All events on Tuesday July 08

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Film
The Magic Lantern
Tuesday July 8 (7pm) @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
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 »
The Magic Lantern
Film
Wet Hot American Summer
Tuesday July 8 (9pm) @ McCarren Park Pool
Free
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 »
Wet Hot American Summer
Reading
A Chill Evening with DailyCandy
Tuesday July 8 (7–8pm) @ McNally Robinson Booksellers
Free
Whether it's to express the inexpressible or just to be witty, everyone makes up words every once in a while. The ladies over at DailyCandy... View details »
A Chill Evening with DailyCandy
More Flavor: Party
Experimental Philosophy
Tuesday July 8 (7:30pm) @ Union Hall
Giveaway
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 »
Experimental Philosophy
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Taylor Mac
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Taylor Mac
Music: Rock/Pop
Crystal Antlers
Tuesday July 8 (8pm) @ Mercury Lounge
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 »
Crystal Antlers
More Flavor: Workshop
Amma
Tuesday July 8 (10am & 7:30pm) @ Manhattan Center More times »
Free
Granted, pop culture has found a way to make "hugging it out" trendy — not to mention bro-tastic — but the best kinds of hugs... View details »
Amma

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Tuesday July 8 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Tuesday July 8 (8pm) @ 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 »
Fuerzabruta
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday July 8 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
Slavic Soul Party!
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Adding Machine
Music: DJ
Afrika Bambaataa
Tuesday July 8 (10pm) @ APT More times »
Giveaway
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
Afrika Bambaataa
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Passing Strange
Film
The Fall
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
The Fall
Film
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Art
Louise Bourgeois
Tuesday July 8 (10am–5:45pm) @ 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 »
Louise Bourgeois
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Tuesday July 8 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
Superheroes
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Tuesday July 8 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Film
Savage Grace
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Savage Grace
Film
Stuck
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Stuck
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Recent Icelandic Art
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Paragraph
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Tuesday July 8 (10am–6pm) @ 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 »
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Tuesday July 8 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Film
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Film
Beauty in Trouble
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Beauty in Trouble
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Tuesday July 8 (7pm) @ 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 »
Boeing Boeing
Art: Photography
Architecture of Authority
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Architecture of Authority
Art
Zhang Huan
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Zhang Huan
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Perfect Couple
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
A Perfect Couple
Film
The Wackness
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
The Wackness
Film
Finding Amanda
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Finding Amanda
Film
Brick Lane
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Brick Lane
Film
My Winnipeg
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
My Winnipeg
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stitching
Tuesday July 8 (7pm) @ 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 »
Stitching
Art
Christian Vincent
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Christian Vincent
Art
Laleh Khorramian
Tuesday July 8 (1–6pm) @ 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 »
Laleh Khorramian
Film: Documentary
Encounters at the End of the World
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Encounters at the End of the World
Film
Tell No One
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Tell No One
Film: Documentary
Trumbo
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Trumbo
Art
BAST
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
BAST
Performing Arts
Hot!
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Hot!
Art
Francisco de Goya
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Francisco de Goya
Art
JACK*%SS
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
JACK*%SS
Film: Festival
JAPAN CUTS
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
JAPAN CUTS
Performing Arts: Dance
Pilobolus
Tuesday July 8 (7:30pm) @ 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 »
Pilobolus
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Bill Owens
Art
J.M.W. Turner
Tuesday July 8 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
J.M.W. Turner
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Art
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Art
Tetsumi Kudo
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Tetsumi Kudo
Film: Festival
William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
William Holden: A Different Kind of Hero
Art
The Main Event
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
The Main Event
Art
Os Gemeos
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Os Gemeos
More Flavor: Festival
Afro-Punk Festival
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
Afro-Punk Festival
Art
What My Dad Gave Me
Tuesday July 8 @ 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 »
What My Dad Gave Me
Art
Constraction
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Constraction
Art
Crop Rotation
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Crop Rotation
Art
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
Painting Now & Forever Part II
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Tuesday July 8 (11am–7:30pm) @ 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 »
Eminent Domain
Art
I Won't Grow Up
Tuesday July 8 (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 »
I Won't Grow Up