Events on Friday, July 17

Newmindspace NYC presents Capture the Flag 2009
Month_07 Friday Day_17
More Flavor: Sports
Capture the Flag
@ Various Williamsburg locations
The creative folks at Newmindspace are all about thinking up new ways of having fun, using methods that would make the...  View details »
Free Featured
The Brooklyn Filmmaker's Collective presents The End
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Film: Shorts
The End
@ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The final event of the Brooklyn Filmmaker's Collective's season is about just that: finality, specifically the apocalyptic kind. Thus ominously titled,...  View details »
Featured
Opera Grows in Brooklyn
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music
Opera Grows in Brooklyn
@ Galapagos Art Space
American Opera Projects "known for bringing cutting-edge vocal production to the masses," (NY Mag) and Opera on Tap ("…raucous and sublime…un-elitist,...  View details »
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Made Event presents Matt Darey @ Cielo - July 17
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music: Electronic
Made Event presents Matt Darey @ Cielo - July 17
@ Made Event
If break beats, electro rhythms, and titan trance grooves set your pulse racing, then look no further then Matt Darey, one...  View details »
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Senari and Teenwolf
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music
Senari and Teenwolf
@ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Friday 07.17.09
Senari and Teenwolf present
9pm
FREE
Strictly 21+
This is a General... 
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Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Film
Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
To accompany the exhibition The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, the Costume Institute presents Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?, directed by William...  View details »
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Dirty Dancing
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Film
Dirty Dancing
@ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Swayze Days of Summer. Watch this modern classic on the big screen, along with Swayze-themed short films...  View details »
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Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music: DJ
G Studio NYC featuring Nef Nunez
@ Sullivan Room
G Studio NYC ft Nef Nunez
Friday July 17, 2008
Sullivan Room

Nef Nunez is a... 
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Christina Courtin, Aerial East
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music
Christina Courtin, Aerial East
@ 92YTribeca
As anyone who's caught one of Christina Courtin's live performances can attest, the New York City–based musician decisively takes over whatever...  View details »
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Cherie Lily with Tayisha Busay, Bad Brilliance, House of Ladosha, Iconic Dance Crew and DJ Andrew W.K.
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music
Cherie Lily with Tayisha Busay, Bad Brilliance, House of Ladosha, Iconic Dance Crew and DJ Andrew W.K.
@ Santos Party House
Jul 17, 2009 Upstairs Doors @ 7pm $10.00 Adv Live... Cherie Lily with Tayisha Busay Bad Brilliance House of Ladosha Iconic...  View details »
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Black Taxi
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music
Black Taxi
@ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Black Taxi
Samvara
Vinyette
Atom Strange
6:30pm doors |
... 
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Little Dragon
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music
Little Dragon
@ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LPR & The Freedom Party present
Little Dragon
w/ DJ Cost, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth
11pm... 
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Black Sea Hotel
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music
Black Sea Hotel
@ Galapagos Art Space
Black Sea Hotel is a quartet of female vocalists who draw their inspiration from the Balkans. Creating their own arrangements of...  View details »
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Made Event Presents Matt Darey Friday July 17 at Cielo
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music: Electronic
Made Event Presents Matt Darey Friday July 17 at Cielo
@ Cielo
If break beats, electro rhythms, and titan trance grooves set your pulse racing, then look no further then the Made Event...  View details »
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New Music Greats: An Evening with Rashaad Newsome
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts
New Music Greats: An Evening with Rashaad Newsome
@ New Museum
New York artist Rashaad Newsome creates powerful, original collage and performance through composite parts. His practice is based in sampling and...  View details »
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Best Dance in Town- Featuring The Collins Kids, Carl Mann, and Joe Clay, with Deke Dickerson & the Eccofonics
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Dance
Best Dance in Town- Featuring The Collins Kids, Carl Mann, and Joe Clay, with Deke Dickerson & the Eccofonics
@ Lincoln Center
This array of Rockabilly Hall-of-Famers inclides The Collins Kids, comprised of the double neck guitar whiz Larry and his sister Lorrie;...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

