All events on Sunday February 17
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- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Sunday Feb 17 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120 international female artists working... View details »
- Reading
- Brave New World Repertory Theater: No Exit
- Sunday Feb 17 (1pm) @ Issue Project Room
- Check your anomie at the door this afternoon for Brave New World's salon-style reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's classic No Exit, the archetypal existentialist play (and... View details »
- Music: Global
- Brazilian Carnival feat. DJ Cassiano
- Sunday Feb 17 (8pm) @ S.O.B.'s
- While the Northern hemisphere spends its February shivering with latte in hand, Brazilians celebrate the four-day bacchanal of Carnival, a raucous regional ritual of parades... View details »
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- Tara Donovan
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Sunday Feb 17 (3pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Extreme Embroidery
- Sunday Feb 17 (10am–6pm) @ 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 »
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- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
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- New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
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- Francis Alÿs
- Sunday Feb 17 (1–4pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Sunday Feb 17 (7pm) @ 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 »
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- Gert & Uwe Tobias
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Sunday Feb 17 (3 & 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 »
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- Beth Campbell
- Sunday Feb 17 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
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- Lucian Freud
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
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- blog.mode
- Sunday Feb 17 @ 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 »
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- New York States of Mind
- Sunday Feb 17 (noon–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 »
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- Jaishri Abichandani
- Sunday Feb 17 (noon–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 »
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- Unmonumental
- Sunday Feb 17 (noon–6pm) @ 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 »
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- Lee Friedlander
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
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- Jasper Johns
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
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- Jan de Cock
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Play About the Naked Guy
- Sunday Feb 17 (7pm) @ Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Nagelberg Theatre More times »
- 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 the Integrity Players theatre... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
- Sunday Feb 17 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Sunday Feb 17 (3pm) @ 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 »
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- Marvin Franklin
- Sunday Feb 17 (noon–5pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Open House
- Sunday Feb 17 (5pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Rum & Coke
- Sunday Feb 17 (3pm) @ 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 »
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- Pop Subversion
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Betrayed
- Sunday Feb 17 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Grace
- Sunday Feb 17 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Sunday Feb 17 @ 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 »
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- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Irving Penn
- Sunday Feb 17 (11am–6pm) @ 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 »
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- Jasper Johns
- Sunday Feb 17 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
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- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The 39 Steps
- Sunday Feb 17 @ 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 »
- Film
- Milos Forman Retrospective
- Sunday Feb 17 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
- Sunday Feb 17 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cherubina
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
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- Jen DeNike
- Sunday Feb 17 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Paradise Park
- Sunday Feb 17 (2pm) @ 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 »
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- Paragraph
- Sunday Feb 17 @ 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 »
