Museum of the Moving Image 35th Ave. at 36th St., Astoria Special events October 9, 10, 23 (free with gallery admission of $6-$12) Exhibit continues Wednesday – Sunday through January 31, $6-$12 718-777-6800 www.movingimage.us A little more than ten years ago, on May 22, 2005, YouTube cofounder Steve Chen posted a video of his cat, […]
Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. at 36th St. Daily through September 8, $12-$18 (free Fridays from 7:00 to 9:00) 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org www.drawingrestraint.net No, the banner outside the Morgan Library proclaiming that its Matthew Barney exhibition ends September 2 is not a restraint to stop drawing visitors to the show, which actually closes September […]
Relaxing on a beautiful night outdoors watching a free movie has become quite a city tradition, and you can find all kinds of films being shown in parks and plazas all over town, from Central Park, Bryant Park, and Riverside Park to the USS Intrepid, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Queens Museum. Film screenings begin […]
DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) Opened Tuesday, December 25 www.unchainedmovie.com Multigenre master Quentin Tarantino, who as writer-director has taken on the gangster film (Reservoir Dogs), pulp movies (Pulp Fiction), Blaxploitation (Jackie Brown), the martial arts (Kill Bill, Vols. I & II), grindhouse (Death Proof), and WWII (Inglourious Basterds) with nearly universally acclaimed results, has now […]
Lever House 390 Park Ave. at 54th St. Through January 30 (extended into February) Admission: free www.leverhouseartcollection.com flickr slideshow Last year, British artist Richard Woods papered two City Hall security booths in a white-and-redbrick design that made them look like they were toys; he also covered a City Hall lobby door in a graphic representation […]
BLACK DYNAMITE (Scott Sanders, 2008) Opens Friday, October 16 http://www.blackdynamite.com In the 1970s, the so-called blaxploitation genre gave rise to such films as SHAFT, SUPER FLY, ACROSS 110th STREET, CLEOPATRA JONES, BLACK CAESAR, and DOLEMITE, movies of varying degrees of quality that tackled such themes as urban drug use, prostitution, and crime, made primarily by […]