Creative Time presents Steve McQueen: <em>Deadpan</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Deadpan
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
Ben Tour: <em>Crash & Burn</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Ben Tour
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Sweet Storm</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
<em>Iran Inside Out</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Iran Inside Out
@ Chelsea Art Museum
The Chelsea Museum presents what has to be one of the timeliest exhibitions in its history: Iran Inside Out. With violence...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
Sixth-Annual Summer Play Festival
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
Summer Play Festival
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
Gregory de la Haba: <em>Equus Maximus</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Gregory de la Haba
@ Jack the Pelican
What grew out of a one-person show in Jack the Pelican's project room earlier this year has dug in its heels...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Died Young, Stayed Pretty</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Film: Documentary
Died Young, Stayed Pretty
@ IFC Center
We've all been there: walking innocently down the street, only to be taken aback by a little poster tacked to a...  View details »
Ongoing
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Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: <em>A Clearing in the Streets</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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
<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
Swayze Days of Summer
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Film
Swayze Days of Summer
@ 92YTribeca
Call it happenstance: the role of Danny Zuko, Grease's rebel-with-cause-to-boogie, not only thrust John Travolta onto center stage, but eventually led...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
<em>Wild Feature</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Wild Feature
@ Galerie Zurcher
"Greater than an earful of CoolWhip or getting frisked at Newark Airport," Wild Feature lives up to its debaucherous premise, showing...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
East to Edinburgh Festival
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Festival
East to Edinburgh Festival
@ 59E59 Theaters
New York City audiences indulge in a small sampling of the cultural extravaganza that is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Soul Power</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Film: Documentary
Soul Power
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Red Hook Ball Fields Vendors
@ Red Hook Ball Fields
Foodies, rejoice! Sunday, May 2 marks the season opening of the Red Hook Ball Fields — as well as the dozen-plus...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>N&eacute;gritude</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
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<em>&nbsp;The Europeans: Struggles to Love</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Europeans
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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 »
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Shane Hope: <em>Your Mom Is Open Source</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Shane Hope
@ Winkleman Gallery
The hyper-technical world of future studies, nanotech, artificial intelligence, neurosystems, and the digital evolution all find accessible, even playful, expression in...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Hiding Behind Comets</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hiding Behind Comets
@ Spoon Theatre
Hiding Behind Comets takes place on a slow night for bartender Troy. His twin sister Honey and girlfriend Erin urge him...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
Invader
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Invader
@ Jonathan Levine Gallery
If you've ever wondered what those Space Invaders are doing around the streets of New York, LA, or Paris — or...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
<em>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Polish Posters 1945-1989
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Humpday</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Film
Humpday
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Paragraph
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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
<em>Behind the Screen</em>: Video Game Technology
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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>Kenneth Anger</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Film
Kenneth Anger
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Lynn Saville: <em>Night/Shift</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art: Photography
Lynn Saville
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
LAXART Off-Site Initiatives presents Thomas Lawson: <em>New World</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Thomas Lawson
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Whatever Works</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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
Huang Yong Ping
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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>Hair</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
<em>Wondermare</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Wondermare
@ Apex Art
Despite taking thematic queues from Alice in Wonderland, the latest exhibition at Apex is thoroughly modern. Entitled Wondermare, the piece is...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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
Camp Bisco Eight
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Getaway: Festival
Camp Bisco Eight
@ Indian Lookout Country Club
Camp Bisco Eight is the eighth-annual incarnation of the three-day music and arts festival in upstate Mariaville, New York. Spread over...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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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Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones
@ Governors Island
Ferry out of this world to one where 19 international artists bring installation, performance, video, and auditory works to historic Governors...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Pilobolus
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Dance
Pilobolus
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Raquin</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
Thérèse Raquin
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Klaus Moje
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Ferocious Spectacular
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Ferocious Spectacular
@ The Chocolate Factory
Touted as the conceptual love child of Ed Sullivan and David Lynch, Ferocious Spectacular, Episode One: The Black Death marks the...  View details »
Ongoing
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Emanuel Gat Dance: <em>Winter Variations </em>& <em>Silent Ballet</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Dance
Emanuel Gat Dance: Winter Variations & Silent Ballet
@ Rose Theater, Time Warner Center
Israeli contemporary dance is often synonymous with Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva Dance Company, but choreographer Emanuel Gat is breaking that...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
Lincoln Center Festival 2009
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Festival
Lincoln Center Festival
@ Lincoln Center
Over the past decade, the Lincoln Center Festival has brought productions from the farthest reaches of the world to New York...  View details »
Ongoing
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Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Jonathan Horowitz
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
undergroundzero festival
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Festival
undergroundzero festival
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Nylon Fusion Collective presents <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>NAKED!</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
NAKED!
@ Paul Kasmin Gallery
Out with the pretensions and in with the, ahem, naked truth. The Paul Kasmin Gallery celebrates the naked form through September,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
The Putting Lot
Month_07 Friday Day_17
More Flavor: Sports
The Putting Lot
@ The Putting Lot
To us, mini golf conjures blissful childhood memories — and a few temper tantrums — and we're going to relive them...  View details »
Ongoing
Open Tables
Month_07 Friday Day_17
More Flavor: Workshop
Open Tables
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Our Town</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
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<em>Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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
<em>Billy Elliot</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Claes Oldenburg
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Norman Conquests</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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
<em>6 works, 6 rooms</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
6 works, 6 rooms
@ David Zwirner
David Zwirner takes full advantage of its adjacent gallery spaces and gives four walls to each of six pioneering conceptual and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
@ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...  View details »
Ongoing
Young Architects Program 2009
Month_07 Friday Day_17
More Flavor: Exhibition
Young Architects Program 2009
@ 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...  View details »
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Young Architects Program: YAP 10th Anniversary Review
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Young Architects Program: YAP 10th Anniversary Review
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
YAP 10th Anniversary Review is a visual chronicle of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art's Young Architects...  View details »
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Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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 »
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Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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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Premiere Brazil! 2009
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Film: Festival
Premiere Brazil! 2009
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Premiere Brazil 2009, the seventh annual collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival,...  View details »
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Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on... 
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Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
Les Éphémères
@ Lincoln Center
From the matriarch of exploratory French theater comes a truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life’s ultimate question: What...  View details »
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Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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MILES & COLTRANE: BLUE (.)
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
MILES & COLTRANE: BLUE (.)
@ 59E59 Theaters
Concrete Generation and the Stephen Gordon Quintet, award-winning poets and musicians, explore the genius, experiences and differences of Miles Davis and...  View details »
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Sadie Benning: Play Pause
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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 »
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Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art: Exhibition
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
@ 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...  View details »
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The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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 »
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Projects 90: Song Dong
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Projects 90: Song Dong
@ 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
... 
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Melting Pot Global - South Street Seaport
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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Melting Pot Global - South Street Seaport
@ Water Taxi Beach
Melting Pot Global is a collective dedicated to bringing global-soulful dance music to the masses...  View details »
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Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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 »
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Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
@ 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...  View details »
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Lutz Bacher: <em>MY SECRET LIFE</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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 »
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Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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 »
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Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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 »
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Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
@ 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...  View details »
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Carlos Motta: <em>Brief History, (2005-2009)</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Carlos Motta: Brief History, (2005-2009)
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
P.S.1 presents Brief History, (2005-2009), the first solo project in a New York museum by Colombian-born, New York-based artist Carlos Motta....  View details »
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In & Out of Amsterdam: <em>Art & Project Bulletin</em>, 1968–1989
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

