All events on Tuesday February 26
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- CineKink
- Tuesday Feb 26 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- For the fifth year running, CineKink showcases screen-legal perversions — legal, at least, in this city — with nearly a week of naughty clips and... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- George Clinton
- Tuesday Feb 26 (7pm) @ Warsaw
- Love him or hate him, dread-headed Dr. Seuss surrogate George Clinton is still the funkiest cat this side of the freaky-deaky mothership. Sure, the P-Funk... View details »
- More Flavor: Tribute
- [SOLD OUT] Tribute to Chinua Achebe
- Tuesday Feb 26 (8pm) @ Town Hall
- Sold Out!
- Chinua Achebe, a father of modern African literature and winner of the Man Booker International Prize in 2007, gets some adoration from his peers. Fellow... View details »
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- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Tuesday Feb 26 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Tuesday Feb 26 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Extreme Embroidery
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ Museum of Art and Design More times »
- Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Art and Design once again draws glares from grandmas everywhere. In... View details »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
- Free
- While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday Feb 26 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- blog.mode
- Tuesday Feb 26 @ 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
- Lee Friedlander
- Tuesday Feb 26 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Tuesday Feb 26 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- Tuesday Feb 26 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Tuesday Feb 26 (8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
- Art
- Marvin Franklin
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–4pm) @ New York Transit Museum More times »
- Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may not seem like a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Rum & Coke
- Tuesday Feb 26 (7:30pm) @ June Havoc Theatre More times »
- In Carmen Peláez's one-woman show Rum & Coke, the protagonist begins a search for beauty and a forgotten Cuba after finding her great-aunt Amelia Peláez's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Grace
- Tuesday Feb 26 (7pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
- Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of real people. On Religion,... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Tuesday Feb 26 @ 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
- Tuesday Feb 26 (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 »
- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10pm) @ APT More times »
- Giveaway
- Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Tuesday Feb 26 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hunting and Gathering
- Tuesday Feb 26 (7pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
- Hunting and Gathering's simple, sweet appeal lies in its hyper-real portrait of young NYC. Ruth is a thirtysomething who keeps her stuff in storage while... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Irving Penn
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–5pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
- Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is best known for iconic,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Happy Endings
- Tuesday Feb 26 (9pm) @ Access Theater More times »
- In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of sex workers. Presented as... View details »
- Art
- Be Kind Rewind
- Tuesday Feb 26 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
- Free
- In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a video store's entire inventory... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Tuesday Feb 26 @ 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
- Xu Zhen
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery More times »
- Free
- A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring countries with remote-controlled toy... View details »
- Art
- Nayland Blake
- Tuesday Feb 26 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
- Free
- For many years, Nayland Blake's surrogate was a big white bunny that showed up in his drawings and sculptures. But in his new pieces at... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Tuesday Feb 26 (11am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
- Free
- Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly Gallery presents nearly 50... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Life in a Marital Institution
- Tuesday Feb 26 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
- In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a liberal commune in upstate... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The 39 Steps
- Tuesday Feb 26 @ 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
- Tuesday Feb 26 @ 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
- The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
- Tuesday Feb 26 (7pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
- Ben Katchor's epic indie-rock musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower returns, upgrading to the Vineyard after its successful... View details »
- Art
- Luc Tuymans
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
- Free
- Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a media-saturated era, he's tackled... View details »
- Art
- Sterling Ruby
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ The Drawing Center More times »
- Free
- Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project space. In addition to... View details »
- Art
- Matt Leines
- Tuesday Feb 26 (11am–6pm) @ Clementine Gallery More times »
- Free
- Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who studied illustration at RISD,... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Dawoud Bey
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
- Free
- Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey's series Class Pictures depicts teenagers from a high school on Chicago's South Side, a New England prep school, and classrooms in... View details »
- Art
- The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ Milk Gallery More times »
- Free
- Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that reached out to people... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Tuesday Feb 26 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
- Free
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Paradise Park
- Tuesday Feb 26 (7pm) @ Signature Theatre More times »
- Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the playwright's third and final... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Tuesday Feb 26 (8pm) @ Studio 54 More times »
- Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Tuesday Feb 26 @ 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 »
