All events on Thursday June 19
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- R.E.M.
- Thursday June 19 (7:30pm) @ Madison Square Garden
- R.E.M.'s last outing, Around the Sun, was a critical and commercial flop, but their tenure as a "great American band" isn't up yet. Their newest... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Amelia Project, Phase II
- Thursday June 19 (7 & 9pm) @ The Flea Theater More times »
- In a salute to aviation trailblazers like Amelia Earhart, dancers take to the air, ground, and all points in between during the culminating performance of... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Medeski, Martin & Wood
- Thursday June 19 (7pm) @ Prospect Park Bandshell
- Free
- Medeski, Martin & Wood know how to get down. Since making a name for themselves in early-'90s New York, the soup-funk trio has combined avant-garde... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Hot!
- Thursday June 19 @ 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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Shearwater
- Thursday June 19 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- Giveaway
- In the wake of Shearwater's critically acclaimed new record, Rook, Okkervil River member and ornithology expert Jonathan Meiburg recently announced plans to quit the latter... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Crystal Castles
- Thursday June 19 (9pm) @ Studio B
- Free
- Crystal Castles love small-scale blippy melodies styled after old-school video games, but their songs are always dance-floor ready, given a sensual push by vocalist Alice... View details »
- Reading
- In the Flesh Reading Series
- Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ Happy Ending
- Free
- This month's installment of Rachel Kramer Bussel's In the Flesh reading series is queer-centric, but all dirty-minded page turners are welcome. Trans advocate Cris Beam... View details »
- Reading
- Drunken! Careening! Writers!
- Thursday June 19 (7–9pm) @ KGB Bar
- Free
- Tonight's reading is more raucous than most, featuring Gods and Monsters author Christopher Bram reading from his most recent novels: Lives of the Circus Animals... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Thursday June 19 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Thursday June 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Thursday June 19 (7pm) @ 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
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art 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 »
- Art
- Olafur Eliasson
- Thursday June 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Giveaway
- Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy of meteorological description. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Thursday June 19 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 @ 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
- Paul Chan
- Thursday June 19 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift either skyward or down... View details »
- Art
- Walton Ford
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Birthright
- Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ Billie Holiday Theater More times »
- Jackie Alexander's Birthright is a startlingly realistic story about an African-American family in post-Katrina Louisiana. Set in 2006, the play investigates themes of unemployment, incest,... View details »
- Film
- Savage Grace
- Thursday June 19 @ 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
- Thursday June 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- The New Normal
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 @ 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
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- E.S.T. Marathon
- Thursday June 19 @ 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
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jollyship the Whiz Bang
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Art
- Neo Rauch
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Port Authority
- Thursday June 19 (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: Photography
- RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Cameron Hayes
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (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?
- Thursday June 19 @ 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
- Thursday June 19 @ 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
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Top Girls
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Miss America
- Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ La MaMa E.T.C. More times »
- In the world premiere of Miss America, ever-funny feminist/lesbian theatre company Split Britches upends the beloved convention of ladies' beauty pageants. Their latest offering at... View details »
- Art
- Zhang Huan
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (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
- oph3lia
- Thursday June 19 (7:30pm) @ HERE Arts Center More times »
- For the first offering in its new space, HERE presents Aya Ogawa's chilling, modern evocation of Hamlet's victimized lover. The three-tiered production alternately recasts Ophelia... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Perfect Couple
- Thursday June 19 (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
- My Winnipeg
- Thursday June 19 @ 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
- The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
- Thursday June 19 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Vincent River
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Dance by Neil Greenberg
- Thursday June 19 (7:30pm) @ Dance Theater Workshop More times »
- For the world premiere of Really Queer Dance with Harps at the Dance Theatre Workshop, prolific choreographer Neil Greenberg takes videotaped dance improvisations and pairs... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Stitching
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ 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
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (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: Photography
- It's Fun to Do Bad Things
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Tom Sachs
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Art
- The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Film
- Monsieur Verdoux
- Thursday June 19 (2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30pm) @ Film Forum More times »
- The initial response to Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux was notoriously mixed. James Agee's superlative-laced review was the exception, as most American critics of 1947 panned... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Encounters at the End of the World
- Thursday June 19 @ 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
- Human Rights Watch Film Festival
- Thursday June 19 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
- Let's face it: in the US cultural landscape, aesthetic value and social conscience coexist in cinema about as easily as Church and State do —... View details »
- Art
- BAST
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (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: Dance
- The French Collection
- Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Three on a Couch
- Thursday June 19 (8pm) @ Soho Playhouse More times »
- Though Carl Djerassi spent most of his career in a lab coat — as one of the chemists behind the first oral contraceptive, he could... View details »
- Film
- NYC Food Film Festival
- Thursday June 19 (8:30pm) @ Water Taxi Beach More times »
- Free
- The Food Film Festival takes up residence at Water Taxi Beach for its second-annual celebration. The multi-sensory affair features six days of food-related short films,... View details »
- Art
- JACK*%SS
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Quid Pro Quo
- Thursday June 19 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
- Radio reporter Isaac Knot (Nick Stahl) was rendered a paraplegic in a car accident that killed both of his parents when he was eight. When... View details »
- Art
- Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hamlet
- Thursday June 19 (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
- Arctic Hysteria
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Art
- What My Dad Gave Me
- Thursday June 19 @ 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
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- Thursday June 19 (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 »
