy pop... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Tuesday 6/23 @ Studio 54

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

Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>

Art

Spencer Finch

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 6/23 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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>Sweet Storm</em>

Theatre

Sweet Storm

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

<em>Shafrika, the White Girl</em>

Theatre

Shafrika, the White Girl

Tuesday 6/23 @ Vineyard Theatre

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

Art

\'flō\: art, text, new media

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

<em>Whatever Works</em>

Film

Whatever Works

Tuesday 6/23 @ Various locations

Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the... 

The Roots present The Jam

Music: Hip-Hop

The Roots

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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,... 

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 6/23 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Theatre

God of Carnage

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

Theatre

machineX7

Tuesday 6/23 @ HERE Arts Center

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

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

DJ Spooky's <em>Rebirth of a Nation</em>

Film

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Jessica Stockholder

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

Sputnik Chess Knights

Special Event

Sputnik Chess Knights

Tuesday 6/23 @ Sputnik

Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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.... 

Keigwin + Company

Dance

Keigwin + Company

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

The Brick presents the Antidepressant Festival

Comedy

The Antidepressant Festival

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

BAMcinemaFEST

Festival: Performing Arts

BAMcinemaFEST

Tuesday 6/23 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

BAMcinemaFEST replaces the popular Sundance at BAM season with a slightly smaller but still impressive lineup of New York premieres including... 

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

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Tuesday 6/23 @ The Morgan Library

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

Hola Mexico Film Festival USA '09

Festival: Performing Arts

Hola Mexico Film Festival

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

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

Art

Négritude

Tuesday 6/23 @ Exit Art

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

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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,... 

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

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

Film

The Sixties: Yanks in Britain

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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 —... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

Festival: Performing Arts

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

Huang Yong Ping

Art

Huang Yong Ping

Tuesday 6/23 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

Theatre

Stunning

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 6/23 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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>Coraline</em>

Theatre

Coraline

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

New York Asian Film Festival 2009

Festival: Performing Arts

New York Asian Film Festival 2009

Tuesday 6/23 @ IFC Center

For whatever reason, Asian cinema has become synonymous with violence, sex, and cyborgs, and the New York Asian Film Festival does... 

Film

Brighton Rock and 10 Rillington Place

Tuesday 6/23 @ Film Forum

Best known for directing the Oscar-winning Gandhi, Sir Richard Attenborough has a resume of playing epic characters with unpeaceful tendencies. Film... 

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

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

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

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Tuesday 6/23 @ 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...