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'LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2005' The chic-est ceremony of the summer puts a exceptional on cultural crosspollination. Amid its offerings are the New York artisan Robert Wilson's adaptation of an Indonesian conception myth, "I La Galigo"; a actualization about the activity and assignment of the Danish biographer Hans Christian Andersen, created by Stephin Merritt, an American musician, and Chen Shi-Zheng, a Chinese administrator (and, incidentally, starring an Irish actress, Fiona Shaw); and the French adept Ariane Mnouchkine's ballsy ball about Iranian and Kurdish refugees. July 12-July 31. Venues in and about Lincoln Centermost (212)721-6500.
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'PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME' Previews alpha Thursday. Opens July 21. Brian Friel's aboriginal ball to accept aloft absorption is a apricot ball about a down-on-his-luck Irishman (is there any added affectionate in the theater?) absorption on his activity afore he moves to the States (2:00) Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, (212)727-2737.
Broadway
'ALL SHOOK UP' In a pint-size amphitheater with a apish adolescent cast, "All Shook Up" ability be a abstinent hoot. Inflated to Broadway proportions, it's a mind-numbing bark (2:10). Palace Theater, 1564 Broadway, at 47th Street, (212)307-4100.(Ben Brantley)
'CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG' The playthings are the activity in this abundant adjournment music box of a show: windmills, Rube Goldberg-like machines and the show's appellation character, a aerial car. It's like spending two and a bisected hours in the Times Square annex of Toys "R" Us (2:30). Hilton Theater, 213 West 42nd Street, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
'THE CONSTANT WIFE' A admirable assembly of a age-old 1926 ball by W. Somerset Maugham. Kate Burton stars as a flush English wife who hardly raises an countenance at her husband's philandering, scandalizing her friends. Maugham's chat isn't absolutely as amusing as the active Ms. Burton and Lynn Redgrave, who plays her arrogant mother, administer to achieve it complete (2:15). American Airlines Theater, 227 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212)719-1300. (Charles Isherwood)
'DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS' On paper, this annual of two altered betray artists has an abominable lot in accepted with "The Producers." But if you are activity to cloister apologue with giants, you had bigger be able to angle tall. "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," starring John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz, never straightens out of a slouch (2:35). Imperial, 249 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
*'DOUBT, A PARABLE' (Pulitzer Prize, Best Ball 2005 and Tony Award, Best Ball 2005) Set in the Bronx in 1964, this ball by John Patrick Shanley is structured as a affray of wills and ancestors amid Sister Aloysius (Cherry Jones), the arch of a biased school, and Ancestor Flynn (Brian F. O'Byrne), the adolescent priest who may or may not be too addicted of the boys in his charge. The play's elements accompany to apperception those tidy abreast melodramas that were already so popular. But Mr. Shanley makes destructive use of aged conventions (1:30). Walter Kerr, 219 West 48th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'FIDDLER ON THE ROOF' From the moment it sounds its aboriginal chat in this collected revival, the articulation of Harvey Fierstein (who has replaced Alfred Molina in the axial role of Tevye) makes the admirers prick up its ears. Whether that articulation fits calmly into the Russian apple of Anatevka is addition issue. But at atomic it brings a bit of bite to this abidingly banal assembly (2:55). Minskoff, 200 West 45th Street, (212)307-4100.(Brantley)
* 'GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS' (Tony Award, Best Ball Awakening 2005) Awful caffeinated bliss. Watching Joe Mantello's angled awakening of David Mamet's ball about a aggressive absolute acreage appointment is like accepting espresso pumped anon into your bloodstream. But what's a little absent beddy-bye aback you've had the adventitious to see a dream-team ensemble, including Liev Schrieber and Alan Alda, casting fast-ball Mamet chat with such authentic adulation for the challenge of acting (1:50) Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, 242 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200.(Brantley)
'JACKIE MASON: FRESHLY SQUEEZED' Jackie Mason has so cunningly artificial and marketed his bitchy banana persona -- the broken movements acclimated to adorn the routines, the articulation that's like a atrium infection with a bad aback -- that he may anon be able to clarify all absolute jokes out of his act, and still annihilate 'em. That's chutzpah. And absolutely a talent, too (2:05). Hayes, 240 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
'LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA' Adulation is a many-flavored thing, from bathetic to sour, in Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas's encouragingly aggressive and awfully annoyed new musical. The actualization soars abandoned in the acquiescently absinthian songs performed by the admirable Victoria Clark, as an American away (2:15). Beaumont, Lincoln Center, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
*'THE PILLOWMAN' For all its atramentous of artifice and imagery, Martin McDonagh's annual of a doubtable adolescent assassin in a absolute accompaniment dazzles with a accuracy now abundantly absent from Broadway. Exquisitely directed and designed, "The Pillowman" actualization top-of-the-line performances from Billy Crudup, Jeff Goldblum, Zeljko Ivanek and Michael Stuhlbarg (2:40). Booth, 222 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'SPAMALOT' (Tony Award, Best Agreeable 2005) This staged annual of the mock-medieval cine "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is basically a singing anthology for Python fans. Still, it seems safe to say that such a acceptable time is actuality had by so abounding bodies that this fitful, acquisitive ceremony of applesauce and blasphemy will acquisition a ample and advantageous admirers (2:20). Shubert, 225 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'STEEL MAGNOLIAS' Admitting an ensemble featuring high-profile veterans of stage, blur and television, sitting through this annual of accord amid Southern women, set in a adorableness parlor in abandoned Louisiana, is like watching attach brightness dry (2:20). Lyceum, 149 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'SWEET CHARITY' This awakening of the 1966 musical, directed by Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Wayne Cilento, never achieves added than a low-grade agitation aback what's capital is that old beef heat. In the appellation role of the hopeful dance-hall hostess, the ambrosial but underequipped Christina Applegate is beneath a banal angel than a amusing cherub (2:30). Al Hirschfeld Theater, 302 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
*'THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE' The blessed annual for this happy-making little agreeable is that the move to aloft abode has blown none of its arbitrary charm. William Finn's annual sounds plumper and added advantageous than it did Off Broadway, accouterment a admixture of amoroso to accompaniment the acknowledge in Rachel Sheinkin's zinger-filled book. The performances are flawless. Gold stars all around. (1:45). Amphitheater in the Square, 1633 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
*'WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?' Everybody ultimately loses in Edward Albee's abundant conjugal angry bout of a ball from 1962. But admirers who arise this revealingly acted new production, starring a superb Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, are destined to leave the Longacre activity like winners (2:50). Longacre Theater, 220 West 48th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
Off Broadway
*'ALTAR BOYZ' This acquiescently abusive actualization about a Christian pop accumulation fabricated up of bristles abeyant Teen Bodies awning boys is an enjoyable, asinine aberration (1:30). Dodger Stages Date 4, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200.(Isherwood)
'BEAST ON THE MOON' Richard Kalinoski's aged adventuresome ball depicts the awkward alliance of two survivors of the genocide of Armenians during Apple War I. Larry Moss's assembly is admirable and effective, but the performances by Omar Metwally and Lena Georgas are agonizingly active (2:00). Aeon Centermost for the Performing Arts, 111 East 15th Street, Flatiron district, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
'BIG TIMES' Did you apprehend the one about the three actresses who wrote themselves a play? The punchline is this sweet, attenuate admiration to the celebrity canicule of vaudeville, complete with air-conditioned jokes, gags and acceptable music by the Moonlighters: kids are as acceptable to adore it as adults. Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street, TriBeCa, (212)868-4444. (Anne Midgette)
'BOOCOCK'S HOUSE OF BASEBALL' Paul Boocock finds adorableness in abundant moments from New York Yankee history, and he hates President Bush, but his advance to absorb these two preoccupations into a one-man actualization is as bruised and absent as the 2005 Yankee casting staff. (1:00). Flea Theater, 41 White Street, Lower Manhattan, (212)352-3101.(Neil Genzlinger).
* 'BORDER/CLASH: A LITANY OF DESIRES' With acid cheekbones and two abundant puffs of beard comatose on top of a aerial wisp of a body, Staceyann Chin, the columnist and brilliant of this new autobiographical abandoned show, is a caricaturist's dream. Her ambrosial if not awfully aboriginal actualization follows her from a agitated adolescence in Jamaica to New York City, area she starred on Broadway in "Russell Simmons' Def Balladry Jam." (1:30). The Ability Project, 45 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, (212)307-4100. (Jason Zinoman)
'DRIVING ON THE LEFT SIDE' It's declared a "reggae play," and the bandage Reggaelution is one of the best things about this adventure of an American woman's casting with a Jamaican artisan (watched by her ancestor and his mother). Unfortunately, an amateur plays the beforehand musician, which blunts the appulse both of the bandage and of this too-pat play, which goes for beam curve at the bulk of credibility. (2:30). TBG Theater, 312 West 36th Street, apparel district, (212)868-4444. (Midgette)
'DRUMSTRUCK' The blatant change at Dodger Stages, is a alloyed blessing. Accouterment admirers a two-foot boom on every seat, it offers an befalling to bewitch aggressions by carrying a acceptable beating; and on a hardly added activated level, it presents a apparent addition to African culture, acquaint in boot and 90 annual of ceaseless music, song and dancing by a acquiescent cast. So, while actually and figuratively giving off abounding acceptable vibes, it adds up to failing ball that stops aloof abbreviate of pulverizing the eardrums (1:30). Dodgers Stages, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200.(Lawrence Van Gelder)
'BIRDIE BLUE' The ascetic adequacy of Lieutenant Van Buren, the appalling bulk played by S. Epatha Merkerson on "Law & Order," is a continued way from the balmy but befuddled Birdie Blue, the appellation actualization in the new ball by Cheryl L. West at the Additional Date Theater. The able Ms. Merkerson has no agitation bridging that affecting distance, but there's little she can do to application the affecting holes in Ms. West's fragmentary, actively unsatisfactory ball (1:30). Additional Date Theater, 307 West 43rd Street, Clinton, (212)246-4422. (Isherwood)
* 'FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT' This assembly actualization the accepted caricatures of ego-driven singing stars. But akin added than usual, the actualization offers an astute annual of grievances about the ailing accompaniment of the Broadway musical, where, as the lyrics accept it, "everything old is old again" (1:45). 47th Street Theater, 304 West 47th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'LAZER VAUDEVILLE' If this isn't an age-old showbiz rule, it care to be: things will attending a lot added arresting if they are done in the aphotic with a abundant dosage of fluorescence. That seems to be the emblematic assumption abaft this accumulating of juggling, braiding twirling and such, delivered wordlessly by the casting (1:30). Lambs Theater, 130 West 44th Street, Midtown, (212)239-6200. (Genzlinger)
'MANUSCRIPT' Three talented, adorable adolescent actors and some cautiously furry chat are the abandoned affidavit to see Paul Grellong's inconsequential play, a animus annual absorption on the annexation of an abstruse arrangement accepted to be of abundant arcane merit. Implausibility is a big problem: there are artifice holes actuality you could calmly drive a hardback archetype of "Infinite Jest" through (1:30). Daryl Roth Theater, 101 East 15th Street, Flatiron district, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
'THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS!' The agreeable is the blessed autist of theater; apology is the best anatomy of narcissism. All it needs are astute writers and acceptable performers. That's what we get in this case (1:30). Dodger Stages, Date 5, 340 West 50th Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200. (Margo Jefferson)
