(Photo: Courtesy of PBS (Boys of ’36); Courtesy of Universal Pictures (Jason Bourne); Bed Moody (Golden Bride); David Giesbrecht/Netflix (House of Cards); Karolina Kuras (Winter’s Tale))

Movies
1. See Jason Bourne
The man in full.�
After nine years, Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne is back in The Bourne … Wait a sec. There’s no Identity or Supremacy or Ultimatum. It’s just Jason Bourne, directed by Paul Greengrass. Of course, Bourne’s never really been away; the last two Greengrass-directed paranoid-conspiracy films in the series have been unusually influential. Their lean palettes, swerving handheld camerawork, and close-in, high-impact combat scenes can be felt in everything from the last two Bond films to Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Here’s hoping the director and now-middle-aged star will recapture the old magic. —David Edelstein
In theaters July 29.

Pop
2. Go to Art of Rap Festival
What you hear is not a test.�
Ice-T’s inaugural fest — named after the excellent 2012 doc the gangsta-rap innovator directed and produced — is a must. The tour comes to Coney Island touting a who’s who of early rap geniuses: Public Enemy, EPMD, Kurtis Blow, the Sugarhill Gang, and more. —Craig Jenkins
Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk, July 29.

Art
3. See Intimisms
Pocket-size pictures.
This perfectly timed group show zeroes in on the plethora of smallish, more intimate painting that’s been happily popping up in response, one imagines, to gobs of big, bland almost monochromes: bedroom scenes, family portraits, other moments of everyday mystery. You’d have room to hang one of these beauties even in a craphole of a New York apartment. —Jerry Saltz
James Cohan, through July 29.

TV
4. Watch I Am JFK Jr.
A revealing posthumous portrait.�
JFK’s only son is shown through the eyes of his friends — including Robert De Niro, Cindy Crawford, and colleagues from his political mag, George. “Everybody expects me to be a great man,” he once told John Perry Barlow. “I wonder if it wouldn’t be a much more interesting challenge to see if I couldn’t make myself a good man.” —Matt Zoller Seitz
Spike, August 1 at 9 p.m.

Theater
5. See God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Vonnegut sings!�
Encores! Off-Center closes the season with this 1979 musical, based on the whimsical Kurt Vonnegut novel. The adaptation, about an eccentric millionaire inspired to do good by the sci-fi writer he reveres, was the first collaboration of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken; three years later, they scored with Little Shop of Horrors. —Jesse Green
New York City Center, July 27 through 30.

Pop
6. Listen to Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
Dinosaur Jr. aren’t stuck in the past.�
Dinosaur Jr. celebrated 30 years of guitar-rock excellence with a week of shows here last winter, but this year they’re looking ahead with a new album: Expect another helping of the J Mascis–fronted trio’s singular mix of propulsive rhythms, punishing riffs, and disarmingly tender vocals.��� —C.J.
Jagjaguwar, August 5.

Books
7. & 8. Read Siracusa and The House at the Edge of Night
Literary trips to Italy.�
If you can’t leave town this summer, savor these fictional escapes. In Siracusa, Delia Ephron makes an ancient Sicilian town the backdrop to a Rashomon-like story of couples on the verge of a cataclysm. Catherine Banner’s Castellamare is a magical isle, in The House at the Edge of Night, a half-mythic family history. —Boris Kachka
Blue Rider Press and Random House.

TV
9. Watch Season Four of House of Cards
Fiction just as strange as reality.�
The DNC is under way, so now’s a good time to stream the most recent season of House of Cards — specifically, the high-drama ninth episode. It unfolds during the show’s version of the convention, focusing on a wild series of ­delegate surprises, strategic betrayals, and running-­mate switcheroos. The actual convention couldn’t possibly be this nuts (though, wait a minute …). —Jen Chaney
Netflix.

Classical Music
10. Hear The Emerson Quartet and Emanuel Ax
An almost-all-nighter with musical masters.
When five elder statesmen of the chamber-music world get together for a single night, they merge so many decades of shared experience that listening is like eavesdropping on their inner thoughts. Here, they play a classical double-header: a concert of Purcell, Schubert, and Dvorák; then, a more intimate after-party featuring Mozart’s G-minor Piano Quartet. —Justin Davidson
Alice Tully Hall (7:30 p.m.) and Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse (10 p.m.), August 1.

Theater
11. See Engagements
Eye-rollingly enjoyable.�
Your first time at someone else’s engagement party tends to be pretty fun, but your 15th? This dark-dark comedy (by Mr. Robot writer and Vice contributor Lucy Teitler) follows one person’s Rube Goldberg war on coupledom (and suggests that umpteenth engagement party could get a bit scary).
Second Stage Theatre, through August 14.

Dance
12. See The Winter’s Tale
The Bard at the ballet.�
With his eye for staging and incisive characterization, Christopher Wheeldon avoids the clichés inherent in making story ballets. The National Ballet of Canada comes to the Lincoln Center Festival with his take on a tricky Shakespeare play; the Times of London has already called it “the most heartfelt and resonant full-length ballet seen in decades.” —Rebecca Milzoff
David H. Koch Theater, July 28 through 31.

