All events on Thursday February 14

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Film: Animation
Dawn of Japanese Animation
Thursday Feb 14 @ Japan Society
Giveaway
... e Japan Society presents this series of rare animated films from the '20s-'40s, many of which are being screened for the first time in... View details »
Dawn of Japanese Animation
Performing Arts: Comedy
The Apple Sisters
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ The People's Improv Theater More times »
Giveaway
1940s Americana isn't typical sketch-comedy fodder, but that doesn't deter the Apple Sisters, who lovingly recreate the radio era onstage with endearing chemistry and a... View details »
The Apple Sisters
Film
Jonathan Demme presents Harold and Maude
Thursday Feb 14 (7:30pm) @ Walter Reade Theater
Harold and Maude became a cult classic long before DVDs made it easy to achieve such status. Directed by the late, great Hal Ashby, it... View details »
Jonathan Demme presents Harold and Maude
Film
Milos Forman Retrospective
Thursday Feb 14 @ MoMA More times »
Given the terrific contribution he's made to cinema, it's surprising that director Milos Forman isn't more of a household name. His relatively under-the-wire profile may... View details »
Milos Forman Retrospective
Film
His Girl Friday
Thursday Feb 14 (6:30pm) @ BAM Rose Cinemas
Screwball comedy, thy name is His Girl Friday. Few know that this 1940 Howard Hawkes classic was actually a remake of a 1931 film called... View details »
  His Girl Friday
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Tainted Love
Thursday Feb 14 (6pm–midnight) @ Monkey Town
Valentine's Day dates always involve a fair amount of awkwardness. But try making small talk while four graphic sex scenes play around you while you... View details »
Tainted Love
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Band of Horses
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
Sold Out!
Giveaway
While Band of Horses bucked indie purists by lending tunes to Ford and Wal-Mart, they brought folks right back with Cease to Begin, a sophomore... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Band of Horses
Music: Classical
Diamanda Galás
Thursday Feb 14 (6:30pm) @ Knitting Factory
A brooding harpy borne of the heart's darkest night, Diamanda Galás doesn't convey regret so much as wrack its innards relentlessly. Gifted with an operatic... View details »
Diamanda Galás
Music: DJ
Carl Craig
Thursday Feb 14 (10pm–4am) @ Cielo
Long considered an influential figure in modern electronic music, Carl Craig has had a particularly impressive run in the past few years. He's turned out... View details »
Carl Craig
Art
Luc Tuymans
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a media-saturated era, he's tackled... View details »
Luc Tuymans

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Art
Tara Donovan
Thursday Feb 14 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
Tara Donovan
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Thursday Feb 14 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Extreme Embroidery
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–8pm) @ Museum of Art and Design More times »
Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from grandmas everywhere with Pricked:... View details »
Extreme Embroidery
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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Thursday Feb 14 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
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New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Thursday Feb 14 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists, many of whom —... View details »
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
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Francis Alÿs
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
Free
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
Fuerzabruta
Art
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Thursday Feb 14 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the woods, ominous mountain ranges,... View details »
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Thursday Feb 14 (7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
Jump
Art
Beth Campbell
Thursday Feb 14 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms. While there was nothing... View details »
Beth Campbell
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Lucian Freud
Thursday Feb 14 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly paints with a chisel,... View details »
Lucian Freud
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Thursday Feb 14 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere.... View details »
blog.mode
Art
New York States of Mind
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what has made New York... View details »
New York States of Mind
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Jaishri Abichandani
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished curator and a practicing... View details »
Jaishri Abichandani
Art
Unmonumental
Thursday Feb 14 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial squad brings together 30... View details »
Unmonumental
Art
Dan Perjovschi
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery More times »
Free
Dan Perjovschi recently took over one of MoMA's massive interior-courtyard walls. Working on a mechanical lift during open hours, the Romanian artist covered several building... View details »
Dan Perjovschi
Art
Lee Friedlander
Thursday Feb 14 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
Lee Friedlander
Art
Jasper Johns
