Events on Wednesday, June 24

Songs for the Cup of Life: A Stevie Wonder Wine Pairing

Food/Wine

Songs for the Cup of Life

Wednesday 6/24 @ City Winery

Knitting Factory founder Michael Dorf created City Winery to combine his two passions: great music and great wine. Building off the... 

Ongoing Events

Art

Claes Oldenburg

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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.... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Wednesday 6/24 @ Paragraph

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

Theatre

machineX7

Wednesday 6/24 @ HERE Arts Center

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

The Brick presents the Antidepressant Festival

Comedy

The Antidepressant Festival

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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>Sweet Storm</em>

Theatre

Sweet Storm

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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

Hound

Wednesday 6/24 @ Robert Moss Theatre

John Patrick Bray's Hound takes its name from Sherlock Holmes' and Dr. Watson's best-known case. Only now, the Victorian detecting duo... 

Huang Yong Ping

Art

Huang Yong Ping

Wednesday 6/24 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

<em>Whatever Works</em>

Film

Whatever Works

Wednesday 6/24 @ Various locations

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

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

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

Art

Négritude

Wednesday 6/24 @ Exit Art

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

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

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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,... 

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

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

<em>Waiting for Godot</em>

Theatre

Waiting for Godot

Wednesday 6/24 @ Studio 54

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

Film

The Sixties: Yanks in Britain

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Wednesday 6/24 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Film

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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.... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Art

Klaus Moje

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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 6/24 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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>The Amish Project</em>

Theatre

The Amish Project

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

BAMcinemaFEST

Festival: Performing Arts

BAMcinemaFEST

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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>Coraline</em>

Theatre

Coraline

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Art

\'flō\: art, text, new media

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Hola Mexico Film Festival USA '09

Festival: Performing Arts

Hola Mexico Film Festival

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

LAXART Off-Site Initiatives presents Thomas Lawson: <em>New World</em>

Art

Thomas Lawson

Wednesday 6/24 @ Participant Inc

As part of Los Angeles-based gallery LAXART's LAPD (LA Public Domain) series, subtitled "Artistic and Curatorial Interventions in Experimental Contexts," curator... 

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

Art

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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,... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jessica Stockholder

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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

Stunning

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

The Putting Lot

Sports

The Putting Lot

Wednesday 6/24 @ The Putting Lot

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

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Wednesday 6/24 @ Imperial Theatre

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

Theatre

Things of Dry Hours

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

New York Asian Film Festival 2009

Festival: Performing Arts

New York Asian Film Festival 2009

Wednesday 6/24 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Film

Brighton Rock and 10 Rillington Place

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Projects 90: Song Dong

Art

Projects 90: Song Dong

Wednesday 6/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

For his first solo U.S. museum exhibition, Beijing-based artist Song Dong (b. 1966) presents his recent work
... 

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

Art

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

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Performance 4: Roman Ondák

Special Event

Performance 4: Roman Ondák

Wednesday 6/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Viewers play a vital role in the creation of Measuring the Universe (2007), by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák (b. 1966). Over... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Looking at Music: Side 2

Art

Looking at Music: Side 2

Wednesday 6/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Art

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

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Wednesday 6/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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.... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Wednesday 6/24 @ 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...