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In conjunction with the exhibition In & Out of Amsterdam:... 
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SummerDANZ: ColleenThomasDance
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Dance
SummerDANZ: ColleenThomasDance
@ Dance Theater Workshop
Thomas presents work from a period of collaboration with composer Chris Lancaster. The program features Colleen and Chris in a new...  View details »
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The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Music: DJ
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth
@ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 07.03.09
The Freedom Party
w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth
11pm doors &... 
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
@ 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...  View details »
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52 MAN PICKUP
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Comedy
52 MAN PICKUP
@ 59E59 Theaters
A salacious evening of storytelling and stand-up created by acclaimed performer Desiree Burch. The alt-comedy diva deals out card games and...  View details »
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Dan Graham: Beyond
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Dan Graham: Beyond
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
As one of contemporary art's most innovative and influential figures, Dan Graham has been at the forefront of many of the...  View details »
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What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art: Architecture/Design
What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
@ 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...  View details »
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WEST LETHARGY
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
WEST LETHARGY
@ 59E59 Theaters
Two couples headed West wonder why they’ve changed from ambitious pioneers to stir-crazy settlers. Does the Empire State Building hold the...  View details »
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Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Film
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
@ 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...  View details »
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Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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 »
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Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art: Architecture/Design
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
@ 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...  View details »
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Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This intimate installation highlights a group of nine exceptional early modern European paintings that have been promised to MoMA by David...  View details »
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Leandro Erlich: <em>Swimming Pool</em>
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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 »
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Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti...  View details »
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Intervals
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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 »
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Performance 4: Roman Ondák
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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Performance 4: Roman Ondák
@ 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...  View details »
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Young Architects Program 2009: <em>Afterparty</em> by MOS
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art: Architecture/Design
Young Architects Program 2009: Afterparty by MOS
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announce the winner of the 2009 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program: the...  View details »
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The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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 »
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The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
@ 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...  View details »
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Sculpture in Color
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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Sculpture in Color
@ 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....  View details »
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Art, Architecture, and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Film: Documentary
Art, Architecture, and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum
@ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
In honor of its 50th Anniversary, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has produced a documentary film on the history of its...  View details »
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Learn By Doing
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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 »
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Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
@ 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...  View details »
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Looking at Music: Side 2
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art
Looking at Music: Side 2
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

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This exhibition is accompanied by the Looking at Music:... 
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Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
@ 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...  View details »
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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 »
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In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Art: Architecture/Design
In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
@ 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...  View details »
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, A ROCK OPERA
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, A ROCK OPERA
@ 59E59 Theaters
Fickle teenage love, magic and comedy in this modern retelling of the Shakespeare classic. Madcap adventure and magic, underscored by a...  View details »
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James Ensor
Month_07 Friday Day_17
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James Ensor
@ 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...  View details »
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Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
@ 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...  View details »
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Mike Wallace Interviews
Month_07 Friday Day_17
Film: Documentary
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Mike Wallace Interviews
@ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
While in New York for the construction of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 90-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright was invited to be...  View details »
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A Year with Children 2009
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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 »
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