Un événement par date cet été à New York, je m'y prends un peu en retard mais déjà un aperçu pour les 12 derniers jours de Juillet 2009 et le mois d'août 2009, extrait du site NY MAG donc en anglais (un peu de révision avant le départ à NY comme ça !):

Très bon été à New York !


Juillet

18 Go to the Siren Music Festival, anchored by Built to Spill, Danish duo the Raveonettes, and cheeky boppers Micachu & the Shapes.

19 It’s been over a week since its release. Bypass the lines for Sacha Baron Cohen’s long-awaited and litigious Brüno.

20 Take in “Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings From the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection,” on the wall at MoMA.

21 Pack a picnic and dance barefoot as activist and songwriter Jackson Browne hits the stage in Prospect Park for Celebrate Brooklyn!

22 Adventurous new-music ensemble Alarm Will Sound plays interpretations of Aphex Twin tunes at (Le) Poisson Rouge.

23 Fun-loving composer and violist Ljova (a.k.a. Lev Zhurbin) brings his raucous Kontraband to the Jewish Museum.

24 Budapest’s Béla Pintér and Company premieres its rowdy, farcical Peasant Opera.

25 Choose between two quality Russian dramas: Maly Drama Theatre’s Life and Fate or Boris Godunov at the Park Avenue Armory.

26 They just want to please the ladies: Masters of the slow jam Ginuwine and Joe croon their best at SummerStage.

27 Get riled up at Madison Square Garden with Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown tour.

28 Attend BAM’s 30th-anniversary screening of The Muppet Movie; bone up on Jim Henson lore beforehand at “Muppets History 201.”

29 When do patriotism and terrorism cross paths? Find out at We Declare You a Terrorist at the Public Theater’s Summer Play Festival.

30 South African a cappella virtuosos Ladysmith Black Mambazo break out their moves for BAM’s R&B festival at MetroTech. 

31 What’s summer sans Judd Apatow? Funny People opens. Plus: Rebel Without a Cause at Film Forum.

Août

1 Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, formerly of Luna, perform their hauntingly evocative score to Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests at Prospect Park.

2 Ninety-year-old Merce Cunningham’s troupe performs a signature minimalist, site-specific Event at Rockefeller Park.

3 Furniture with SMS and Bluetooth capability? Marvel at technologically unusual works by Israeli designer and architect Ron Arad in “No Discipline” at MoMA.

4 Beach-read snobs, take note: Thomas Pynchon’s new hippie-noir book, Inherent Vice, now available.

5 Music collective Bang on a Can’s new offshoot, Asphalt Orchestra, covers everything from Stew to Björk at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

6 Expect lace and air guitar at Celebrate Brooklyn!’s Purple Rain sing-along in Prospect Park, marking the 25th anniversary of Prince’s album.

7 Julie & Julia, Paper Heart, and G.I. Joe (a.k.a. Oscar bait, twee overload, and blockbuster) hit theaters. Choose one or all three!

8 Special guest Andrew W.K. ups the energy during Radio Happy Hour, an old-timey live variety show at (Le) Poisson Rouge.

9 Head to Second Stage for the last evening of Vanities: A New Musical, Tony-winner Judith Ivey’s adaptation of Jack Heifner’s beloved play.

10 City Ballet and ABT’s seasons are over, so head to the Joyce for your pointe-shoe fix: Tulsa Ballet’s diverse, extraordinarily talented troupe.

11 Ten storytellers take the stage and spin five-minute tales about food during the NY Moth StorySLAM at the Nuyorican Poets Café.

12 Euripides’ The Bacchae features Jonathan Groff, and André De Shields at Shakespeare in the Park.

13 Settle into an easy groove when hip-hop pioneers (and lyrical mavericks) De La Soul take over the Nokia Theatre.

14 Bring special brownies to the opening of Ang Lee’s film Taking Woodstock. Also: Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company at SummerStage.

15 Animal Collective touches down at the Prospect Park Bandshell, and Long Island surfers compete at the Bunger 21st Annual Surf Contest.

16 Sixteen days, twenty venues, over 1,300 performances. Take in what you can at the New York International Fringe Festival.

17 Arrive early to snag a spot in Bryant Park at the sunset screening of Spielberg’s 1977 Oscar-winning sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

18 Ease into the week with a peek at Richard Avedon’s emblematic photographs in “Avedon Fashion 1944–2000” at the International Center of Photography.

19 Escape to an air-conditioned theater for the romantic Time Traveler’s Wife, with Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana.

20 Gape at the wild, organic moves of Brooklyn’s fiercest dancing ladies, the Urban Bush Women.

21 Scale the multilevel Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit inside the Guggenheim.

22 Pianist Emanuel Ax, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and the Mark Morris Dance Group perform together at Mostly Mozart.

23 Brace for blood. Tarantino takes on Nazi Germany in Inglourious Basterds, which opened on Friday.

24 Walk west for Christopher O’Riley’s classical-piano takes on Nirvana and Radiohead at the HighLine Ballroom.

25 Urban bachata pioneers Bachata Heightz perform a mash-up of rock, hip-hop, R&B, and mambo in a free show at Highbridge Park.

26 Head to the Brooklyn Museum for lo-fi video works by feminist artists at “Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video.”

27 It’s a love story, baby: Taylor Swift brings her guitar and songwriting chops to Madison Square Garden. Resistance is futile.

28 Big Fan, the directorial debut from the writer of The Wrestler, opens at the Angelika, starring Patton Oswalt as a N.Y. Giants obsessive.

29 Add a touch of class to the end of summer at the perennially underrated Bargemusic; nothing’s quite so calming as listening to a string quartet (the Voxare, today) on a small barge in Dumbo.

30 RadioTheatre’s yearlong celebration of Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday continues at Under St. Marks.

31 Discover rescued rarities at the Met Museum’s “Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul.”