Events on Friday, February 22

Carnegie Hall presents Kronos Quartet
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Music: Classical
Kronos Quartet
@ Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Lest it go unsaid, Kronos Quartet are a case study in aging gracefully. With their days of space suits and Hendrix...  View details »
James Zabiela w/ deadmau5 and the Martinez Brothers
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Music: DJ
James Zabiela
@ Pacha New York
In honor of Rhythmism.com's fourth anniversary, hungry young resident DJ James Zabiela plies electro-tech at Pacha tonight, returning to the club...  View details »
The Next Level w/ DJ Disciple, Rich Medina, and Wunmi
Month_02 Friday Day_22
More Flavor: Benefit
The Next Level w/ Wunmi and Rich Medina
@ Langston's
Celebrate Black History Month at the latest Next Level party, hosted by Brooklyn's best-kept-secret venue. The International African Arts fundraiser brings...  View details »
Soul Summit with DJ Spinna and Strafe
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Music: DJ
Soul Summit
@ BAMcafé
DJ collective Soul Summit Music is best known for its neighborhood jams in Fort Greene Park; tonight, the Soul Summit folks...  View details »
Free
[SOLD OUT] Black Mountain w/ Bon Iver
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Bon Iver
@ The Bowery Ballroom
In a Walden Pond-worthy gesture of self-mythology, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon receded to the Wisconsin woods in the winter of 2005...  View details »
Sold Out!
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So Percussion w/ Kneebody
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Music: Classical
So Percussion
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
In last summer's Lincoln Center performance, avant-garde rhythm evangelists So Percussion made neat work of a pile of garden pots, the...  View details »
The Bunker feat. Miss Fitz w/ Kendra Borowski
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Music: DJ
The Bunker feat. Miss Fitz
@ Public Assembly
DJ and producer Miss Fitz (born Maayan Nidam) has quickly differentiated herself within a world of similar-sounding plugins and stylistic copycatting....  View details »
FUN feat. RZA w/ Team Facelift, the Stationary Set, Blood Red Sun, Murder Mystery, and Paul Holmes and the Great Depression
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Music: Rock/Pop
FUN feat. RZA
@ Studio B
Studio B organized tonight's eclectic bill to celebrate the relaunch of its website (as good an excuse as any, we suppose)....  View details »

Ongoing Events

Jaishri Abichandani: <I>Reconciliations</I>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Jaishri Abichandani
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cherubina
@ Sanford Meisner Theater
Set in pre-revolutionary Russia, Cherubina follows the true tale of Elisa Ivanovna, a frustrated poetess and disabled schoolmarm. Ivanovna becomes convinced...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Katy Grannan: <em>Lady into Fox</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Paragraph
Month_02 Saturday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Robert Mapplethorpe: <em>Certain People</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art: Photography
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The 39 Steps</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Shirin Neshat
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Paradise Park</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
Month_02 Friday Day_22
More Flavor: Benefit
Samples for Ecompassion
@ Open House Gallery
While shopping online through eco-friendly site Greenfinds is both comfortable and efficient, the Ecompassion sample sale provides a (literal) breath of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
@ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...  View details »
Ongoing
Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
@ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>August: Osage County</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as...  View details »
Ongoing
Sterling Ruby: <em>CHRON</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Sterling Ruby
@ The Drawing Center
Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Thicker Than Water 2008
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Thicker Than Water 2008
@ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Showcasing the young and the talented is Ensemble Studio Theatre's Thicker Than Water, a collection of one-acts from the company's ensemble...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Projects 86</i>: Gert & Uwe Tobias
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Gert & Uwe Tobias
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Open House</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Open House
@ Various locations
Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry...  View details »
Ongoing
Irving Penn: <em>Close Encounters: Portraits of Artists and Writers</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
Blue Coyote Theater Group: <em>Happy Endings</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
Carrie Mae Weems: <em>A Survey</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art: Photography
Carrie Mae Weems
@ Jack Shainman Gallery
  African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to New York with a mini-retrospective at Chelsea's...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Unmonumental
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>New York States of Mind</I>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
New York States of Mind
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road)</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Welcome to Nowhere
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Jen DeNike: <em>Thirteen</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Jen DeNike
@ Smith-Stewart
At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Milos Forman Retrospective
Month_02 Saturday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
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Nayland Blake: <em>What the Whiskey Said, What the Sun Is Saying </em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Jasper Johns: <em>Drawings 1997-2007</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_23
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Anne Collier
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
Free
A Week of Strings
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Music: Classical
A Week of Strings
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Sartorialist</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art: Photography
The Sartorialist
@ Danziger Projects
Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Hunting and Gathering</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
@ Studio 54
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat...  View details »
Ongoing
Luc Tuymans: <em>Forever</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Play About the Naked Guy</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Play About the Naked Guy
@ Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Nagelberg Theatre
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...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Adding Machine</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
<em>The Vision and Art of  Shinjo Ito</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
@ Milk Gallery
Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Pop Subversion</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Pop Subversion
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jan de Cock: <em>Denkmal 11</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Jan de Cock
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Grace</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
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 »
Ongoing
Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
Lee Friedlander: <em>A Ramble in Olmsted Parks</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>
Month_02 Saturday Day_23
More Flavor: Exhibition
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 »
Ongoing
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Dan Perjovschi: <em>You Remember My Pin?</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Questa</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Questa
@ Wings Theatre
Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>New Prints: Winter 2008</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art </em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_23
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 »
Ongoing
Matt Leines: <em>The Righteous Age</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Matt Leines
@ Clementine Gallery
Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Life in a Marital Institution</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
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Mark Bradford: <em>Nobody Jones</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Gray Area</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Gray Area
@ Barrow Group Theatre
When a jaded New York City theatre critic berates Civil War re-enactors on the radio, his cruel jests reach the ears...  View details »
Ongoing
Xu Zhen:<em> Just Did It </em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Jump</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
@ Union Square Theatre
After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its...  View details »
Ongoing
Dawoud Bey: <em>Class Pictures</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Beth Campbell: <I>Following Room</I>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Beth Campbell
@ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms....  View details »
Ongoing
Lucian Freud: <em>The Painter's Etchings</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
Lucian Freud
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Betrayed</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Betrayed
@ Culture Project
George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Looking Up</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Looking Up
@ Theater for the New City
Trapeze-theatre piece Looking Up seamlessly combines two unlikely mediums into a surprisingly nice little love story. Solo trapeze artist Wendy and...  View details »
Ongoing
Tara Donovan
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Michel Gondry: <em>Be Kind Rewind</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_22
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_02 Friday Day_22
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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