Events on Friday, February 15
Friday 2/15 @ Silent Barn
Sure, sludge-loving indie-ites Pissed Jeans revel like mini-Mudhoneys at the toes of grunge metal's gods, but there's more than flannel forming...
Friday 2/15 @ Bar 13
Luca Bacchetti has championed his signature, dark tech-house sound via releases on Tenax, and more recently two stellar, mind-meddling EPs on...
Friday 2/15 @ Southpaw
Deer Tick's John McCauley might not be a cowboy, but he's no stranger to America's past. The 21-year-old alt-country sprout spins...
Friday 2/15 @ Love
Living every music writer's dream, the journalist, blogger, and all around grime/dubstep ambassador Martin Clark (aka Blackdown) has rapidly risen from...
Friday 2/15 @ 68
Brooklyn's 68 presents its first artists in residence tonight, adorable avant-pop duo Something in Spanish. Showcasing songbird Michelle Perez and jazz...
Friday 2/15 @ Collective:Unconscious
For those recovering from disastrous Valentine's Day intimacies and wanting some helpful hints for next year, the Pinchbottom Institute offers guidance...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/15 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
Friday 2/15 @ Lombard-Freid Gallery
Dan Perjovschi recently took over one of MoMA's massive interior-courtyard walls. Working on a mechanical lift during open hours, the Romanian...
Friday 2/15 @ American Airlines Theater
Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan),...
Friday 2/15 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 2/15 @ Salon 94 Freemans
Katy Grannan's series Lady into Fox at Salon 94 Freemans depicts a pair of middle-aged transsexuals, Gail and Dale, living their...
Friday 2/15 @ Gladstone Gallery
Iran-born, US-educated photographer Shirin Neshat takes stirring, subversive pictures of Muslim women, forcefully engaging the troubling boundaries that separate men and...
Friday 2/15 @ Sean Kelly Gallery
Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly...
Friday 2/15 @ David Zwirner
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a...
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Friday 2/15 @ Vineyard Theatre
Ben Katchor's epic indie-rock musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower returns, upgrading to the...
Friday 2/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the...
Friday 2/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop...
Friday 2/15 @ Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Nagelberg Theatre
Fast-paced and exuberantly profane, The Play About the Naked Guy skewers Off-Broadway's longstanding "art vs commerce" debate. Christopher Borg's Eddie saves...
Friday 2/15 @ Hispanic Society of America
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year...
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Friday 2/15 @ Urban Stages Theatre
Through its cast of expressive marionettes (and their fine-tailored manipulators), Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz tells the story of Moritz,...
Friday 2/15 @ Smith-Stewart
At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united...
Friday 2/15 @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery
Argentinean artist Santiago Cucullu's chaotic cut-out vinyl works dominate gallery walls and museum hallways wherever they're shown. At one of Perry...
Friday 2/15 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Friday 2/15 @ International Print Center New York
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...
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Friday 2/15 @ Paula Cooper Gallery
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...
Friday 2/15 @ 59E59 Theaters
Hunting and Gathering's simple, sweet appeal lies in its hyper-real portrait of young NYC. Ruth is a thirtysomething who keeps her...
Friday 2/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly...
Friday 2/15 @ Jack Shainman Gallery
African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to
Friday 2/15 @ Signature Theatre
Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the...
Friday 2/15 @ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...
Friday 2/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas...
Friday 2/15 @ Ad Hoc Art
Over 30 artists fill Ad Hoc's walls with twisted fairy-tale imagery, tortured visages, and disemboweled beauties in Pop Subversion. Some confront...
Friday 2/15 @ Queens Museum of Art
Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished...
Friday 2/15 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the...
Friday 2/15 @ Wallspace
Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps....
Friday 2/15 @ Anton Kern Gallery
It takes more than a first glance at Anne Collier's photographs to understand what you're looking at. Books, magazines, and other...
Friday 2/15 @ Studio Dante
Russell Barr wrote and stars in this emotionally charged monologue directed by Michael Imperoli (of Christopher Moltisanti Sopranos fame). The cluttered,...
Friday 2/15 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
For many years, Nayland Blake's surrogate was a big white bunny that showed up in his drawings and sculptures. But in...
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Friday 2/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists,...
Friday 2/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop...
Friday 2/15 @ June Havoc Theatre
In Carmen Peláez's one-woman show Rum & Coke, the protagonist begins a search for beauty and a forgotten Cuba after finding...
Friday 2/15 @ Museum of Art and Design
Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from...
Friday 2/15 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial...
Friday 2/15 @ John Connelly Presents
Godfather to queer artists everywhere, AA Bronson has made all varieties of artworks during his decades-long practice, focusing on a poetic...
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Friday 2/15 @ Guild & Greyshkul
Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists...
Friday 2/15 @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top...
Friday 2/15 @ Danziger Projects
Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures...
Friday 2/15 @ Aperture Gallery
Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey's series Class Pictures depicts teenagers from a high school on Chicago's South Side, a New England prep...
Friday 2/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Friday 2/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His...
Friday 2/15 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Showcasing the young and the talented is Ensemble Studio Theatre's Thicker Than Water, a collection of one-acts from the company's ensemble...
Friday 2/15 @ Queens Museum of Art
Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what...
Friday 2/15 @ International Center of Photography
Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution...
Friday 2/15 @ Foxy Production
Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael...
Friday 2/15 @ Zach Feuer Gallery
Miami-born artist Luis Gispert takes over West 24th Street with works in film, sculpture, and photography. At Zach Feuer, the artist...
Friday 2/15 @ Various locations
Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry...
Friday 2/15 @ Apex Art
Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view...
Friday 2/15 @ Paula Cooper Gallery
The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of...
Friday 2/15 @ Access Theater
In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Friday 2/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,...
Friday 2/15 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws...
Friday 2/15 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Friday 2/15 @ New York Transit Museum
Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may...
Friday 2/15 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Given the terrific contribution he's made to cinema, it's surprising that director Milos Forman isn't more of a household name. His...