Thursday Feb 14 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use... View details »
Jasper Johns
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AA Bronson
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ John Connelly Presents More times »
Free
Godfather to queer artists everywhere, AA Bronson has made all varieties of artworks during his decades-long practice, focusing on a poetic obsession with the profundity... View details »
AA Bronson
Art
Santiago Cucullu
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery More times »
Free
Argentinean artist Santiago Cucullu's chaotic cut-out vinyl works dominate gallery walls and museum hallways wherever they're shown. At one of Perry Rubenstein's two small 24th... View details »
Santiago Cucullu
Art
Michael Bell-Smith
Thursday Feb 14 (11am–6pm) @ Foxy Production More times »
Free
Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael Bell-Smith's conceptual animations deal... View details »
Michael Bell-Smith
Art
Donelle Woolford
Thursday Feb 14 (11am–6pm) @ Wallspace More times »
Free
Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps. At Wallspace Gallery, Woolford... View details »
Donelle Woolford
Art
Katy Grannan
Thursday Feb 14 (11am–6pm) @ Salon 94 Freemans More times »
Free
Katy Grannan's series Lady into Fox at Salon 94 Freemans depicts a pair of middle-aged transsexuals, Gail and Dale, living their lives as females on... View details »
Katy Grannan
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Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Thursday Feb 14 (11am–6pm) @ Guild & Greyshkul More times »
Free
Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists make collages with a... View details »
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
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Luis Gispert
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ Zach Feuer Gallery More times »
Free
Miami-born artist Luis Gispert takes over West 24th Street with works in film, sculpture, and photography. At Zach Feuer, the artist mounts a series of... View details »
Luis Gispert
Art: Photography
Anne Collier
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ Anton Kern Gallery More times »
Free
It takes more than a first glance at Anne Collier's photographs to understand what you're looking at. Books, magazines, and other media sit upon neutral,... View details »
Anne Collier
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Shirin Neshat
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery More times »
Free
Iran-born, US-educated photographer Shirin Neshat takes stirring, subversive pictures of Muslim women, forcefully engaging the troubling boundaries that separate men and women, Islam and secularism,... View details »
Shirin Neshat
Art
Mark Bradford
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co. More times »
Free
Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top of one another and... View details »
Mark Bradford
Art
Jan de Cock
Thursday Feb 14 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The Belgian artist brings his... View details »
Jan de Cock
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Thursday Feb 14 @ Urban Stages Theatre More times »
Through its cast of expressive marionettes (and their fine-tailored manipulators), Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz tells the story of Moritz, a Norwegian Jewish garmento... View details »
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
Adding Machine
Art
Marvin Franklin
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–4pm) @ New York Transit Museum More times »
Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may not seem like a... View details »
Marvin Franklin
Art
New Prints: Winter 2008
Thursday Feb 14 (11am–6pm) @ International Print Center New York More times »
Free
Elevating fine-art printing beyond the standard three-color poster, the International Print Center's new-season highlights include rodent-infested Victorian wallpaper, silhouettes of million-dollar homes, battle scenes with... View details »
New Prints: Winter 2008
Performing Arts: Theatre
Open House
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Various locations More times »
Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry Theatre stages Open House... View details »
Open House
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Studio Dante More times »
Russell Barr wrote and stars in this emotionally charged monologue directed by Michael Imperoli (of Christopher Moltisanti Sopranos fame). The cluttered, childlike bedroom stage sets... View details »
Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters
Film
Envisioning Russia
Thursday Feb 14 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
Few Americans really grasp the breadth of Russian film in existence: we tend to treat film imports from that country as jewels rarely produced. The... View details »
Envisioning Russia
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rum & Coke
Thursday Feb 14 (7:30pm) @ June Havoc Theatre More times »
In Carmen Peláez's one-woman show Rum & Coke, the protagonist begins a search for beauty and a forgotten Cuba after finding her great-aunt Amelia Peláez's... View details »
Art
Pop Subversion
Thursday Feb 14 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
Free
Over 30 artists fill Ad Hoc's walls with twisted fairy-tale imagery, tortured visages, and disemboweled beauties in Pop Subversion. Some confront the frustrations of city... View details »
Pop Subversion
Performing Arts: Theatre
Betrayed
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Culture Project More times »