Opera
13. See The Hubble Cantata
The stars look very different today.�
Opera depends on its stars, and composer Paola Prestini repays the debt by casting actual celestial suns in her latest work. Instead of cluttering up the stage with sets for this concert (part of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!), the producers will hand out cardboard VR headsets, letting audience members feel as though they’re floating through NASA’s space photos. —J.D.
Prospect Park Bandshell, August 6.

Movies
14. See Joe Dante at the Movies
The movie mind that dreamed up Gremlins.
Few genre directors are as rambunctiously subversive as Joe Dante, who started as a critic before moving on to Roger Corman’s stables, then the pop-culture stratosphere. This 40-film series celebrates Dante’s own films (among them Piranha, The Howling, The ’Burbs, and the compromised but still riotous Looney Tunes: Back in Action) along with movies that float his boat (Anthony Mann’s The Black Book, Albert Zugsmith’s Confessions of an Opium Eater, among many). Celebrate Dante on August 5, 6, and 7, when he introduces screenings of his Gremlins, Matinee, and the delirious, little-seen Movie Orgy. —D.E.
BAMcinématek, August 5 through 24.

Theater
15. Learn About Holiday Inn
Christmas in August.
How a musically illiterate cantor’s son named Israel Baline came to write, as Irving Berlin, songs like “Easter Parade” and “White Christmas”—both of which will be heard in this fall’s Broadway incarnation of Holiday Inn at the Roundabout—will undoubtedly be part of the discussion of Berlin’s achievement at this “making of” event, including a sneak preview with cast members. —J.G.
Museum of Jewish Heritage, August 2.

Books
16. Read You’ll Grow Out of It
Like spending a night with a best friend.
In her new book of personal essays, Inside Amy Schumer head writer Jessi Klein grapples with both trivial and weighty matters of female experience: aging and career struggles, pregnancy and heartbreak, bridal shopping and The Bachelor. Deftly blending irreverent humor with poignant insights, Klein’s writing is wonderfully intimate.�
Grand Central Publishing.

Pop
17. See Deftones and Refused
Volatile acts in tandem.�
Sacramento shoegaze-metal merchants Deftones found bliss in brutality on this spring’s Gore, the eighth in a streak of sweet but uncompromisingly heavy opuses stretching back to the mid-’90s. The band sets out with reunited Swedish anarcho-punk rebels Refused. —C.J.
Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk, August 5.

Art
18. See Goulding the Lolly
Imitations that flatter.
Among the forceful spirits of today’s downtown underground art scene is painter Brian Belott, known for his remakes of amateur-artist art and his own incredibly gnarly brand of eccentric ­abstraction. Belott corrals like-minded painters to ape the styles of others: EJ Hauser’s magical evocation of Marsden Hartley, Gina Beaver’s succulent van Gogh landscape, and more. —J.S.
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, through July 30.

Books
19. & 20. Read You Will Know Me Then Hear Megan Abbott
Back handsprings and chills.
The crafter of simmering psychological thrillers alights once again on teenage girls and the hidden forces that tie them together and drive them apart. Devon Knox is a competitive teen gymnast; the brutal death of someone in her elite group turns an already-tense drama into a sort of locked-gym murder mystery. Meet Abbott in the more congenial environs of an independent bookstore in her home borough of Queens.�—B.K.
Little, Brown; Astoria Bookshop, July 29.

TV
21. Watch The American Experience: The Boys of ’36
Before Rio, rewind to Berlin.
This installment of the venerable PBS documentary series tells the story of nine young working-class men from the University of Washington who became the 1936 Olympic rowing team, defeating the ascendant Germans at the Berlin Games. The reenactments are great, like scenes of restored wooden Pocock shells being taken out into the water by men in period gear. —M.Z.S.
PBS, August 2 at 9 p.m.

Pop
22. Listen to Blank Face
Schoolboy Q graduates to the next level.
Leaning away from the dance-heavy beats and pop charts that defined his previous LP, Schoolboy turns to paranoia and real-talk gangsta rap. Start with standouts “That Part” (with Kanye) and “Blank Face” (with Anderson.Paak).
Top Dawg/Interscope.

Theater
23. See The Golden Bride
You should only enjoy it!
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene had an unlikely hit in December with this 1923 operetta about an abandoned child, her surprise inheritance, and the improved marriage prospects that result. Now the once-lost Yiddish gem returns for a longer run. —J.G.
Museum of Jewish Heritage, through August 28.

Art/Movies
24. See Tony Oursler: Imponderable
Séances, spirit guides, and more!
Tony Oursler’s feature-length film Imponderable — and the accompanying exhibition of ephemera here — depicts how, since the 19th century, the moving image’s technological advancement has intertwined with occult phenomena. The surreal narrative includes characters ranging from Harry Houdini to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Museum of Modern Art, through January 8.

Classical Music
25. Hear Paul Lewis
His only Mostly Mozart appearance.�
The Mostly Mozart Festival’s “A Little Night Music” concerts were intended to be musical petits fours served after the main event, but the pianist Paul Lewis turned the format into an up-close confessional experience. This year, the small audience that can fit in this upstairs space will hear him play Brahms’s Ballades and Schubert’s mercurial, witty B-major Sonata, D. 575. —J.D.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, August 2.