Events on Tuesday, July 28

Flavorpill presents <em>Paper Heart</em>

Film

Paper Heart

Tuesday 7/28 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14

Like many other movies, Paper Heart is about true love, why it occurs, and if it exists at all. Unlike its... 

<em>Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon</em> (1982)

Film: Documentary

Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon

Tuesday 7/28 @ Maysles Cinema

At the start of this compulsive 1982 profile, the Afrobeat pioneer lets loose a serious boast: "I will be President of... 

Nobody’s Here but Me: Cindy Sherman

Film

Nobody’s Here but Me: Cindy Sherman

Tuesday 7/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents the film Nobody’s Here but Me: Cindy Sherman, directed by Mark Stokes, 1994 (55 min.) It shows Sherman... 

Punch Up Your Life!

Comedy

Punch Up Your Life!

Tuesday 7/28 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Free comedy hosted by Jessi Klein and Pete Holmes. This week's guests:
JOHN OLIVER (The Daily Show)
HANNIBAL... 

Music

Will Dailey

Tuesday 7/28 @ The Mercury Lounge

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It's Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Music of Vince Guaraldi

Music

It's Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Music of Vince Guaraldi

Tuesday 7/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Bill Charlap, piano
Carol Woods, vocals
Houston Person, tenor saxophone
Joe Locke, vibes
Freddie Bryant, guitar
... 

Music: Electronic

Xylos / Zog Bogbean

Tuesday 7/28 @ The Mercury Lounge

During the song “Wrapped in a Page” from Bedrooms,... 

Music

Green Day @ Madison Square Garden

Tuesday 7/28 @ The Bowery Presents

Green Day is an American punk rock trio formed... 

Ongoing Events

Theatre

West Side Story

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Deadpan

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Sixth-Annual Summer Play Festival

Theatre

Summer Play Festival

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Slavic Soul Party!

Music: Global

Slavic Soul Party!

Tuesday 7/28 @ Barbès

While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 

<em>NAKED!</em>

Art

NAKED!

Tuesday 7/28 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery

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

<em>Our Town</em>

Theatre

Our Town

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974-84

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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>Sweet Storm</em>

Theatre

Sweet Storm

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Tuesday 7/28 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art

Shane Hope

Tuesday 7/28 @ Winkleman Gallery

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

Jazz in July

Music

Jazz in July

Tuesday 7/28 @ 92nd St Y

Acclaimed post-Bop pianist Bill Charlap returns for his fifth year as artistic director of this popular festival encapsulating all things jazz.... 

<em>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>

Art

Creating the Modern Stage

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>

Art

David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

<em>Hair</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Hair

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

A Clearing in the Streets

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

<em>Wondermare</em>

Art

Wondermare

Tuesday 7/28 @ Apex Art

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

Nick Ray Festival

Festival: Film

Nick Ray Festival

Tuesday 7/28 @ Film Forum

At the tail end of Nicholas Ray's 1954 alt-Western Johnny Guitar, a moribund old hand utters a triumphant alas to his... 

<em>Soul Power</em>

Film: Documentary

Soul Power

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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>6 works, 6 rooms</em>

Art

6 works, 6 rooms

Tuesday 7/28 @ David Zwirner

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

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Special Event

Video Game Challenge

Tuesday 7/28 @ 3rd Ward

Are you the Wizard? If you've held on to your vintage console — and your chops — then head over to... 

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

Art

Ben Tour

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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,... 

<em>Whatever Works</em>

Film

Whatever Works

Tuesday 7/28 @ Various locations

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

Sputnik Chess Knights

Special Event

Sputnik Chess Knights

Tuesday 7/28 @ Sputnik

Calling all chess nerds: Clinton Hill's Sputnik bar wants you to bust out a clever zwischenzug or risk a tricky gambit... 

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

Art: Photography

Lynn Saville

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Pilobolus

Dance

Pilobolus

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Spencer Finch

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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>Iran Inside Out</em>

Art

Iran Inside Out

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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>Humpday</em>

Film

Humpday

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Huang Yong Ping

Art

Huang Yong Ping

Tuesday 7/28 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

Comic Book Club

Special Event

Comic Book Club

Tuesday 7/28 @ The People's Improv Theater

Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... 

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

Special Event

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Film

Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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 Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

Art

The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Art

Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Art

Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Jazz in July Summer Festival

Music

Jazz in July Summer Festival

Tuesday 7/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

"For connoisseurs of live improvisation, it's hard to beat Jazz in July."
All About Jazz, NY

Join us for a two-week... 

Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting

Art

Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting

Tuesday 7/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The collections of African and Oceanic art in the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva,... 

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Art

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Art: Photography

Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Art

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Film

Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion

Art

The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

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

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Art

Last Chance— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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... 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tuesday 7/28 @ 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...