Events on Wednesday, July 15

Real HBO Summer Film Series presents <em>Red Dawn</em> (1984)

Film

Red Dawn (1984)

Wednesday 7/15 @ Under St. Marks

Bourne scribe Tony Gilroy recently attached his name to the why-oh-why remake of Red Dawn, ostensibly to update the paranoiac tone... 

King of Pop, Master of the Music Video: A Tribute to Michael Jackson

Film

King of Pop, Master of the Music Video

Wednesday 7/15 @ Marcus Garvey Park

Michael Jackson's personal life might have been an unholy tangle, but the King of Pop's music and videos will remain sacred... 

Gallery Talk: The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

Art

Gallery Talk: The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

Wednesday 7/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Born into the media culture of postwar America, this loosely knit group of New York artists including Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman,... 

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society

Music

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society

Wednesday 7/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Wednesday 07.15.09
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
6:30pm doors | 7:30pm
... 

Iran: A Conversation About the Elections, Protest, and the Future

Special Event

Iran: A Conversation About the Elections, Protest, and the Future

Wednesday 7/15 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Hot on the heels of the Chelsea Museum's Iran Inside Out exhibit (still up!), comes another insightful look at that nation's... 

XRAY Cabaret w/ Dr. XRAY, Legs Malone and more

Music

XRAY Cabaret w/ Dr. XRAY, Legs Malone and more

Wednesday 7/15 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Wednesday 07.15.09
XRAY Cabaret
w/ Dr. XRAY
... 

Otros Aires ( New York Debut)

Dance

Otros Aires ( New York Debut)

Wednesday 7/15 @ Lincoln Center

A modern spin on the classic, Otros Aires' new tango mixes traditional tango with contemporary electronic influences in their New York... 

Outdoor Cinema at Socrates: THE BETRAYAL

Festival: Film

Outdoor Cinema at Socrates: THE BETRAYAL

Wednesday 7/15 @ Museum of the Moving Image

Socrates Sculpture Park in collaboration with Museum of the Moving Image presents: OUTDOOR CINEMA 2009
11th annual festival of international... 

Ongoing Events

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Wednesday 7/15 @ Paragraph

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

Special Event

Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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>Sweet Storm</em>

Theatre

Sweet Storm

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Ben Tour: <em>Crash & Burn</em>

Art

Ben Tour

Wednesday 7/15 @ Joshua Liner Gallery

Bay Area artist Ben Tour's hypnotic and surreal mixed-media portraits both engage and obscure the identity of his subjects. Using quivering,... 

Lynn Saville: <em>Night/Shift</em>

Art: Photography

Lynn Saville

Wednesday 7/15 @ Yancey Richardson Gallery

Known for her atmospheric, black-and-white city portraits, photographer Lynn Saville's latest body of color work, Night/Shift, presents a flaneur's view of... 

<em>Whatever Works</em>

Film

Whatever Works

Wednesday 7/15 @ Various locations

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

undergroundzero festival

Festival: Performing Arts

undergroundzero festival

Wednesday 7/15 @ P.S. 122

East River Commedia and Collective:Unconscious join forces with Performance Space 122 to host undergroundzero, a massive experimental-theatre festival. Curator Paul Bargetto... 

Theatre

God of Carnage

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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>Wild Feature</em>

Art

Wild Feature

Wednesday 7/15 @ Galerie Zurcher

"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing... 

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

Art

Polish Posters 1945-1989

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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,... 

Art

Claes Oldenburg

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

Négritude

Wednesday 7/15 @ Exit Art

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

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

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Art

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Creative Time presents Steve McQueen: <em>Deadpan</em>

Art

Deadpan

Wednesday 7/15 @ 44 1/2

This July, as part of the ongoing 44 1/2 series, Creative Time recontextualizes Steve McQueen's Deadpan, a restaging of a classic... 

Pilobolus

Dance

Pilobolus

Wednesday 7/15 @ The Joyce Theater

Pilobolus has come to be synonymous with summer in New York, with the thrilling company staging an extensive, three-week stay at... 

Nylon Fusion Collective presents <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>

Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Wednesday 7/15 @ Various locations

Think you know Shakespeare? Seen it all, have you? Not quite like this, you haven't. Nylon Fusion Collective's new production of... 

The Putting Lot

Sports

The Putting Lot

Wednesday 7/15 @ The Putting Lot

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

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

Art

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Wednesday 7/15 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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>Iran Inside Out</em>

Art

Iran Inside Out

Wednesday 7/15 @ Chelsea Art Museum

The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence... 

<em>NAKED!</em>

Art

NAKED!

Wednesday 7/15 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

Out with the pretensions and in with the, ahem, naked truth. The Paul Kasmin Gallery celebrates the naked form through September,... 