George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five years. Betrayed follows three... View details »
Betrayed
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grace
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of real people. On Religion,... View details »
Grace
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Thursday Feb 14 @ International Center of Photography More times »
Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
Archive Fever
Art
The (Self) Promotion Show
Thursday Feb 14 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
Free
Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view are presented in an... View details »
The (Self) Promotion Show
Art
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ Paula Cooper Gallery More times »
Free
Two of Japan's best-known artists, Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama, passed away in recent years. Original members of the Osaka-based avant-garde group Gutai Art Association... View details »
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Art
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Thursday Feb 14 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hunting and Gathering
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
Hunting and Gathering's simple, sweet appeal lies in its hyper-real portrait of young NYC. Ruth is a thirtysomething who keeps her stuff in storage while... View details »
Hunting and Gathering
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–5pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is best known for iconic,... View details »
Irving Penn
Performing Arts: Theatre
Happy Endings
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Access Theater More times »
In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of sex workers. Presented as... View details »
Happy Endings
Art
Hans Haacke
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ Paula Cooper Gallery More times »
Free
The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of conceptual art that applied... View details »
Hans Haacke
Performing Arts: Theatre
Thicker Than Water 2008
Thursday Feb 14 (7pm) @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times »
Showcasing the young and the talented is Ensemble Studio Theatre's Thicker Than Water, a collection of one-acts from the company's ensemble of up-and-coming playwrights. Amazingly,... View details »
Thicker Than Water 2008
Art
Jasper Johns
Thursday Feb 14 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the last decade. Johns, now... View details »
Jasper Johns
Art
Xu Zhen
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery More times »
Free
A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring countries with remote-controlled toy... View details »
Xu Zhen
Performing Arts: Theatre
Apt 3A
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
In this tale of love, God, and the sex lives of polar bears, writer Jeff Daniels (yes, that Jeff Daniels) brings us into the crumbling... View details »
Apt 3A
Art
Nayland Blake
Thursday Feb 14 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
Free
For many years, Nayland Blake's surrogate was a big white bunny that showed up in his drawings and sculptures. But in his new pieces at... View details »
Nayland Blake
Art: Photography
Robert Mapplethorpe
Thursday Feb 14 (11am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
Free
Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly Gallery presents nearly 50... View details »
Robert Mapplethorpe
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
Thursday Feb 14 @ American Airlines Theater More times »
Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan), there are sly references... View details »
The 39 Steps 
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
Ben Katchor's epic indie-rock musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower returns, upgrading to the Vineyard after its successful... View details »
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cherubina
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Sanford Meisner Theater More times »
Set in pre-revolutionary Russia, Cherubina follows the true tale of Elisa Ivanovna, a frustrated poetess and disabled schoolmarm. Ivanovna becomes convinced that the only way... View details »
Art: Photography
The Sartorialist
Thursday Feb 14 (11am–6pm) @ Danziger Projects More times »
Free
Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures everyday fashionistas in their... View details »
The Sartorialist
Art: Photography
Dawoud Bey
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
Free
Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey's series Class Pictures depicts teenagers from a high school on Chicago's South Side, a New England prep school, and classrooms in... View details »
Dawoud Bey
Art
Jen DeNike
Thursday Feb 14 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart More times »
Free
At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united by a recurring motif... View details »
Jen DeNike
Art: Photography
Carrie Mae Weems
Thursday Feb 14 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
Free
... rican American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to New York with a mini-retrospective at Chelsea's Jack Shainman Gallery. Weems... View details »
Carrie Mae Weems
Performing Arts: Theatre
Paradise Park
Thursday Feb 14 (8pm) @ Signature Theatre More times »
Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the playwright's third and final... View details »
Paradise Park
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Thursday Feb 14 @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph