Events on Saturday, August 1

Chin Chih Yang: <em>Burning ICE</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Art
Burning ICE
@ Union Square
Chin Chih Yang is less concerned with confronting us than he is with showing and sharing the urgency of our times...  View details »
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Alice Austen House presents Lori Belilove & the Isadora Duncan Dance Company
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Dance
Lori Belilove & the Isadora Duncan Dance Company
@ Alice Austen House Museum
The many images of the loose-haired, barefoot, and tunic-clad modern-dance pioneer Isadora Duncan suggest the outdoors. For one summer night, Lori...  View details »
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Celebrate Brooklyn presents Dean & Britta's <em>13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests</em> w/ Crystal Stilts
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Film: Shorts
Dean & Britta: 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
@ Prospect Park Bandshell
Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol amassed 472 Screen Tests, immortalizing the Factory coterie, friends, and random posers in four-minute bursts...  View details »
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2009 DMC US Finals: NYC with Kool DJ Red Alert and Lord Finesse
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music: DJ
2009 DMC US Finals: NYC with Kool DJ Red Alert and Lord Finesse
@ Santos Party House
Champions from each DMC Regional come to NYC to battle showcase style...   DJ As-One (MD) DJ Ohm (NM) DJ Shiftee (NYC)...  View details »
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Clinton Curtis
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music
Clinton Curtis
@ Joe's Pub
Clinton Curtis grew up between the islands of Jamaica and Key West, Florida, the son of musicians...  View details »
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The London Review
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music
The London Review
@ Joe's Pub
Newcomer LONDON (Songwriter & Producer) brings a lot more...  View details »
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Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Film
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival
@ 92YTribeca
What is The Iron Mule?
"The Iron Mule" is a 1925 slapstick comedy by the great silent comedian Roscoe "Fatty"... 
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DJ Hutz and Pedro P of Gogol Bordello are Spinning until the cows come home!
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music: DJ
DJ Hutz and Pedro P of Gogol Bordello are Spinning until the cows come home!
@ Santos Party House
Eugene Hutz and Pedro P of Gogol Bordello will be whipping you into a fury until, as Eugene puts it, "the...  View details »
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Warm Up feat. Chez Damier, House of House, Kai Alce, and Stars Like Fleas
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music
Warm Up feat. Chez Damier, House of House, Kai Alce, and Stars Like Fleas
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Hosted by Balance Recordings & NDATL, this edition of Warm Up kicks off the hottest month of summer with the sounds...  View details »
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"GlobeSonic" feat. DJ Fabian Alsultany & Friends
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music
"GlobeSonic" feat. DJ Fabian Alsultany & Friends
@ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 08.01.09
Globesonic
featuring DJ Fabian Alsultany & Friends
... 
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Blitz the Ambassador: Record Release
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music: Hip-Hop
Blitz the Ambassador: Record Release
@ 92YTribeca
Blitz the Ambassador's Stereotype drops Aug 4–and 92YTribeca is where it's all happening. Come celebrate the album release with special guests,...  View details »
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Fionn Ó Lochlainn / Brazz Tree
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music
Fionn Ó Lochlainn / Brazz Tree
@ Joe's Pub
Known for captivating and breathless performances while filling the Joe’s Pub stage with masterful instrumentalists -- and on occasion, a small...  View details »
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Film: Unquiet Traveller (U.S. Premiere) Piotr Anderszewski
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts
Film: Unquiet Traveller (U.S. Premiere) Piotr Anderszewski
@ Lincoln Center
"That he can absorb an audience with the intense concentration of his pianism shows a powerful interpretive imagination at work." —Chicago...  View details »
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Bonzia and Gregg D presented by Victor Franco.
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music: DJ
Bonzia and Gregg D presented by Victor Franco.