Sixth-Annual Summer Play Festival

Theatre

Summer Play Festival

Wednesday 7/15 @ The Public Theater

There's not a whole lot you can do in the New York theatre world for $20, but with the 2009 Summer... 

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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>Humpday</em>

Film

Humpday

Wednesday 7/15 @ Angelika Film Center

Don't let the doltish title dissuade: Humpday is a truly astute comedy of manners. Herein lies the basic setup behind Kelly... 

Theatre

West Side Story

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

Thomas Lawson

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Art

Klaus Moje

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Huang Yong Ping

Art

Huang Yong Ping

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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>Hiding Behind Comets</em>

Theatre

Hiding Behind Comets

Wednesday 7/15 @ Spoon Theatre

Hiding Behind Comets takes place on a slow night for bartender Troy. His twin sister Honey and girlfriend Erin urge him... 

Shane Hope: <em>Your Mom Is Open Source</em>

Art

Shane Hope

Wednesday 7/15 @ Winkleman Gallery

The hyper-technical world of future studies, nanotech, artificial intelligence, neurosystems, and the digital evolution all find accessible, even playful, expression in... 

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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>&nbsp;The Europeans: Struggles to Love</em>

Theatre

The Europeans

Wednesday 7/15 @ Atlantic Stage Two

Howard Barker's The Europeans explores the scarring left in the wake of empire building. The already decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire and Habsburg... 

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

<em>Soul Power</em>

Film: Documentary

Soul Power

Wednesday 7/15 @ Landmark Sunshine

Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Wednesday 7/15 @ The Morgan Library

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

Lincoln Center Festival 2009

Festival: Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Festival

Wednesday 7/15 @ Lincoln Center

Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York... 

Invader

Art

Invader

Wednesday 7/15 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

If you've ever wondered what those Space Invaders are doing around the streets of New York, LA, or Paris — or... 

<em>6 works, 6 rooms</em>

Art

6 works, 6 rooms

Wednesday 7/15 @ David Zwirner

David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and... 

<em>Alien</em> (1979)

Film

Alien

Wednesday 7/15 @ Film Forum

Alien was that rare moment in Hollywood history when artistry and jump-out-of-your-seat thrills collided to give birth to what is still... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Wednesday 7/15 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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.... 

<em>Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Raquin</em>

Theatre

Thérèse Raquin

Wednesday 7/15 @ Atlantic Stage Two

Like The Europeans, this second play of PTP's New York season is another portrait of a woman in distress. Èmile Zola's... 

<em>Wondermare</em>

Art

Wondermare

Wednesday 7/15 @ Apex Art

Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is... 

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Special Event

Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Wednesday 7/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! American artist Roxy Paine (born in 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide... 

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 7/15 @ 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—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Film

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Wednesday 7/15 @ Asia Society and Museum

Sight Unseen showcases rarely seen video works from Afghanistan and Iran. The exhibition features Afghan artist Rahraw Omarzad and Iranian artist... 

Theatre

Les Éphémères

Wednesday 7/15 @ Lincoln Center

From the matriarch of exploratory French theater comes a truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life’s ultimate question: What... 

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

Wednesday 7/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

Wednesday 7/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is the first major museum exhibition to focus exclusively on “The Pictures Generation.” Educated in the self-reflexive and critical principles... 

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

Art

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

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

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 7/15 @ 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 7/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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

Performance 4: Roman Ondák

Special Event

Performance 4: Roman Ondák

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Art

Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Wednesday 7/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This landmark exhibition is devoted to one of the most important painters of... 

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Art

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wednesday 7/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met’s unparalleled collection of American art includes some 45 sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

SummerDANZ: CorbinDances

Dance

SummerDANZ: CorbinDances

Wednesday 7/15 @ New York Live Arts

Patrick Corbin’s ensemble presents his critically acclaimed Romantic Conversions and Reach, and premieres Nelly van Bommel’s Adele’s Skirt [Tsaritsa]. CorbinDances will... 

Projects 90: Song Dong

Art

Projects 90: Song Dong

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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
... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages

Art

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

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

In & Out of Amsterdam: <em>Art & Project Bulletin</em>, 1968–1989

Art

In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989

Wednesday 7/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art


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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Young Architects Program 2009

Special Event

Young Architects Program 2009

Wednesday 7/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

This exhibition features the proposals of the five finalists in the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. Each year five finalists are drawn... 

The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion

Art

The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion

Wednesday 7/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic... 

Sculpture in Color

Special Event

Sculpture in Color

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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.... 

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

Art

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

Wednesday 7/15 @ 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... 

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Art

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Wednesday 7/15 @ Asia Society and Museum

Not just for history buffs, the Asian Journeys exhibition explores the socio-political context for the American collecting of Asian Art in... 

James Ensor

Special Event

James Ensor

Wednesday 7/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A major exhibition devoted to James Ensor, one of the most influential artists of the Belgian avant-garde and a percursor to...