Events on Tuesday, February 26
Tuesday 2/26 @ Warsaw
Love him or hate him, dread-headed Dr. Seuss surrogate George Clinton is still the funkiest cat this side of the freaky-deaky...
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[SOLD OUT] Tribute to Chinua Achebe
Tuesday 2/26 @ Town Hall
Chinua Achebe, a father of modern African literature and winner of the Man Booker International Prize in 2007, gets some adoration...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
Tuesday 2/26 @ Milk Studios
Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ David Zwirner
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a...
Tuesday 2/26 @ APT
Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Sunday in the Park with George
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ Clementine Gallery
Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ Access Theater
In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of...
Tuesday 2/26 @ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ Deitch Projects
In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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),...
Tuesday 2/26 @ Jack Shainman Gallery
African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to
Tuesday 2/26 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...
