Events on Friday, February 15
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- How to Sex
- @ Collective:Unconscious
- For those recovering from disastrous Valentine's Day intimacies and wanting some helpful hints for next year, the Pinchbottom Institute offers guidance... View details »
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- Something in Spanish
- @ 68
- Brooklyn's 68 presents its first artists in residence tonight, adorable avant-pop duo Something in Spanish. Showcasing songbird Michelle Perez and jazz... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Luca Bacchetti
- @ 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... View details »
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- Pissed Jeans
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Dub War
- @ Love
- Living every music writer's dream, the journalist, blogger, and all around grime/dubstep ambassador Martin Clark (aka Blackdown) has rapidly risen from... View details »
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- Deer Tick w/ Doveman
- @ 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... View details »
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- Hans Haacke
- @ Paula Cooper Gallery
- The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of... View details »
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- Beth Campbell
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
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In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
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- Lucian Freud
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Extreme Embroidery
- @ 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... View details »
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- Open House
- @ Various locations
- Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Dawoud Bey
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jen DeNike
- @ Smith-Stewart
- At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united... View details »
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- Jaishri Abichandani
- @ 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... View details »
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- Grace
- @ Lucille Lortel Theatre
- Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of... View details »
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- Lee Friedlander
- @ 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... View details »
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- Katy Grannan
- @ 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... View details »
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- The (Self) Promotion Show
- @ Apex Art
- Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view... View details »
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- Milos Forman Retrospective
- @ 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... View details »
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- Santiago Cucullu
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Sartorialist
- @ Danziger Projects
- Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures... View details »
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- Archive Fever
- @ 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... View details »
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- Shirin Neshat
- @ 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... View details »
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- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
- @ 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... View details »
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- Thicker Than Water 2008
- @ 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... View details »
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- Gert & Uwe Tobias
- @ 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... View details »
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- Hunting and Gathering
- @ 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... View details »
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- Irving Penn
- @ The Morgan Library
- Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is... View details »
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- Adding Machine
- @ Minetta Lane Theatre
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... View details »
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- Luc Tuymans
- @ David Zwirner
- Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a... View details »
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- Unmonumental
- @ 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... View details »
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- New York States of Mind
- @ 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... View details »
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- Betrayed
- @ Culture Project
- George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five... View details »
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- Tara Donovan
- @ 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... View details »
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- Donelle Woolford
- @ Wallspace
- Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps.... View details »
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- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- @ 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... View details »
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- New Prints: Winter 2008
- @ 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... View details »
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- blog.mode
- @ 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... View details »
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- AA Bronson
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Apt 3A
- @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row
- In this tale of love, God, and the sex lives of polar bears, writer Jeff Daniels (yes, that Jeff Daniels) brings... View details »
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- Robert Mapplethorpe
- @ 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... View details »
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- Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Anne Collier
- @ 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... View details »
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- Paradise Park
- @ 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... View details »
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- Marvin Franklin
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Play About the Naked Guy
- @ 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... View details »
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- New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
- @ 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,... View details »
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- The 39 Steps
- @ 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),... View details »
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- Xu Zhen
- @ James Cohan Gallery
- A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring... View details »
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- Pop Subversion
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jan de Cock
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jump
- @ Union Square Theatre
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... View details »
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- Francis Alÿs
- @ 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... View details »
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- Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters
- @ Studio Dante
- Russell Barr wrote and stars in this emotionally charged monologue directed by Michael Imperoli (of Christopher Moltisanti Sopranos fame). The cluttered,... View details »
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- Carrie Mae Weems
- @ Jack Shainman Gallery
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African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to
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- Michael Bell-Smith
- @ Foxy Production
- Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael... View details »
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- Happy Endings
- @ Access Theater
- In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of... View details »
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- Jasper Johns
- @ 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... View details »
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- Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
- @ Guild & Greyshkul
- Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists... View details »
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- Dan Perjovschi
- @ 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... View details »
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- Nayland Blake
- @ 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... View details »
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- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Luis Gispert
- @ 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... View details »
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- Cherubina
- @ Sanford Meisner Theater
- Set in pre-revolutionary Russia, Cherubina follows the true tale of Elisa Ivanovna, a frustrated poetess and disabled schoolmarm. Ivanovna becomes convinced... View details »
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- Mark Bradford
- @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
- Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top... View details »
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- Rum & Coke
- @ 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... View details »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Jasper Johns
- @ 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... View details »
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