@ Water Taxi Beach
DJ Sets by: Victor Franco Bonzia (Haven NYC) Gregg D  (Sky / Kukulu Promotions)...  View details »
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New Museum First Saturdays for Families: David Goldblatt's Lens
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Art: Photography
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: David Goldblatt's Lens
@ New Museum
  For over twenty years, artist and activist Rigo 23 has challenged the status quo and advocated for social and political...  View details »
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Basic NYC Presents King Unique
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music: DJ
Basic NYC Presents King Unique
@ Sullivan Room
King Unique was once a duo of two Matt's. Now it's just one (Matt Thomas), and he'll be bringing a set...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

Pilobolus
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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>Flame and Citron</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
Film
Flame and Citron
@ Landmark Sunshine
After the last fretted and beautifully stylized episode in Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen's name appears beside the Danish word...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
@ P.S. 122
A thoroughly original and frequently hilarious new play, the Amoralists' The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side places the audience...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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
Visit the Met blog “Medieval Garden Enclosed” 
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
Art
Visit the Met blog “Medieval Garden Enclosed” 
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take a break from city life and visit the Met’s blog dedicated to your neighboring medieval garden! July 1, 2009 marked the first anniversary...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Iran Inside Out</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
<em>Los Grumildos</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
More Flavor: Exhibition
Los Grumildos
@ HERE Arts Center
Grotesque. Charming. Sordid, Tiny. Los Grumildos are automated puppets, miniature beings that skulk about a world somewhere between Victorian dollhouse and...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960&ndash;1976</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Art
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
While Amsterdam is perhaps the requisite stop on your average high-school or college graduate's "awesome summer abroad," the city once attracted...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Humpday</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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<em>David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
Artists and Fleas
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
More Flavor: City Gem
Artists and Fleas
@ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
East to Edinburgh Festival
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: <em>A Clearing in the Streets</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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>6 works, 6 rooms</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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>Kenneth Anger</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
<em>Gotta Dance</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
Film: Documentary
Gotta Dance
@ Beekman Theatre
With the tagline "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese," Gotta Dance sets its defiant yet humorous tone right from...  View details »
Ongoing
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The Zen Escape: Hike & Yoga
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Getaway
The Zen Escape: Hike & Yoga
@ Hudson Valley
If you feel like Robinson Crusoe in New York — shipwrecked among 8 million people — then this daytrip is the...  View details »
Ongoing
Ben Tour: <em>Crash & Burn</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
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<em>Wondermare</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
French New Wave Essentials
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Film
French New Wave Essentials
@ Museum of Art and Design
As with best-loved athletes, certain last names can be tonic: Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, Chabrol, Demy. It's been a half-century since the...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Billy Elliot</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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
<em>Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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>Polish Posters 1945-1989</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Nick Ray Festival
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
Film: Festival
Nick Ray Festival
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Frogs: A Chorus of Colors</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
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Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
The Putting Lot
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
Paragraph
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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>Hair</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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>Lorna's Silence</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
Film
Lorna's Silence
@ Various locations
Lorna's Silence — the Dardenne brothers' latest piece of blue-collar verisimilitude — merits neither the "master" prefix nor the lambasting it's...  View details »
Ongoing
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Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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 »
Ongoing
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TAKE Dance Company
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Dance
TAKE Dance Company
@ Dance Theater Workshop
TAKE Dance Company, a contemporary dance ensemble known for its gentle blend of eastern and western sensibilities led by artistic director...  View details »
Ongoing
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Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
All Points West Music and Arts Festival
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
Music: Festival
All Points West
@ Liberty State Park
Following last year's successful foray into the East Coast festival market, All Points West is back — and this time the...  View details »
Ongoing
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Spencer Finch: <em>The River That Flows Both Ways</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
Brooklyn Indie Market
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Indie Market
@ Brooklyn Indie Market
The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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
Brownstoner's Brooklyn Flea
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Flea
@ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. Every Saturday in Fort...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Our Town</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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>Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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_08 Saturday Day_01
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
Warm Up 2009!
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music
Warm Up 2009!
