Events on Friday, February 22

So Percussion w/ Kneebody

Music: Classical

So Percussion

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

The Next Level w/ DJ Disciple, Rich Medina, and Wunmi

Special Event: Benefit

The Next Level w/ Wunmi and Rich Medina

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Soul Summit with DJ Spinna and Strafe

Music: DJ

Soul Summit

Friday 2/22 @ BAMcafé

DJ collective Soul Summit Music is best known for its neighborhood jams in Fort Greene Park; tonight, the Soul Summit folks... 

Carnegie Hall presents Kronos Quartet

Music: Classical

Kronos Quartet

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

FUN feat. RZA w/ Team Facelift, the Stationary Set, Blood Red Sun, Murder Mystery, and Paul Holmes and the Great Depression

Music

FUN feat. RZA

Friday 2/22 @ Studio B

Studio B organized tonight's eclectic bill to celebrate the relaunch of its website (as good an excuse as any, we suppose).... 

The Bunker feat. Miss Fitz w/ Kendra Borowski

Music: DJ

The Bunker feat. Miss Fitz

Friday 2/22 @ Public Assembly

DJ and producer Miss Fitz (born Maayan Nidam) has quickly differentiated herself within a world of similar-sounding plugins and stylistic copycatting.... 

[SOLD OUT] Black Mountain w/ Bon Iver

Music

[SOLD OUT] Bon Iver

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

James Zabiela w/ deadmau5 and the Martinez Brothers

Music: DJ

James Zabiela

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Play About the Naked Guy</em>

Theatre

The Play About the Naked Guy

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>The 39 Steps</em>

Theatre

The 39 Steps 

Friday 2/22 @ 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),... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Friday 2/22 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Michel Gondry: <em>Be Kind Rewind</em>

Art

Be Kind Rewind

Friday 2/22 @ Deitch Projects

In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a... 

Shirin Neshat

Art

Shirin Neshat

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Grace</em>

Theatre

Grace

Friday 2/22 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of... 

Nayland Blake: <em>What the Whiskey Said, What the Sun Is Saying </em>

Art

Nayland Blake

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Sterling Ruby: <em>CHRON</em>

Art

Sterling Ruby

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road)</em>

Theatre

Welcome to Nowhere

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Lucian Freud: <em>The Painter's Etchings</em>

Art

Lucian Freud

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Lee Friedlander: <em>A Ramble in Olmsted Parks</em>

Art

Lee Friedlander

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>

Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Irving Penn: <em>Close Encounters: Portraits of Artists and Writers</em>

Art: Photography

Irving Penn

Friday 2/22 @ The Morgan Library

Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Friday 2/22 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Pop Subversion</em>

Art

Pop Subversion

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Jaishri Abichandani: <I>Reconciliations</I>

Art

Jaishri Abichandani

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Adding Machine</em>

Theatre

Adding Machine

Friday 2/22 @ Minetta Lane Theatre

After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... 

Jen DeNike: <em>Thirteen</em>

Art

Jen DeNike

Friday 2/22 @ Smith-Stewart

At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united... 

Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>

Art

Cai Guo-Qiang

Friday 2/22 @ Guggenheim Museum

Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with... 

Blue Coyote Theater Group: <em>Happy Endings</em>

Theatre

Happy Endings

Friday 2/22 @ Access Theater

In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of... 

Matt Leines: <em>The Righteous Age</em>

Art

Matt Leines

Friday 2/22 @ Clementine Gallery

Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who... 

<em>The Vision and Art of  Shinjo Ito</em>

Art

The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito

Friday 2/22 @ Milk Studios

Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that... 

<em>Questa</em>

Theatre

Questa

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<i>New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006</i>

Art

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006

Friday 2/22 @ 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,... 

<em>Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions</em>

Art

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Theatre

Rum & Coke

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>

Art

Extreme Embroidery

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Drawings 1997-2007</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

A Week of Strings

Music: Classical

A Week of Strings

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>

Art

Unmonumental

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Anne Collier

Art: Photography

Anne Collier

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Betrayed</em>

Theatre

Betrayed

Friday 2/22 @ Culture Project

George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five... 

<em>New Prints: Winter 2008</em>

Art

New Prints: Winter 2008

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Luc Tuymans: <em>Forever</em>

Art

Luc Tuymans

Friday 2/22 @ David Zwirner

Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a... 

<em>The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower</em>

Theatre

The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Special Event: Benefit

Samples for Ecompassion

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Tara Donovan

Art

Tara Donovan

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Gray Area</em>

Theatre

Gray Area

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Jan de Cock: <em>Denkmal 11</em>

Art

Jan de Cock

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Milos Forman Retrospective

Film

Milos Forman Retrospective

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Thicker Than Water 2008

Theatre

Thicker Than Water 2008

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<I>New York States of Mind</I>

Art

New York States of Mind

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Jump</em>

Theatre

Jump

Friday 2/22 @ Union Square Theatre

After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its... 

<em>WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution</em>

Art

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Nobody Jones</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Friday 2/22 @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top... 

<em>Hunting and Gathering</em>

Theatre

Hunting and Gathering

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Robert Mapplethorpe: <em>Certain People</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Mapplethorpe

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Dawoud Bey: <em>Class Pictures</em>

Art: Photography

Dawoud Bey

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Theatre

Cherubina

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Friday 2/22 @ 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,... 

Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>

Art

Jasper Johns

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Friday 2/22 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>

Art

Marvin Franklin

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art </em>

Art: Photography

Archive Fever

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Life in a Marital Institution</em>

Theatre

Life in a Marital Institution

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Beth Campbell: <I>Following Room</I>

Art

Beth Campbell

Friday 2/22 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms.... 

Dan Perjovschi: <em>You Remember My Pin?</em>

Art

Dan Perjovschi

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Open House</em>

Theatre

Open House

Friday 2/22 @ Various locations

Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry... 

Katy Grannan: <em>Lady into Fox</em>

Art

Katy Grannan

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

Xu Zhen:<em> Just Did It </em>

Art

Xu Zhen

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>Looking Up</em>

Theatre

Looking Up

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<em>The Sartorialist</em>

Art: Photography

The Sartorialist

Friday 2/22 @ Danziger Projects

Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures... 

Carrie Mae Weems: <em>A Survey</em>

Art: Photography

Carrie Mae Weems

Friday 2/22 @ Jack Shainman Gallery

  African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to New York with a mini-retrospective at Chelsea's... 

<em>Paradise Park</em>

Theatre

Paradise Park

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<i>Projects 86</i>: Gert & Uwe Tobias

Art

Gert & Uwe Tobias

Friday 2/22 @ 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... 

<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>

Special Event

blog.mode

Friday 2/22 @ 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...