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- Sonic Youth
- Today (3:30pm) @ Battery Park
- Sold Out!
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Mr. Brownstone
- Today (9pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
- Giveaway
- 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 »
- Film: Shorts
- Un-American Films
- Today (5pm) @ Solar One
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Party
- MyOpenBar presents Stimulus Package
- Today (1–9pm) @ The Yard
- With Sonic Youth tickets all snatched up, Fourth of July is suddenly a cred-salvaging scramble for Daydreamers and indie kids alike. If only there were,... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Sub Swara
- Today (10pm–4am) @ Love
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Afro-Punk Festival
- Today @ Various locations More times»
- While punk may be dead (buried beneath a pile of cheap studded belts, no doubt), Afro-punk is alive and pulsing with the same rebellious, energetic... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Today (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre in New York More times»
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Today (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times»
- MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Today (8 & 10:30pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times»
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Today (8pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times»
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Today (8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times»
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
- Art
- © MURAKAMI
- Today (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art in Bklyn More times»
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Today (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times»
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Today (8pm) @ The Belasco Theatre More times»
- The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel Breaker) who flees his... View details »
- Film
- The Fall
- Today @ Landmark Sunshine More times»
- 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
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Today @ IFC Center More times»
- New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de... View details »
- Art
- Louise Bourgeois
- Today (10am–7:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times»
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- Today (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times»
- 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 »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Today (10:30am–7:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times»
- The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
- Film
- Savage Grace
- Today @ IFC Center More times»
- 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 »
- Art
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Today (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times»
- Giveaway
- 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 »
- Film
- Stuck
- Today @ Angelika Film Center More times»
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Prisoner of the Crown
- Today (8pm) @ Irish Repertory Theatre More times»
- The Chelsea-based Irish Repertory Theatre company is devoted to Irish and Irish-American work. The New York premiere of Richard F. Stockton's Prisoner of the Crown... View details »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Today (noon–6pm) @ Scandinavia House More times»
- Free
- Beyond Vikings, black metal, and squealing, elvish pop stars, Iceland has a rich cultural terrain that Americans are slowly exploring. Scandinavia House hosts work by... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Today @ Paragraph More times»
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
- Art: Photography
- RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
- Today (11am–6pm) @ Danziger Projects More times»
- Free
- During his nearly 15-year tenure at Look magazine, Paul Fusco developed an acute eye for human pathos. He documented the hard-up lives of Latinos in... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Today (10am–8pm) @ International Center of Photography More times»
- Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese cultural norms. Riffing on... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Today (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times»
- 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
- When Did You Last See Your Father?
- Today @ Angelika Film Center More times»
- Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father? tackles potentially maudlin material... View details »
- Film
- Beauty in Trouble
- Today @ Angelika Film Center More times»
- Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather, and her husband has... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Today (7pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times»
- Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses befitted the greed and self-absorption that characterized the '80s. The play, and its subsequent film adaptation, hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- Today (8pm) @ Longacre Theatre More times»
- It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying spectacle — and, miraculously,... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Architecture of Authority
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times»
- Free
- In support of the Architecture of Authority exhibition's accompanying book, photographer Richard Ross takes a Foucauldian look at institutional spaces. Ross examines everything from a... View details »
- Art
- Playing the Building
- Today (noon–6pm) @ Battery Maritime Building More times»
- Free
- From the man who once danced with a lamp comes another animation of the inanimate. In conjunction with Creative Time, David Byrne creates a monumental... View details »
- Art
- Zhang Huan
- Today (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times»
- Free
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hospital 2008
- Today (8pm) @ Axis Theatre More times»
- For the ninth year running, Axis Company presents its fascinating serial drama Hospital, which annually explores the thoughts of a different man in a terminal... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Perfect Couple
- Today (8pm) @ DR2 Theatre More times»
- Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into undersized apartments, and move... View details »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Today @ Various locations More times»
- 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 »
- Film
- Finding Amanda
- Today @ Landmark Sunshine More times»
- 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 »
- Film
- Brick Lane
- Today @ Various locations More times»
- 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 »
- Film
- My Winnipeg
- Today @ IFC Center More times»
- Giveaway
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Stitching
- Today (8pm) @ Wild Project More times»
- On the verge of a messy breakup, Abby finds herself pregnant. She and her boyfriend Stu proceed to hash out the myriad choices they must... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- BASH'd
- Today (7:30 & 10pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater More times»
- The struggle for marriage equality in Canada ultimately succeeded, but the heated debate provoked a spike in hate crimes in 2005, especially in Alberta. Responding... View details »
- Art
- Christian Vincent
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Mike Weiss Gallery More times»
- Free
- ... 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 »
- Film
- Asian Film Festival
- Today @ Various locations More times»
- Giveaway
- 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 »
- Art: Photography
- It's Fun to Do Bad Things
- Today (11am–7pm) @ Moeller Snow Gallery More times»
- Free
- Sure, Scandinavian metalheads, Klansmen, and inner-city gang members have violent ideologies, wear weird costumes, and are considered by most to be real-life monsters, but even... View details »
- Art
- Laleh Khorramian
- Today (11am–6pm) @ Salon 94 Freemans More times»
- Free
- I Without End, the title piece of Laleh Khorramian's second solo show at Salon 94 Freemans, is a three-channel video projection that reads like a... View details »
- Art
- The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
- Today (3–8pm) @ Fuse Gallery More times»
- Free
- Jason D'Aquino pulls from 13th-century illuminated manuscripts of Persian poetry and 18th-century England's enamel-on-ivory portraiture for his steadfastly contemporary, teensy-tiny drawings on the inside of... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Click!
- Today (11am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art in Bklyn More times»
- 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Encounters at the End of the World
- Today @ Film Forum More times»
- Giveaway
- In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly) sidesteps the hot topic... View details »
- Film
- Tell No One
- Today @ Various locations More times»
- 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Trumbo
- Today @ Landmark Sunshine More times»
- 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 »
- Art
- BAST
- Today (1–7pm) @ Brooklynite Gallery More times»
- Free
- BAST is an elusive street artist whose presence is only confirmed by his work — created in the dark, and revealed in the light. For... View details »
- Art
- Poets of the Paste
- Today (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times»
- Free
- Dedicated to beautifying the urban landscape via detailed and delicate wheatpaste portraiture, Poets of the Paste brings beauty to brick and takes an occasional swipe... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Hot!
- Today @ Dixon Place More times»
- 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 »
- Art
- Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
- Today (11am–6pm) @ Honey Space More times»
- Free
- Straying from the austere, white-washed norm, Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson's Portrait of Sylvia Elena leads gallery patrons to subterranean levels of mourning. The ground... View details »
- Art
- Francisco de Goya
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Peter Blum Gallery Soho More times»
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- JACK*%SS
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Susan Inglett Gallery More times»
- Free
- 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 »
- Film: Festival
- JAPAN CUTS
- Today @ Japan Society More times»
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Pilobolus
- Today (8pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times»
- It wouldn't be a sultry summer in the city without Pilobolus emoting some high heat from the Joyce stage. The much-anticipated new season from the... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bill Owens
- Today (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery More times»
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- J.M.W. Turner
- Today (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times»
- 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Today @ Various locations in the East River More times»
- Free
- Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
- Art
- Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery More times»
- Free
- The Four Friends exhibition at Tony Shafrazi closed two months ago, but you can still see it, sort of. American gallery owner Gavin Brown and... View details »
- Art
- Tetsumi Kudo
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Andrea Rosen Gallery More times»
- Free
- 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 »
- Film: Festival
- William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero
- Today @ Walter Reade Theater More times»
- When William Holden burst upon the screen as a violinist-turned-boxer in Golden Boy, he exhibited an alchemical quality that was nine-tenths bonhomie and one-tenth brooding... View details »
- Art
- Unreal City
- Today (11am–8pm) @ Gallery Satori More times»
- Free
- 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
- The Main Event
- Today (11am–6pm) @ Schroeder Romero Gallery More times»
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- Dalí: Painting and Film
- Today (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times»
- 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 »
- Art
- Os Gemeos
- Today (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times»
- Free
- Os Gemeos (the Twins) turn the walls of the world into sprawling krylon villages, incorporating whimsical imagery from their native São Paulo and Coney Island's... View details »
- Art
- What My Dad Gave Me
- Today @ Rockefeller Center More times»
- Free
- In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector Set, a box of... View details »
