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- Film: Shorts
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Un-American Films
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Friday July 4 (5pm) @ Solar One
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In this moment of fractured national spirit, the Rooftop Films collective has curated an alternative to the usual Fourth of July festivities. The evening begins... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Mr. Brownstone
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Friday July 4 (9pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
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While Axl Rose is finally making (sort of) good on his promise of Chinese Democracy, it might be better to just act like the '80s... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Sub Swara
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Friday July 4 (10pm–4am) @ Love
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Just in time for Burning Man 2008, tonight's downtown romp celebrates independence with dance-floor bangers, hula-hooping, and an abundance of urban-creative spirit. Local electro-experimenters Sub... View details »
- Music: Global
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Dengue Fever
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Saturday July 5 (3–7pm) @ Central Park SummerStage
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Get ready for the best possible kind of culture shock as LA's Dengue Fever bring psychedelic Cambodian pop to Central Park. Lead singer Chhom Nimol... View details »
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Passing Through
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Saturday July 5 (6:50pm) @ BAM Rose Cinemas in Bklyn
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1977 was the debut year of two underground LA classics, Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep and Larry Clark's Passing Through. Rediscovered last year, both films... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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RZA as Bobby Digital
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Saturday July 5 (7pm) @ Webster Hall
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With so many professional titles — producer, actor, composer — studding his belt, you might forget that RZA is, first and foremost, a master MC.... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
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Shanghai Vice
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Saturday July 5 (9pm) @ Montauk Club in Park Slope
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The underground-party deviants of Dances of Vice return to their gothic, stained-glass Park Slope haunt tonight for their latest round of decadence. This time, they... View details »
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The Magic Lantern
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Tuesday July 8 (7pm) @ Walter Reade Theater
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Entertainment technologies move forward mercilessly, pulling our imaginations along from one medium to the next like freights of raw ore. For instance, the advent of... View details »
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Experimental Philosophy
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Tuesday July 8 (7:30pm) @ Union Hall in Park Slope
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Abstracted from centuries of formal discourse, modern philosophy now seems like a self-contained vessel, a detached amalgam of heady precepts that boggle us all. In... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Crystal Antlers
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Tuesday July 8 (8pm) @ Mercury Lounge
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Pitchfork-anointed hot new things Crystal Antlers take a free-form, orchestral approach, layering sizzling rockers with trippy, space-obsessed interludes. Taking a brief break from the Fuck... View details »
- Film
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Wet Hot American Summer
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Tuesday July 8 (9pm) @ McCarren Park Pool in Greenpoint
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Written by The State and Stella alumni David Wain and Michael Showalter, Wet Hot American Summer appropriately kicks off the L Magazine's Summer Screen series... View details »
- Music: Soul/R&B
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Chuck Brown
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Wednesday July 9 (7:30pm) @ Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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On hot summer nights in the nation's capital, a funky, syncopated rhythm pervades the city, blaring from car radios and open windows. That beat is... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Feist
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Wednesday July 9 (7:30pm) @ Prospect Park Bandshell
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Canadian chanteuse Leslie Feist has had quite a year. The singer/songwriter (and one-time Broken Social Scene member) released her third solo album, The Reminder, to... View details »
- Music: Classical
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Ólafur Arnalds
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Wednesday July 9 (9:30pm) @ (le) poisson rouge
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Tapped by fellow countrymen Sigur Rós as their opening act, 21-year-old prodigy Ólafur Arnalds adorns swooning string-and-piano compositions with delicate percussive wisps and glacial ambiance.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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St. Vincent
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Thursday July 10 (7pm) @ Battery Park
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With Marry Me, former Polyphonic Spree member St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) created a Kate Bush-esque collection of lovely, skewed pop songs that range from... View details »
- Reading
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Ed Park and Leni Zumas
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Thursday July 10 (7:30pm) @ Solas
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Ed Park's observational talent has served him well during his time as an editor for both The Believer and The New York Ghost. His debut... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Dwele w/ Waajeed
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Thursday July 10 (10pm) @ Sutra Lounge
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Downtown gets a taste of Detroit tonight. R&B sensual soul dude Dwele drops old-school inspiration from his new album, Sketches of a Man, while Slum... View details »
- Film
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Rosemary's Baby
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Friday July 11 (midnight) @ Landmark Sunshine
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Roman Polanski opens his dad-may-be-the-devil classic with a lugubrious lullaby and a pan across Manhattan's gloomy skyline. Within a few frames, the director establishes the... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Brazilian Girls
