30 THINGS TO DO IN June

1 STUDY Pop culture. One of the final performances of Andy and Edie, Peter Braunstein's play about Andy Warhol's relationship with Edie Sedgwick, runs at New York's Shetler Studios.

2 GO jump in a lake. The Fifth Annual Lake Placid Film Festival begins, with Martin Scorsese as a special guest.

3 SEX it up. Berlin's new Helmut Newton Foundation opens with two exhibitions, "Us & Them" and "Sex & Landscapes," featuring work by the late artist and his wife, June.

4 BE touched. "Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection," an exhibition devoted to the subject of hands, opens at the Guggenheim in New York.

5 PLACE your bets. The Belmont Stakes, the oldest of the Triple Crown races, is run today.

6 COMMEMORATE veterans. D-day was 60 years ago today.

7 FLY AWAY. Victor Matthews's two-week installation, Beyond Metamorphosis, involving 3,000 umbrellas, each bearing a hand-painted butterfly, begins in N.Y.C.'s Battery Park.

8 FURNISH references. "Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco" explores the work of the great 1920s designer Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, showcasing furniture, ceramics, and textiles, at the Met in N.Y.C.

9 APPLAUD the scientists recognized for their achievement in the field of cancer research at the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation's Annual Scientific Conference in Bethesda, Md.

10 RETHINK your definition of "disabled" at the International VSA Arts Festival in Washington, D.C., a showcase for the work of disabled artists in painting, performing arts, and photography.

11 DUKE it out. John Wayne ... There Rode a Legend is out in bookstores. Today is th anniversary of his death.

12 SEE dead people. "Sally Mann: What Remains" opens at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., featuring the artist's haunting photographic studies on the subject of mortality.

13 WITNESS a $9 million face-lift. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, in Ridgefield, Conn., reopens after a massive renovation-and-expansion project.

14 GO Dutch. The Musee D'Orsay, in Paris, presents an exhibition of the work of Johan Barthold Jongkind, the Dutch artist who would influence the Impressionists.

15 GET your mind in the shutter. "Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske" opens at the Getty, in L.A. It's the first major retrospective of the American photographer's work.

16 RECALL mandatory school reading. Today is Bloomsday, marking the 100th anniversary of the fictional 1904 day chronicled in James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses.

17 SEE a resemblance. London's National Portrait Gallery presents the 2004 BP Portrait Award, whose previous recipients include Charlotte Harris, Catherine Goodman, and Victoria Russell.

18 BE A BRECHT GIRL. The Threepenny Opera opens at the Jean Cocteau Repertory, in N.Y.C., for an eight-week run.

19 GO where the wild things are: the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association's annual Beastly Ball. Guests gather among the zoo's denizens for a gala dinner and silent auction.

20 STEER clear of the tie and cologne departments. It's Father's Day.

21 CORRECT historical blindness. The second season of the PBS series History Detectives, examining the hidden truths behind historic artifacts, sites, and urban myths, premieres.

22 TAKE the southern route. "Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America," an exhibition of works by Mexican, South American, and Caribbean artists, is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

23 SEE what all the drama's about. The celebrated Williamstown Theatre Festival kicks off its 50th season.

24 LIVE fast. The Hayward Gallery, in London, presents an exhibition of photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue, who documented the lives of the rich and fabulous on the Cote d'Azur.

25 DRIVE by "French Curves: The Automobile as Sculpture," a new exhibition of pre~World War II French cars, at the Petersen Automotive Museum, in L.A.

26 HONOR eccentricity. New York's Municipal Art Society celebrates a quirky Upper West Sider in "At the Ansonia Hotel: A Broadway Landmark Turns 100."

27 WALK TALL in the annual San Francisco Gay Pride Parade.

28 AVOID sitting under birds. It's Mel Brooks's birthday.

29 WONDER at Weegee. More than 200 of the photographer's most recognized vintage prints from the 1940s are on display at New York's Ubu Gallery.

30 FLASH BACK. "Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow" opens at the Tate Gallery in London and includes the work of David Hockney, John Latham, Gustav Metzger, and Bridget Riley.