August 1, 2008

Weekend on Tap: Dragon Boat Fest, Kirchner at MoMA

It’s the first weekend of August and that means a number of museums are open for free for their First Friday/Saturday/Sunday events. It’s Revolutionary Weekend on Governors Island, the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival will be at Flushing Meadows Park rain or shine and the Yankees host the Angels in the Bronx for a few days of play.

On Sunday, make a mad dash to the Museum of Modern Art, which is opening a completely seductive Kirchner Street Scenes exhibition.

For ongoing events and shows, click to NewYorkology’s Now in NYC list. For events on tap after this weekend, see NewYorkology’s calendar.

Events will be added through the weekend.

Friday
Elliott Gould: Star for an Uptight Age film series begins at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Midnight screening of “Mad Max II: The Road Warrior” at Sunshine Cinema

Yankees vs. the Angels at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.

Staten Island Yankees home game against the Brooklyn Cyclones

DanceBrazil and Max Pollak and RumbaTap at 8 p.m. at Central Park Summerstage

Free Argentine Tango class for absolute beginners from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at TriANGulO on West 20th

Composer Carl Davis leads 16-piece chamber orchestra The Knights and Christina Courtin playing Charlie Chaplin’s “The Rink,” “The Immigrant” and “The Adventurer” in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn

Brother Ali & The Rub play the South Street Seaport - free

Maxi Priest plays BB Kings

Free performance of 12 Ophelias at 8 p.m. in the McCarren Park Pool

OpenTables for Restaurant Week

First Fridays at the Guggenheim

TK Blue—Follow the North Star plays jazz for the Starry Nights series at the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center

Rubin Museum’s CabaretCinema film: Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1976), introduced by Annette Insdorf. Starts at 9:30, free with $7 bar minimum

Today’s the first day you can request Saturday Night Live tickets for the ‘08-‘09 season. (NBC only accepts requests in August for the whole season.)

Museums open after 7 p.m.: American Folk Art Museum, to 7:30 p.m. (with free admission from 5:30 to close;) and the Guggenheim to 7:45 p.m. (where admission is pay-what-you-wish from 5:45 to close but there’s a sign suggesting you contribute $10.)

Museums open to 8 p.m.: International Center of Photography, (which has “voluntary contribution” admission from 5 to close;) Museum of Modern Art, (which is free from 4 to 8 p.m.;) New-York Historical Society, (with free admission from 6 p.m.;) Bronx Museum, (which is free all day;) and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (which is free the first Friday of each month from 5 to 8 p.m.)

Museums open to 8:45 p.m.:Rose Center for Earth and Space, but only on the first Friday of each month.

Museums open to 9 p.m.: the Met; Whitney, (which is pay-what-you-wish from 6 to 9 p.m. and sometimes hosts Whitney Live dance parties;) Cooper-Hewitt; the Morgan, (with free admission from 7 p.m.;) Neue Galerie; and the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum - but only on the first Friday of the month.

Closing at 10 p.m.: Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, (with free admission from 7 p.m. to close.)

More late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)

Saturday
Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival at Flushing Meadows Park

Free concert at the Louis Armstrong House featuring Walker Street
Orphans & York College Summer Jazz Institute and Ballet Folklórico Father Billini, from 1 to 4 p.m.

Revolutionary Weekend on Governors Island

Ronny Cox plays Governors Island for the free Folks on the Island

Municipal Art Society tour: Governors Island: Art, Architecture, Music & More, at 10:45 a.m.

Architecture Family Workshop at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m.

Coney Island Film Society screens “Barbarella”

Midnight screening of “Mad Max II: The Road Warrior” at Sunshine Cinema

Yankees vs. the Angels at Yankee Stadium at 3:55 p.m.

Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island vs. the Staten Island Yankees

Free Argentine Tango class for absolute beginners from 8 to 9 p.m. at TriANGulO on West 20th

Father Goose and The Sippy Cups, with classic Keats stories read between sets by Sonia Manzano (Maria from Sesame Street,) Joan Osborne and James McDaniel in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn

Roy Hargrove Big Band and special guests at 7 p.m. at Central Park Summerstage

Bedford Avenue goes pedestrian-only for Williamsburg Walks for the day

New Museum’s free Target First Saturdays for Families: An Imaginary Animal Kingdom from 10 a.m. to noon

Brooklyn Museum’s free Target First Saturdays with free museum entrance from 5 to 11 p.m. and readings, and music including Reggae Retro’s DJs and live band Judah Tribe

Bank of America cardholders get free admission all weekend to the Met Museum, International Center of Photography, NY Hall of Science, the Jewish Museum, Bronx Zoo and NY Aquarium for Museums on Us

Museums open late: Museum of Sex to 8 p.m.; the Met Museum to 9 p.m. and the Brooklyn Museum but only on the first Saturday of each month, when it’s also free from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.

More late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)

Scheduled subway interruptions

Sunday
Kirchner Street Scenes, 1913–1915 opens at MoMA

Harlem Rent Party: Jazz Film Series at Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m.

Target Free Sundays at the Studio Museum from noon

Municipal Art Society walking tour: Eldridge Street Synagogue and East Broadway, at 11 a.m.

Black Lips, Deerhunter, King Kahn & His Shrines
and Tall Firs play the McCarren Park Pool at 2 p.m.

African Guitar Festival in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn

Jamie Lidell, Janelle Monáe, Little Jackie, Jose James and Gilles Peterson at Central Park Summerstage at 3 p.m. ($5 suggested donation)

Free Poppenhusen Institute Concert Series in Queens at MacNeil Park: Music of Big Band

Yankees vs. the Angels at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.

Staten Island Yankees home game against the Brooklyn Cyclones

Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival at Flushing Meadows Park

Revolutionary Weekend on Governors Island

Late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)

Scheduled subway interruptions

Closing soon
“Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered” at the Jewish Museum (through Aug. 3)
Inspired by Kashmir: Works by New York City Students at the Asia Society (through Aug. 3)
Ardeshir Mohassess: Art and Satire in Iran and Vietnam: A Memorial Work by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba exhibitions at the Asia Society (through Aug. 3)
Making It Together exhibition inspired by the ‘70s Feminist Movement at the Bronx Museum (through Aug. 4)
Lou Reed’s Berlin screens at Film Forum (through Aug. 5)
Tatsuya Nakadai retrospective at Film Forum (through Aug. 7)
French Founding Father: Lafayette’s Return to Washington’s America at the New-York Historical Society (through Aug. 10)
Click! A Crowd Curated Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (through Aug. 10)
Sam Shepard’s Kicking A Dead Horse at the Public Theater. (through Aug. 10)
Bad Musicals Festival ‘08 (through Aug. 10)

Travel links
Friday through Sunday: offers special transportation packages for the Sayville Summerfest

Saturday: Long Island Rail Road one-day Southampton Escape

Saturday and Sunday: Garlic Festival at Fox Run Vineyards in the Finger Lakes

Sunday: Brookhaven National Lab’s free Summer Sunday programs on the National Weather Service

Sunday: Long Island Rail Road one-day trip to Port Jefferson

Image source: Provided by MoMA. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938)
Five Women on the Street (Fünf Frauen auf der Straße). 1913.
Oil on canvas. 47 1/4 × 35 7/16” (120 × 90 cm).
Museum Ludwig, Cologne. © Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne.
© Ingeborg and Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern

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