All events on Friday July 18
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- Mary Weiss
- Friday July 18 (7pm) @ South Street Seaport
- Free
- The opening rap on the Shangri-Las' " Leader of the Pack" is a classic salvo of rock 'n roll rebellion. The teenage girl group may... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Deerhoof and the Metropolis Ensemble
- Friday July 18 (7:30pm) @ Prospect Park Bandshell
- Free
- In this corner: The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky's storied masterpiece of neoclassical ballet, as reimagined by a band of technophiles. Metropolis Ensemble's The Rite:... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- A Man Named Pearl
- Friday July 18 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- In 1976, when black factory worker Pearl Fryar moved to all-white Bishopville, South Carolina, his neighbors didn't disguise their trepidation: "Black people don't keep up... View details »
- Film
- Take
- Friday July 18 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Take begins with two close-ups: that of Ana (Minnie Driver), her face drawn and mouth grim; and Saul (Jeremy Renner), wearing handcuffs, his eyes clouded.... View details »
- Film
- Felon
- Friday July 18 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Muscular and smart, Felon takes a long, hard look at many men's worst fear — incarceration — and actually comes up with something new to... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Knyfe Hyts
- Friday July 18 (8pm) @ Death by Audio
- The curiously named Knyfe Hyts has the market cornered on deranged cartoon-themed sludge. With members of Ex-Models, Oneida, and Pterodactyl, the band fluctuates between errant... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Tao of 9 Second Avenue
- Friday July 18 (7:30pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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- Documentaries often profile individuals or follow remote adventures. But The Tao of 9 Second Avenue takes an in-depth look at a building, as it... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Vincenzo
- Friday July 18 (10pm) @ Bar 13
- You may not have heard of Vincenzo, but you've probably heard of Steve Bug, his longtime friend and mentor. The two recently resurrected Raw Elements,... View details »
- Music: DJ
- James T. Cotton
- Friday July 18 (11–4am) @ Public Assembly
- Giveaway
- The multi-monikered, multi-genre master Tadd Mullinix slips on his acid-house persona James T. Cotton for a set at the Bunker. Disco, boogie, techno, new beat,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Friday July 18 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Friday July 18 @ 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
- Friday July 18 (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 »
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- Superheroes
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 @ 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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 @ 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 »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 @ 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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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?
- Friday July 18 @ 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
- Friday July 18 @ 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
- Boeing Boeing
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- After Nature
- Friday July 18 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- The After Nature exhibition evokes a nightmare/fantasy of humankind's impending self-destruction and its aftermath. Sculptor Maurizio Cattelan imagines a horse's deadly collision with the museum... View details »
- Art
- Playing the Building
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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 »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Friday July 18 @ 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
- My Winnipeg
- Friday July 18 @ 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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Click!
- Friday July 18 (11am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art 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
- Friday July 18 @ 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
- Friday July 18 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts
- Hot!
- Friday July 18 @ 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
- Francisco de Goya
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Pilobolus
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 @ 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
- Tetsumi Kudo
- Friday July 18 (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 »
- Art
- The World's Smallest Art Fair
- Friday July 18 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Kustera Gallery More times »
- Free
- When art imitates art fairs, the layers of irony are just too rich. Anna Kustera has converted her spacious gallery into an information center designed... View details »
- Art
- If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
- Friday July 18 (10am–6pm) @ Bellwether Gallery More times »
- Free
- So summer isn't the ideal time for reflecting on death, but in Chelsea, it is the season for thematic group shows. Bellwether exhibits remembrances of... View details »
- Art
- Unreal City
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Friday July 18 (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
- Arctic Hysteria
- Friday July 18 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage landscape serves as the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Nélida Tirado
- Friday July 18 (8pm) @ Joyce Soho More times »
- Duende, the spirit of flamenco, is rarely bestowed upon dancers lacking a Spanish birthright. But the powers that be made an exception for Bronx-born Nélida... View details »
- Art
- Os Gemeos
- Friday July 18 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ice Factory
- Friday July 18 (7pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
- Giveaway
- Amid the summer heat and the flurry of theatre festivals, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory is a standout. Seven new performance works go up over... View details »
- Film
- The Exiles
- Friday July 18 @ IFC Center More times »
- 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
- Friday July 18 @ Quad Cinema More times »
- Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974), but to many... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Neal Medlyn
- Friday July 18 (8pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
- Giveaway
- In Neal Medlyn's fourth musical parody, an off-kilter androgynous romp arranged by Obie-winner Kenny Mellman, the performer channels the artist formerly known as "The Artist... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Twelve Ophelias
- Friday July 18 @ McCarren Park Pool More times »
- Free
- Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to overcome the past and... View details »
- Film
- The World of David Gordon Green
- Friday July 18 @ BAM More times »
- David Gordon Green's talent for creating moody, coming-of-age dramas has drawn universal acclaim since his feature-length debut George Washington (2000). To date, the young director... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Can I Help You?
- Friday July 18 (8pm) @ The Bushwick Starr More times »
- In Can I Help You?, theatre group Exploding Moment has created a fascinating new dramatic structure, and the results are completely chilling. Two actors sit... View details »
- Art
- Artist as Publisher
- Friday July 18 (10–6pm) @ Center for Book Arts More times »
- Free
- In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to publishing as a means... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Taylor Mac
- Friday July 18 (7:30pm) @ HERE Arts Center More times »
- As a drag performer, playwright, songwriter, and director, Taylor Mac wears many hats (and dresses). This month, the downtown legend takes up residence at HERE,... View details »
- Art
- What My Dad Gave Me
- Friday July 18 @ 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 »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Friday July 18 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center More times »
- In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Dance Out!
- Friday July 18 @ Parks throughout NYC More times »
- Free
- The Joyce Theater teams up with City Parks Foundation for the Dance Out! festival, as the city's green space provides rich terrain for three international... View details »
- Art
- Constraction
- Friday July 18 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
- Free
- Steel your stomach for a dose of kinetic op-art before entering Constraction, an exhibition devoted to new modernist technique. Tauba Auerbach's 50/50 black-and-white tile sets... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Gerald Dearing
- Friday July 18 (11am–7pm) @ Gallery Nine5 More times »
- Free
- The recently opened Gallery Nine5 in Nolita presents photographs by Gerald Dearing, who was born in Normandy as WWII raged around him. He immigrated to... View details »
- Art
- Crop Rotation
- Friday July 18 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
- Free
- Reduce. Reuse. Remediate. The thoughtful and invigorating Crop Rotation brings together work by artists who each do their part to minimize waste, be it theoretical... View details »
- Art
- Painting Now & Forever Part II
- Friday July 18 (10am–6pm) @ Greene Naftali More times »
- Free
- A return to good old-fashioned painting, this 42-artist group exhibition is a welcome respite from the predictable deluge of overly conceptual art. Merlin Carpenter's Gallows... View details »
- Art
- Kehinde Wiley
- Friday July 18 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem More times »
- Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Friday July 18 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- Friday July 18 (11am–6pm) @ New York Public Library More times »
- Free
- When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
- Art
- I Won't Grow Up
- Friday July 18 (10am–6pm) @ Cheim & Read More times »
- Free
- The solidly enjoyable summer show I Won't Grow Up presents on-the-radar artists at their most childlike. Mark Fox's video Nutzilla catches a ginormous monocled Mr.... View details »
