Events on Friday, June 5
Friday 6/ 5 @ American Folk Art Museum
Tonight, the recently spiffy American Folk Art Museum throws a party for its outstanding lineup of exhibitions, including the titular Kaleidoscope...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Highline Ballroom
On her solo debut, Brechtian cabaret punk and Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer checks out of Hot Topic and into adulthood....
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 59E59 Theaters
Morris Panych's dark comedy The Dishwashers is reminiscent of a Samuel Beckett work, complete with existential philosophizing and dialogue that prompts...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
The Pictures Generation, 1974-84
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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....
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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,...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Various locations
Internet Week successfully brings together the masters, muses, and mutts of the digital age for parties, discussions, panels, mixers, and seminars....
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Gladstone Gallery
Viewers walk in spirals from a snake's tail to its head, and back again through the arches of this massive installation...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success)
Friday 6/ 5 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
In her latest work, composer/singer/theatre artist Cynthia Hopkins explores when failure is actually success — and vice versa — voyaging from...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Various Bushwick galleries
Yo, arthound: Go east, young man! This weekend, the 100-plus Bushwick galleries and artist-studio spaces dotting the area's warehoused landscape fling...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
The Heart of a Woman: Harlequin Cover Art 1949-2009
Friday 6/ 5 @ Open House Gallery
Romance novels may not be taken seriously as literature, but this exhibition at Openhouse Gallery positions their covers as legitimate artwork....
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts
A champion of the good old-fashioned methods of observation and draughtsmanship, Gregory Crane populates urban and rural landscapes with spirited sets...
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Harriman State Park
If your Fridays are packing less variation — but possibly more alcohol — than you'd like, beat the numbers with this...
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
The Films of Rosa von Praunheim
Friday 6/ 5 @ Anthology Film Archives
This four-day retrospective spotlighting Rosa von Praunheim, a stalwart figure in gay cinema, peaks with a red-letter performance of his life,...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Sperone Westwater
Careening motocross and NASCAR racers skid across Malcolm Morley's new paintings — one even leaps through a monumental sculpture in a...
Friday 6/ 5 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker
Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 303 Bond Street
The original "origin" story is another glittery triumph for choreographer/director Austin McCormick and XIV. With the assistance of a demonic Ringmistress...
Friday 6/ 5 @ The Morgan Library
If only it was possible to see how designs for Creating the Modern Stage looked and functioned back in their original...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Artists Space
Flowers that manage to exist in cement-road crevices: a timeless analogy for nature's resiliency in the face of man, and also,...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Studio 54
Master comic actors Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, and John Goodman infuse a bit of glee in the cosmic questions posed by...
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
Friday 6/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
From Zane Grey's far-fetched dime novels to homespun images describing a seemingly limitless stretch of adventure, the American West — as...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
One of the first Broadway plays to openly discuss female homosexuality, Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, from 1934, holds up remarkably...
Friday 6/ 5 @ The Mercury Lounge
Indie-pop punks Art Brut take over Mercury Lounge this week, on the heels of the release of their third album, Art...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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....
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
