Events on Tuesday, June 23

Patrick Wolf w/ Living Things, Plastiscines, and Jaguar Love
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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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<em>N&eacute;gritude</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Featured
New York Asian Film Festival 2009
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Hair</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Paragraph
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Sputnik Chess Knights
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Waiting for Godot</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Featured
<em>Billy Elliot</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Huang Yong Ping
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Norman Conquests</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Shafrika, the White Girl</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Sold Out!
Ongoing
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free Featured
Hola Mexico Film Festival USA '09
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
DJ Spooky's <em>Rebirth of a Nation</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Film
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 »
Ongoing
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Slavic Soul Party!
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Behind the Screen</em>: Video Game Technology
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Whatever Works</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Keigwin + Company
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
Art
\'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 »
Ongoing
Free
The Brick presents the Antidepressant Festival
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Jessica Stockholder: <em>Swiss Cheese Field</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Free
BAMcinemaFEST
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Sweet Storm</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Featured
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Coraline</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Film
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 »
Ongoing
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The Roots present The Jam
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: <em>A Clearing in the Streets</em>
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Comic Book Club
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Our Town</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Featured
<em>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Sadie Benning: Play Pause
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Leandro Erlich: <em>Swimming Pool</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
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Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
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Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
Film
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 »
Ongoing
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Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Intervals
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Learn By Doing
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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A Year with Children 2009
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Lutz Bacher: <em>MY SECRET LIFE</em>
Month_06 Tuesday Day_23
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
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Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Month_06 Wednesday Day_24
Art
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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