All events on Saturday February 02

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Film: Documentary
Oscar's Docs: 1941–1945, Bravery and Bias
Saturday Feb 2 @ MoMA More times »
By declaring February "docs month," MoMA deserves the 2008 award for successfully curing the annual slim-pickings-in-cinema blues. This week's program highlights a fascinating era in... View details »
Oscar's Docs: 1941–1945, Bravery and Bias
More Flavor: Party
Target First Saturday
Saturday Feb 2 (6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
Free
This month, the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturday falls just a few days shy of the Lunar New Year. As such, tonight's program is Asia-focused,... View details »
Target First Saturday
Music: DJ
The Rub
Saturday Feb 2 (10pm) @ Southpaw
Free
Rehabilitating the rep of hip-house (makes sense if you think about it), Brooklyn institution and international sensation the Rub return to Southpaw as a DJ... View details »
The Rub
Music: Hip-Hop
Edan w/ Negroes on Ice
Saturday Feb 2 (9pm) @ Knitting Factory
Many of hip-hop's greatest tracks never made it out of the lab. Case in point: tonight's old-school meets new-school parade of underground gems. Electro-psych producer... View details »
Edan w/ Negroes on Ice
Music: Rock/Pop
The Teenagers w/ Hot Chip DJs
Saturday Feb 2 (10pm) @ Studio B
Giveaway
The Teenagers onslaught wraps up as the trio hits the official Hot Chip afterparty at FIXED. The fashionable Frenchies sing catchy, often X-rated electro-pop in... View details »
The Teenagers w/ Hot Chip DJs
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Hot Chip
Saturday Feb 2 (9pm) @ Highline Ballroom
Sold Out!
Fresh from the badlands of Putney, England, electro-funk outfit Hot Chip celebrate their upcoming album Made in the Dark with this toast to their New... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Hot Chip
Art
Xu Zhen
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Saturday Feb 2 (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

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Art
Tara Donovan
Saturday Feb 2 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
Saturday Feb 2 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday Feb 2 (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 »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Art
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Saturday Feb 2 (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 »
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Art
Francis Alÿs
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Art
Kara Walker
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" earlier this year — sparks a tense dialogue... View details »
Kara Walker
Getaway
Keith Edmier
Saturday Feb 2 (1–5pm) @ CCS Bard Hessel Museum More times »
Free
Sculptor Keith Edmier learned his trade in a Tinseltown special-effects studio; like Oscar-winning films, Edmier's meticulous sculptures traffic in grandiose sentimentality, making them a cathartic... View details »
Keith Edmier
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Saturday Feb 2 (7 & 10pm) @ 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
Art
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Saturday Feb 2 (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 »
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Saturday Feb 2 (2, 5 & 8pm) @ 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 »
Jump
Art
Lawrence Weiner
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic, often blocky slogans, tagged... View details »
Lawrence Weiner
Art
Beth Campbell
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms. While there was nothing... View details »
Beth Campbell
Art: Architecture/Design
Poul Kjærholm
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
Free
Born in a tiny Danish village, Poul Kjærholm rose rapidly from skilled teenage cabinetmaker to icon of international design with his compression-molded plywood chairs. Simultaneous... View details »
Poul Kjærholm
Art
Lucian Freud
Saturday Feb 2 (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 »
Lucian Freud
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Saturday Feb 2 @ 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
Do-Ho Suh
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
Free
Korean artist Do Ho Suh inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chrystie Street space — located in the shadow of the new New Museum — with a... View details »
Do-Ho Suh
Art
New York States of Mind
Saturday Feb 2 (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 »
New York States of Mind
Art
Jaishri Abichandani
Saturday Feb 2 (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 »
Jaishri Abichandani
Art
Unmonumental
Saturday Feb 2 (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 »
Unmonumental
Art
Dan Perjovschi
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–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
Saturday Feb 2 (9:30am–9pm) @ 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
AA Bronson
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–6pm) @ John Connelly Presents More times »
Free
Godfather to queer artists everywhere, AA Bronson has made all varieties of artworks during his decades-long practice, focusing on a poetic obsession with the profundity... View details »
AA Bronson
Art
Santiago Cucullu
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–6pm) @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery More times »
Free
Argentinean artist Santiago Cucullu's chaotic cut-out vinyl works dominate gallery walls and museum hallways wherever they're shown. At one of Perry Rubenstein's two small 24th... View details »
Santiago Cucullu
Art
Michael Bell-Smith
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Foxy Production More times »
Free
Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael Bell-Smith's conceptual animations deal... View details »
Michael Bell-Smith
Art
Diana Thater
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
Taking her cue from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," Diana Thater presents a two-room video installation depicting the bond between falconers and their falcons. Set... View details »
Diana Thater
Art
Donelle Woolford
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Wallspace More times »
Free
Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps. At Wallspace Gallery, Woolford... View details »
