Events on Wednesday, February 20
Wednesday 2/20 @ Cake Shop
Hosted by Sarah Lawrence MFAs Rebecca Keith and Melissa Febos, music venue/record store/bakery Cake Shop's monthly reading series provides a quick...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/20 @ P.S. 122
Temporary Distortion's Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) finds a suitable home at the claustrophobic space within P.S. 122. The nightmarish...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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),...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Deitch Projects
In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Imperial Theatre
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Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Danziger Projects
Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
The Battleship Potemkin feat. David Krakauer and Socalled
Wednesday 2/20 @ World Financial Center
Though The Battleship Potemkin has long been considered a cinematic masterpiece, Sergei Eisenstein's dramatic retelling of the historic uprising at sea...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Smith-Stewart
At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united...
Wednesday 2/20 @ David Zwirner
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Issue Project Room
Math-minded composer and new-media artist Zach Layton guest-curates a week of chamber music gone awry in a series of sound installations...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Access Theater
In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ Jack Shainman Gallery
African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to
Wednesday 2/20 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/20 @ 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...
