All events on Monday February 25
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- Björkestra
- Monday Feb 25 (7:30–9:30pm) @ Blue Smoke Jazz Standard
- Giveaway
- A jazz tribute to Björk's idiosyncratic oeuvre may sound tantamount to heresy, but Björkestra treats each song with reverence. The 18-piece jazz collective, led by... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Smells Like Tease Spirit!
- Monday Feb 25 (9:30pm) @ Public Assembly
- They're not often discussed, but the anarchist cheerleaders in Nirvana's video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" left an indelible mark on the sexuality of an... View details »
- Music: Global
- Little Johnny and the LP All Stars
- Monday Feb 25 (8pm) @ S.O.B.'s
- Little Johnny Rivero has been one of the city's most sought-after percussionists over the last few decades, holding his own with titans Celia Cruz and... View details »
- Film
- Loves of a Blonde
- Monday Feb 25 (6pm) @ MoMA
- Giveaway
- It's difficult to reconcile the giggling "Wolfie" of Milos Forman's Amadeus with the director's staid, cucumber-coolness in Loves of a Blonde. But BAM gives it... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Dälek
- Monday Feb 25 (9pm) @ Mercury Lounge
- Giveaway
- To tag Dälek as a hip-hop act alone is a major (if all-too-common) mistake. Yes, their discordant, squalling compositions do sometimes feature rapped vocals, but... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Extreme Embroidery
- Monday Feb 25 (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 »
- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Monday Feb 25 (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 »
- Art
- New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
- Monday Feb 25 (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 »
- Art
- Gert & Uwe Tobias
- Monday Feb 25 (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 »
- Art
- Lucian Freud
- Monday Feb 25 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- blog.mode
- Monday Feb 25 @ 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 »
- Art
- Jan de Cock
- Monday Feb 25 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Play About the Naked Guy
- Monday Feb 25 (7pm) @ Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Nagelberg Theatre More times »
- 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 the Integrity Players theatre... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Betrayed
- Monday Feb 25 (8pm) @ Culture Project More times »
- George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five years. Betrayed follows three... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Monday Feb 25 @ 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 »
- Art
- Cai Guo-Qiang
- Monday Feb 25 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
- Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with rays of light, it... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Monday Feb 25 @ 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 »
- Art
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Monday Feb 25 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120 international female artists working... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Monday Feb 25 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The 39 Steps
- Monday Feb 25 @ 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 »
- Film
- Milos Forman Retrospective
- Monday Feb 25 @ MoMA More times »
- Given the terrific contribution he's made to cinema, it's surprising that director Milos Forman isn't more of a household name. His relatively under-the-wire profile may... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Questa
- Monday Feb 25 (8pm) @ Wings Theatre More times »
- Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in self-defense. Paul's resulting guilt... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gray Area
- Monday Feb 25 (8pm) @ Barrow Group Theatre More times »
- When a jaded New York City theatre critic berates Civil War re-enactors on the radio, his cruel jests reach the ears of three Southern enthusiasts... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Monday Feb 25 @ 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 »