Donelle Woolford
Art
Katy Grannan
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–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
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Guild & Greyshkul More times »
Free
Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists make collages with a... View details »
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Art
Luis Gispert
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–6pm) @ Zach Feuer Gallery More times »
Free
Miami-born artist Luis Gispert takes over West 24th Street with works in film, sculpture, and photography. At Zach Feuer, the artist mounts a series of... View details »
Luis Gispert
Art: Photography
Anne Collier
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Art
Jan de Cock
Saturday Feb 2 (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 »
Jan de Cock
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Saturday Feb 2 @ 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 »
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Performing Arts: Theatre
North
Saturday Feb 2 (10pm) @ La MaMa E.T.C. More times »
For her performance piece North, Heather Christian dresses her "tiny orchestra," the Arbornauts, in all white, creating an otherworldly, tabula rasa-like effect. While an airplane-flight... View details »
North
Art
Marvin Franklin
Saturday Feb 2 (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 »
Marvin Franklin
Art
New Prints: Winter 2008
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters
Saturday Feb 2 (8pm) @ Studio Dante More times »
Russell Barr wrote and stars in this emotionally charged monologue directed by Michael Imperoli (of Christopher Moltisanti Sopranos fame). The cluttered, childlike bedroom stage sets... View details »
Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters
Film
Envisioning Russia
Saturday Feb 2 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
Few Americans really grasp the breadth of Russian film in existence: we tend to treat film imports from that country as jewels rarely produced. The... View details »
Envisioning Russia
Film
The Silence Before Bach
Saturday Feb 2 @ Film Forum More times »
Giveaway
A guide, fully decked-out as Bach, leads tours of Leipzig. Two truck drivers bang out a melody. A subway car rings out with an impromptu... View details »
The Silence Before Bach
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rum & Coke
Saturday Feb 2 (2 & 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
Almost an Evening
Saturday Feb 2 @ Atlantic Stage Two More times »
Sold Out!
Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God kicking himself in the... View details »
Almost an Evening
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grace
Saturday Feb 2 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
Saturday Feb 2 @ 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
Film
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness
Saturday Feb 2 @ Anthology Film Archives More times »
Giveaway
As lonesome visionary Vincent, Magnus Aronson is a bit of a holy fool. The star and cowriter of shaggy musical travelogue Build a Ship, Sail... View details »
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness
Art
The (Self) Promotion Show
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
Free
Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view are presented in an... View details »
The (Self) Promotion Show
Performing Arts: Theatre
Save the World
Saturday Feb 2 (3 & 8pm) @ The American Theatre of Actors More times »
Low-tech superhero-action-dramedy Save the World is a theatrical escapist treat. A crew of five superheroes and one superheroine (with super armor, naturally) has been working... View details »
Save the World
Art
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–6pm) @ Paula Cooper Gallery More times »
Free
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 group Gutai Art Association... View details »
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hunting and Gathering
Saturday Feb 2 (2 & 8pm) @ 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
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–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 »
Irving Penn
Art
Hans Haacke
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–6pm) @ Paula Cooper Gallery More times »
Free
The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of conceptual art that applied... View details »
Hans Haacke
Art
The Masked Portrait
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
Free
The Masked Portrait is a snapshot of postwar Japanese art, featuring work by 30 artists from the late '40s to the present. Curator Midori Nishizawa... View details »
The Masked Portrait
Music
Apestaartje / Incunabulum Festival
Saturday Feb 2 (8pm) @ Issue Project Room More times »
... rry Smith proved some 50 years ago that acoustic music can be as wild and as unpredictable as the academy's "experimental" endeavors. So it's... View details »
Apestaartje / Incunabulum Festival
Art
Jasper Johns
Saturday Feb 2 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Apt 3A
Saturday Feb 2 (2 & 8pm) @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
In this tale of love, God, and the sex lives of polar bears, writer Jeff Daniels (yes, that Jeff Daniels) brings us into the crumbling... View details »
Apt 3A
Performing Arts: Dance
Luna Negra Dance Theater
Saturday Feb 2 (2 & 7pm) @ New Victory Theater More times »
... icago-based dance troupe Luna Negra fuses Latin and Afro-Caribbean, ballet and modern dance styles with Latin folk music in this show at the New... View details »
Luna Negra Dance Theater
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
Saturday Feb 2 @ 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 
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Saturday Feb 2 (3 & 8pm) @ 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: Photography
The Sartorialist
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–6pm) @ Danziger Projects More times »
Free
Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures everyday fashionistas in their... View details »
The Sartorialist
Art: Photography
Dawoud Bey
Saturday Feb 2 (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
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Saturday Feb 2 @ 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