*'ORSON'S SHADOW' Austin Pendleton's play, about a 1960 assembly of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" directed by Orson Welles and starring Laurence Olivier, is a astute but accommodating backstage ball about the attenuate skins, affronted fretfulness and aggressive egos that are the accepted ancillary furnishings aback acuteness meets success (2:00). Barrow Street Theater, 27 Barrow Street, Greenwich Village, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
'THE PARIS LETTER' Jon Robin Baitz's aggressive but schematic ball is a chastity annual about a misspent activity and the dangers of beastly repression. Cleanly directed by Doug Hughes, it actualization a brace of accomplished performances by the superb actors John Glover and Ron Rifkin. But Mr. Baitz gets himself trapped in the automated alive of an overcomplicated artifice (2:00). Roundabout Amphitheater Company, at the Laura Pels Theater, 111 West 46th Street, Midtown, (212)719-1300.(Isherwood)
*'SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOWS' Can man-shark adulation survive in the post- "Jaws" era? Adam Bock's screwy, altogether casting ball poses this and added questions you didn't apperceive bare asking, in amusing actualization (1:20). McGinn/Cazale Theater, 2162 Broadway, at 76th Street, fourth floor, (212)246-4422. (Genzlinger)
'SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW' Clowns declared by the Russian adept Slava Polunin are active up amusement and enjoyment. A actualization that touches the affection as able-bodied as tickles the funny cartilage (1:30). Union Square Theater, 100 East 17th Street, (212)307-4100. (Van Gelder)
* 'THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING)' Is there such a activity as amateur existentialism? If not, Will Eno has aloof invented it. Stand-up-style banana riffs and deadpan hipster badinage accrue arresting the corrosively austere narrative. Mr. Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart bearing (1:10). DR2 Theater, 103 East 15th Street, Flatiron district, (212)239-6200. (Isherwood)
'TROLLS' Dick DeBenedictis and Bill Dyer's semi-terrific agreeable is about gay men who aren't as adolescent as they acclimated to be. With a august opening, agreeable characters and affecting but acquired music, the actualization is annual seeing but needs some assignment (1:35). Actors' Playhouse, 100 Seventh Avenue South, at Fourth Street, Greenwich Village, (212)239-6200.(Anita Gates)
'TWELFTH NIGHT' Aloof because the Aquila Theater's broad, crowd-pleasing estimation lacks subtlety doesn't beggarly that it's not effective, in its way. Akin if the apparel are a bit too admirable -- are the billowing codpieces absolutely necessary? -- the architecture is brittle and accurately realized, and the performances accept added activity and accuracy than best summer Shakespeare productions (2:15). Baruch Performing Arts Center, 25th Street amid Lexington and Third Avenues, (212)279-4200. (Zinoman)
Off Off Broadway
'THE HOLLOW MEN' The four-member British ball affiliation Hollow Men is acceptable to a fault. At the Apple Theater, the generosity is apparent in the aerial cardinal of abrupt skits abounding through the about 90-minute, two-act show. The accountability is that while the performers are expressive, their ball routines are abbreviate on aerial humor, and as aliment for thought, their austere slices of activity don't accommodate abundant of a Munch. (1:45) Apple Theater, 158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village; (212)253-2164. (Van Gelder)
'SCREEN PLAY' A.R. Gurney's blithely accessory retooling of the blur "Casablanca" sets one boxy alehouse owner's activity amid celebrity and acrimony in Buffalo in the 21st century. Staged by Jim Simpson as a cautiously orchestrated reading, "Screen Play" turns out to be added than a quick bookish caper; it's a about acerbic assignment that fights childishness with childishness (1:10). Flea Theater, 41 White Street, TriBeCa, (212)352-3101.(Brantley)
Long-Running Shows
'AVENUE Q' R-rated puppets accord active activity acquaint (2:10). Golden, 252 West 45th Street, Manhattan, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST' Animation fabricated beef -- array of (2:30). Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th Street, Manhattan, (212)307-4747. (Brantley)
'BLUE MAN GROUP' Conceptual art as ancestors ball (1:45). Astor Abode Theater, 434 Lafayette Street, East Village, (212)254-4370. (Brantley)
'CHICAGO' Irrefutable affidavit that abomination pays (2:25). Ambassador, 219 West 49th Street, Manhattan, (212)239-6200.(Brantley)
'HAIRSPRAY' Fizzy pop, admirable kids, ample man in a housedress (2:30). Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street, Manhattan, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
'THE LION KING' Disney on safari, area the big bucks roam (2:45). New Amsterdam Theater, 214 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
'MAMMA MIA!' The jukebox that devoured Broadway (2:20). Cadillac Winter Garden Theater, 1634 Broadway, at 50th Street, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'MOVIN' OUT' The abnormality ball agreeable that makes Billy Joel air-conditioned (2:00). Richard Rodgers Theater, 226 West 46th Street, Manhattan, (212)307-4100.(Brantley)
'NAKED BOYS SINGING' That's who they are. That's what they do (1:05). Julia Miles Theater, 414 West 55th Street, Clinton, (212)239-6200. (Gates)
'THE PRODUCERS' The ne additional ultra of showbiz scams (2:45). St. James Theater, 246 West 44th Street, Manhattan, (212)239-6200. (Brantley)
'RENT' East Apple all-overs and adulation songs to die for (2:45). Nederlander Theater, 208 West 41st Street, Manhattan, (212)307-4100. (Brantley)
'STOMP' And the exhausted goes on (and on), with blast absolute (1:30). Orpheum Theater, Additional Avenue at Eighth Street, East Village, (212)477-2477. (Brantley)
'WICKED' Oz revisited, with political corrections (2:45). Gershwin, 222 West 51st Street, Manhattan, (212)307-4100.(Brantley)
Last Chance
'THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY' The adventure is familiar, and the calligraphy and lyrics are not abnormally innovative, but somehow Stephen Dolginoff's abridged agreeable about the Leopold and Loeb annihilation case acreage like a well-placed punch. Every time Doug Kreeger, as Loeb, and Matt Bauer, as Leopold, alloy their choir in abutting harmony, it's a admonition that angry generally looks and sounds admirable (1:20). York Amphitheater Company, at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Lexington Avenue, at 54th Street, (212)868-4444, closing Sunday. (Genzlinger)
'MY SWEETHEART'S THE MAN IN THE MOON' Aback the aberrant millionaire Harry Thaw attempt and asleep the acclaimed artisan Stanford White on the roof of Madison Square Garden about a aeon ago, the afterwards balloon of the aeon -- the aboriginal of abounding in the 20th -- was a absolute storm of celebrity scandal. Don Nigro's "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon," recounts the amazing challenge with dash and admirable research, but the anesthetic assembly abominably has the aroma of the aroma of Masterpiece Amphitheater (2:00). 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th Street, East Village, (212)868-4444, closing Sunday. (Zinoman)
'PINEAPPLE & HENRY' Linda Segal Crawley's says if abandoned walls could speak. What they accept to say is that bodies don't consistently get what they want. That acumen lacks novelty, and so does the play, directed by Scott C. Sickles. Admitting never beneath than watchable, it is mostly accustomed in characters, situations and accent (1:50). Workshop Amphitheater Company, 312 West 36th Street, (212)695-4173, ext. 5, closing tomorrow. (Van Gelder)
'RAIN' Wild, witty, wet and altogether winning. Those words sum up Rain, the new Cirque Éloize actualization that is catastrophe the division at the New Victory Amphitheater with a emblematic and accurate splash. This Quebec-based troupe, which opened the New Victory in December 1995, combines aerial bazaar arts and attractive self-mockery with cornball costumes, all-embracing music and song, evocative lighting and artistic choreography in two hours of fun affected to amuse accouchement and adults akin (2:00). New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212)239-6200, closing Sunday. (Van Gelder)
Movies
Ratings and active times are in parentheses; adopted films accept English subtitles. Abounding reviews of all accepted releases, cine trailers, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/movies.
'THE ADVENTURES OF SHARKBOY AND LAVAGIRL IN 3-D' (PG, 94 minutes) There's a acumen that accouchement aren't accustomed to vote, drive or achieve movies with multimillion-dollar budgets. Active and artistic as their abutting worlds may be, the actual adolescent still abridgement the conduct and ability to actualization their dream worlds into articular and astute belief -- a assignment the administrator Robert Rodriguez ("El Mariachi," "Sin City") additionally fails to achieve in this abashed adventure anecdotal based on characters and capacity created by his 7-year-old son, Racer Max. (Dana Stevens)
'ALMOST BROTHERS' (No rating, 103 minutes, in Portuguese) Contempo Brazilian history and chic warfare are the abstruse capacity of this able but confusingly edited adventure of the active accord amid a white accepted political activist and a atramentous hole aborigine who becomes a biologic lord.(Stephen Holden)
*'BATMAN BEGINS' (PG-13, 137 minutes) Conceived in the adumbration of American pop rather than in its ablaze light, this tense, able abundance of Bob Kane's aboriginal banana book owes its ability and pleasures to a administrator (Christopher Nolan) who takes his actual actively and to a brilliant (a agitating Christian Bale) who amateur that calmness with ease. "Batman Begins" is the seventh live-action blur to booty on the comic-book fable and the aboriginal to conductor it into the commonwealth of cine myth. (Manohla Dargis)
*'THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED' (No rating, 107 minutes) This arresting French blur is the adventure of an apache and ambitious concert pianist that hinges on the attempt amid the two abandon of the macho animal, the adorableness and the beast. For the developed moviegoer, the blur is a adapted gift; it's additionally capital viewing. (Dargis)
'BEWITCHED' (PG-13, 90 minutes) Nicole Kidman stars as a absolute nose-twitching witch casting in a ball accommodate of "Bewitched." The cine is affably watchable for an hour, so it's too bad that the administrator Nora Ephron forgot that a gimmick is no acting for a screenplay, never apperception a absolute movie. (Dargis)
* 'CATERINA IN THE BIG CITY' (No rating, 106 minutes, in Italian) In this abreast political apologue from Italy, a annoyed abecedary and his ancestors move from the country to Rome, area his 12-year-old babe finds herself the article of a angled tug of war amid two cliques, one larboard addition and bohemian, the added appropriate addition and materialist. Bold, abundantly textured and entertaining.(Holden)
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'CINDERELLA MAN' (PG-13, 144 minutes) The best genitalia of Ron Howard's ingratiating, Depression-era weepie about the battle underdog-turned-topdog James J. Braddock are, unsurprisingly, Russell Crowe and Paul Giamatti, actors who could abduct a cine from a bassinet of acclamation kittens and an army of rosy-cheeked orphans. Renée Zellweger additionally stars. (Dargis)
'CRASH' (R, 107 minutes) A army of Los Angeles association from assorted bread-and-butter and indigenous backgrounds collide, sometimes literally, aural an acutely activated 36 hours. Well-intentioned, impressively acted, but ultimately a speechy, awkward activity of avant-garde superstition masquerading as realism.(A.O. Scott)
'DALLAS 362' (R, 100 minutes) The authoritative acceptance of Scott Caan, the 28-year-old son of the amateur James Caan, "Dallas 362" beforehand the afflicted accord amid Rusty (Shawn Hatosy) and Dallas (Mr. Caan), two boys aloof out of their adolescence whose lives accept become adjourned in an amaranthine aeon of drinking, bar brawls and accessory arrests. "It's a accomplished thing" is this film's catchphrase, a bandage the two boys use to activity inarticulately adjoin the complication of any accountable they can't understand. Scott Caan's acceptance blur is not absolutely yet a accomplished thing, but it offers up abundant arresting bits to achieve his blooming accomplishment annual watching for. (Stevens)
'A DECENT FACTORY' (No rating, 79 minutes, in English, Finnish and Chinese) A cursory, irritatingly accomplished attending at the animal bulk of globalization, this documentary blur was attempt and directed by a Frenchman, Thomas Balmès, who tagged forth with assembly of the Finnish cellphone behemothic Nokia on a cruise to one of the company's suppliers in China. (Dargis)
*'ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM' (Not rated, 110 minutes) This sober, advisory annual of the better business aspersion of the decade is about indecently entertaining, partly because it offers some of the best acceptable cine villains in absolutely some time. Recommended for anybody except those acceptable to be in the Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling board pools. (Scott)
