Events on Thursday, February 28
Thursday 2/28 @ 92nd St Y
Hip-hop renaissance man Mos Def has built his career from political, introspective lyrics, a mix of sci-fi silliness and hardcore beats,...
Thursday 2/28 @ APT
Since kicking off in May last year, the monthly Dirtybird rager has been a rollicking, shenanigan-filled party each and every time...
Thursday 2/28 @ Hiro Ballroom
Apes & Androids are one of the most flamboyantly fun live acts this side Of Montreal. The NYC psych five-piece is...
Thursday 2/28 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
SNL fave Fred Armisen harbors a not-so-secret passion for instructional drumming videos. These serve as the inspiration for his latest project...
Thursday 2/28 @ S.O.B.'s
Upon moving to the States, Kaleta was baffled to find that the Nigerian protest music he'd played as part of Fela...
Thursday 2/28 @ Cielo
Cobblestone Jazz channel the soul of Charles Mingus, then route it through a TB-303 synth. The Canadian trio, headed up by...
Thursday 2/28 @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
Mixing electronic grooves and hip-hop beats with elements of Eastern European and Gypsy music, Balkan Beat Box deliver a fresh take...
Thursday 2/28 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Twenty-five-year-old Annie Clark tosses out quite the maelstrom of ideas. Luckily, she also has a wholly capable musical persona with which...
Ongoing Events
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Thursday 2/28 @ Jack Shainman Gallery
African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...
Thursday 2/28 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ The Tank
Formulaic 'hood classics and Def Comedy Jam reruns wither and die in the face of this weekend's lineup of local standup...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Dance Theater Workshop
Blurring the lines between dance and installation art, Yanira Castro + Company's new Center of Sleep is an immersive multimedia experience....
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Smith-Stewart
At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Clementine Gallery
Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday in the Park with George
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
Thursday 2/28 @ Milk Studios
Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ The Belasco Theatre
The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel...
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ The People's Improv Theater
1940s Americana isn't typical sketch-comedy fodder, but that doesn't deter the Apple Sisters, who lovingly recreate the radio era onstage with...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Thursday 2/28 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ David Zwirner
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Deitch Projects
In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Various locations
Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Access Theater
In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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),...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
