All events on Tuesday June 10
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- Vincent River
- Tuesday June 10 (8:15pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
- British import Vincent River, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, has impressive credentials — and lives up to them. Philip Ridley's... View details »
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- charity: water
- Tuesday June 10 (9–11pm) @ Saks Fifth Avenue
- Frequent partner charity: water (Flavorpill's favorite world improvers) teams up with Saks Fifth Avenue to co-host tonight's Summer Gala benefit. The goal of the swanky... View details »
- Art
- BAST
- Tuesday June 10 (7–9pm) @ Brooklynite Gallery More times »
- OpeningFree
- 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 »
- Reading
- The Internet: We All Live There Now
- Tuesday June 10 (7pm) @ The Kitchen
- Giveaway
- Despite being a relatively new journal, n+1 has the self-assured swagger and genre-spanning perspective of a much more established publication. Founded in 2004, the magazine... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- The French Collection
- Tuesday June 10 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
- As part of the French Collection dance festival, three of France's most prominent companies grace the Joyce stage. Heddy Maalem Company's 14 African dancers perform... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
- Christian Death
- Tuesday June 10 (7:30pm) @ Knitting Factory
- Giveaway
- Formed in 1979 as hardcore was taking over their native Los Angeles, Christian Death helped to create the gothic, Bauhaus-influenced sound that would come to... View details »
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- August: Osage County
- Tuesday June 10 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
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- Adding Machine
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
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- In the Heights
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
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- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Tuesday June 10 @ Broadhurst Theatre More times »
- Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The weighty issues on display... View details »
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- Passing Strange
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
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- Sunday in the Park with George
- Tuesday June 10 (8pm) @ Studio 54 More times »
- Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon... View details »
- Film
- The Fall
- Tuesday June 10 @ 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 »
- Art
- Walton Ford
- Tuesday June 10 (10am–6pm) @ Paul Kasmin Gallery More times »
- Free
- Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In Dying Words, Ford plays... View details »
- Film
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Tuesday June 10 @ 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 »
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- Superheroes
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
- Art
- Robert Therrien
- Tuesday June 10 (10am–6pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
- Free
- Robert Therrien quite literally transforms mundane items into objects of whimsically huge proportion. In No Title (Folding Table and Chairs), super-sized chairs lean propped against... View details »
- Film
- Savage Grace
- Tuesday June 10 @ 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
- The New Normal
- Tuesday June 10 (noon–6pm) @ Artists Space More times »
- Free
- Dick Cheney's deliciously/terrifyingly Orwellian phrase "the New Normal" — referring to the newly shifted line between the private and the public — has inspired ample... View details »
- Film
- Stuck
- Tuesday June 10 @ 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 »
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- E.S.T. Marathon
- Tuesday June 10 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times »
- Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually a mixed bag, but... View details »
- Art
- Recent Icelandic Art
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
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- Paragraph
- Tuesday June 10 @ 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 »
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- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Tuesday June 10 (8pm) @ Ars Nova Theater More times »
- Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain Clamp and his shipmates... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Cedar Lake
- Tuesday June 10 @ Cedar Lake Theater More times »
- Cedar Lake is a vibrant contemporary ballet company housed in the former studio of famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The group is known for its efforts... View details »
- Art
- Neo Rauch
- Tuesday June 10 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
- Free
- Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding art-world buzz and a... View details »
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- Port Authority
- Tuesday June 10 (8pm) @ Linda Gross Theater More times »
- "I never thought about myself," claims senior citizen Joe (Jim Norton) in playwright Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Yet he does. A lot. So do middle-aged... View details »
- Art
- Cameron Hayes
- Tuesday June 10 (10am–6pm) @ Ronald Feldman Gallery More times »
- Free
- For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with an absurdist sense of... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
- Film
- When Did You Last See Your Father?
- Tuesday June 10 @ 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 »
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- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
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- Boeing Boeing
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
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- Top Girls
- Tuesday June 10 (8pm) @ Biltmore Theater More times »
- Top Girls isn't what you'd call a "feel-good" play. It's more like a provocative, hard-to-digest one that will leave you thinking for days, maybe years... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Architecture of Authority
- Tuesday June 10 (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
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Tuesday June 10 (9:30am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
- Free
- Although he shared many of their artistic concerns, Adolph Gottlieb didn't have the fraught backstory of his more prominent American and European contemporaries — he... View details »
- Art
- Zhang Huan
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
- Art
- Telectroscope
- Tuesday June 10 @ Fulton Ferry Landing More times »
- Free
- British artist Paul St George says his great-grandfather wanted to link the US and England with a tunnel under the ocean. He also claims that... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Perfect Couple
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
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- The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
- Tuesday June 10 @ The Brick Theater More times »
- The Brick's annual festival celebrates the occasionally ornery relationship between theatre and film. The centerpiece is 72-Hour Films, for which participants start writing and shooting... View details »
- Film
- New Italian Cinema
- Tuesday June 10 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- The concept behind the Open Roads showcase of new Italian films probably doesn't jibe with the country's direction under recently reinstated right-wing leader Silvio Berlusconi,... View details »
- Art
- Bill Shannon
- Tuesday June 10 (noon–7pm) @ Douz and Mille More times »
- Free
- Outside the world of visual arts, Bill Shannon is best known as the breakdancer (and sometime-skater) deftly balanced on a pair of crutches. Born with... View details »
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- Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks
- Tuesday June 10 (8pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
- Summerworks 2008, Clubbed Thumb's 13th annual festival of new plays, starts with the raucous Constitutional Convention on June 4, a free opening-night bash at which... View details »
- Art
- Christian Vincent
- Tuesday June 10 (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
- Natsuki Uruma
- Tuesday June 10 (11am–6pm) @ Rivington Arms More times »
- Free
- Natsuki Uruma's early guerrilla performances interrupted the humdrum routine of public life with feats that most would only consider after a night of heavy drinking... View details »
- Art
- Purvis Young
- Tuesday June 10 (1pm–midnight) @ GalleryBar More times »
- Free
- After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and had a dream, wherein... View details »
- Art: Photography
- It's Fun to Do Bad Things
- Tuesday June 10 (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
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
- Art
- Tom Sachs
- Tuesday June 10 (10am–6pm) @ Sperone Westwater More times »
- Free
- In one of his two latest exhibitions, high-profile craftsman Tom Sachs (and his basement factory of art-elves) transform a Chelsea gallery into a ten-room menagerie... View details »
- Film
- Newfest
- Tuesday June 10 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- Ideally, all independent cinema would be queer — in the sense that it would all live outside the status quo, challenging cultural norms by its... View details »
- Film
- The Go-Getter
- Tuesday June 10 @ Quad Cinema More times »
- Like many road-trip movies, The Go-Getter is part spontaneous adventure and part journey to self-discovery. Writer/director Martin Hynes' story follows Mercer (played by Thumbsucker's doe-eyed... View details »
- Art
- Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
- Tuesday June 10 (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
- Tuesday June 10 (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
- Tuesday June 10 (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: Theatre
- Cinephilia
- Tuesday June 10 (8pm) @ The Studio at Theatre Row More times »
- In Cinephilia, Johnny and Arden have spent four years having sex, avoiding commitment, and quoting movies at each other, and it's all about to come... View details »
- Art
- Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
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- Hamlet
- Tuesday June 10 (8pm) @ Delacorte Theater More times »
- Free
- Shakespeare's tale of murder and madness hasn't been staged at the Delacorte Theater since 1975, when Sam Waterston played the title role, but it's been... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- Tuesday June 10 (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 »
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- The Science Barge
- Tuesday June 10 (4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
- Free
- Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