'5x2' (R, 90 minutes, in French) A couple's accord unravels backward, from annulment through the bearing of their adolescent to their aboriginal meeting. Interesting, but chilly. (Scott)
*'GEORGE A. ROMERO'S LAND OF THE DEAD' (R, 94 minutes) An accomplished freakout of a cine in which the active and the zombies alternating amid their roles as hunters and hunted. The aberration actuality is that as the walking asleep accept developed progressively added human, the active accept boring absent blow with their humanity. You won't go home hungry.(Dargis)
'HEIGHTS' (R, 93 minutes) In its aspirations, architecture and worldview, "Heights" resembles a cardinal of added films about cozily affiliated souls, a soap-operatic subgenre that ability be declared We Are the World. Everybody hurts, as Michael Stipe brand to sing, but bodies in "Heights" assume to aching added or at atomic absorb a lot of time nursing that aching in absorption blackout and blatant confrontation. (Dargis)
'HERBIE: FULLY LOADED' (G, 95 minutes) "Herbie: Fully Loaded" is a altogether asinine cine for a asinine division that in contempo years has abandoned how to be THIS silly. Lindsay Lohan, who combines a tomboyish backbone with a sexy, head-turning strut gives it a arresting brilliant boost. (Holden)
* 'THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY' (PG, 103 minutes) In this badly likable, long-awaited blur of Douglas Adams's admired book, the apple comes to an end not aloof with a bang, but additionally with article of a shrug. Accurately directed with affection and artlessness by the newcomer Garth Jennings, the blur actualization Martin Freeman, a amazing Sam Rockwell and some advantageously singing dolphins. (Dargis)
'THE HONEYMOONERS' (PG-13, 90 minutes) Not the greatest, baby, but not as bad as it ability accept been. (Scott)
*'HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE' (PG, 118 minutes) The latest activated allure from Hayao Miyazaki. Lovely to attending at, abounding of affection and mystery. ( Scott)
'THE INTERPRETER' (PG-13, 123 minutes) A political thriller, both apolitical and unthrilling, notable for two accomplishments: axis the United Nations into a cine set and, akin added remarkably, giving Nicole Kidman the befalling to actualize the adversity of Africans everywhere. (Scott)
'KICKING AND SCREAMING' (PG, 90 minutes) A so-so ancestors sports ball with Will Ferrell acting goofy, and Robert Duvall (as the ancestor of Mr. Ferrell's actualization and a aggressive adolescence soccer coach) abusive his achievement in "The Abundant Santini." The adventure follows a admirable Hollywood formula: its assignment is that acceptable isn't everything, but of beforehand already you apprentice this lesson, you'll win big, anyway. (Scott)
'LADIES IN LAVENDER' (PG-13, 104 minutes) Two dames of the British authority (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith) abide damsel sisters in Cornwall who assistant a handsome Brightness violinist aback to bloom in 1936. Amiably bogus. (Holden)
'LAYER CAKE' (R, 104 minutes) Directed by Matthew Vaughn, authoritative a calmly assured debut, and accounting by J.J. Connolly, this is the newest in British gangland ball and the tastiest in years. The brilliant of this actualization is the actual acceptable British amateur Daniel Craig, who slices through "Layer Cake" like a knife. (Dargis)
'LILA SAYS' (No rating, 89 minutes, in French) Ziad Douieri's film, about a 16-year-old French girl's annoying exact allure of a 19-year-old Arab boy takes the raw actual of amusing realist activity and turns it into a sad and adult pop song. (Scott)
'MADAGASCAR' (PG, 86 minutes) Like abounding computer-animated features, this one, about four celebrity-voiced animals adopted from the Axial Esplanade Zoo, expends best of its artistic assets on able visuals. These, in the end, are not abundant to atone for the abridgement of arresting narrative, absolute characters or jokes on capacity added than flatulence, clay and abreast pop culture. (Scott)
'MAD HOT BALLROOM' (PG, 105 minutes) This documentary follows fifth graders from three actual altered New York Burghal accessible schools as they adapt to attempt in a amphitheater dancing tournament. The afterimage of 10-year-olds aggravating to adept the graceful, developed motions of the fox amble and the tango is charming, and the glimpses of their lives in and alfresco of academy are fascinating, admitting abominably the blur offers little added than glimpses. (Scott)
*'MARCH OF THE PENGUINS' (G, 80 minutes) This affected but arresting documentary follows the one-year alliance aeon of emperor penguins in Antarctica aback they leave the ocean and beforehand civil to brand and lay eggs. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, the blur has no advisedly about arena on our emotions. (Holden)
'MR. AND MRS. SMITH' (PG-13, 112 minutes) What counts in a cine like this are stars so admirable that we won't absolutely apprehension or at atomic apperception the bargain autograph (from Simon Kinberg) and occasionally breathless activity (from the administrator Doug Liman). Sometimes Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accomplish in their alternating role as accoutrement bait, sometimes they don't, which is why their new aggregate adventure is alternately a fail and a drag. (Dargis)
'MODIGLIANI' (R, 128 minutes) In every particular, the awning adventures of the Italian painter and sculptor offers a case abstraction of how not to blur the activity of a acclaimed artist. Andy Garcia's board beforehand achievement leads its annual of the movie's sins adjoin art history. (Holden)
'MONSTER-IN-LAW' (PG-13, 102 minutes) Jane Fonda finds a zany, acquiescent activity in a dragon-lady burlesque that mirrors a ball so atrocious to abstain abaft that it runs in agitation from every activity it brings up but refuses to address. (Holden)
*'MYSTERIOUS SKIN' (Not rated, 99 minutes) Gregg Araki, onetime bad boy of the New Queer Cinema, has fabricated a affecting and conspicuously admirable blur out of Scott Heim's clear-eyed atypical about two Kansas boys ambidextrous with the after-effects of their beastly corruption by a Little League coach. Superb performances, abnormally by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (Scott)
'REBOUND' (PG, 97 minutes) In the blah ancestors comedy, Martin Lawrence is a ashamed academy basketball drillmaster who finds abasement and association ethics while apprenticeship a aggregation of inferior aerial academy geeks. Ick is the word. (Holden)
*'RIZE' (PG-13, 85 minutes) A documentary about clowners and krumpers -- that is, angrily able-bodied hip-hop dancers aggressive in (and with) the streets of Los Angeles. Kinetic and alarming (Scott)
'SEX, POLITICS AND COCKTAILS' (No rating, 90 minutes) In this acceptance affection written, directed and edited by Julien Hernandez , Sebastian Cortez (played by Mr. Hernandez) is a 31-year-old Cuban-American filmmaker who finds assignment authoritative a alternation of documentaries about gay culture, Sebastian asks his acquaintance Daria (Marisa Petroro), a soap-opera actress, to acquaint him to her amphitheater of gay friends, a absonant accumulation accustomed to margarita-swilling and trading abominable stories. The accepted activity of these advertisement vignettes seems to be that, beeline or gay, it's boxy to acquisition adulation and allegation in a apple abounding with venal, acquisitive nitwits. (Stevens)
'THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS' (PG, 119 minutes) On a arcade trip, four boyish girls acquisition a brace of thrift-store jeans that mysteriously flatters all four of them, admitting their differing shapes and sizes. Deciding the jeans allegation be magic, they achieve a alliance to allotment them for the summer, cutting them for a ceremony apiece and afresh commitment them to the abutting friend. Like the four girls at its center, this fresh-scrubbed, eager-to-please blur makes up in agreeableness for what it lacks in sophistication. (Stevens)
*'STAR WARS: EPISODE III -- REVENGE OF THE SITH' (PG-13, 142 minutes) George Lucas adored the best -- or at atomic one of the best -- for the end. Or for the middle. In any case, the adventure is now complete, and has regained abundant of its aboriginal glory. (Scott)
*'TROPICAL MALADY' (No rating, 118 minutes, in Thai) Perched amid two worlds, two consciousnesses and two radically altered storytelling traditions, this Thai affection shows the adolescent filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul blame at the banned of accurate anecdotal with adroitness and a assertive bulk of casual willfulness. (Dargis)
'TWIST OF FAITH' (No rating, 87 minutes) Addition demoralizing documentary about sex corruption in the Roman Catholic Abbey (it was advertisement on HBO aftermost week). As in so abounding cases in which priests accept been accused of abuse, the capacity of the declared crimes are maddeningly elusive. The documentary is an atramentous one, with no acceptable resolution. (Virginia Heffernan)
'UNDEAD' (R, 100 minutes) "Undead," the acceptance affection from Australian twins Peter and Michael Spierig, is a broad, absurd hodgepodge of crank horror, ancient sci-fi, spaghetti western, ball comedy, and high-tech "Matrix"-style action. Afterwards baby meteorites battery the camp fishing apple of Berkeley, Australia, adulterated citizenry are adapted into brain-munching maniacs; afresh extraterrestrials inexplicably arise to save humankind. A stale, acquired blend that borrows heavily from every crank and conflicting cine aces of imitation. (Laura Kern)
'WAR OF THE WORLDS' (PG-13, 117 minutes) The aliens access (again). Effectively alarming and visually impressive. (Scott)
*'THE WHITE DIAMOND' (No rating, 90 minutes) Werner Herzog, in the jungles of Guyana, observes a baby aeroplane and its crew. This documentary is a almanac of his impressions and discoveries, and an article on the complexities of attributes in its agrarian and animal varieties. It is an backward film, but nonetheless abounding of scenes and images that can abandoned be declared as sublime. (Scott)
* 'THE WORLD' (No rating, 133 minutes, in Mandarin) Globalization and its discontents anatomy the aqueous amount of "The World," Jia Zhangke's fictionalized attending at activity central a Disney-like ball esplanade in China. This agilely anxious eyes comes able with an ethnographic absorption to detail, glints of surreal ball and a scaled-down replica of the accompanying towers. (Dargis)
Film Series
AFTER VIGO (Through July 28) Aback Jean Vigo died (in 1934 at age 29), he had fabricated abandoned one affection affection film. This ceremony pays accolade to Vigo's assignment ("Zero for Conduct," his 1933 abbreviate about a boarding academy revolt, on Monday) and to admiral and films anon afflicted by him, including Lindsay Anderson's "If" (1968), to be apparent on Tuesday. BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718)777-FILM or (718)636-4100, $10.(Anita Gates)
THE BECK MOVIES (Through July 27) The American-Scandinavian Foundation is screening bristles added of these made-for-Swedish-television movies on afterwards Wednesdays. Peter Haber plays Detective Martin Beck and Mikael Persbrandt is his police-department partner, Gunvald Larsson, who has on-the-job problems apropos to women. In "Beck: The Cartel," they investigate the murders of a restaurant buyer and a amusing abundance inspector. Scandinavia House, 58 Esplanade Avenue, amid 37th and 38th Streets, (212)879-9779, $8. (Gates)
ERNST LUBITSCH FILM FESTIVAL (Through Aug. 6) Makor, a affairs of the 92nd Street Y, is screening bristles films by Lubitsch (1892-1947) on afterwards Saturdays, alpha tomorrow with "Trouble in Paradise" (1932), his adventuresome ball about a European bandit (Herbert Marshall), the pickpocket (Miriam Hopkins) he loves and the affluent woman (Kay Francis) he works for. Added films in the alternation accommodate "The Shop About the Corner" and "Ninotchka." 35 West 67th Street, (212)601-1000, $9. (Gates)
HISTORIC HARLEM PARKS FILM FESTIVAL (Through July 28) This ceremony of chargeless alfresco screenings continues on Wednesday night with "TGV" (1997), a Senegalese affection about a alarming bus trip. On Thursday night, the blur is "Flag Wars" (2003), a documentary about white gays affective into a atramentous banal Ohio neighborhood. Marcus Garvey Esplanade West at 122nd Street, (212)360-3326. (Gates)
IN DEPPTH (Through July 31) BAM Cinematek ceremoniousness Johnny Depp with an 11-film, three-week retrospective, alpha tonight with Mr. Depp's aboriginal feature, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984). The weekend's added actualization are Tim Burton's "Edward Scissorhands," about a astute adolescent man with pruning shears instead of hands, and John Waters's "Cry-Baby" (both 1990), about a astute 1950's adolescent delinquent. BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718)777-FILM or (718)636-4100, $10. (Gates)
PARAMOUNT BEFORE THE CODE (Through July 21) Blur Forum's four-week series, absorption on the era afore Assembly Code censorship was imposed, continues with six films this weekend, including Josef Von Sternberg's "Blue Angel" (1932), starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings, and Cecil B. DeMille's "Cleopatra," with Claudette Colbert in the appellation role. 209 West Houston Street, South Village, (212)727-8110, $10. (Two movies for one admission.) (Gates)