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Friday July 11 (7pm) @ Prospect Park Bandshell
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For their upcoming August LP New York City, Brooklyn-based subversive electro-pop trio Brazilian Girls come clean about not being Brazilian or, well, girls - but... View details »
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The Exiles
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Friday July 11 @ IFC Center
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Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the last four decades. In... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Zombies
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Friday July 11 (8pm) @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
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While the Zombies' slick harmonies and friendly la la la's often fit the mold of fellow Brit-invasion acts like the Beatles and the Kinks, the... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Tanner Ross
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Friday July 11 (10:30pm–4am) @ APT
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For the past few years, Tanner Ross has claimed secret-weapon status. At the 2007 Winter Music Conference, little-known Ross came seemingly out of nowhere (aka... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Beth Orton w/ Matt Munisteri
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Saturday July 12 (7:30pm) @ Prospect Park Bandshell
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While her fusion of electronic beats and indie folk earned her early accolades, singer/songwriter Beth Orton's recently sparser productions have ushered in a new era... View details »
- Film
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Sakuran
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Saturday July 12 (8:30pm) @ Japan Society
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Mika Ninagawa's debut feature, Sakuran plays like a rock 'n roll Memoirs of a Geisha with a bigger wardrobe budget. The film's certainly guilty of... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Breeders
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Sunday July 13 (2–9pm) @ McCarren Park Pool in Greenpoint
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Despite being an aging "alternative nation" act, the Breeders continue to inspire legions of loyalists: Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox could be seen sporting a shirt... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Kevin Saunderson
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Sunday July 13 (3–9pm) @ The Yard
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Along with his peers Derrick May, Juan Atkins, and Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson built Detroit into one of the world's techno epicenters. Saunderson's work with... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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F Yeah Fest
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Sunday July 13 (8pm) @ Club Exit in Greenpoint
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While a drum-and-keyboard combo may seem small on paper, food-fighting duo Matt & Kim's giddy alt-punk is bigger than it has any right to be.... View details »
- Film
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
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Wednesday July 16 (7:30pm) @ BAM in Bklyn
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Although F.W. Murnau's moody silent-film masterpiece Sunrise received multiple Academy Awards, it was released only days before the opening of Warner Bros.' much-anticipated first "talkie,"... View details »
- Art
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After Nature
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Thursday July 17 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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The After Nature exhibition evokes a nightmare/fantasy of humankind's impending self-destruction and its aftermath. Sculptor Maurizio Cattelan imagines a horse's morbid death by propelling itself... View details »
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Max Beckmann
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Thursday July 24 (11am–9pm) @ Neue Galerie
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With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a different brand of expressionism.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Aimee Mann
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Wednesday July 30 (9pm) @ Highline Ballroom
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After a couple of concept albums (including a curious "seasonal" record), former 'Til Tuesday tunesmith Aimee Mann is back on track with a signature disc... View details »
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Dalí: Painting and Film
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Friday July 4 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA
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Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For Dalí, film not only... View details »
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Tetsumi Kudo
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Friday July 4 (10am–6pm) @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
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The first US gallery exhibition of Tetsumi Kudo's bright but morbid sculptures introduces American audiences to one of contemporary art's lesser-known forerunners. Working in Japan... View details »
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© MURAKAMI
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Friday July 4 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art in Bklyn
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Japanese neo-pop artist Takashi Murakami once said that Andy Warhol — to whom he's often compared — made art in order to distance himself from... View details »
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J.M.W. Turner
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Friday July 4 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective of J.M.W.... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Bill Owens
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Friday July 4 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery
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Famous for his eviscerating depiction of middle-class suburbia, photographer Bill Owens ventures out into America's proverbial backyard. Owens tours the churches, amusement parks, roadside vistas,... View details »
- Film
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The Fall
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Friday July 4 @ Landmark Sunshine
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In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
- Film: Festival
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JAPAN CUTS
