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[SOLD OUT] The Cure
Saturday June 21 (8pm) @ Radio City Music Hall
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[SOLD OUT] The Cure
More Flavor: Parade
Mermaid Parade
Saturday June 21 (2pm) @ Coney Island
Free
Though SantaCon and the Halloween Parade both feature costumed revelers terrorizing the streets of New York, it's Coney Island's Mermaid Parade — the nation's largest... View details »
Mermaid Parade
Music: Global
Sérgio Mendes and Zap Mama
Saturday June 21 (8pm) @ Carnegie Hall
Each pioneers in their own right, Brazilian-funk veteran Sérgio Mendes and Belgian back-to-Africa outfit Zap Mama team up for a global get-down that's equal parts... View details »
Sérgio Mendes and Zap Mama
Music: Electronic
After the Jump Festival
Saturday June 21 (8:30pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Giveaway
Since the release of Crystal Castles' remix of "Crimewave" last year, LA-bred noise quartet HEALTH have achieved international fame (the song even made it to... View details »
After the Jump Festival
Music: DJ
Green Velvet
Saturday June 21 (10pm) @ Studio B
Giveaway
House producer Green Velvet, aka Curtis Jones, is known for his minimal yet propulsive grooves. His new cache of body-movin' tracks keeps it real funky,... View details »
Green Velvet

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Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Saturday June 21 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Saturday June 21 (7 & 10pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Saturday June 21 (2, 5 & 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 »
Jump
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Saturday June 21 (3 & 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
Art
© MURAKAMI
Saturday June 21 (11am–6pm) @ 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 »
© MURAKAMI
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Olafur Eliasson
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Saturday June 21 (2 & 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
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Saturday June 21 @ 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 »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
Saturday June 21 (2 & 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
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Art
Paul Chan
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ 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 »
Paul Chan
Art
Walton Ford
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Walton Ford
Film
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Saturday June 21 @ 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
More Flavor: Fashion
Superheroes
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Superheroes
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
Saturday June 21 (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
Art
Darina Karpov
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Pierogi More times »
Free
Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting outward. Close attention to... View details »
Darina Karpov
Performing Arts: Theatre
Birthright
Saturday June 21 (3 & 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 »
Birthright
Film
Savage Grace
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Art
The New Normal
Saturday June 21 (noon–5pm) @ 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 »
The New Normal
Film
Stuck
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Prisoner of the Crown
Saturday June 21 (3 & 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 »
Prisoner of the Crown
Performing Arts: Theatre
E.S.T. Marathon
Saturday June 21 @ 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 »
E.S.T. Marathon
Art
Recent Icelandic Art
Saturday June 21 (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
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Jollyship the Whiz Bang
Art
Neo Rauch
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Neo Rauch
Performing Arts: Theatre
Port Authority
Saturday June 21 (2 & 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 »
Port Authority
Art: Photography
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Saturday June 21 (noon–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 »
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered
Art
Cameron Hayes
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Cameron Hayes
Art: Photography
Recent Photography and Video from Japan
Saturday June 21 (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
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Film
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Saturday June 21 (2 & 8pm) @ 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 »
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Performing Arts: Theatre
Boeing Boeing
Saturday June 21 (2 & 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 »
Boeing Boeing
Performing Arts: Theatre
Top Girls
Saturday June 21 (2 & 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 »
Top Girls
Art: Photography
Architecture of Authority
Saturday June 21 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Miss America
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Miss America
Art
Playing the Building
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Playing the Building
Art
Zhang Huan
Saturday June 21 (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
Hospital 2008
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Hospital 2008
Performing Arts: Theatre
oph3lia
Saturday June 21 (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
Saturday June 21 (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
Brick Lane
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Saturday June 21 @ 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
The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
Saturday June 21 @ 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 »
The Film Festival: A Theater Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
Vincent River
Saturday June 21 (2:15 & 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 »
Vincent River
Performing Arts: Theatre
Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks
Performing Arts: Dance
Dance by Neil Greenberg
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Dance by Neil Greenberg
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stitching
Saturday June 21 (2 & 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 »
Stitching
Performing Arts: Theatre
BASH'd
Saturday June 21 (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 »
BASH'd
Art
Christian Vincent
Saturday June 21 (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
Natsuki Uruma
Saturday June 21 (noon–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 »
Natsuki Uruma
Film
Asian Film Festival
Saturday June 21 @ 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 »
Asian Film Festival
Art: Photography
It's Fun to Do Bad Things
Saturday June 21 (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 »
It's Fun to Do Bad Things
Art
Laleh Khorramian
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Laleh Khorramian
Art
Tom Sachs
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Tom Sachs
Art
The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
Saturday June 21 (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 »
The Miniature Drawings of Jason D'Aquino
Film: Documentary
Encounters at the End of the World
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Saturday June 21 @ 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 »
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Art
BAST
Saturday June 21 (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 »
BAST
Performing Arts: Dance
The Amelia Project, Phase II
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Art
Poets of the Paste
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Poets of the Paste
Performing Arts: Dance
The French Collection
Saturday June 21 (2 & 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 »
The French Collection
Performing Arts
Hot!
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
Art
Francisco de Goya
Saturday June 21 (11am–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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Three on a Couch
Saturday June 21 (3 & 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 »
Three on a Couch
Art
JACK*%SS
Saturday June 21 (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
Quid Pro Quo
Saturday June 21 @ 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 »
Quid Pro Quo
Art
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Saturday June 21 (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
Saturday June 21 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hamlet
Saturday June 21 (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
Unreal City
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ 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 »
Unreal City
Art
Arctic Hysteria
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Arctic Hysteria
Art
What My Dad Gave Me
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Sol LeWitt
Art: Photography
Eminent Domain
Saturday June 21 (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 »
Eminent Domain
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Saturday June 21 (noon, 1, 3 & 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 »
The Science Barge