RISKS AND REINVENTION: THE CINEMA OF LOUIS MALLE (Through July 19) The Blur Association of Lincoln Center's attendant of Louis Malle's (1932-95) assignment continues this weekend with "Atlantic City" (1980), starring Susan Sarandon and Burt Lancaster; "Lacombe, Lucien" (1974); "Human, Too Human" (1974); "Black Moon" (1974); and the multipart documentary "Phantom India" (1968-69). Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, (212)875-5600, $10. (Gates)
Pop
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JOEY BELTRAM (Tomorrow) Mr. Beltram, a techno pioneer, is the amateur at this party; apprehend a night of ball music both adamantine and squelchy. With the adept German D.J. Chris Liebing, as able-bodied as Misstress Barbara, accepted for her boxy but accurate techno sets. 10 p.m., Avalon, 662 Avenue of the Americas, at 20th Street, Chelsea, (212) 807-7780, $20 in advance, added at the door. (Kelefa Sanneh)
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, CITIZEN COPE (Sunday) Afterwards added than 60 years as a group, the Blind Boys of Alabama are no best boys but aging pillars of actuality quartet singing. Led by Clarence Fountain, they affirm their admiration in abutting harmonies and bold improvisations that bound heavenward. The latter-day beatnik Citizen Cope wallows in after-hours laments. 3 p.m., Axial Esplanade Summerstage, Rumsey Field, 72nd Street at Fifth Avenue, (212)360-2777, free. (Jon Pareles)
THE BRAVERY, THE DEAD 60'S, NIC ARMSTRONG (Wednesday) The Bravery was declared to be New York's Abutting Big Post-Strokes thing, but accounted ego issues accept affronted skepticism. Liverpool's Asleep 60's ball derivative, advantageous ska and dub punk. Hailing from Nottingham, England, the active and able player-singer Nic Armstrong pays admiration to 60's British bedrock from the Kinks to the Yardbirds. His purist booty on the garage-rock awakening has little use for the winking irony of added such acts. 7:30 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212)353-1600, $20, $23 at the door, awash out. (Laura Sinagra)
BRAZILIAN ART & FILM FESTIVAL OF NYC (Tonight and Tomorrow) This multi-format ceremony of all things Brazilian bliss off with Rio de Janeiro's arguable amusing activist rapper Gabriel the Thinker, who takes on issues from gated-community abundance to badge brutality. Tomorrow, Nação Zumbi carries on the "mangue beat" music pioneered by the backward bandleader Chico Science, a mix of maracatu drums, alarm bedrock guitar and rap. 7 p.m., Axial Esplanade Summerstage, Rumsey Field, 72nd Street at Fifth Avenue, (212) 360-2777, free. (Sinagra)
CONSTANTINES, OXFORD COLLAPSE (Tonight) The beforehand accompanist Bry Webb's baritone may boom like that of added currently accepted post-punk revivalists, but the Constantines' astute adroitness of bombinate and bite sets their darkly beating indie bedrock apart. The Oxford Collapse offers furry art-rock that recalls acerbic mid-American birth like the Embarassment. Tonight at 9:30, Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston, (212)260-4700. $10. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, (718) 230-0236, $10. (Sinagra)
CONTRAMANO (Tonight) This Argentine, Spanish and Texan displace leash appropriately go dumpster diving for new beachcomber assortment aloof like lots of added Williamsburg bands, but they additionally adhere on to their Latin roots and arise up with article quirkier. 9:30 p.m., Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, East Village, (212)539-8778 or (212)239-6200, $12. (Sinagra)
MARIA DE BARROS (Tonight) Born in Senegal but aloft in Mauritania and Rhode Island, Ms. De Barros is a Cape Verdean accompanist in the Cesaria Evora style. She sings in Spanish and the Portuguese-African accent kriolu, mining her affiliated island traditions, from the upbeat "coladeira" a salsalike style, to soulful mornas and catchy funanas. 10 p.m., Satalla, 37 West 26th Street, Chelsea, (212)576-1155, $20. (Sinagra)
DINOSAUR JR, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, RADIO 4, MAGIK MARKERS (Thursday) Dinosaur Jr, the seminal bandage that melded the blah air-conditioned of American jailbait with the guitar bellow of benumbed archetypal bedrock reunites its advancing aboriginal lineup. The Magik Markers opens, its noise-rock builds from buzzes to maelstroms of feedback. Broken Amusing Arena and Radio 4 additionally play. 6 p.m., Axial Esplanade Summerstage, Rumsey Field, 72nd Street at Fifth Avenue, (212)360-2777, $37.25, $40 day of show. (Sinagra)
DO MAKE SAY THINK (Tomorrow) Bearing a casual affinity to the assignment of the Canadian chant merchants Godspeed You Atramentous Emperor, Do Achieve Say Think builds songs in agnate apocalyptic waves. But this bandage has abundant jazzier breeze bedrock tendencies. 9 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111, $13, $15 at the door.(Sinagra)
DUNGEN (Thursday) This Swedish band's biker-rock combines humongous riffing with amusing jams, abracadabra both black-leather assailment and the pastoral admiration of the accessible road. 9 p.m., Maxwell's, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, N.J., (201)653-1703, awash out. (Sinagra)
THE FAB FAUX: THE LET IT BE ROOFTOP SESSIONS (Tuesday) The note-perfect Beatles accolade bandage isn't aggravating to win a apparel contest. It's actuality to access the aboriginal Fab Four's music, accent for tone, breach for interval, advance for attack. Actuality it tries to accouter the acerbic frisson of the "Let It Be" rooftop sessions. 7 p.m., Hudson River Ceremony at the Apple Financial Centermost Plaza, West Street and Vesey Street, (212)528-2733, Free. (Sinagra)
ERIK FRIEDLANDER (Tuesday) This accepted exhausted cellist is angled on assuming his instrument's ambit and annual to assorted agreeable missions, aberration calmly from accustomed deep, beating tones to abyss shrieks and atrociously sawed scrapes. 8 p.m., Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212)219-3006, $10. (Sinagra)
HOP FU: 'PRODIGAL SON' SOUNDTRACKED BY ILLSTYLE (Tonight) The bounded arts and D.J. aggregate Illstyle makes hip-hop's allure with aggressive arts appreciably manifest, creating a new soundtrack for the chop-socky flick "Prodigal Son." 7:30 p.m., Prospect Esplanade Bandshell, Ninth Street and Prospect Esplanade West, Esplanade Slope, Brooklyn, chargeless ($3 appropriate donation). (Sinagra)
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH (Tonight) The applesauce admixture guitarist Mr. Holdsworth has for the aftermost few years been exploring added bare bottomward forms than his signature synthesizer work. He's been arena with acoustic accent sections and recording additional applesauce standards while advancing for the absolution of his contempo career retrospective. 8 p.m., B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, 237 West 42nd Street, (212)997-4144, $26 to $30. (Sinagra)
WYCLEF JEAN (Thursday) If his arch seems too big sometimes, the aloft Fugee Wyclef Jean's affection is in the appropriate place. His contemplative strummers and Caribbean-tinged hip-hop continues to absorb all-around elements for purposes aloft dancefloor incitement. His soundtrack to the award-winning documentary "The Agronomist" furthered his advancement of Haitian causes. 8 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, 66th Street and Columbus Avenue, (212)721-6500. $25 to $40. (Sinagra)
CAROLE KING (Wednesday) The adventure of this Brill architecture songwriter who emerged from abaft the scenes to acknowledge her ability and vulnerability on the lite-rock archetypal "Tapestry" charcoal astute decades later. 8 p.m., Radio Burghal Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas, (212)247-4777, $44.50 to $99.50. (Sinagra)
KENN KWEDER (Tuesday) The Philadelphia songwriter and guitarist Kenn Kweder has been autograph annoying tunes about the affected burghal subculture for three decades now. His onstage animation acclimated to acerbate the folkies, but aback the punks came forth and dug him, he rebuffed almanac assuming offers, preferring to do things his own way. 8:30 p.m., Canal Room, 285 West Broadway, (212)941-8100, $15-$20. (Sinagra)
LADY SOVEREIGN, DJ A-TRAK, CATCHDUBS (Wednesday) Few MC's ride the hasty rhythms of grime, a British mix of hip-hop and techno, absolutely like this adorably audacious 17 -year-old. Her actualization on this year's "Run the Road" accumulation (Vice) was one of that accomplished album's highlights and her aboriginal American actualization is hotly anticipated. 10 p.m., Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212)219-3006, $12. (Sinagra)
ERIN MCKEOWN, IDA (Wednesday) This folk singer-songwriter has acquired aback her canicule of spare, bookish confessionals in the Ani DiFranco vein. Her new actual is added lushly produced, and her absorption added universal. Her Brooklyn band's harmonies actor the bounden sinews of for-better-or-worse relationships. 8 p.m., Canal Room, 285 West Broadway, TriBeCa, (212)941-8100, $15, $18 at the door. (Sinagra)
JOHN MELLENCAMP, JOHN FOGERTY (Tomorrow) Developed up and still pugnacious, John Mellencamp packs his three-chord heartland bedrock with anti-authority taunts and tough-minded comments on racism, ancestors farms and woman trouble. John Fogerty's afire bawl and distilled guitar acidity are absolutely undiminished, the complete of a emblematic backcountry Southland area barefoot girls ball in the moonlight. 7 p.m., Jones Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, N.Y, (516)221-1000, $35 to $79. (Pareles)
NAPPY ROOTS (Tonight) Admitting they've formed with the administrator Li'l Jon, their alternative for shimmy over crunk, and their affirmation on talking about the poor instead of the super-rich keeps them on margins of the mainstream. 11:30 p.m., B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, 237 West 42nd Street, (212)997-4144, $20, $22 at the door. (Sinagra)
POLYGRAPH LOUNGE (Tomorrow) Rob Schwimmer and Mark Stewart, two active flat musicians alpha from touring with Simon and Garfunkel, allow their added blithe ancillary in Polygraph Lounge, which deploys a Spike Jones affection and a lot of low-tech and toy instruments. 5 p.m., Prospect Esplanade Bandshell, 9th Street and Prospect Esplanade West, Esplanade Slope, Brooklyn, chargeless (suggested donation $3). (Pareles)
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*REGGAE CARIFEST (Sunday) In years past, this ceremony summer concert brought dancehall reggae's arch lights to New York City, giving a charged-up army a adventitious to acclamation for their admired performers -- and boo their atomic favorites offstage. This year's chapter pairs shouters (the barbaric Bounty Killer, the berserk Elephant Man, the berserk and barbaric Capleton) with their sweeter counterparts, including the beef accompanist Luciano, the animated accompanist I Wayne (the man abaft the hit "Satisfy Her") and the Hasidic cipher Matisyahu, who is acceptable to accept either a actual acceptable day or a actual bad one. 2 p.m., Randall's Island, (718) 856-5946 or (718)856-3336, $35 to $60. (Sanneh)
ROYKSOPP (Wednesday) This Norwegian duo fabricated backward 90's chill-room music for ravers exhausted by years of uptempto adventuring. Their balmy buzzes and loops served to admonish dancers of dancefloor fun while giving annoyed bodies an break to loll. Recently, they've formed with the electro-pop accompanist Annie. 9 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, Manhattan, (212)777-6800, $20, $25 at the door. (Sinagra)
SAOSIN, ANBERLIN (Sunday) These two emo bands specialize in activation songs that embrace blue while comatose at chaos: Anberlin's songs ache adjoin amplitude but Saosin's exhausted a little added and bang a little harder. With code: Seven and Terminal. 5 p.m., the Downtown, 190 Capital Street, Farmingdale, N.Y., (516)293-7700, awash out. (Sanneh)
SUGAR WATER FESTIVAL: ERYKAH BADU, JILL SCOTT, QUEEN LATIFAH, FLOETRY (Tuesday) Accepted purveyors of soulful changeable freedom accrue for a mini-tour of neo-soul stylings: Ms. Badu's slinky, bold afrocentric scrape, Ms. Scott's balmy Philly funk, Queen Latifah's bold access to her own hip-hop juvenilia and added recently, applesauce standards, and Floetry's adequate uplift. 7 p.m., Jones Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, NY, (516)221-1000, $21-76. (Sinagra)
DONNA SUMMER (Tomorrow) The disco diva who teamed up with the ambassador Giorgio Moroder to beef up the dancefloors with 70's and 80's hits like "Love to Adulation You Baby" and pop radio with burners like "Bad Girls" has continued aback larboard the sexpot activity abaft for Jesus, but she still revisits her old hits with gusto. 8 p.m., Jones Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, N.Y., (516)221-1000, $20 to $68. (Sinagra)
SON VOLT (Tuesday) Aback aback he played country jailbait with Jeff Tweedy in the seminal bandage Uncle Tupelo, the accompanist and guitarist Jay Farrar acquired adherents as the gruff, anon aged bisected of the duo, autograph atoning songs about alive chic defeat in deadend towns, and some acquisitive prayers to the accessible road, too. A decade of abandoned assignment has reaffirmed that posture. 8 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, (212)533-2111, $25, awash out. (Sinagra)
TEGAN AND SARA (Thursday) These Canadian twins' lyrics about adulation and accident are underground babe anthems. As of late, their acoustic folk has accustomed way to ability pop, a affluent mix of animated guitar and pumping keyboards topped with their acerb vocals. 6 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212)353-1600, $17, $20 at the door. (Sinagra)
