All events on Tuesday February 19

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Life in a Marital Institution
Tuesday Feb 19 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a liberal commune in upstate... View details »
Life in a Marital Institution
Reading
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
Tuesday Feb 19 (7pm) @ 192 Books
Free
In The Anatomist, author Bill Hayes tells two stories. The first is of Dr. Henry Gray, of Gray's Anatomy: The 19th-century doctor wasn't the mad-scientist-type... View details »
            The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
More Flavor: Lecture
Dawoud Bey
Tuesday Feb 19 (6:30–8:30pm) @ Aperture Gallery
Free
Since 2002, Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey has travelled to high schools all over the country, talking to students and taking their portraits for his series... View details »
Dawoud Bey
More Flavor: Lecture
Janine Antoni
Tuesday Feb 19 (6:30–8:30pm) @ School of Visual Arts
Free
Like many performance artists, Janine Antoni exploits her own body's potential. Her past projects involved the artist painting a gallery floor with her hair, eating... View details »
Janine Antoni
Music: Rock/Pop
Yelle
Tuesday Feb 19 (7pm) @ Knitting Factory
Giveaway
Yelle's timing couldn't be better, hot as she is on the heels of fellow Frenchies Justice and the Ed Banger crew. The singer, who makes... View details »
Yelle

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Art
Tara Donovan
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
Extreme Embroidery
Art
Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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
Dan Perjovschi
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Art
Katy Grannan
Tuesday Feb 19 (noon–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
Art: Photography
Anne Collier
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Art
Shirin Neshat
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday Feb 19 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
Slavic Soul Party!
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Rum & Coke
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grace
Tuesday Feb 19 (7pm) @ 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
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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
Music: DJ
Afrika Bambaataa
Tuesday Feb 19 (10pm) @ APT More times »
Giveaway
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
Afrika Bambaataa
Art
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (7pm) @ 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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (9pm) @ 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
Be Kind Rewind
Tuesday Feb 19 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
Free
In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a video store's entire inventory... View details »
Be Kind Rewind
Art
Jasper Johns
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Art
Nayland Blake
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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 
Film
Milos Forman Retrospective
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Tuesday Feb 19 (7pm) @ 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
Art
Luc Tuymans
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Music: Rock/Pop
De Novo Dahl
Tuesday Feb 19 (11pm) @ Pianos More times »
It's hard to imagine De Novo Dahl playing their everything-but-country brand of pop rock on the famous strip of their hometown, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. These guys... View details »
De Novo Dahl
Art: Photography
Dawoud Bey
Tuesday Feb 19 (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: Photography
Carrie Mae Weems
Tuesday Feb 19 (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
Tuesday Feb 19 (7pm) @ 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
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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