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Warm Up is P.S.1's critically acclaimed music series and has become one of the most anticipated summer events. The series is...  View details »
Ongoing
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Sixth-Annual Summer Play Festival
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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>South Pacific</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
Nylon Fusion Collective presents <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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 »
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Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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
<em>Sweet Storm</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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
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James Ensor
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
More Flavor: Exhibition
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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Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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 »
Ongoing
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Dan Graham: Beyond
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Pay-What-You-Wish
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Art
Pay-What-You-Wish
@ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Formerly offered on Fridays, Pay-What-You-Wish hours will be hosted by the museum on Saturday evenings from 5:45–7:45 pm.

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Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Young Architects Program 2009
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Leandro Erlich: <em>Swimming Pool</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Young Architects Program 2009: <em>Afterparty</em> by MOS
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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 »
Ongoing
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Argentine Tango Party
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Dance
Argentine Tango Party
@ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Singles and couples of all ages and levels welcome. A group lesson is held during the first hour of each party....  View details »
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The New American Wing—Part 2: The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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 Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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A LONGHARDT LOOK AT LOVE WITH CHAD LONGHARDT
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Comedy
A LONGHARDT LOOK AT LOVE WITH CHAD LONGHARDT
@ 59E59 Theaters
Before “Flavor Flav” or “Rock of Love,” there was Chad Longhardt: the first Rock-Superstar to seek love on a televised dating-love-competition-show…...  View details »
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The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Edward Gardner conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Piotr Anderszewski
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts
Edward Gardner conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Piotr Anderszewski
@ Lincoln Center
"That he can absorb an audience with the intense concentration of his pianism shows a powerful interpretive imagination at work." —...  View details »
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Learn By Doing
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Projects 90: Song Dong
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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The Amoralists: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Amoralists: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
@ Performance Space 122
EXTENDED - really, really, really extended.
This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East... 
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Last Chance—Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
Art
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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Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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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A Year with Children 2009
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Young Architects Program: YAP 10th Anniversary Review
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
Art
Last Chance—African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting
@ 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,...  View details »
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LADYBUG WARRIOR
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Comedy
LADYBUG WARRIOR
@ 59E59 Theaters
NYC comedian Vicki Ferentinos debuts with a show that will have you rooting for her inner superhero and rolling in the...  View details »
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Last Chance—Napoleon III and Paris
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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In & Out of Amsterdam: <em>Art & Project Bulletin</em>, 1968–1989
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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SUMMER SHORTS 3
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
SUMMER SHORTS 3
@ 59E59 Theaters
The critically acclaimed festival of one acts returns to 59E59 Theaters for a third sizzling summer season! This festival of eight...  View details »
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The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Catch!, Neal Medlyn, and Brendan Kennedy's "WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!!"
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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Catch!, Neal Medlyn, and Brendan Kennedy's "WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!!"
@ Performance Space 122
ADDED LATE SHOW! Kanye West's ground-breaking crossover pop album 808s & Heartbreak gets a hi-fly live performance mash-up. A vast array...  View details »
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Last Chance—Michelangelo’s First Painting
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Art
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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Last Chance—Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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 »
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Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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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Sadie Benning: Play Pause
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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COUPLES COUNSELING
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
COUPLES COUNSELING
@ 59E59 Theaters
Boy loves girl, boy gets therapist, therapist gets girl…and then? A quirky comedy that explores psychotherapy, New York-style....  View details »
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The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Performance 4: Roman Ondák
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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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Lutz Bacher: <em>MY SECRET LIFE</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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— Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
Art
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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Premiere Brazil! 2009
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Carlos Motta: <em>Brief History, (2005-2009)</em>
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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The F Word with Mistress Formika + Friends - Every Saturday
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music
The F Word with Mistress Formika + Friends - Every Saturday
@ Santos Party House
It's F'ing official! Michael "MISTRESS FORMIKA" Jones is bringing the ferocity to Santos EVERY Saturday Night. THE F WORD features the...  View details »
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Last Chance—Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Sculpture in Color
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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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The Beach Party, LIC
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
Music: DJ
The Beach Party, LIC
@ Water Taxi Beach
The Beach Party, LIC
 with resident DJs Probus, Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin and very special guests The Beach Party, LIC...  View details »
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Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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Looking at Music: Side 2
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
Month_08 Saturday Day_01
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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Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Month_08 Sunday Day_02
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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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