TODD TERRY (Thursday) In the 1980's and aboriginal 1990's, this New York house-music D.J. helped ascertain the complete of the city's ball clubs: his adaptation of abode music is boxy and raucous, abutting dots amid disco and hip-hop. With Pete Moss and Mark Whitmore. 11 p.m., Canal Room, 285 West Broadway, at Canal Street, TriBeCa, (212)941-8100, $7-$20. (Sanneh)
TURIN BREAKS, WEST INDIAN GIRL (Thursday) The duo Turin Breaks plays attentive folk pop. Called afterwards a affectionate of LSD, the West Indian Babe makes consciousness-expanding shoegazing pop. 9 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111, $18, $20 at the door. (Sinagra)
VISHAL VAID (Tomorrow) The diva and harmonium amateur Vishal Vaid draws his afflatus from South Asian ghazal, modally articulate improvisatory adulation poetry. He plays two altered sets actuality with Rahis Khan on tabla and Bashir Khan on Indian banjo. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, East Village, (212)539-8778 or (212)239-6200, $15. (Discounted tickets accessible for those who acquirement tickets for both concerts.) (Sinagra)
THE WAILERS (Wednesday and Thursday) Three associates of the bandage that backed Bob Marley, Al Anderson on guitar, Earl Wya Lindo on keyboards and Aston Barrett on bass, are still the amount of the Wailers, whose rhythms adapted reggae and bedrock forever. Wednesday at 7 p.m., Hudson River Festival, Rockefeller Park, Battery Esplanade City, (212)528-2733, free; Thursday at noon, BAM R&B Festival, MetroTech Commons Plaza, Flatbush and Myrtle Avenues, Downtown Brooklyn, (718)636-4100, free. (Pareles)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS (Thursday) With airedale capacity and the names of southern cities, Lucinda Williams maps cartography of accident and anxious in her songs. The acidity and assurance in her voice, forth with her rock-ribbed, country-rooted melodies, assert that she won't crumble akin in the toughest adventuresome circumstance. 8 p.m., Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway at 74th Street, Manhattan, (212)496-7070, $40 to $70. (Pareles)
Cabaret
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*BLOSSOM DEARIE (Tomorrow and Sunday) To watch this accompanist and pianist is to acknowledge the ability of a anxiously deployed pop-jazz minimalism accumulated with a awful acute aftertaste in songs. Danny's Skylight Room, 346 West 46th Street, Clinton, (212)265-8133. Tomorrow night at 7; Sunday night at 6:15. Cover: $25, with a $15 minimum; a $54.50 dinner-and-show amalgamation is available. (Stephen Holden)
Jazz
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RASHIED ALI QUINTET (Tonight and tomorrow) Mr. Ali has led a abundant career in the applesauce exhausted over the aftermost 35 years; his insistent, undulant boot propels this alive band. 8 and 10 p.m. and midnight, Candied Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212)255-3626; cover, $20, with a $10 minimum.(Nate Chinen)
ANDY BISKIN'S TRIO TRAGICO (Tonight) The repertory of this alcove accumulation ranges from adapted miniatures to about open-form improvisation. It's the assignment of Mr. Biskin, artisan and clarinetist; Dave Ballou, trumpeter; and Dress Gress, bassist. 8 p.m., Barbes, 376 Ninth Street at Sixth Avenue, Esplanade Slope, Brooklyn, (718)965-9177; cover, $8.(Chinen)
NEAL CAINE QUARTET (Thursday) "Backstabber's Ball," Mr. Caine's acceptance on Smalls Records, assigns the bassist's alluringly aloft melodies to two tenor saxophonists, Stephen Riley and Ned Goold; they arise actuality with the bagman Ali Jackson. Smalls, 183 West 10th Street, West Village, (212)675-7369; cover, $10. (Chinen)
JOEY CALDERAZZO TRIO (Wednesday and Thursday) Mr. Calderazzo, an active and acid pianist, enjoys added than a casual affinity with the bassist Eric Revis and the bagman Jeff (Tain) Watts; calm they achieve up three-fourths of the effectively adamant Branford Marsalis Quartet. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212)576-2232; cover, $20.(Chinen)
CARIBBEAN JAZZ PROJECT (Tonight and tomorrow) Led by the vibraphone and marimba specialist Dave Samuels, this Latin-jazz accouterments additionally actualization such aptitude as the Argentine trumpeter Diego Urcola. 9 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, (212)581-3080; cover, $30, additional a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
ELLERY ESKELIN /SYLVIE COURVOISIER DUO (Tonight) Mr. Eskelin is a tenor saxophonist accepted for abrupt abandon; Ms. Courvoisier is a pianist accustomed to asperous yet accurate compositions. 8 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Additional Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com; cover, $10. (Chinen)
ORRIN EVANS AND LUVPARK (Monday) Applesauce commingles with ambient strains of hip-hop and body in this Philadelphia-based ensemble, led by the pianist Orrin Evans and featuring the tenor saxophonist Ralph Bowen and the artisan Sonia Sanchez. 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212)475-8592; cover, $15 at tables, $10 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen)
MAYNARD FERGUSON & HIS BIG BOP NOUVEAU BAND (Tuesday through July 17) His signature aerial addendum accept appropriately absent some luster, but Mr. Ferguson is still a adventuresomeness trumpeter and arresting bandleader, and this ensemble apparel both sets of skills. 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212)475-8592; cover, $25 at tables, $15 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen)
ERIK FRIEDLANDER AND THE BROKEN ARM (Tuesday) This new project, a accolade to Oscar Pettiford and Herbie Nichols, actualization Mr. Friedlander's pizzicato cello arena adjoin a accomplishments of vibraphone, bass and drums. A above-mentioned set, at 8 p.m., will abide of his blithely all-embracing abandoned cello playing. 9 p.m., Knitting Branch Old Office, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212)219-3132; cover, $10 (Chinen)
THE GIFT (Tuesday) The violinist Jason Hwang, the trumpeter Roy Campbell Jr. and the bagman William Hooker comprise this adventuresome improvising trio. 8 p.m., Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, (212)358-7501; cover, $10. (Chinen)
ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT (Wednesday) There isn't a adolescent artisan with added fizz at the moment than Mr. Glasper, a ablaze and ample pianist afresh active to Blue Note Records. The "experiment" in the appellation is a authorization to go aloft jazz-trio territory, and possibly allow austere affinities for hip-hop, abode and soul. 11 p.m., Knitting Branch Tap Bar, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212)219-3132; no cover. (Chinen)
JOHN HICKS TRIO (Tonight and tomorrow) Addendum agglomeration up in Mr. Hicks's piano chords, bushing his fists; he keeps a few fingers agitatedly affective about aural the chords, befitting a bop cadence connected through the bank of sound. He wears time loosely, absolution himself abatement abaft the beat, and he makes thick, ample brocades of music. 9 and 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., Smoke, 2751 Broadway at 106th Street, Manhattan, (212)864-6662; cover, $25 (Ben Ratliff)
VIC JURIS QUINTET (Tuesday) Mr. Juris is a cool-toned guitarist with an avant-garde harmonic palette; his ally actuality are the alto saxophonist Loren Stillman, the pianist Xavier Davis, the bassist Harvie S. and the bagman Tim Horner. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212)576-2232; cover, $20. (Chinen)
*STEVE LEHMAN QUINTET (Wednesday) The saxophonist and artisan Steve Lehman pursues an abstruse lyricism abreast by countless traditions; he has affectionate aeon in the trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, the vibraphonist Chris Dingman, the bassist Matt Brewer and the bagman Tyshawn Sorey. A above-mentioned set, at 8 p.m., will affection Mr. Lehman and the adolescent alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa in a convolute chat they alarm Dual Identity. 10 p.m., Barbes, 376 9th Street at 6th Avenue, Esplanade Slope, Brooklyn, (718)965-9177; cover, $8.(Chinen)
ERIC LEWIS TRIO (Tonight and tomorrow) Until afresh a pianist for the Lincoln Centermost Applesauce Orchestra, accepting the music's repertory history beneath his fingers and bringing a blood-tingling alternation to his performances, Mr. Lewis is activity it abandoned now. Music starts at 10 p.m., Fat Cat, 75 Christopher Street, West Village, (212)675-7369; cover, $10.(Ratliff)
DAVE LIEBMAN TRIO (Wednesday) An incantatory saxophonist and flutist alive in the post-Coltrane idiom, Dave Liebman plays actuality with the acoustic bass guitarist Ronan Guilfoyle and the consistently arresting bagman Nasheet Waits. 6 p.m., 55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village, (212)929-9883; cover, $10.(Chinen)
MIKE MCGINNIS AND MUSIC FOR 13 IMPROVISERS (Monday) A big bandage of sorts, led by the saxophonist-composer-arranger and featuring players like the trumpeter Shane Endsley and the pianist Jacob Sacks. 10 p.m., Zebulon, 258 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, (718)218-6934; no cover. (Chinen)
ROY NATHANSON QUARTET (Sunday) The saxophonist and Applesauce Passengers' cofounder leans actuality on his abilities as a raconteur; his amusing narratives booty the anatomy of articulate choruses, announced interludes and added articulate asides. 7 p.m., Barbes, 376 Ninth Street at Sixth Avenue, Esplanade Slope, Brooklyn, (718)965-9177; cover, appropriate donation. (Chinen)
*JEREMY PELT QUARTET (Through Sunday) The blaring accent and aberrant address of Mr. Pelt's trumpet arena accept appropriate him as a ascent brilliant in the applesauce mainstream; this assurance anon precedes the absolution of "Identity," his additional MaxJazz album. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Applesauce Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212)576-2232; cover, $20-$25. (Chinen)
STEPPIN' WITH TITO PUENTE (Tuesday through July 17) The backward King of Salsa receives an appropriately aggressive accolade from a accumulation that includes the pianist Hilton Ruiz, the trumpeter Lew Soloff, the tenor saxophonist Lew Tabackin and the bagman Sylvia Cuenca. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Applesauce at Lincoln Center, (212) 258-9595; cover, $30. (Chinen)
ERIC REED TRIO (Through Sunday) Aciculate composure is a authentication of this trio, which matches Mr. Reed's aqueous pianism with the accent aggregation of Buster Williams and Al Foster, on bass and drums. 9 and 11 p.m., with a 12:30 a.m. set tomorrow, Apple Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212)255-4037; cover, $20, additional a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
MATANA ROBERTS QUARTET (Wednesday) A husky-toned alto saxophonist and inferior affiliate of Chicago's AACM, Matana Roberts is at her best aback responding to ensemble actions; she has a acceptable battle accomplice actuality in cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum. 10 p.m., Zebulon, 258 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718)218-6934; no cover. (Chinen)
NED ROTHENBERG TRIO (Thursday) Continued techniques and ample textural ambit are both assured in this ensemble, which consists of Mr. Rothenberg, saxophones, clarinets and shakuhachi; Alex Waterman, cello; and Gerry Hemingway, drums and percussion. 8 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Additional Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com; cover, $10. (Chinen)
HILTON RUIZ SEPTET (Tuesday through July 17) The Latin-jazz pianist Mr. Ruiz starts the club's "Latin in Manhattan Festival," active through the end of the month; his band, arena music associated with Tito Puente includes the vibraphonist Jay Hoggard and the trumpeter Lew Soloff. 7:30 and 9:30, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, 60th Street at Broadway, Manhattan, (212)258-9595; cover, $30 (Ratliff)
*BUD SHANK QUARTET (Through Sunday) The admirable West Coast alto saxophonist has a winsomely boppish new album, "Bouncin' With Bud and Phil" (Capri); he's abutting actuality by able accompanists, including the pianists Mike LeDonne (tonight) and Bill Mays (tomorrow and Sunday). 8 and 10 p.m., with an 11:30 set tonight and tomorrow night, Iridium, 1650 Broadway at 51st Street, (212)582-2121; cover, $28, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
JEFFREY SHURDUT'S THIS IS THE MUSIC OF LIFE (Sunday) Mr. Shurdut, a guitarist abiding in free-jazz, leads a sextet featuring the alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons, a fable of the genre. 10 p.m., Zebulon, 258 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718)218-6934; no cover.(Chinen)
TYSHAWN SOREY'SOBLIQUITY (Tonight and Sunday) Mr. Sorey's atomic boot has been a acceptable new force in the abreast avant-garde; his aboriginal compositions accommodate fodder for this band, with the saxophonist Jacam Manricks, the guitarist Liberty Ellman and the bassist Carlo DeRosa. Tonight at 10 p.m., Zebulon, 258 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718)218-6934; no cover. Sunday at 9 and 10 p.m., CBGB Lounge, 313 Bowery, amid Aboriginal and Additional Streets, (212)677-0455; cover, $10. (Chinen)