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Friday July 4 @ Japan Society
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The biggest festival of contemporary Japanese film in North America, JAPAN CUTS has a diverse lineup that reflects the country's struggle to form a cultural... View details »
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Louise Bourgeois
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Friday July 4 (10am–7:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum
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After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
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Superheroes
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Friday July 4 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume and clothing. Superheroes delves... View details »
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Savage Grace
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Friday July 4 @ IFC Center
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Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life rarely commands the dramatic... View details »
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My Winnipeg
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Friday July 4 @ IFC Center
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In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, in a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
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Stuck
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Friday July 4 @ Angelika Film Center
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Stuck is inspired by one of those too-freakish-to-be-believed, real-life events that normally wends its way into a Law and Order episode rather than a full-length... View details »
- Art
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JACK*%SS
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Friday July 4 (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery
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When bug-eyed boys mace each other on MTV, they're jackasses, but when Chris Burden's studio assistant shoots him in the arm, it's art. The distinction... View details »
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Francisco de Goya
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Friday July 4 (10am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho
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Just before producing his modern masterpieces, dubbed the Black Paintings, Goya vented his disgust with the human animal in a series of small etchings titled... View details »
- Performing Arts
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Hot!
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Friday July 4 @ Dixon Place
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Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque, and comedy. It also... View details »
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Friday July 4 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Trumbo
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Friday July 4 @ Landmark Sunshine
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The Hollywood blacklist has already been extensively documented (most recently in Good Night, and Good Luck), but this extraordinary documentary about screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's legendary... View details »
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Tell No One
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Friday July 4 @ Various locations
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Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
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Zhang Huan
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Friday July 4 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein
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For Zhang Huan and his Chinese art-boom contemporaries, coming from rigid, egalitarian China to its antithesis — the ego- and market-centric Western world — must... View details »
- Film
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Asian Film Festival
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Friday July 4 @ Various locations
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Booming and busting economies, political upheaval, and a newfound global influence has created no shortage of Asian filmmakers. This year, Chinese director Feng Xiaogang makes... View details »
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Christian Vincent
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Friday July 4 (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery
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... e realist vignettes of Christian Vincent's Runyon Canyon are akin to the character sketches in Spoon River Anthology — they seem to be parts... View details »
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The Wackness
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Friday July 4 @ Various locations
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
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Finding Amanda
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Friday July 4 @ Landmark Sunshine
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In his recent onscreen roles, Matthew Broderick bears the stunned expression of a former teen idol gone to pot. He shines best in films like... View details »
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Brick Lane
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Friday July 4 @ Various locations
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With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
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Friday July 4 (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA
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From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and other industrial dinosaurs, many... View details »
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Unreal City
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Friday July 4 (11am–8pm) @ Gallery Satori
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With the UN forecasting that 50% of the world's population will reside in mega-cities by 2050, Gallery Satori's inaugural exhibition, Unreal City, presents 12 artists... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Click!
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Friday July 4 (11am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art in Bklyn
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Photography has always been both celebrated and suspect for its popularity with so-called amateurs. The rise of do-it-yourself shutterbugs has given us vital, world-changing information... View details »
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The Main Event
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Friday July 4 (11am–6pm) @ Schroeder Romero Gallery
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Heeding George Orwell's declaration that sport "is war minus the shooting," the curators of The Main Event explore how love, death, and domination are enacted... View details »
