Events on Wednesday, February 27
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- Eating Liberally presents: An Evening with Steve Ettlinger
- @ The Tank
- Although many so-called healthy energy bars are just as much part of our industrialized food chain as the Twinkie, the freakishly... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Gustave Courbet
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Center of Sleep
- @ Dance Theater Workshop
- Blurring the lines between dance and installation art, Yanira Castro + Company's new Center of Sleep is an immersive multimedia experience.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Art: Photography
- Carrie Mae Weems
- @ Jack Shainman Gallery
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African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Black Comedy Experiment
- @ The Tank
- Formulaic 'hood classics and Def Comedy Jam reruns wither and die in the face of this weekend's lineup of local standup... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- CineKink
- @ Various locations
- For the fifth year running, CineKink showcases screen-legal perversions — legal, at least, in this city — with nearly a week... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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