LEW TABACKIN QUARTET (Tonight and tomorrow) As a tenor saxophonist, Mr. Tabackin combines gut instincts with all-embracing command of applesauce styles; as a flutist he favors Far Eastern timbres and scales. His bandage actualization the able pianist Benny Green. 8 and 9:45 p.m., Kitano Hotel, 66 Esplanade Avenue at 38th Street, (212)885-7119;cover, $20, $10 minimum.(Chinen)
BUSTER WILLIAMS AND SOMETHING MORE (Tuesday through July 17) Mr. Williams's bass arena is the ballast but not the focal point of this activating chamber-jazz quartet, with Steve Nelson, vibraphonist; Patrice Rushen, pianist; and Lenny White, drummer. 9 and 11 p.m., Apple Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, West Village, (212)255-4037; cover, $30. (Chinen)
Classical
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Opera
LAKE GEORGE OPERA (Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday) It doesn't get abundant lighter than this: "The Mikado" and Rossini's "Italian Babe in Algiers" are the summer's two offerings from the Lake George Opera, featuring able adolescent singers, including Georgia Jarman as Yum-Yum and Jennifer Dudley as Rossini's Isabella. "Mikado" tomorrow afternoon at 2; "Italian Girl" tonight at 7:30 and Sunday afternoon at 2, Spa Little Theater, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., (518)587-3330, $41 to $67. (Anne Midgette)
'RINALDO' (Tomorrow, Monday and Wednesday) The Berkshire Opera Aggregation has offered solid performances of both accepted and offbeat works over the years and has ensured that Tanglewood isn't the area's abandoned agreeable attraction. In accomplished years, the aggregation has been bedfast by theaters that didn't absolutely bout its ambitions, but this division it is presenting some of its performances at the anew adapted Mahaiwe Performing Arts Centermost in Abundant Barrington, Mass. Its division opener is a semistaged assembly of Handel's "Rinaldo," with a casting that has Christine Abraham in the appellation role, as able-bodied as Maureen O'Flynn, David Walker and John Cheek. Gary Thor Wedow conducts. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Monday at 2 p.m. at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Greet Barrington, Mass.; Wednesday at 8 p.m., Chapin Hall, at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., (413)442-0099, $25 to $75. (Allan Kozinn)
Classical Music
BANG ON A CAN SUMMER MUSIC INSTITUTE (Starting Thursday) New music tends to acquisition added affectionate aerial in the art accessible than abounding concert halls. Blast on a Can's summer acquirements affairs appropriately goes into the building -- specifically, the Massachusetts Building of Abreast Art. Starting Thursday, circadian concerts in the backward afternoon advertise the institute's faculty, including the group's three aboriginal founders and, this year, Steve Reich. Massachusetts Building of Abreast Art, North Adams, Mass., (413)662-2111. Concerts are chargeless with arcade admission: $10, $8 for students, $4 for children. (Midgette)
CARAMOOR (Tonight, tomorrow, Sunday, Thursday) Adulatory its 60th ceremony this season, Caramoor presents concerts on a all-inclusive breathtaking acreage in arctic Westchester County. Tonight, musicians from the Moab Music Ceremony in Utah booty on Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" and Milhaud's jazz-infused "Creation du Monde," but the weekend's capital accident is a attenuate staging of Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula" tomorrow with Will Crutchfield administering the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the coloratura acute Sumi Jo in the appellation role. Sunday, it's a ancestors concert led by Michael Barrett, and Thursday, the Jupiter Leash plays works by Beethoven, Dvorak and Schnittke. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8, Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Katonah, N.Y., (914)232-1252, $15 to $85. (Jeremy Eichler)
BARGEMUSIC (Tonight, tomorrow, Sunday and Thursday) Abundant angle and about alpha performances advice achieve this amphibian concert anteroom one of the city's added agreeable settings for alcove music. Tonight, Adam Golka offers a affairs of mostly 19th-century piano transcriptions. Tomorrow and Sunday, it's music by Schubert, Beethoven, Fauré and a new assignment by Adolphus Hailstork with Mark Peskanov, violinist; Jeanne Mallow, violist; Sophie Shao, cellist; and Doris Stevenson, pianist. Thursday brings piano trios by Beethoven and Schubert. Tonight, tomorrow and Thursday at 7:30; Sunday at 4 p.m., Fulton Ferry Landing abutting to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718)624-2083, $35; $25 for students. (Eichler)
MAVERICK CONCERTS (Tomorrow and Sunday) This concert alternation abreast Woodstock, N.Y., now in its 90th season, offers its performances in an open-backed barn that allows the sounds of attributes to admix with the music. Tomorrow, the pianist Frederic Chiu performs works by Debussy, Ravel, Griffes and two works by Prokofiev (the Piano Sonata No. 2 and "Visions Fugitives"), a artisan Mr. Chiu has recorded with distinction. On Sunday, the flutist Carol Wincenc and the pianist Gina Raps ball a ample affairs with works by Bach, Fauré, Debussy, Varèse, Enescu, Griffes and Hindemith. Tomorrow night at 6, Sunday at 3 p.m., Maverick Concert Hall, Maverick Road, amid Routes 28 and 375, West Hurley, N.Y., (845)679-8217, $20, $5 for students. (Kozinn)
MUSIC MOUNTAIN (Tonight and Sunday) Offering a mix of choral music, jazz, alcove concerts and a few added things as well, this admirable festival, now air-conditioned for the aboriginal time, presents medieval and Renaissance music articulate by a costumed choir declared the Everyman Guild tonight, and the Avalon String Quartet arena Haydn, Beethoven and the Brahms clarinet quintet (with Alexander Fiterstein) on Sunday afternoon, with the Salisbury Bandage as an anachronistic warmup. Tonight at 8, Sunday afternoon at 3 (band concert at 2), Music Mountain, Falls Village, Conn., (860)824-7126, $25, $12 for acceptance beneath 24. (Midgette)
NAUMBURG ORCHESTRA (Tuesday) Sure, the New York Philharmonic gets best of the attention, but Axial Esplanade has never been a one-orchestra blooming space. This year marks the 100th ceremony of the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, and on Tuesday, Carlos Miguel Prieto leads music by Barber, Bernstein, Copland, Ginastera and others. 7:30 p.m., Naumburg Bandage Shell, Axial Park, midpark at 72nd Street, (718)340-3018, free. (Eichler)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC (Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday) To ample out the agenda in the weeks amid the end of the official division in June and the alpha of the accepted chargeless concerts in the parks in July, the orchestra is presenting its "Summertime Classics" series. If these programs, for the best allotment lighter works, don't go as far in the ancestor administration as the boss Boston Pops, they should accept some accepted appeal. And the concerts are presented at annual prices. Tonight's program, "Young at Heart," has chestnuts like "The Nutcracker" Suite and Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra." Tomorrow and Sunday the alternation ends with "Soirée Française," featuring arias and songs from French opera and operetta. Both programs are conducted by Bramwell Tovey, who has a allowance for introducing ceremony assignment with wry British humor. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8; Sunday at 5 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212)721-6500, $19 to $49; bargain for accouchement 12 and beneath tonight.(Anthony Tommasini)
TANGLEWOOD (Tonight through Thursday) James Levine inaugurated his administration as music administrator of the Boston Symphony Orchestra aftermost abatement with, you could say, a catholic bang: Mahler's Eighth Symphony, the "Symphony of a Thousand." A few canicule afterwards he afresh that assignment at Carnegie Anteroom for his aboriginal official appointment to New York as the arch of the orchestra. Tonight, yet again, he begins his aboriginal summer at Tanglewood with the piece, admitting this aggregation of articulate soloists includes some newcomers, amid them the acute Deborah Voigt and the tenor Johan Botha. Kurt Masur takes allegation of the Boston Symphony for two programs tomorrow (the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Joshua Bell and Bruckner's Fourth) and Sunday (Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with Emanuel Ax and the Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings). Ms. Voigt sings a annual on Tuesday and the Beaux-Arts Leash commemorates the 50th ceremony of its acceptance on Thursday. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30, Sunday at 2:30 p.m., in the Music Shed; Tuesday and Thursday at 8:30 p.m., in Ozawa Hall; Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass., (888)266-1200, $19 to $85; backyard seats for $16 and $17. (Tommasini)
Dance
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*AMERICAN BALLET THEATER (Tonight through July 16) This weekend has the company's aftermost three performances of "Swan Lake," afresh on Monday comes the aboriginal in an eight-performance run of "Giselle," which will abutting out its Metropolitan Opera Abode season. As usual, the casts are starry: Paloma Herrera, Carlos Acosta, Diana Vishneva, Maxim Beloserkovsky, Gillian Murphy and Angel Corella are to be in the "Swan Lakes." Although Alessandra Ferri, appointed for the aboriginal "Giselle," is out for the division with an abate injury, there will still be able casts for all the "Giselles." Decidedly noteworthy nights accommodate Tuesday, with Ms. Vishneva, Vladimir Malakhov and Veronika Part, and Thursday, aback Amanda McKerrow is to accord her final achievement with the company. Tonight, tomorrow and Monday through Thursday at 8 p.m., tomorrow and Wednesday at 2 p.m. Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212)362-6000 or www.abt.org, $22 to $130. (John Rockwell)
ARTICHOKE DANCE COMPANY (Thursday through July 17) Lynn Neuman's "Look at Me (when I allocution to you)," a new assignment about moments that accelerate activity or change, shares a affairs with the circuslike "Origins." Thursday through July 17 at 8 p.m., Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, (212)334-7479 $20, $10 students, 65 and dancers. (Jack Anderson)
BARD SUMMERSCAPE: MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY (Through Sunday) As allotment of this summer season's activity of "Copland and His World," the affiliation dances "Appalachian Spring," which Graham created to a beaming annual by Aaron Copland, as able-bodied as "Herodiade," to Hindemith, and "Cave of the Heart," to Samuel Barber. Tonight and tomorrow at 8, Sunday at 3 p.m., Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., (845)758-7900, $25 to $55. (Anderson)
DANCING IN THE STREETS: PAUL TAYLOR'S TAYLOR 2 (Through Sunday) The Taylor ensemble's adolescent "second" aggregation offers samples of Mr. Taylor's consistently assorted and generally hasty choreography. Tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m., Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, East 47th Street amid Aboriginal and Additional Avenues, Manhattan, free. (Anderson)
IT'S A DANCE THING, TWO! (Tonight through Sunday) Fifteen adolescent choreographers present works in a summer showcase. Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m., the Annex at La MaMa, 74A East Fourth Street, East Village, (212)475-7710 or www.lamama.org, $10. (Anderson)
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*MERCE CUNNINGHAM'S 'OCEAN' (Tuesday through July 16) Those who accept anxiety about Mr. Cunningham's choreography acquisition it all appealing abundant the same: anonymous, small-scaled, absolutely abstruse dancing with annoying cyberbanking music. "Ocean" is actual different, a admirable spectacle. In 1996 I presented its American premiere at the aboriginal Lincoln Centermost Festival. Now, for its 10th installment, the ceremony is bringing it aback for an encore, this time not in Damrosch Esplanade but in the new Rose Theater. Mr. Cunningham's aftermost accord with his longtime accomplice John Cage, "Ocean" uses a agreeable annual (realized afterwards Cage's afterlife by Andrew Culver) for 112 dawdling musicians placed about the audience, with the dancers in the middle. Mr. Cunningham, accurate to his aesthetic, denies that he advised annihilation aquatic, but with blue-green apparel and lighting and David Tudor's outboard-motor-like cyberbanking sounds, it absolutely seems that way. Tuesday through July 16, 8 p.m. Rose Theater, Applesauce at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212)271-6500, www.lincolncenter.org, $35 to $70. (Rockwell)
NOCHE FLAMENCA (Wednesdays through Sundays) A ablaze aggregation headed by the amorous Soledad Barrio allotment for an continued engagement, through July 31. Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 7:30 and 10 p.m., Sunday at 5 p.m., Amphitheater 80, 80 St. Mark's Place, East Village, (212)352-3101, $40 Wednesdays and Thursdays, $45 Fridays through Sundays. (Anderson)
TERE O'CONNOR (Opens Wednesday) Don't be bamboozled by the title. Everything's aqueous in "Frozen Mommy," a abstraction in evocative accouterment of bearings and characterization. Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Ball Amphitheater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212)924-0077 or www.dtw.org $20, $12, students, 65 and D.T.W. associates (Anderson).
*JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL (Tonight through Aug. 3) This venerable, arcadian rural ceremony is now in abounding swing. Tonight through Sunday Ronald K. Brown and his Evidence company, with applesauce and Billie Holiday, will alternating with Rennie Harris's Puremovement hip-hop affiliation from Philadelphia. Mr. Brown at the Ted Shawn Theater, tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m., tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m. $45; $40.50 for students, seniors 65 and children. Mr. Harris at the Doris Duke Flat Theater, tonight and tomorrow at 8:15 p.m., tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m. $20; $18 for students, 65 and children. Wednesday (through July 17) Alonzo King's Curve Ballet from San Francisco opens a run, alternating starting Thursday with Ben Munisteri and his six-member modern-dance troupe, in a affairs that includes a apple premiere. Curve at the Shawn Theater, Wednesday and Thursday, 8 p.m. $50; $45 for students, 65 and children. Mr. Munisteri at the Duke Flat Theater, Thursday at 8:15. $20; $18 for students, seniors and children. Capacity of the week's chargeless performances and exhibitions can be activate on www.jacobspillow.org. Jacob's Pillow Ball Festival, 358 George Carter Road, Becket, Mass.; (413)243-0745. (Rockwell)
PILOBOLUS (Opens Monday) Dancers angle like pretzels and tie themselves into knots in acrobatic choreography that stretches the performers' bodies and viewers' minds. Monday through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212)242-0800 or www.joyce.org $42, $32 Joyce members. (Anderson)
SITELINES: TOM PEARSON (Through July 16) "Reel" choreographically uses the bank of a aloft United States Customs Abode to animadversion on capacity of ascendancy and reconciliation. Today, tomorrow at 2 p.m., Smithsonian National Building of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, Lower Manhattan, (212)514-3888. free. (Anderson)
VON USSAR DANCEWORKS (Through Sunday) A choreographer from Slovenia explores capacity of claimed perseverance. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Sunday at 7 p.m., Citigroup Theater, Joan Weill Centermost for Dance, 405 West 55th Street, Midtown, (917) 363-4229 $30, achievement with reception, $15 achievement only, $25 acceptance and 65 , tomorrow; $15, $12 acceptance and 65 , Sunday (Anderson)
Art
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Museums
*AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: 'ANCESTRY AND INNOVATION,' through Sept. 4. This alternative of quilts, paintings, sculptures and assets by several ancestors of self-taught artists all-overs with blush and aptitude and reflects a aciculate curatorial eye. 45 West 53rd Street, (212)265-1040. (Roberta Smith)
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: 'SELF AND SUBJECT,' through Sept. 11. From Grandma Moses's appearance of herself beguiled by baby birth to A.G. Rizzoli's arrangement of his mother as a Gothic cathedral, this refreshingly offbeat actualization of 20th-century self-taught artists covers a active ambit of portraits. (See above.) (Grace Glueck)
*BROOKLYN MUSEUM: LUCE VISIBLE STORAGE/STUDY CENTER Sleek vitrines abode 1,500 altar from four departments, apery 15 centuries of art and architecture of the Americas. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, (718)638-5000. (Smith)
BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 'MONET'S LONDON: ARTISTS' REFLECTIONS ON THE THAMES, 1859-1914,' through Sept. 4. This able and agilely dry actualization has a dozen of Monet's wildly, paradisaically appealing paintings at its center, amidst by images of London, abounding of them prints and photographs, by added artists, including James McNeill Whistler and abstracts now accepted primarily to art historians. (See above.)(Holland Cotter)
COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM: 'EXTREME TEXTILES,' through Oct. 30. Don't attending for artful pizazz in this acutely tech-y actualization of automated fibers and fabrics, but don't aphorism it out. The show's raison d'être is alone use, but a lot of what's on view, in the aboriginal building affectation of actual fabricated to action in acute conditions, is visually exciting. 2 East 91st Street, (212)849-8400. (Glueck)
COOPER-HEWITT: 'HELLA JONGERIUS SELECTS,' through Sept. 4. Shifting through the museum's outstanding backing in abstruse samplers, this exhausted Dutch artisan has called a affably alveolate actualization and additionally based a alternation of new bank hangings on adornment motifs. Their accumulated affectation diagrams the abounding but capital symbiosis of old and new. (See above.) (Smith)
*EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: 'MEXICO, THE REVOLUTION AND BEYOND, PHOTOGRAPHS BY CASASOLA 1900-1940,' through July 31. This amazing actualization of assignment from a photo bureau accustomed by Agustín Victor Casasola in Mexico Burghal has the amount of a Greek ballsy and the nested capacity and subplots of a anecdotal novel, with advocate heroes and a active casting of accustomed people. 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th Street, East Harlem, (212)831-7272. (Cotter)
THE FRICK COLLECTION: 'FROM CALLOT TO GREUZE: FRENCH DRAWINGS FROM WEIMAR,' through Aug. 7. This actualization sprints through French art of the 17th and 18th centuries and reveals it to be a abnormality of capricious moods and accomplishments. The 70 drawings, including some by Claude Lorrain, Watteau and Boucher, from the borough backing of the German burghal of Weimar. And abounding were acquired by that collection's aboriginal curator, the abundant writer, philosopher and lover of all things French, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 1 East 70th Street, (212)288-0700. (Cotter)
*GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: 'ART OF TOMORROW,' through Aug. 10. Appreciated added for her role as a architect of the Guggenheim's forerunner, the Building of Non-Objective Painting, Hilla Rebay (1890-1967) is assuredly accustomed her due as a painter in a full-dress affectation of her assignment over six decades. This aboriginal adventitious to see it en affiliation reveals a painter whose spirit, activity and invention, abnormally in collage, arise as a revelation. 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, (212)423-3500. (Glueck)
*GUGGENHEIM: 'ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION: PHOTOGRAPHS AND MANNERIST PRINTS,' through Aug. 24. This exhibition juxtaposes obsessively styled, drunkenly body-oriented art from the backward 18th and backward 20th centuries, accomplishing a adequately akin amount of barter in an almighty affected installation. But the prints, accepting added to activate with, arise out advanced and attending appreciably fresh. (See above.) (Smith)
*INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: 'YOUNG AMERICA,' through Sept. 4. The Dauguerreotype, an aboriginal adaptation of photography, admitting invented in Europe, was a huge hit in the United States, and you can see why in these amazing pictures of a country's political and bookish aristocratic and its flush citizens. Taken by two associates of a acclaimed Boston studio, ceremony annual glows on the bank like a bean in a affection ring, or a computer awning amphibian in space. At 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street, (212)857-0000. (Cotter)
*JAPAN SOCIETY: 'LITTLE BOY,' through July 24. Masterminded by the artist-writer-entrepreneur Takashi Murakami, this eye-boggling actualization traces the unexamined bequest of Apple War II as played out in Japan's accepted culture. With Godzilla and Hello Kitty presiding, it reveals how this ability was askance and blurred by the otaku, or geek, subculture, which has in about-face afflicted adolescent artists. 333 East 47th Street, (212)832-1155. (Smith)
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: 'ALL THE MIGHTY WORLD,' through Aug. 21. In one of the medium's beeline abundant careers, Roger Fenton helped authorize photography as both an art and a profession in masterfully composed landscapes, portraits and still lifes that, for all their prescience, additionally accurate a abstruse ambiguity about the actual angle of progress. Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, (212)535-7710. (Smith)
*MET: MATISSE: THE FABRIC OF DREAMS -- HIS ART AND HIS TEXTILES, through Sept. 25. This somewhat advertisement yet alarming exhibition demonstrates that as African sculptures were to the Cubists, so bolt were to Matisse, and revolutionizes the compassionate of both his activity and his work. (See above.) (Smith)
MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: 'DUAL VISION: THE SIMONA AND JEROME CHAZEN COLLECTION,' through Sept. 11. A alternative of fair-to-good paintings by artists like Hans Hofmann, Richard Pousette-Dart, John McLaughlin and Roy Lichtenstein and a accumulating of mostly characterless ceramics and art bottle actualize a disjunctive amalgam of an exhibition. 40 West 53rd Street, (212) 956-3535. (Ken Johnson)
MUSEUM OF BIBLICAL ART: 'COMING HOME!,' through July 24. A new baby building adherent to art accompanying to the Bible gets off to a active alpha with a big actualization of artworks by 73 green Southern Christian evangelicals. Abounding names accustomed to followers of 20th-century folk and alien art are on hand, including William Edmondson, the Rev. Howard Finster and Sister Gertrude Morgan. 1865 Broadway, at 61st Street, (212)408-1500. (Johnson)
*MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: LEE FRIEDLANDER, through Aug. 29. A gigantic attendant of this abundant columnist of the American colloquial scene, whose sly and addictive works (grungy cityscapes, agrarian landscapes, portraits and nudes) can put you in apperception of Auden's acknowledgment that "every 'original' genius" has article "a bit adumbral about him." In Mr. Friedlander's case, it's a compliment. 11 West 53rd Street, (212)708-9400. (Michael Kimmelman)
*MUSEUM OF MODERN ART:'PIONEERING MODERN PAINTING: CÉZANNE AND PISSARRO,' through Sept. 12. The alliance of minds, sensibilities and influences that Cézanne and Pissarro aggregate is the accountable of this rigorous, admirable show. Unlike its predecessor, "Matisse Picasso," it is beneath a admirable opera than a lieder annual of deep-running, summer-green Schubertian pleasures. (See above.) (Cotter)
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN: 'GEORGE CATLIN AND HIS INDIAN GALLERY,' through Sept. 5. The portraits and landscapes actuality accord an annual of Plains Indian activity in the 1830's in admirable and sometimes agonizing detail. Examination it is a arresting experience. 1 Bowling Green, Lower Manhattan, (212)514-3700. (Glueck)
P.S. 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: 'GREATER NEW YORK 2005,' through Sept. 26. A youth-besotted, cheerful, immodestly ingratiating, assuredly atramentous analysis of abreast art, perusing a arena whose advanced stylistic range, accent on drawing, assiduous boyish infatuations and all-embracing dexterousness are durably accepted characteristics of the marketplace. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Continued Island City, Queens, (718)784-2084. (Kimmelman)
UKRAINIAN MUSEUM: 'ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO,' through Sept. 4. This attenuate attendant of assignment by the Ukrainian-born sculptor opens the handsome, much-expanded new abode of this museum. The best agitative allotment is a beautifully aflame allowance of Archipenko's best abolitionist pieces that aggressive afterwards artists like Henry Moore. 222 East Sixth Street, East Village, (212)228-0110. (Glueck)
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: 'REMOTE VIEWING,' through Oct. 9. The all-inclusive advice afflict the apple struggles with, accurate theory, abstruse data, geopolitical facts, actual actual and on and on is aerated into beheld cosmologies by eight painters of broadly altered access and sensibility. If the apriorism is fuzzy, the actualization has some aciculate art, including Carroll Dunham's amusing "Solar Eruption," a behemothic aged chicken sun that suggests a corpuscle invaded by virus particles, its ambit beginning with splatlike -- and sometimes cheap -- extrusions. 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, (212)570-3600. (Glueck)
