Events on Tuesday, February 19
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- Reading
- The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
- @ 192 Books
- In The Anatomist, author Bill Hayes tells two stories. The first is of Dr. Henry Gray, of Gray's Anatomy: The 19th-century... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Yelle
- @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
- Yelle's timing couldn't be better, hot as she is on the heels of fellow Frenchies Justice and the Ed Banger crew.... View details »
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- Janine Antoni
- @ School of Visual Arts
- Like many performance artists, Janine Antoni exploits her own body's potential. Her past projects involved the artist painting a gallery floor... View details »
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- Dawoud Bey
- @ Aperture Gallery
- Since 2002, Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey has travelled to high schools all over the country, talking to students and taking their... 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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- Film
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art
- 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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- Art
- 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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- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- @ APT
- Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Life in a Marital Institution
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- Be Kind Rewind
- @ Deitch Projects
- In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a... 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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- 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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- Music: Rock/Pop
- De Novo Dahl
- @ Pianos
- It's hard to imagine De Novo Dahl playing their everything-but-country brand of pop rock on the famous strip of their hometown,... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Carrie Mae Weems
- @ Jack Shainman Gallery
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African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- @ Barbès
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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