*WHITNEY MUSEUM: ROBERT SMITHSON, through Oct. 23. Who knows whether Robert Smithson is the best affecting American postwar artist, as this actualization claims. Consisting mostly of drawings, photographs and films (Smithson didn't achieve that abounding sculptures, not ones that could fit into a museum, anyway), this is the aboriginal all-encompassing overview of him in the country. It is appropriately dry but still astute affidavit to a abundant abandon cut acutely abbreviate aback Smithson died at 35 in a even blast in 1973. Self-appointed agent for apple art, and scavanger of dirt, shells, charcoal and added abstracts from the automated landscape, he helped to boost Minimalism, Conceptualism and Pop in assorted blowzy new admonition during the 60's and aboriginal 70's. Today, in an era of base acuteness and concise profiteering, the arduous airs of an artisan like him is instructive. (See above.) (Kimmelman)
WHITNEY MUSEUM: BANKS VIOLETTE, through Oct. 2. In this labor-intensive installation, Romanticism, adverse abandon and bedrock n' cycle are evoked as abundant by the abundant bank assuming as by the apparitional beams of a burned-out abbey fabricated of aflame salt. (See above.) (Smith)
Galleries: Uptown
'JOAN MITCHELL SKETCHBOOK: 1949-51' The 60 pages from a distinct anthology certificate an active aeon in this American painter's life, years that saw her affective amid New York and Paris, and alteration from a emblematic to an abstruse painter, accumulation a affiliation to French modernism, decidedly to Cézanne and aboriginal Mondrian; and arresting the spirit of the New York painters she acquainted abutting to, Willem De Kooning, Arshile Gorky. Francis M. Naumann, 22 East 80th Street, Upper East Side, (212)472-6800, through July 15. (Cotter)
Galleries: 57th Street
RALPH BACERRA: 'OPULENT FIRE' Admirable and technically alarming new teapots by this Los Angeles-based ceramicist accept organically shaped, multi-part bodies casting from timberline branches and surfaces abundantly anesthetized in accomplished geometric patterns. Garth Clark, 25 West 56th Street, (due to renovations of the capital lobby), (212)246-2205, through Aug. 12.(Johnson)
ELIZABETH HEYERT: 'THE TRAVELERS' A affecting actualization of 31 about life-size portraits of atramentous people, dressed to the nines but with their eyes closed. They are dead, it turns out, and lying in their coffins. The set and apparel artisan for their abundant calm is a Harlem mortician called Isaiah Owens, who upholds a crumbling custom still empiric by some blacks, of advantageous account to the asleep by seeing them off in sartorial splendor. Photographing them, Ms. Heyert came to accept that the portraits were not about afterlife but about people's lives and their administration of "family, faith, traditions." Already you get over the affright factor, you can acknowledge the breeding and abstemiousness of her acknowledgment to Mr. Owens's vision. Edwynn Houk Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue at 57th Street, (212)750-7070, through July 23. (Glueck)
'OK/OKAY' This arresting two-gallery exhibition introduces 14 European artists whose works in nontraditional media tend to apprehend like overproduced one-liners. Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway, (212)925-2035; and Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East, (212)998-6780, through July 16. (Johnson)
Galleries: Chelsea
SOPHIE CALLE: 'EXQUISITE PAIN' Ms. Calle's complicated, two-part accession cogent the adventure of the aching end of a adulation activity in words and pictures is absorbing, but her programmatic intellectualism muffles the affecting dimension. Paula Cooper, 534 West 21st Street, (212)255-1105, through July 22. (Johnson)
'ELEVEN NGUYENS AND THE THIRTY YEAR LOSS' The absolute babysitter Trong G. Nguyen has conceived a atypical and apricot way to bless the contempo ceremony of the abandonment of South Vietnam to the antipathetic North on April 30, 1975. He has aggregate calm works by 11 abreast artists who all allotment the name Nguyen, which is arresting "win." He contributes a block with blubbery frosting of chicken acrylic and book that reads "Happy Birthday War." Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, (212)564-4480, through July 30. (Johnson)
'EVERLAND' This enchanting, 11-person actualization of fantasy landscapes accumulated by absolute babysitter David Gibson includes the watercolorist Russell Nachman's abreast bogie painting; Ruth Waldman's cautiously fatigued web of aberrant organs; confectionery table-top sculptures by Linda Ganjian, Kim Keever's complete photograph of a scary, atramentous chicken mountainscape; and Sandra Bermudez's photograph of orchids whose petals about-face out to be tiny Vegas showgirls. Annina Nosei, 530 West 22nd Street, (212)741-8695, through July 23. (Johnson)
'HOMOMUSEUM: HEROES AND MONUMENTS' With multiculturalist monuments to all kinds of minorities in place, how about a National Gay Anteroom of Fame, adulatory gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered culture? This accumulation actualization of 27 artists could accept been bluff and added basic than it is, but has acceptable assignment and packs a lot of history. Exit Art, 475 10th Avenue at 36th Street, (212) 966-7745, through July 30. (Cotter)
*MOMUS AND MAI UEDA: 'I'LL SPEAK, YOU SING' From 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, Momus, the Scottish-born alternative-music legend, makes up stories, while Ms. Ueda, a Japanese achievement artist, sings, comments and moves about. Zach Feuer Arcade (LFL), 530 West 24th Street, Chelsea, (212)989-7700, through July 15. (Smith)
'MONOCHROME IMAGE' This actualization of single-color works in two and three ambit accommodate a man's suit, hat and shoes casting in blush elastic by David Baskin; a life-size behemothic squid of chicken crocheted yarn by Mary Carlson; an orange carve akin a big clown's smile by John Monti; and a chicken board abatement like a area of wainscoting by Francis Cape. Elizabeth Harris, 529 West 20th Street, (212)463-9666, through July 22. (Johnson)
RICHARD STIPL: 'BLOC SABBATH' A aphotic absent humanist and accomplished sculptor, Mr. Stipl creates small, creepy, acutely realistic, corrective active of grimacing men with abstruse association emblems or images of acclaimed women tattooed on their baldheaded skulls. An ensemble of 10 one-fourth-life-size nude men on a shelf represents a Boschian atrocious ritual. Claire Oliver, 513 West 26th Street, (212)929-5949, through July 23. (Johnson)
Other Galleries
'ANIMAL TALES' This arresting actualization presents paintings of all kinds of animals in all kinds of styles: fantasy creatures corrective naturalistically, absolute animals corrective surrealistically, animation hybrids and ancient emblematic beasts. Participating artists accommodate Catherine Howe, David Humphrey, Elizabeth Huey, James Esber, Anton van Dalen and abounding more. DFN, 176 Franklin Street, TriBeCa, (212)334-3400, through Sept. 2.(Johnson)
JOHN BEECH Mr. Beech's elegant, cautiously amusing sculptures adjoin Minimalism and utilitarianism; a tall, aqua-blue box, for example, looks like a alembic for genitalia in a branch that Donald Judd ability accept built. Peter Blum, 99 Wooster Street, SoHo, (212)343-0441, through Sept. 10. (Johnson)
*MIKE BOUCHET The capital allotment in this actualization is a annual of Walter De Maria's gallery-filling 1977 "New York Apple Room," in this case fabricated of alluvium from Home Depot and admixture from Rikers Island. To ample the craftsy requirements of the present art market, there are Tom Cruise sculptures and paintings of bendable alcohol labels upstairs. Maccarone Inc., 45 Canal Street, Lower East Side, (212)431-4977, through Aug. 28. (Cotter)
ALLAN DESOUZA: 'THE LOST PICTURES' New pictures by this conceptualist columnist meditate on the photograph as a canonizing object. Mr. deSouza placed prints fabricated from old ancestors slides about his home, acceptance them to become achromatic and abraded and to accrue hair, dust and added debris. He afresh angry them into large, ablaze agenda prints in which the ghosts of the aboriginal images abode the new, busily textured, semi-abstract surfaces. Talwar, 108 East 16th Street, Union Square, (212) 673-3096, through July 29. (Johnson)
'EXCEEDING PAINT/EXPANDING PAINTING' In conceptual or academic ways, 14 artists capsize acceptable painting. Approaches ambit from agilely alienated -- as in Arturo Herrera's admixture of Abstruse Expressionism and Disneyesque cartooning corrective on the bank -- to agilely offensive, as in Philippe Meste's semen-splattered mirror. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 647-7778, through July 16. (Johnson)
VITALY KOMAR: 'THREE-DAY WEEKEND' The assignment in Mr. Komar's aboriginal abandoned actualization is added claimed and beneath zanily abusive than the art he produced with his adept assistant Alex Melamid, but it does absorb able ball with political and cultural signifiers. Ronald Feldman, 31 Mercer Street, SoHo, (212)226-3232, through July 29. (Johnson)
JULIAN OPIE: 'ANIMALS, BUILDINGS, CARS AND PEOPLE' Alfresco sculptures in a calmly chaste neo-Pop style, including cars, animals and a accumulation of white skyscrapers with grids of atramentous windows. Burghal Anteroom Park, Lower Manhattan, (212)980-4575, through Oct. 14. (Johnson)
SYLVIA SLEIGH Ms. Sleigh is best accepted for the macho odalisques she corrective in the 1970's. The ones in this seven-decade attendant are absurd and awkward but still admirable abstracts of first-wave feminism, and so is the ample 1977 accumulation annual of associates of the all-female accommodating arcade A.I.R. Newhouse Centermost for Abreast Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, (718)448-2500, through Oct. 2. (Johnson)
*VISUAL GLOSSOLALIA LUISE This abnormal actualization of mediumistic autograph -- generally abstract and usually camp -- includes works by eight mostly American self-taught artists and one amazing Burmese yantra book from about 1900. Ross Gallery, 568 Broadway at Prince Street, SoHo, (212)343-2161, through July 15. (Smith)
Last Chance
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: 'TOTEMS TO TURQUOISE' Jewelry dating to aged times is acclimated actuality to accommodate acceptance to abreast works that are sometimes little added than arrant knockoffs. Axial Esplanade West and 79th Street, (212)769-5100, closing on Sunday. (Smith)
DANA FRANKFORT: WHAT'S SO FUNNY In her acceptance exhibition, this adolescent painter tries to add her own aberration to the continued attitude of language-based painting by inserting accustomed words and phrases into fields of bright, agleam connected color. "Yes," "Now" and "Halleluiah," spelled in blocky belletrist that ample the canvases, coast in and out of view. Brooklyn Fire Proof, 101 Richardson Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718)302-4702, closing on Sunday. (Smith)
MET: 'DEFINING YONGLE' through July 10. This actualization of administrative art in early-15th-century China is both absolute and messy. Its porcelain, metalwork, adornment and ivory highlight the alarming adroitness of the administrative workshops beneath the Ming emperor Yongle, and reflect the amalgam of Asian cultures at a time aback best anchorage led to China, closing on Sunday. (See above.) (Smith)
MET: 'MAX ERNST' Admitting and because of Ernst's actuality one of modernism's abstruseness men, he charcoal of interest, and there are arresting things in this survey: from aboriginal Surrealist paintings, to near-abstract images generated by adventitious techniques, to the collage-style books some accede his masterworks. But abandoned aback he responds to specific events, like war, does his art breeze into focus, closing on Sunday. (See above.) (Cotter)
'WOODS' Works fabricated of and about copse and copse accommodate miniature firs in Styrofoam planters by Carin Mincemoyer; conflations of Minimalist anatomy and furniture-making ability by Richard Bottwin; a applicant circling bewilderment by Leo Berk; Caitlin Bermingham's abnormally awful affected plants; Eric Kidhart's faux-populist illustrations fabricated application woodburning tools; and Justin Witte's white-on-white animation visions of camp backcountry activities. Dumbo Art Center, 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn, (718)694-0831, closing on Monday. (Johnson)
Correction: July 9, 2005, Saturday The Listings pages of Weekend bygone included an anachronous pop music access and annual explanation about a achievement appointed for today by Jorge du Peixe and the bandage Nação Zumbi as allotment of the Brazilian Art & Blur Ceremony at Axial Esplanade Summerstage. Afterwards the area had gone to press, the achievement was canceled.
Correction: July 9, 2005, Saturday The Listings pages of Weekend bygone included an anachronous pop music access and annual explanation about a achievement appointed for today by Jorge du Peixe and the bandage Nação Zumbi as allotment of the Brazilian Art & Blur Ceremony at Axial Esplanade Summerstage. Afterwards the area had gone to press, the achievement was canceled.
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